As above, anyone on here work for halfords?

Thanks
Nick

 

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Lol

 

Why, what they fucked up now?

 

I have been offered a job managing one of there top 5 stores

And trying to get an inside view.

Know all there flaws from buying from them, but there seems to be a lot of pro's about there products e.t.c

Thanks
Nick

 

What store?

Andy

 

Cant say yet mate, as i am not sure if i am going to take the job but its in Surrey.

Whats your views on the company then???

Nick

 

Its alright, I mean its gets me the money in, I'm only part-time because I'm still at College.

I work in the Bike department but also know other stuff so I can be put wherever.

Been there coming up 2 years

 

As with any job in retail you will get the crap end of the stick. I left retail management 5 years ago and I would not go back for twice the money

 

Very tempted by it, as would rather be selling car/bike bits than washing machines/plasma's e.t.c (i work for currys)

Nick

 

tell them to ditch the ripspeed bollox

 

But that's half Halfords income with the Chav's loving Ripspeed!

 

Totally agree, think how many chv fiesta's/clios/nova;s you see driving around!!!! All buying from ripspeed......

Nick b

 

i work on ripspeed for one of the biggest stores in the company. We take alot of money on our ripspeed department but aswell as chav's buying loadsa cheap nasty tat for their vauxhalls and french cars, we also sell alot of good quality stuff like oz wheels, sparco stuff. Sat Nav has also made alot of money for halfords!!

 

pmsl at all the loving halfords staff

as much as i agree with the sat navs sold well for halfords,,,,,,,,,,, just HOW MANY have you had back with problems ???

navman customer services are helpfull too


whats the pakage you are being offered as there is a shortage of managers at halfords at the moment as well as internal staff to fill the positions


oh and personally i wouldnt take ANY management job that worked from 8 to 8 aswell as being open 7 days a week

also as far as moving to another company is concerned ive noticed that halfords managers dont seem to move to other managers jobs as such for some reason, they either stay or move in another direction totally

but if you dont mind working with unreliable part time collage kids, doing more hours that god sends and then hav visits from the area manager when the budgets aint met then go for it

good luck and i know a baby blue nova for sale thats more chaved than dave on the pull on a friday night

 

I have worked for DSG Retail I know management peeps too, personally I wouldnt want to leave them to go to Halfords... why not try and get a flagship currys or dixons ??

Alternatively if you want to chase the money speak to DFS furniture again I used to work there (was headhunted from DSG LOL) sales staff earn 30k+ some around Londond region are on in excess of 60k... But its boring and again if I was managing a currys store I would stay there, or try and get into another co at higher Mngment IMO

 

damo thats spot on advice,,,,,,,,, i was thinking of getting a new coffee table too

 

I would think that job is a nice ... stressful position. OK if your'e young . .and want the challenge, I s'pose.

 

I've worked for Halfrauds for six years now as Team leader and duty manager and from a working point of view it's gone down hill big time. Halfords were sold of from Boots to CVC who have taken it to the bare bones with not enough staff to run each store to keep the public happy and tbh as long as the store opens they don't care. The store i am in now has around a quarter of the staff it had six years ago and takes three times as much money, which is great for the share holders but not for anyone who works in the store.
It is true that managers are in short supply from leaving or being of sick with stress, then the deputy managers end up stressed and on the sick......
I to have worked for Comet,Power house and others and tbh retail is no joke but Halfrauds is just the same as most now. It don't matter what ya sell it's crappy hours,crappy pay and lucky if ya don't get stabbed from a unhappy customer!

 

lol ... So I was right then!?

Al.

 

now then young chap,
first thing im my complaints diary is your Queens english........
you should have pronounced your sentance as follows:

"I know all of their flaws due to buying from them"



and last of my complaints are as follows.........

if you have purchased goods from any of the nationwide stores as i have, then you will know that most of the young men and women who work in afore mentioned product outlet (shop) are absolute fukin numptys!
get a job at halfords mate and you will loose massive amounts of "street cred" !!!!!!!!!!!!
halfords (Ripspeed) = spotty cocks with catalogues/product numbers who ring head office for prices IMO.

Sean.

p.s
if you want a job in the "modified" car industry then i suggest thompson buisness pages.
i was in durham nick and applied for jobs up and down the country working on cars (part of Job Club, saved me from 23hr bang up), from breakers jobs to full on custom modifying/building cars.

at the time i was prepared to make a new start anywhere in the country but decided on a local garage job when i was released.
worked there for 2 weeks and left under unfriendly terms
A few days later one of the companys i send a CV off to phoned me offering a job as a sales person, didnt fancy it but i had a go due to probation/cash situation!
i ended up loving the job and have been at the same place for 4 and a bit years!
All of the folk who know me will know how handy the job is to me/them PMSL

morale of the story.........
halfords workers are normally nob ends, stretch your potential and bluff your way to a fookin minter job dude!
oh, and never........ EVER.... lie on a CV, it is a JAILABLE offence!!!!!!!

