Express gifts

torquemada · 01-08-2011, 19:29

How does Express Gifts still keep going when it has the worst management skills possible. I know people who have had 13 week contract and then been laid off after 6 weeks with no good reason. As this person along with the other people walked out because they had been informed that there was no work they passed other people who were coming in who had just been hired for 13 weeks,all this when these others had just been informed that there was no work? This kind of treatment will only cease when Express gifts has to pay these employees the full 13 weeks even if they are laid off before that period is up. But more importantly the people who are finding employment for people shouldent send any body to this establishment, till their management skills are improved and this mistreatment of human beings is looked into by the relevant authority.

phil8715 · 01-08-2011, 21:15

The problem with Express Gifts is not what you know, it's more like who you know.

I've worked there for most of my adult life I got sacked from EGL in 2003 and they put a DNR (Do Not Re-Employ) on my personnel file, Although I did try and take them to a tribunal with the useless union I was in.

torquemada · 01-08-2011, 21:44

A few years ago express gifts employed people from Poland providing accommodation for them but charged the Poles, Express gifts said that there were not any peole in Hyndburn with the work ethic capable the truth of the matter was that most people in Hyndburn knew what they were like as employers.

cashman · 01-08-2011, 22:01

they have always been crap employers, this is nowt new, me nephew worked yon fer a few years before the xmas period, they used to send fer him, was the only job he could get, then a few years ago they didn't, so his mam sent him down to ask, he was told sorry weve employed polish people.

lomh · 24-11-2011, 09:48

I have worked in some places but this place takes the biscuit.... They invest time and money training ppl who HAVE TO GET over 80% in tests or they are out the door.... whatever happened to learning the practical way? They expect ALOT for crap money and conditions.... I kid you not I walked after only getting 75% in an exam and being asked to go outside to discuss it - being the only one I felt humilated.... But they are hot on time keeping... which is good BUT man a kid was 30 seconds late one day and she practically got her marching orders... As for work exthic there were some guys in there who worked 30+ hours overtime and they sold sold sold sold.... they really wanted work and they were English it was temporary and out of maybe 50+ temps there MIGHT have been 3 or 4 jobs going.... I have NOT heard ONE good thing about that place....

Less · 24-11-2011, 11:05

Yes, well, it is a rubbish place worked there twice would rather starve than ever work there again.

Even the guy down the dole mentioned to me, they're taking on at Express Gifts.
I asked, have you ever worked there?
He replied, yes I have, we'll look for something else shall we?
And he really is trying hard to get me back to work and off his books.

accyman · 24-11-2011, 15:18

express gifts has such an awfull record they had to import a workforce because no one would work for them.

I worked there and was sacked because i went in monday after finding out my grandfather had died on the sunday asking if i could attend the funeral that day even though i appologised about teh short notice explaining that i had only just found out about it.

im pretty sure the records will show i was sacked for smacking the idiot in charge but he had already told me i was fired before that happened

i know one guy who was sacked for not looking interested in his work which at the time was sweeping up as it was a quiet moment.

If you ever find yourself invited for an interview take a big bat and give into temptation because it will occur lol

16 years ago i was there maybe more and from what iv heard it hasnt improved

davemac · 24-11-2011, 22:25

I have had relatives that worked there on temperary contracts, 13 weeks was mentioned, finished after 6 weeks with the word that there was no more work. Yet at the same time a new batch of temperary workers walked in as they walked out. Something is not right about this. Its not just express gifts, kleeneze are the same firm operating out of the call centre at clayton, the managment there are just the same as express, so they must be acting on some epistle from on high.

Benipete · 25-11-2011, 11:02

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Originally Posted by davemac

I have had relatives that worked there on temperary contracts, 13 weeks was mentioned, finished after 6 weeks with the word that there was no more work. Yet at the same time a new batch of temperary workers walked in as they walked out. Something is not right about this. Its not just express gifts, kleeneze are the same firm operating out of the call centre at clayton, the managment there are just the same as express, so they must be acting on some epistle from on high.

I believe Kleeneze are now owned by Express Gifts.

So you are quite right.

phil8715 · 25-11-2011, 12:09

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Originally Posted by Benipete

I believe Kleeneze are now owned by Express Gifts.

So you are quite right.

Yes they now own Kleeneze, in fact they have for the last 2/3 years.

davemac · 26-11-2011, 23:42

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Originally Posted by Benipete

I believe Kleeneze are now owned by Express Gifts.

So you are quite right.

its a bit bigger than that, express gifts, kleeneze, and studio mail order are all owned by findel plc. there are probably more, but dont know. and the theme all the way accross the board is they treat staff like disposable crap

I think these emoticons are getting roody doody

blazey · 27-11-2011, 11:32

Nearly everyone I know seems to have worked there at some point. I've never worked there but it seemed to me to be alright if you did only want to work a few weeks before moving on to somewhere else. In my experience of doing short term employment like that though you nearly always get paid the wrong amount (and never in a good way) and then you get treated like you're an idiot the whole time you're there. Yet somehow there always seems to be a handful of people who HAVE been there forever and they think they're amazing.

Well it isn't amazing to be in a job like that all your life, you're probably a mug. If anyone is looking for a job right now, aim high. As much as it is tempting to apply for the jobs that seem like you can just walk right into them, it is worth putting in the extra effort and ironing your shirt to get a better job.

garinda · 27-11-2011, 11:42

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Originally Posted by blazey

you're probably a mug.

Yeah, toiling away.

Spending a lifetime paying taxes.

Funding the education system, etc.

jaysay · 27-11-2011, 11:43

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Originally Posted by blazey

Nearly everyone I know seems to have worked there at some point. I've never worked there but it seemed to me to be alright if you did only want to work a few weeks before moving on to somewhere else. In my experience of doing short term employment like that though you nearly always get paid the wrong amount (and never in a good way) and then you get treated like you're an idiot the whole time you're there. Yet somehow there always seems to be a handful of people who HAVE been there forever and they think they're amazing.

Well it isn't amazing to be in a job like that all your life, you're probably a mug. If anyone is looking for a job right now, aim high. As much as it is tempting to apply for the jobs that seem like you can just walk right into them, it is worth putting in the extra effort and ironing your shirt to get a better job.

My daughters half sister has worked there for over 20 years, she seems to like it

phil8715 · 27-11-2011, 12:04

My Mum worked there for about 25 years. She had different jobs there. I worked half my adult life there doing one job or the other.

You do get treated like crap even my mum did.