Argos reviews

You will be disciplined if you don't meet your targets but not rewarded or even be acknowledged if you meet or overachieve your targets. The bosses (outside of the store - so your bosses boss or the area manager/their boss) only cares about making money. No one that works for Argos feels acknowledged for all the hours and hard work you put in. Your pay depends on how many hours you do and they cut hours so they can save money, for example if the store is only busy from 4:00pm - 8:00pm they will only schedule you in between those times. You will have a maximum of only 16 contracted hours and if you want that to increase you will need to work hard to aim to get a promotion, that's right, you have to be promoted in Argos in order to get the same pay and hours of someone that works as a regular sales clerk in a regular retail environment. Your discount is only 10% which is actually less than what customers sometimes get if they have a promotional code or voucher. You have to pay to attend your own Christmas party. If you stay behind after the store closes, to help out, you won't be paid for it. We work hard and sweat and take a lot of crap from customers and we're expected to smile sweetly and be their punchbag, you will be sworn at, shouted at and spat on and if you do anything other than take the bullet you will be disciplined by your manager. You will be enforced to meet your targets and sell insurance as this means more profits and more pay, for the bosses. Not you. The bosses receive big bonuses, so big that they can afford to by a house for their relatives. You get no bonus.

What i don't like in Argos is the fact that when undergoing training to become better there really is no concrete guidance, you basically given all the time in the world to do it with no reviews along the way of performance reviews to see how you are getting on. Further to this I find the managers can cometimes be a bit self absorbed in the running of the buisness to worry about staff morale, often implimenting new ideas without asking the staff about them first. Most notable however is the fact that certain things can change within Argos without anything being relayed to the staff, such as the recent pay increase and the change of the hours break entitlement that is no longer allowed unless you work over 8 hours and 45 minutes, instead of being as the handbook suggests, allowed for shifts over 7.45 hours. The main issue that has come to light in stores is the lack of a competitive salary, in comparison to other close stores like Greggs for example who's basic salary is £6.90 rising to £7.11 after three months compared to Argos's £6.59 per hour for over 18's.