- 12 hours work days nearly every day
- Extreme lack of care for staff. Pregnant Co-worker manager expected to work late (also 10-12pm) until work was done every night. Team was down a manager so full term pregnant co-worker was expected to work late every night to cover which caused said colleague to have extreme anxiety and reduced health -so awful for the baby!! :(
- Systems that were so slow, outdated and impossible to use efficiently. What's more, Burberry didn't even pay to get a tech developer team/contractor to develop the new Digital Merch software, they just added onto the workload and expected current team to develop this?!?
- Micromanaging, manager meetings every morning to control what tasks to be done in which order and exactly how long that would take with no lee-way for product management systems that were outdated, causing delays and issues every day.
- Setting impossible standards with no exceptions to be made. Expected to stay until 11pm-12 at night to finish until the job was done.
- When accepting the job you have to sign your life away to state you are 'opting in' to additional hours, either you don't get to accept the job role.
- Managers had incredibly toxic environment with no clear management directives or care of younger associates.
- No personal development plans, just get the job done and do as much work as they push on you.
- Very toxic culture of praise given to extremely overworked staff who 'volunteered' for more workload on top of their 10-12 hour days and extra projects. If you didn't take on extra projects and work until 1-2am then you were 'not pulling your weight' and not good enough and had to be got rid of.
Honestly, worst fashion company I have ever worked for, please if you value your HEALTH, your LIFE and keeping your SANITY, do not work here. Know your worth, go somewhere else that will value you and your time. Time = Money so if you value your TIME go somewhere that will pay you fairly for this.
All the hours I worked every day made my hourly rate £3.....sweat shop labour, enough said!
