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Well I joined Orridge thinking I'd make some extra cash on the side, I did but it came at a price, a PAINFUL price. So I went to my 1st shift which was at a huge Morrisons in Nottingham (im from Birmingham). So we arrived there and they asked who's 1st shift it was, and I said me. So they took me and some other fellow new starters to the warehouse, the warehouse was split into small sections, each section had like 100+ items, we had to scan each one individually as the supervisor said. It was hell, I had to pick up and scan heavy items, take them out from where they were and put it on the floor, after completing scanning it all the supervisor told me to put it all back to how it was!! ALONE!! FOR MY 1ST SHIFT, While she stood there looking at us. Through the whole day we got a 15 minute break, we worked for a miserable 12 hours!! The supervisors look down on you, they talk to you like dirt, like they're better than you. The pay is £5.50 for under 21, 21 and over is £6.10/6.20. So the whole day was horrid, and at the end of the day we were sent outside the building to wait for the coach, which they did not phone, they did not have the number for the coach. So we waited over an hour , middle of the night in the cold as the supervisors drove off home as soon as their shift finished.
Worst company ever!!
Yesterday one of the supervisors called me and asked if I could work a shift in 2 days, I simply said no I cant work this week, I have training elsewhere, the man said ok then and hung up....the next day I get a text saying I've been put up for the job and I have to meet them at 5:30 in the morning!! Seriously, do they not listen? I said I cant work!
And last thing, if you work in Birmingham they ask you to meet in Aston, by the Tesco. Why on Earth would you meet in a random area, surely it'll be easier for everyone to meet near the city centre. But no, they meet right next to the Supervisors house, pure stupid!

Avoid this company at any cost, the long hours are not worth it, the hours are not fixed, for all you know you can work for over 12 hours and they wouldn't tell you before hand. Cr*ppy management, cr*ppy pay, they treat you like cr*p. AVOID!! I'm not only speaking on my behalf but amongst other Orridge employees that I know.

I have only just started working for Orridge and didn't really expect to get any work so was surprised when I was offered more than required. So far I've completed 1-2 jobs per week which suits my requirements.

The jobs I've done were based in the Southeast of England and there is a dedicated driver to ferry up to a team of seven to and from the job which is good as it's usually pick up and drop off door to door.

The work involves using a handheld scanner to count stock items in both the stock room and shop floor. The job will suit those comfortable with repetitive tasks as there is no variety to the tasks required. What I have found is the hours do whizz by, so I never find I'm clock watching.

Staff tend to be from varied backgrounds and different age groups so it is diverse. There are hardened counters who pride themselves on high count scores and everyone's score is noted so I would imagine there are targets, but these have never been explained to me. 

Staff are required to dress smartly and no Jeans or Trainers are permitted. I personally think this is impractical as the working conditions can be dirty or dusty and kneeling or sitting on floors is often necessary.

I found the main full time managers to be very organised and competent, also they were very polite and helpful. The Supervisors who have been promoted from counters tend to be less competent and ineloquent so I received very poor training on my first job, preferring to get advice from a couple of the other counters.

So far my experience has been a good one and I've enjoyed the work. As a mother to a young child the work is flexible as counters can specify availability on the Orridge online Portal, so jobs will only be offered depending on availability. I think to receive regular work it is necessary to be reliable and work when you say you can and turn up on time.

The hours are terrible, especially as there are no set working hours (e.g. 09:00 - 18:00). This means sometimes you have to get up ridiculously early, or start sometime in the afternoon. Once you're booked onto a job, you usually meetup with some people (as car-pooling is the norm) to go to where the store is. The company almost never sends you to a local store to stock-take, in fact, one of my co-workers said that one time he went from Great Yarmouth to King's Lynn (I think), and people from King's Lynn went to Great Yarmouth. I don't know who's in charge of scheduling, but it seems pretty evident that they are useless at their job. Further evidence for this is the amount of times people have been called asking if they are available to work on a certain day, even after specifically marking that day as a day off on their calendar! You might reasonably say that making that mistake is not so terrible, and I WOULD agree, if it weren't for the fact that, upon being informed that you cannot work today (because of other commitments, or being out of the country, or whatever), the person calling you then becomes quite rude, suggesting to you that you should ALWAYS be available to work!

