Lies Lies Lies - Recensione dipendente - Redundancy presso Castle Water

1,0
14 lug 2020
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

There is nothing positive to say - 1 star is too much to give this company. Run the other way. A few nice members of staff if you push it.

Svantaggi

Castle Water took over Affinity for Business as a merger. After flying down in his private plane the CEO stood in front of the entire company with his smirking colleagues and said that all of our jobs were safe. We recognised that some jobs would be lost for duplicate roles however within weeks everyone was at risk of redundancy. Yes 100% of staff. And guess what 100% of roles were made redundant. And the reason why? Our pay was great, our annual leave was brilliant, maternity benefits fab, pension, mental health initiatives I could go on and on. Castle Water pay is shockingly low, they include bank holidays as part of your leave but don't recognise all bank holidays. No benefits to speak of. Oh and they don't care about their staff. In the brief time of 'working' with them- take that term loosely as they used everyone.. they only spoke when they wanted something, made some people literally crack under the pressure and then discarded them, there was sniping between CW team members - tit-for-tat to remove blame for issues. Their expectations of reasonable workloads is insane and no one can cope with it. There is a blame culture which stinks and they have actively told customers lies about AfB to cover their poor choices. Dont be fooled into thinking that anyone has any kind of say in their jobs. Its run like a far right organisation (Guess the word not allowed) CW staff were not told about our mass culling either - that was left to us to embarrassingly say. Thanks. They wanted to crush our company because it had an amazing culture, because our customers, were happy, because they were our biggest rival. Well you did it. Left as under a year employment because let's face it, you paid us but I wouldn't call that a career.

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3,0
13 mag 2026
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Some amazing people work there. The business shows a clear preference in promoting from within so the opportunities for advancement are there if you can show results. There is generous sick pay, bereavement leave and maternity cover plus some other minor perks. Pay is quite decent and I have never had a request for annual leave turned down

Svantaggi

Systems and processes routinely rolled out without proper consultation with the staff who will be using them, resulting in issues for customers and staff alike. Lessons still not learned. High staff turnover, largely due to the CEO micromanaging every aspect of the business, including all salaries and bonuses. While undoubtedly very good at his job, he consistently fails to take advantage of the talents of the great people that work for him. Unless your department head/director has some clout and can push back on the CEO to just allow you to get on with work, your department is likely to become quite dysfunctional. I've seen some very deserving people go without bonuses despite putting in incredibly hard work, for what is quite frankly ridiculous reasons. This made a terrible and lasting impression on my entire team and was a severe blow to morale. Also nepotism at play. They're not necessarily bad in their respective roles, but they're not necessarily great either.

2,0
28 mar 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Easy location. Paid lunch on Fridays

Svantaggi

I was shown how to do something once the. Expect to be a master. Training was non existent and the staff that I did ask for help rolled their eyes. I didn’t do anything for two weeks and then told in my quality was where it needed to be despite asking if they were happy with what I was doing.

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