 

Yours is not too good either, is it Shaun?

 

I used to be manager at one of the smaller stores a few years ago - wouldn't go back to Halfords if they offered triple the salary!!! Dunno if it's changed but the company doens't give two shits about it's customers OR it's staff - especially the staff! I am STILL owed money from them that I did in over time - like best part of 3 months on the trot without a single day off!!!! And the wage I was given was atrocious! I went in on a trainee manager wage, then halfway thru my training the manager I was gonna be replacing upped and left So I was flung in at the deep end, had to run the place by myself Kept on about a pay rise considering I was now running the place- never got it tho

And PMSL @ Ripspeed - Halfords Ripspeed isn't even HALF of what original Ripspeed was and it NEVER will be. I used to love speaking to the Ripspeed employee's when I used to visit or sub in different - they really did think they were the shit, cos they worked for "Ripspeed" I used to have to leave the room sometimes as otherwise I would just laugh at em - some of the things they came out with All I could think of was "no, a Turbo-Zet will NOT give your 1litre Nova enough power to shut down your "mates" Fiesta RS Turbo (why do they always have a mate with an FRST or Cossy or something?)

Fuck Halfords and fuck Ripspeed Only decent part of my job was the tasty as fook lass I used to have on weekends in my store

 

THAT IS so true, also I have to say, of all the Halfords I have been into I have only ever comeacross 1 or 2 decent knowledgable staff members

 

Did you nail her though?

 

Damo V,
Who did you know in currys???? And what store did you run?

I am running one of their flagship stores And am one of their rsm's

Halfords seem to be a company that is trying to change for the good??!?!

There upper management level know things are not right in store and are trying to change it.(so they tell me)

Anyway i still cant make my mind up

Nick b

 

I didnt run a store It wasnt curry's either Do you know Paul Bacon though?

 

thats bollocks,the upper management are doing what all shit management does, blame others for the problems and then move to the next company just before it crashes into financial bollocls

the MD recently parted company from there

its the same with all big companys though

ive seen soooo many managers who are totally shite, they just mve about companys claiming new ideas ect for companys they have no knowlege about and after 18 months the place is turning to shote and they jump ship, leaving the new manager to sort the staff out there


the problem is higher managment mate , all got ideas, but there actually just looking for reasons and ways to blame


i dont understand why they cant train there current staff to me management instead of recruiting internally,,,,,,,,,, maybe thats something to think of first

 

Re-read what I worte - there's a hidden conotation in there

 

Surely if they trained their current staff to be management, that would mean they recruit/promote interanally?

Do you mean train the current staff rather than recruit OUTSIDE the company?

 

Nick I took a job as a store manager for MotorWorld and they gave me a whole spiel about how they were wanting to change and although the salary wasn't great I was promised 2 days off a week and my travel expenses paid. Within one month the travel expenses agreement was being denied by the Area manager and I never saw one day off in three months. I told the AM that I quit and the prick kindly repaid me by telling staff I had been sacked for theft

Oddly when I went to confront him face to face he didn't seem keen to discuss things with me

I've never stolen anything. Iwork, earn and pay for everything I have

 

yeah thrush thats what i mean

i really hate managment who sit in there ivory towers and claim what should be don but dont even know how to train there own staff to do the job proper

theres only soo long they can hide, but thats when they move to another company

oh and all halfords managers and hands on, none of em have a office of any description so that they can hide in there office like the higher managment do

anyone who applies for a job at the bottom end usually wants to success and develop with the company, if after 6 months they would rather work for 5 quid a hour than be management means theres a issue, emplying from outside is just a attempt to hide there internal issues


at the tottenham branch there was a manager who got recruited from mcdonalds, she lasted less than 6 months as she got nothing but digs off the older managers who have worked from a saturday boy as she was constantly saying about shes gonna develop the place to make money and do what should be done


first thing she implemented was sofa near the tills for the customers who had to wait to be served due to staff levels being soo short the till wasnt always manned

i mean of all the departments that need staff the actual till should be in the top 5,,,,,,, otherwise how do you take the money

good luck

 

B19 bal, man has someone from the ivory towers shat on you or something?!?!?!

How many people slag currys and there staff off????

I read a post on plasmas the other month and loads of people said dont shop in currys.

Even graham norton said all currys staff do is read tickets!!!!

All companys have htere faults and not eveyone can work for the same people.
I know 3 managers who have left DSG and will slag it off to eveyone they speak to, does that make us good or bad as a company?

