Pros
This company had some pros before it’s takeover by UPS, such as Christmas Parties, job security and fair career prospects. Since their takeover years ago, these pros are well and truly gone and now, as you’ll read below, now are the Cons…
Cons
Where to begin Spineless management from top to bottom. More interested in keeping their fellow Operations and Customer Service Management happy and protected then fixing the toxic, backstabbing, gossipy culture created by them. As you may have read on the news, UPS regularly lays off masses of employees as a result of hiring too much during COVID. This is no different in Marken as they are their subsidiary. Every year in the 3rd quarter or so, they will pick a handful of employees to fire. Whether it be through redundancy or slapping employees with made up Personal Improvement Plans in an effort to protect themselves for Unfair Dismissal lawsuits. You simply do not have any job security, even if you are new. A colleague of mine was chosen as one of the unfortunate few to be fired after only about a year in the company. You are not safe at any point. Do you want a role where you could be fired at any point for reasons outside of your control? Pay is horrible even for the logistics industry. Wage growth is non-existent. Since the UPS take over, Christmas Parties have been binned. So have bonuses. Yearly incremental increases to your salary that we all get as standard? Yeah those have been slashed in half too. I hope you get the picture. Achingly Inept Human Resources team who were not paying off my student debt for 5 years until I looked into it and asked, why isn’t it being paid. Only to be met with “oh I guess we forgot, sorry”. Terrible workplace run by cowards, Operations and Customer Service managers mentally stuck in pre-school, and terrible in every way you can think of. STEER CLEAR