Worst head office EVER. - Buying River Island Employee Review

- Toxic and negative environment (this is even present in heads of buying/managers) - Mental health issues are everywhere in this place, over 10 members of the womens buyer floor were signed off with stress caused by work in 2019 and nothing is being done about it. (in fact buyers hide it from HR and get away with it) - Lack of support- no support from management to lower level staff and also lack of support on the buying floor in general. No one is happy to help each other causing a negative environment - No proper promotion system causing promotions to be unfair and unbalanced. It seems management get promoted and pay rises but lower members of staff are told 'there's no budget for you' but expected to do the work. - Manipulative buyers who rely on design to do all of the work and take the credit - bad pay - Hanger Lane is just the worst location to work - Bullying culture. If a buyer doesnt like you, she will bully you until you leave. - The buyer I worked with was lazy, she was not inspirational, barely did any work and sat on Dailymail all day taking credit for the work the rest of the team had done. - Blame culture is very evident here