Terrible Employer
I was employed by Floorbrite. So I am going to be completely honest about my experience.
I attended my original interview with Julie from the Sale office, which was not an interview and consisted of being told I would start the next week and what size clothing I needed. This seemed very unprofessional to me and seems to be Julie's "interview" style. I took the job and was great at my work. However we lost a supervisor due to Julie taking a holiday off them for the place being closed on a day that supervisor was due to work, which is out of that person's control as they do not control when the school is open.
I took on more hours and had a change of work hours, which meant we were 2 employee's down. Julie had 3 weeks notice from the supervisor leaving on 7th November 2025, and me starting my new hours on the 10th November 2025.
Julie only found 1 new employee (who did not understand or speak english properly) to fill my old shift in 3 weeks, and still left an available vacancy which went unfilled for 10 weeks since the supervisor notice. This left me with more than my agreed area to cover, and during a team meeting Julie stated she would focus on hiring more female employee's, which is against hiring practices in that team meeting.
To give a better understanding of my hours, I should have worked from 10am to 5pm. Due to the inability to find a second employee to fill the available role in a reasonable time, I had to do overtime until 6:15pm for 7 weeks straight, 6 of which I had to give up any break I was entitled to if I wanted to finish the job properly.
So 10am to 3pm was myself being in a Janitor type role, from 3pm until 6:15pm I was to clean the school. I had to cover my area I was assigned and help another employee who was regularly late to the shift.
My area in total for those 7 weeks from 3pm were 7 - 10 classrooms (depending on when the late employee showed up), 2 main hallways, 22 toilets, the staff room, 2 small side rooms, front offices, welcome area and 2 stairwells. I had 3 hours to do all this, which put a lot of strain on my body at the time and I was very stressed with this expanded workload.
Overall I liked the team I was part of, but nobody on the team liked or respected Julie as not only is she a terrible area manager, she would also drag her feet to send any mobile cleaners in, even with several days advance notice and the one time somebody was sent in,the person could not get into the school as they had no notice of this person or their DBS certificate.
I would advise people to be wary of working for Floorbrite as they seem more concerned about saving money than supporting their teams, as a company they should employ fewer managers if they want to save money.
Edit : The equipment provided by Floorbrite was awful, the hoovers would cut out when it got to hot as they were not fit for the job, we had a scrubber dryer which was old but adequate for it's use and a carpet cleaner which was at times dangerous, due to the attached hose coming off on occasion which you had to wait to cool down before reattaching it and one switch on the machine would cut the power out in that school section, requiring the custodian to fix the problem on the electrical board. This is a issue Floorbrite knew about but the reason given to not replace it were about cost, this is a dumb decision on this companies part as providing safe and reliable equipment is essential to the job and health and safety of all employees and teaching staff.