Just for show! (Vodafone)

Member Name: johnward99

Product:	Vodafone
Date:	28/05/06 (377 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Staff Offers

Disadvantages: Poor communication

Advantages:

Vodafone offer a staff deal with free LR and reduced call prices
Good Pension scheme although Vodafone have recently terminated their final salary pension scheme.



Disadvantages:

Vodafone are obsessed with labelling staff. Every employee is given a grade, but you can do the same role as a colleague and be a completely different rating

Vodafone brag about the fact they have a review scheme in place that rewards employees but the reality is it completely depends on your relationship with your manager. In many cases the friendlier you are with your line manager the better review rating you are given but beware this can be changed if too many people in your area have to same grade, so you are not judged by your own skills but the performance of others.

Dealing with other departments is almost like dealing with a competitor. It is very difficult to work with other areas, as people are very precious about their function and reluctant to work together. No department knows what the other departments are doing are many areas are doing the same job making it almost impossible follow correct processes and policies. internal communications is extremely poor resulting in complete confusion when seeking help.

Vodafone’s HR Is nearly none existent. If you have a personal issue, you are forced to either email a group email address or call a group number and deal with whoever answers the phone. You can wait weeks for a response. This can be very frustrating when all you want as an employee is a HR point of contact. Many sites do not have a HR representative at all.

Most of the company is outsourced to external companies such as payroll making it very difficult to resolve pay queries and it can take up to 6 months for errors to be corrected.

The company is all about image and once employed it becomes apparent this is for show only.

Summary: Vodafone advertise as being 'A great place to work' but the reality is very different