Nick

 

nick in all honesty what company can not make a internal management system work ???

thats my point, ivory tower managers DO give me the hump, prob why i work with a manager who hates em too and he prefers hands on management, lead by example and spend time with current staff to allow them to grow

senior management of most companys is about what THEY can get, not what they can giove the company and in my opinion there are too many who blag there way and do nothing but act very well, after 2 years thats the true test but by that time there at another company doing the same thing

think its all the managment courses that teach people how to read a business, it dont mean they can actualy understand it and what they done at mcdonalds or at tgi fridays aint gonna be the same as working in a large company


dont forget that halfords managers dont even control the stock they sell nor to they control the amount they sell


they aint managment, there puppets who serve customers


how can a company think of employing a electrical retail manager to understand how another business works, that takes time to understand, even the little things like extra orders on batts in december,

thats why im against it, its the employ him as we cant actually do our jobs type company


btw i am actually defending the halfords genuine managers and my focus is on the higher,,,,,,,,, thats even though i quit cause my manager was a total cock but not all managers are, the last one i still chat to on msn and he agrees with me


but good luck, just think that halfords would be a bad move for a person who wants to succeed in life considering the hours involved in halfords


oh and they also had a graduate scheme in place that a former memeber of staff who worked his bollox off, tidied the store all out ect, his brother and his own MUM works there and they made him apply for the job in head office via a external agency


and he never made the second interview as they didnt think he was suitable

he knows alot more about halfords than a job agency does but they still knocked him back

 

B19bal,
Now that makes sense

I am not sure about saying an electrical retailer wont work in say halfords, as i manage people not the product. ( i will learn product, but motivating and understanding staff takes years and different skill levels)

When i joined currys i came from an area manager at JD sports and b4 that first sport, but saw currys as the right company to join.

And i have turned halfords down as it will change my lifestyle too much as i would not even be allowed to control my own rota's!!!!! I mean ..................... i only wanted fri,sat,sun and mon off each week!!!!

Anyway i enjoy currys but working again with a product that interests me was the the attractive part.

Nick

 

Cossie Sean How have you spelt "sentence" Sean? I had to rub my eyes when I noticed your location was geordie land.Correcting the queens english isnt what I thought geordies were good at?Way aye man.

 

the manage people not the product is my total point though

how can you resolve a issue when you dont know what the problem is


thats why theres trainee managers, people who can manage people whilst learning a prduct

companys with that outlook end up like halfords ect, get a bad rep of the staff not knowing shit and the manager being even worse


how can a kid on 5 quid a hour respect a manager who dont know how to install a amp or understand why theres been 4 times the amount of batteries been delivered in december when your trying to sell bikes ect


managing people aint hard, its making em work on your day off thats hard

 

oh and how many times do you have a mad rush to keep the shop tidy as the area manager is coming,,,,,,,,,,,,, doesnt that mean the stores level of house keeping is shite


get a job in a big company in the city ect thats where the cash is, retail is not long term, part time staff last about 6 months and full time generally 2 years, then they become either a good member of staff and move and progress cause when they stay you get no new ideas or approachs, just excuses and moaning about wages


btw i dont hate management, just in all the jobs ive done i seen all types of managers and then best ive noticed that get me to work and the ones that call me a cunt and are very very straight honest and somtimes too agressive, then take you out for a beer that night

the boss i got now is a wierd fooker, but hes sooooo fucking hard working ect he relys on a good team and hes ships seem to run well, as when they dont he makes em walk the plank


not judging you by anymeans but how manay managers of currys ect have been there over 2 years, how many moved on to other things "following the money" then you got left to sort the shite out

 

A manager does not need to know how to install an amp to get the sales person to sell and maybe install it Thats where your management style comes in.....

When i joined currys i knew feck all about washing machines, but managed to grow that dept by motivating and working with staff on frustrations within the buisness e.g poor delv times e.t.c

Its how you manage people and their expectations, listening to someone moan is half the battle, even if you cant change anything.

Nickb

 

Exactly, my old manger was one of these types and it made the job alot harder.

 

nick sorry but a good manager does know all about the business, its not just pie charts and DOC

the staff will respect a manager who they can ask questions to and have a detailed reply


where do the staff get there true infomation from there, how do they know they aint talking bollocks


how many times do you complain that ford know nothing about your car, thats cause they belive that the microcat system will allow any idiot to find the part you need, the problem is though that its not the whole picture


how can you deal with a result if you dont understand it yourself

sorry but its true, asmuch as good proven managment is needed, most companies think thats all you need just like you are doing


to be a the BEST manager you would have to start at the bottom and understand what the at the least the yearly changes are, unless you have a good team already but if that was the case they wouldnt employ outsiders as management would they


very few top end managers would do a total business swop and think they can do it all, as they will be new again and make the basic mistakes

big nige seem a fooking class manager and knows lots and lots of stuff in managment, but ive noticed he still works in the food industry where he started evolving

would you trust your life with a bean counter who employs doctors based on salery and his managment skills/record

and then i wont even talk about when my sister was a manager at marks and spencers, she had all the right answers she was fed by the ivory towers


notice they sold the ivory to get the share holders some cash back


then theres public services, another group of management people who managed to do nothing else but add more money


then theres the post office


shit i could go on for days


not even mentioned ford yet