The work itself is pretty easy, albeit boring and repetitive. There are also instances where you will have to deal with an overzealous store manager, who INSISTS on you single-scanning items (a process which makes the job take MUCH longer than it should).

In summary, if you're desperate for a job, I guess you could do worse, but if you have a bit of patience, I'm about 99% sure you'll find that something better will come along.

I am currently employed by Orridge as a counter. The up side to the job is that it is a job and the work I do suits me. 
The down side is, well where shall I start. It is a zero hours contract, so work is NOT guarenteed. There is either no or very little training. The hours can be very unsociable. The company has an 11 hour rule for time off between jobs, however travelling to and from jobs is not included. For example, you can travel 3.5 hours to a job, then work for 6 hours before you get a 20 min break, then say another 3 hours to finish the job after which you have 3.5 hours back home. You get home at say 3.30am. Your next job is very similar, so another 3 hours to site. There fore the 3.5 hours back from previous site and the 3 hours to the next site is 6.5 hours. This is included in the 11 hour rule, so you are left with 5 hours at home from 3.30am to get some r and r, have a hot meal, and get ready for the  next shift. Not ideal.
You may have to do similar travelling for a job that only runs for 5 to 6 hiurs, so you could end up spending more time travelling than you get paid for the work you do.
When i started at Orridge i tried working 4 shifts on mon, tues, wed,and thurs. When i got home on Friday (about 2am) i was physically and mentally exhausted. Now i only do 2 days a week and it suits me fine. If i want to do extra work i can ask for some, and if i dont want to do a job they offer me i don't have to.
After saying all that, the job works for some people but not for others.
I just go in, do the counting and go home. I dont rush the job. They can have the counting done or they can have it properly.
I hope this helps.

Im going to give my review on Orridge without ever working one single shift for them, i was offered the position of driver/counter after attending a mass induction, many walk out at the induction stage, alarm bells will ring when you hear what they expect and what they give back in return...ongoing i was offered 5 counts in all,over a ten week period as a driver to collect other counters first then travel to location, do the count then return the counters home, the jobs on average were 4 hr round trips, not including dropping off and picking up counters, and for this effort i was to receive the reward of £10.00 extra, more than the people im ferrying around on behalf of Orridge, thats £2 pr hour for a 5 hr drive, simply laughable wages and the people im transporting dont get anythng ! i rejected every job i was offered, and head office, if there even is one send me emails telling me im off their employee database, the same office dont even have my bank details so how i would be paid is anyones guess.....and yet even at time of writing this im receiving txts asking me to attend the next count.....beware people, this circus of a company will let you down, you are putting yourselves in the hands of amateurs,its possible to be out of your home for 10/12 hrs with this shabby firm, and only get payed for the time you actually count, which could be  5 hrs, and you wont get that payment until the week later.......ask yourself is this worth it ? if you have any self respect, hold on for something better and locally to you rather than give these cowboys a chance

I worked a few jobs with Orridge as a stocktaker for some side money as I was a full-time student. The "benefits" of Orridge seemed perfect to me: flexible hours, little training and multiple opportunities for work, however, I soon found that the bad outweighed the good. 

The first thing I noticed about the company is there is no way to know when you get to go home; you can work 6 hours and you can work 16 and there is no reasonable way to know. 
The second thing I noticed about Orridge is how the jobs were almost never local; you would more likely be working halfway up the country than in your own city. Transport is provided, but after a hard day's work, you would then be travelling for hours to get home usually late at night when you woke up early that morning. 
The last thing I noticed about Orridge is their terrible pay, it is minimum wage for a job that requires high effort. 
The people that you work with are generally nice and have a good working spirit and it's the only real positive I can think of for this job. Management is fairly decent, however, they still do everything by post instead of by email which slows everything down. 

If anyone is looking for work I would steer clear of this company or zero hour contract jobs in general. Since you would be travelling large distances anyways you would be more successful in finding fixed hour jobs in a large area, like 10-20 miles, instead of taking a stocktaker job from this company.

