Sports Direct

I've heard sports direct isn't a particularly nice company to work for.

How true is this statement?

Question, is anyone else's store making you use whistles to call extra people onto tills? Or is it just mine...?


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I don't use whistles myself since I work on shoes, but the till staff must do so

I believe it's one of the new policies being implemented; it just gives fast and easy communication between till staff to reduce queues during these busy periods (i.e: back to school)


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Meh, I hate it. Not only is it unhygienic, it's also pretty rude and horrible for the customer who's face you're loudly blowing the whistle into. Radio's are just so much easier?!


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I agree, especially on the hygiene side
All till staff should be given their own whistle as part of their uniform

I know, however they're trying to reduce to use of radios for "unnecessary" things - i.e: why talk on a radio when a simple (but loud) whistle can instantly transmit what you wanted to say?


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Even so, when it's busy, it can be difficult to hear over the music, air con and general sounds if you aren't close enough or go out back for something or a drink.


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True I guess, they make the music much louder than they should

Tbh, they could just get rid of whistles in a few months, so I wouldn't get too attached :P

Do a few people also have to wear reflective vest things too at your store?


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Hahaaa no why? Who does at yours?!


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Our store isn't quite as busy as it is on a saturday though, more like a Sunday most days for me Regional management turned round and said that because it was so busy, that managers could fill up their rotas with as many hours as they wanted - they didn't foresee that maybe we might not be able to cover it all, and so they started to cut shifts. It meant that I went from working a 7 day week to not working all day Wednesday and Thursday morning. Still, got 26 hours of work Friday-Sunday.

above 50% sondico socks for the 4th day in a row though! 18 already sold this week by me and this girl I fancy in this little competition of ours. Even the area manager was impressed when he saw it

True I guess, they make the music much louder than they should

Tbh, they could just get rid of whistles in a few months, so I wouldn't get too attached :P

Do a few people also have to wear reflective vest things too at your store?


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Eurgh at my store there's the vest and the whistle..:/


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We have this thing called "queue buster"
One of the till/clothing staff needs to go to the tills and direct customers to available queues to help increase efficiency
And for the shoe staff, if it's busy, one person must take shoes to be purchased to the tills, and allocate seating areas for customers, keep the fitting areas clean, etc...

This might just be for larger stores like mine though for when it gets ultra busy


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Which store is that?


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Ours is fairly big, at least 12,000 sq ft, though not as big as two-floor ones (we're one floor!). But we definitely do not have the vest! Though our manager or senior staff will come and organise the queue if necessary but it's rarely, only seen them do it 2-3 times in 3 months!


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Mine used to be one floor, then the store got refurbished last year so now it's two floors !


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Ours is part of new units in our shopping centre, so we have M&S, Costa and soon-to-be Peacocks underneath us, while we take up almost all of the top floor!


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