Undercover Boss, Poundworld.

dark_lady

The Channel 4 programme Undercover Boss is featuring Poundworld this coming Tuesday. Director Martyn Birks goes undercover to find out about unhappy staff and failing performance rates in some stores.
I cant help wondering if they are going to mention the fact that they have unemployed people working in their stores on rolling work placements. (one unemployed person finishes their placement and is replaced with another one so no actual paid employment.)
Asking staff to stay late with no notice and offering them goods instead of wages which takes them below the minimum wage.
I overheard this in our local store earlier this year and started a thread about it on here but for the life of me i cant remember the exact title so cant find it.
I am willing to bet that the Poundworld boss wouldnt want any of this broadcast so if anything like this was caught on film i would bet it is already on the cutting room floor.
However i will still be watching this with interest.

browneyedbazzi

It will be an interesting one to watch!

I expect the undercover boss will 'react with horror' to the tactics of local branches and explain it away as not being company policy and something he'll fight to put right etc etc.

dark_lady

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

It will be an interesting one to watch!

I expect the undercover boss will 'react with horror' to the tactics of local branches and explain it away as not being company policy and something he'll fight to put right etc etc.

Now commonly known as the Rupert Murdoch defence!

Krissy306

Sounds good I will be watching it if I remember

Barneysmom

Thank you Dark Lady, I will watch it

djdido2

Work placements are no longer a Mandatory requirement. Entirely voluntary on the Work Programme, I am lead to believe????

ceridwen

This your earlier thread referred to Dark Lady?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3104428

dark_lady

Thankyou ceridwen but i think it was a different one. It was about our local store asking a young lad to stay late with no notice. The manager said "We cant pay you but we can give you a bottle of wine for doing it." Then she realised the young lad was Muslim and didnt drink. While the thread was running i got a private message from someone,asking which store it was so i said where it was and then they said "ah yes thats the one" but although i messaged back to find out what happened i never did find out and i did wonder if it was someone from their head office posing as a store assistant.
Thanks again for looking Ceridwen x

LadyMissA

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/undercover-boss/articles/the-boss-martyn-birks

I am sure I saw in the trailor he was giving disaplinaries to people at the end!

DVardysShadow

dark_lady wrote: »

Thankyou ceridwen but i think it was a different one.

This one: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3069778

If you go to http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=1207971 you can find the threads you started.

yvonne13_2

Has anyone ever been sacked on any episodes of undercover boss?