The pay is minimum wage for what I'd say was fairly easy work, they do have targets for that elusive £10:22 rate but I've asked other employees about it and they just laugh, definitely unachievable, I'm used to longer shifts so 6-10 hours on my feet is a breeze, also they go in fast as you are always moving around. Late starts so sometimes out till 2-3am but if you are on again the following day then atleast you get to catch up on sleep as you will get picked up at around 2-3pm. Free and simple to arrange travel is great so your wage is being thrown away on transport, true you don't get payed to travel but if you don't mind a 2 hour drive to Edinburgh then it's not an issue, the counting team of around 10 people is a pretty diverse group from all walks of life, it helps when you have a whole shop to count. Only major let down is management, threatened with job loss and the constant threat of being booted off the job (not a great thought when 2hrs from home at midnight), these are all verbal open threats to the whole team AND individually if things are counted wrong or not fast enough, I get its a business and we have targets but threatening people seems counterproductive, thick skin is definitely a must have for this job, that said there are cool supervisors that understand and actually help with counts, so all in all the job is easy and the coworkers are great but supervisors can be harsh so take the good with the bad, its the only thing keeping me here.

The only feature decent is the hourly rate of pay, it's a good place if you don't want to progress in your job anytime soon, there's no balance between work and life because one shift is your whole day gone, sometimes if you start at 2pm you could be there till 11pm or later and you could be on another shift to start at 6am the next morning, sent out to silly locations once up the map of UK the next down south, oh you don't get paid for travelling, work in a white shirt (turns grey from all the dirt while you work) and trousers to get down on your hands and knees to count stock, once i was awoken at 8am by call to cover an absence nearby (i chose sleep) so best if you switch your iphone off when you sleep, they like to call u 30 mins before the driver is leaving for a shift as they think you have no life, give you the wrong number for a driver not on, drivers not replying on time, last minute pulled off jobs, no option to cancel out of shift once confirmed instead put you down as a "no show", weird head office team, threats of dismissal via text message for not turning up to jobs when they wasted 3-4 hours of your time as given you wrong contact details, originally orridge state to be available 4 days a week but sometimes do not offer a single shift in a week, sundays you can be working 13 hours all at once with only 1 hour break inbetween for lunch, i had 2 months of sunday-only shifts.... wow. supervisors are just regular ppl who gave the past 15 yrs of their lives away to orridge.

Worked for this company for a number of years and it’s simple what you have to do, use a handheld scanner to scan barcodes and count how many of an item there is. Most stuff you can do as multi scan which means you just scan one of a certain barcode and enter a number into the scanner but sometimes you have to do some items as single scan so you have to scan each item individually which can become a bit of a pain if there’s hundreds of random little items. Also stock rooms can be very messy and dusty where products have been left for many months not being touched so be prepared to have to go and wash your hands frequently as they will get very dirty during shifts.

Pros are working shifts at some stores that you would not otherwise go into if it weren’t for this job, also getting to travel to places around the Country that you would not see otherwise, even if travel time is not paid, you get paid travel expenses provided that you fill out the expense form on a weekly basis and print out receipts of your costs/staple any train tickets on. However when I worked there these had to be sent off via snail mail and you did not have the option to do it digitally or email your expenses. And they don’t cover the postage stamp costs for sending the forms in.

Payment to you is made every 2 weeks so you don’t have to wait a month to get your wages which is also a plus.

This job is very physical and can get very long hours over 12 in some cases so make sure to bring enough food and drink to get you through it.



You'll work more hours then u get paid for, spoken down to from the managers, App isn't updated regularly or accuratly.

My first shift was in Portsmouth 2.5hrs drive away. Travel by car pool is unpaid. Our shift was Primark, we were picked up at 11:30am and didn't return home till about 1am for 8.17 hours at minimum wage when we were active for over 14hours.

We did 1 more day and were messed about again, sent to southhampton and was treated like dirt from the managers. Work causes you to stay in stress positions for long periods of time like stretching to scan clothes an arms length above your head or kneeling for extended periods on solid flooring. A guy asked for a step ladder so he could more easily do his job to which our manager kindly belittled him infront of everyone.

If you cannot get work anywhere then atleast this is coin in your pocket, but ANY job is better than this... 

If It was paid from the moment staff got into the carpool it wouldn't be that bad, the main problem is doing 12hrs+ days and only being paid 8. If your expected to be able to work anywhere in the southwest they should  pay for your time to get there. Business insurance while working with them can earn you over £100 a day but that's due to half being fuel money. Feel like your being scammed when people are getting paid more to get there then doing the job itself.

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