Working at Primark - Q&A

Hi I'm 14 and looking a weekend job and was wondering if primark would employ me thanks

I have been working at Primark for a few months now and I really enjoy it ( apart from my terrible hours ). I have gained so much experience and I am learning more things each weekend, any questions feel free to ask!

Hi, my supervisor asked me to do 2 standby shifts at Primark this week. I was just wondering, is a standby shift basically where if someone calls in sick they can ring me up and ask me to come in? I didn't even know we do standby shifts so am just a little confused as to what it is and how likely I am to be called in

I would assume if someone was off ill or they were short of staff they would ring you. It's like doing overtime.

During my time at Primark I found it more prudent to actively ask managers for overtime rather than wait for a call from HR to come in... but yeah for a standby shift they should call you if you're needed.

When i worked there years ago the managers and supervisors used to beg staff to do overtime.

I handed in my notice last week. It was awful working there even if I only did it for a while. In training they told us it takes up to a year to be fully trained in everything you need to know and not to worry if you make mistakes in the first couple weeks. My supervisors had a go at me for hanging clothes on the wrong rail, and accidentally scanning through exppires receipts when it didn't come up on the till and then told me they didn't like that they had to retrain me and fix my mistakes and I'd better make sure it didn't happen again. When another girl started the same time as me and was just as new at stuff all they did was praise her and tell me how brilliant hse was and how well she was doing and kept having goes at me even though I corrected the mistakes I'd made and was careful to not do them again.

Not to mention they've forgotten to pay me twice, they missed out on paying me for a shift i did and today I got a payslip for that shift but of course I haven't had any money in my account yet for that missed shift. I'm confident that by them i'm due my salary for this month next week they'll forget to pay.

Happy to be out of there. It was only a weekend job so it didn't pay my rent and I have a weekday job i'm much happier with I was just disappointed at management and how awful it is.

So I have an interview with Primark coming up, what should I be expecting? =)

Standard interview questions? Seriously its a job interview, just like any other come on.

Interviews vary between place to place. I've had interviews where they've asked two questions and offered me the job. I've had job interviews where they ask you to do a task on the floor as well. I've had interviews where they give you a presentation on the day and want you to present it back to them.

If i'm going to get there and they're going to ask me to do a task on the shop floor I'd like to be as prepared as I can.

Interviews vary between place to place. I've had interviews where they've asked two questions and offered me the job. I've had job interviews where they ask you to do a task on the floor as well. I've had interviews where they give you a presentation on the day and want you to present it back to them.

If i'm going to get there and they're going to ask me to do a task on the shop floor I'd like to be as prepared as I can.

Hi,
I have the myworkday tomorrow at primark to bring some documents, but I don't know if is for something else.
Someone can help me?