Vantaggi
- Easy to get a job if you're desperate - Extremely easy to become a supervisor, manager, area manager, hr, etc... (since no one sticks around long enough, whoever does gets promoted easily) - 50% discount
Svantaggi
- No lunch allowance - No insurance - No benefits whatsoever (you get paid your basic salary and that's it!) - Either you're a gelato artist, supervisor, keyholder, shift leader, shop leader or manager the payment is exactly the same for everyone. 8£/ hour. - RIDICULOUSLY EXTREMELY long shifts!!!!! - Everyone complains there are 100£ or 200£ missing from their payslip - You have to clock in and clock out, but that doesn't count for your payment since they only count the hours that are on the rota - 30 minutes break ONLY, every 6 hours (if you're lucky) - Part time you work 45 hours a week, full time you work almost 60 hours a week - Everyday there is someone resigning or calling in sick, so even if it's your day off, you get called to go to work or your name is put on the rota without anyone telling you and you get a call when they notice you're late (because you didn't even know you were supposed to be working) - You are expected to close at 1.30am and open at 10a.m. the next day - If the owner doesn't like you, he will humiliate you in front of everyone - You're being watched constantly and if you do something wrong they call you on the spot - You're expected to open alone and stay alone until 3 or 4 in the afternoon, even if it's busy - You have to do deliveries - There's is no system in place. You never know who you can count on because everyone leaves and there's new people coming in every single day - No training. You just learn the basics in your trial and then you're left on your own to learn by yourself on your first day and you're expected to do as good as everyone else - No uniforms. The staff doesn't have jumpers or tshirts from Amorino, so we just have to use a black shirt instead - No one cares if you're ill or not. If your sneezing, coughing, vomiting, whatever, doesn't matter. Keep making ice creams! And add a little bit of your viruses on top for extra flavour. - The basements and staff room either don't exist and if they do they look like an abandoned building with the walls falling to pieces - The owner rather send food to the bin than letting his staff eating it. If we eat it, even if it was going to the bin, we have to pay for it. "If you can eat, you can pay it!", he says - They keep making promises as a way to keep you in the company, but nothing ever changes - If you request days off or holidays, no one replies to you, so you can never make any plans - If you have a life outside of Amorino, forget about it. You'll only have time to work, go home, take a shower, sleep in a hurry and repeat the next day. Forget having time to eat as well - The area managers defend the owner at any costs. It's like they were brainwashed - You never work in the same shop. One day you can work in Long Acre and the next one you could be working in Westfield - You never have fixed rotas or days off and the rota changes every single day - You work 10 days in a row, have half a day off, work another 10 days, get asked to work on your only day off, work another 10 days, and you're expected to be happy and smiling, and if you complain they ask you "why are you complaining? You're not working that much!"