Pluspunten
I had the best colleagues ever
Minpunten
1. Location & commute The workplace is far outside the city. Without a car, commuting is impossible. there’s only one unreliable bus, and in the Dutch cold rainy days you’ll often be stuck waiting in the rain. after going there with bus you still have to walk for 15min, there is no way going there without 15min of walk. They don’t cover commuting costs properly either. Just so you know: even most of the restaurants in the Netherlands cover full commuting expenses for their employee, Tiffany (yeah the jewelry brand) does not. 2. HR & management HR isn’t even in the Netherlands; they’re in France (ex-LVMH people) and have zero understanding of Dutch rules, the Amsterdam office, or the people who work here. Emails often go unanswered. It’s normal not to know where to go on your first day, or to work without a contract. To get a reply, you’ll need to CC every single person who can affect the email to make sure may be someone answer your question. They simply don’t care. 3. Growth & recognition Career growth? Forget it. Salary increases? You’ll have to beg. Work hard? They’ll “reward” you with more work. The pressure is straight out of the American playbook for minimum wage salary. 4. Culture Culture doesn’t exist here, you’re a robot. Tiffany for their employees is a all skin, no soul. if there is a culture it comes from your colleagues who try to make things bearable for you and themselves, otherwise from company point of view you don't exist. 5. Workplace environment You’ll be working in an Italian logistics warehouse. First language is Italian, then English, Dutch last. The place smells of chemicals and exhaust smoke of the trucks, and there’s no supermarket, no food options, nothing, anywhere nearby. It’s literally in the middle of nowhere. 6. Burnout & pressure Imagine: minimum-wage salary, crushing workload, zero management support, three hours of unpaid daily commute (from and to Amsterdam) , constant chemical smells, and luxury customers who demand everything right away. On top of that, pressure rains down from absent French management: “DO THE JOB, DO THE JOB.” Burnout in months is guaranteed. Employee churn is sky-high, and nobody in management or HR cares, they just bring another one, burn him/her out and then go on the next one. After you live because of burnout or their mistakes it take them just one hour to publish another job advertisement, but on the other side answering an email, renewing your contract, deciding about what you ask and supporting you? take months. 7. You are a robot punch in, do your job. punch out for lunch. (You have the luxury to choose when do you want to eat and for how much) punch in for work again. punch out go home. (8 hours of work + 30min or more lunch) If you want to rest in between? punch in, punch out on top of this. so basically if you don't have a car your daily working time + commute is around 11:30hr a day. (like Elon Musk but for minimum wage) 8- Vague communication They don't tell you about any of these, in the interview they don't talk about these, and most of the time you don't have your contract on the first days of your work so you don't know about salary and perks and things like that. You were in a very slow process of interview and suddenly they ask you to go to work without any more information. 9. My final thought is: Everything is a headache. Every promise can be ignored easily. Save your health and your mind, work somewhere else.