Bunnings Employee Reviews for Sales Assistant

Team on the floor are great but we are very short staffed all the time. Management is all about the budget and money but won’t really support the people working on the floor. The actual job is fun though

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Okay if you dont mind being a zombie

Casual Sales Assistant (Current Employee) - Alexandria NSW - 23 July 2023

Mediocre work life, but great if you're young and need experience and training. Work life gets monotonous real quick and management is real politically inclined

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Good environment but understaffed and heavy workloads

Sales Assistant (Current Employee) - Australia - 18 December 2022

Understaffed most of time because pay doesn’t match amount of work and customers are very abusive. However, culture is good and they have benefits. Good.

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Terrible place to work

Casual Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Chatswood NSW - 12 January 2022

Management are all self obsessed. No one cares about floor workers. Terrible culture terrible management and terrible environment. Don't get paid when you are sick even if you have sick leave hours.

Pros

Discount

Cons

Everything.

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Soul sucking work environment but at least you get a discount

Casual Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Wagga Wagga NSW - 22 January 2021

Went from a small format store to a warehouse store and absolutely dreaded the team I worked with.Clique attitudes and horrible management. Constantly had shifts cut if I couldn't accept a shift offered to me while studying full time.No training offered on products.

Pros

Discount on certain products

Cons

Shift management, no product training, coworkers

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Based on 45 survey responses

What people like

Fair pay for job
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Areas for improvement

Support from manager
Sense of belonging
Supportive environment

Great camaraderie,

Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Artarmon NSW - 29 June 2020

Managers had little experience in the nature of the business ie, no technical expertise. The good ones recognised the experience you brought and utilised it for the benefit of both employee and organisation. Good managers engaged in succession planning - they were rare. The rest were threatened by your experience and treated staff accordingly. Reduction of salaries budget has resulted in a huge loss of reputation for Bunnings. At Artarmon that meant that only a minority of staff had real technical knowledge.

Pros

Great camaraderie among floor staff

Cons

Poorly trained managers, erratic whs practices

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Fun, good team and good pay

Sales Assistant (Casual) (Current Employee) - Perth WA - 23 June 2020

Fun, good team and good pay. It is a great place to work and doesn't require any previous skills. You learn as you go along. Company culture is very nice and secure job outlook - they always need team members to work.

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Management...what management?

Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Rosebud VIC - 13 May 2020

If I could give working here 0 stars I would. I spent nearly 10 years here and you would expect that I would receive some loyalty or at least if I asked for a contract every year, I would actually get one. Nope. Instead they hired new people, were unable to give them hours, so cut them loose. I even got yelled at by the manager and assistant manager for asking for a contract.

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Good store to work in... can't get the hours

Casual Sales Assistant (Current Employee) - Robina QLD - 16 January 2020

A typical day at work is coming in and either starting to help customers with locating items or cleaning up my area before usually putting away stock. I've learned customer service skills throughout my working time and use them to communicate with team members and customers alike. Management of my area in the store is very good and the manager himself and teammembers are very likeable people. The hardest part of the job is not knowing when my next shift is going to be because of the lack of sales in the store. It is not usually likely, other than a good month, that I am guaranteed enough shifts because the store is constantly under sales targets. The most enjoyable part of my job is being able to help people out with their DIY projects and making sure everyone is accounted for.

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Fun and always learning something new everyday

Sales Assistant (Current Employee) - Rivervale WA - 2 January 2020

Every day is different with Team Assist. You might think you know everything until someone asks you a question you've never been asked before. It keeps you on your toes. The down fall is that you are made to do several other departments/teams work ON TOP of your own work in team assist.

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Productive, challenging, regular problem solving, fun

Sales Assistant (Part-time) (Current Employee) - Smithfield NSW - 5 December 2019

I have learnt a lot from working at Bunnings. It teaches you how to handle all different types of customers. The most enjoyable part of working at Bunnings is the people you work with. There are people of all ages and you are bound to get along with everyone.

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Terrible experience

Sales assistant (Former Employee) - Wodonga VIC - 28 September 2019

I have never been spoken to and treated so badly in my whole working career. But must state that it only became like this in change of management. Prior to management change I would have rated four n fives but now it has given a sour taste in my mouth. Been told not to talk to other team members ,spoken down to, being watch continually , degraded.

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pleasent

Sales Assistant (Part-time) (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 12 June 2019

This is a great team environment to work in, you learn lots about all the different tools and equiptment within the stores. I liked getting to know so much about all the different areas in the store

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Fun in workplace

SALES ASSISTANT (Current Employee) - Rydalmere NSW - 19 December 2018

The workplace culture was that of friendly banter, including after work activities, we all worked well as team players and I found working there to be a very enjoyable place to work. They were also flexible whilst I was undergoing my undergraduate studies and gave me work on weekends, university holidays etc.

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Great team oriented place to work

Sales Assistant (Current Employee) - Townsville QLD - 9 December 2018

Everyone who works there treats you like a customer. Fast pace work with always something to do. Day goes very fast. Fun and diverse. Meet lots of interesting people.

Pros

Busy busy busy and learning lots every day

Cons

The pay and bank of hours. No room to earn more than the flat rate.

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Easy work good for learning new skills and friendly environment

Sales Assistant - Full Time (Former Employee) - Munno Para SA - 14 June 2018

Its pretty Easy work if you can talk to customers and is a good place for learning new skills and friendly environment. Everybody is nice and there's no apparent "outcasting" on the new guy.

Pros

Easy work

Cons

Short breaks in comparison to work hours

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no good to work for

Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Cessnock NSW - 11 June 2018

No good to work for terrible management terrbile people to work with always winged about wat u were doing always worried about what you were doing never their own stuff couldn't handle it had to leave

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Love

Sales Assistant (Current Employee) - Shepparton VIC - 22 February 2018

best place to work. great environment, obtain a good relationship with the managers, the complex manager and everyone else. great friendships are built there no matter what.

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Great company

Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Tamworth NSW - 22 February 2018

Great company, solid foundation, good teamwork, impressive salary. Sometimes shifts can be really long and tedious, customers are often rude and demanding can be daunting if you are unsure of products. Lunch breaks are long which is good uniforms I injured my back and management were quite dismissive about it due to reputation and safety stats for our store. Overall, the competitive nature of the induction process makes the team members all very similar in values and allows the company to have consistency with its members. I really enjoyed working with Bunnings, not all management teams are perfect. I look back with all positive memories.

Pros

Great pay, long lunch, comfy uniform

Cons

Long hours, dismissal for injuries

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Productive and fun job

Sales Assistant (Casual) (Former Employee) - Taylors Lakes VIC - 20 February 2018

Love working at Bunnings, gave me the opportunity to gain heaps of experience and knowledge in retail. I learned how to deal with all types of customers and how to do stock management. The culture is perfect of the store.

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Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Harrisdale WA - 7 December 2017

It was a startup store when i started, good working environment and support when needed, work was hard but rewarding. management was a bit all over the place, but hopefully they've sorted themselves out.

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