Ridiculously low pay - Deputy Manager Oxfam Employee Review

1.0
May 16, 2024
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Pros

I couldn’t find any positive feedback

Cons

The company seems to be fighting poverty and inequality but they do not have any ethical standards for anyone. They do not care employee’s extra hours, employees have to come to shop early for cleaning and preparing the shop everyday it takes almost a half hour and everyday daily accounting is needed to check the money box this process takes almost a half hour. Everyday you have to work extra one hour but ironically oxfam says that we are calculating your salary according to shop opening time hours, and the other problematic thing is no one use lunch break for one hour even no one left the shop when there is one employee because volunteers need managers sometime. They have some health and safety rules, one of them is to keep open the shop there have to be at least two adult otherwise you have to shut down the shop. But when you inform the shut down area manager, there is no way to positive feedback or saying ok. Every time they are saying that you have to find someone in a rude way. Awful support teams are really useless to fix any problem. And IT equipments are really old and useless to complete anything, I am using my personal computer to do something.

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