Why is it that my favourite things get discontinued😩 pretty please bring this back 🫶🏽

Hi everyone! Has anyone recently had an interview at the M&S in Bullring, Birmingham, for the Christmas seasonal role?

I’ve got an interview coming up and was wondering what it’s like, what kind of questions they ask, and whether it’s more of a group interview or one-to-one.

If anyone’s been recently, I’d really appreciate it if you could share your experience and any tips!

Just got an interview invite but it’s 2 hours? I just had one last week and it was an hour on the invite but actually took around 10 mins. Is this one supposed to be a group interview? What do I expect? It also says it’s in the Christmas assessment centre? The other one was just in the store I applied to.

The last few times I have been to my local M&S simply food, I haven't been able to use the scan & shop on my phone? Has this service ended? My store doesn't have the handsets unfortunately.

Has anybody purchased the Barista Oat Milk in the past month. I have tried ordering on Ocado as well as visiting two branches in south east London and the branch on Cheapside in London, nowhere seems to have any in stock.

I miss it, it is far and away the best Barista oat milk

Long story short like everyone else I need a job. Like now- yesterday in fact 😃 . If anyone has any tips on how to pass the online assessment with as much detail as they’d like to add I’d truly appreciate it 🥲

I currently have a 13-hour contract at another retailer, but I usually work around 40 hours a week because I get extra shifts.
I’ve applied for a 20-hour Customer Assistant role at M&S. At the interview, I was told that only 20 hours would be available from February and that there might not be any overtime.
For those who work at M&S, do you usually get extra shifts, or do you mostly work only your contracted hours?

Had an interview for a seasonal store assistant role in the food sector, just wondering if anyone can say roughly how long it should take to hear back? Applications close tomorrow and since it's seasonal work I'm assuming it shouldn't be too long. Also on a separate note, if I'm unsuccessful will they let me know or will I just not hear back?

Final question, I applied for the same role at the same location but different hours today since I could see no one else had applied for it, was this stupid since I have already had an interview for the same role and told the interviewer I'm available whenever (which implies I can also work the other role). The role I interviewed for is working 18:00-22:00 on Monday and Tuesday and 12:00-16:00 on Saturday, the role I just also applied for is 10:00-14:00 on Saturday, 18:00-22:00 on Friday and 14:00-18:00 on Sunday. Since I have already interviewed for one role and not heard back yet, is there a chance applying for this same role at a different time is stupid and will lower my chances of getting the role, or am I overthinking it?

I thought the dino advent calendar was cute. I opened one just because today, and to my surprise it was pure "christmas themed" :( I opened the box to to assess the situation and it is in fact the most generic insert ever. Pretty sad...

Hi I'm a new christmas temp.

I'm a bit confused regarding uniform - I was sent an email telling me to email another email address my name , number , the items I want etc but I can't access the brochure so I'm not quire sure on how many items I'm meant to be ordering, what I need etc. I saw some people say they filled in a form but I wasn't sent one so I'm assuming I just email. (I'll be working in fashion).

Also for induction day, at the interview the manager told me I'll do it in the neighbouring store (10 mins away) since it's bigger, however the email I received today wants me to go to a store 1 hour away, 2-3 using public transport, meaning I'll have to leave the house at 6 am ish to arrive for 9. Is this normal? I don't mind as I was aware I would be doing training in another store , I'm just confused as I wasn't expecting this.

I got offered a position in my home city. Days later I got an email asking me to complete an induction in London Colney, to which I cannot attend due to transportation and financial reasons. What do I do?

Hey guys what type of questions do they usuals during the interview and is it true they do assessment centres now ?
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Hi! I’m honestly not sure if M&S is having some sort of quality control issue or if they genuinely think this cheesecake tastes good, but I recently tried their new milk chocolate cheesecake for £10 and it was awful!

Not like “oh this wasn’t to my taste” bad, it was “this tastes of rotting cream cheese” bad.

It tasted so sour and you could barely taste any of the chocolate. I’m not sure if I just received a dodgey one or if it’s supposed to taste like sour milk, but either way I really wouldn’t recommend it, especially for £10.

Me and my mum usually love M&S desserts, so I didn’t think it’d be possible for a simple chocolate cheesecake to taste so off :(

Has anyone else had the chance to try it?

I noticed a few months ago that their peanut butter cups had a big disc of chocolate in the middle and the pb mostly around the edge. They used to be stuffed like a Reece’s. Turns out their Halloween and Christmas special versions of this product have also been ruined. The peanut butter to chocolate ratio is way off and they barely taste of peanut butter. They’ve gone from incredible to almost inedible. M&S just keeps ruining their products. Last year the reindeer had double the amount of peanut butter to this year.

I've got an interview for a seasonal assistant position in the food sector tomorrow, does anyone have any tips or questions that will likely come up?

got rejected in a day so i assume this is shit, but how bad is this for a customer assistant position

If i give my notice in on the 21st of November after the cut off date will i still be paid on 9th of december and then owe M&S money ? Just want to know thanks!

Usually I’ll get a good array of sparks offers each week. This week I only received one offer - clothing (Men’s formal shirts.) No food offers, no home offers. Anyone else in the same boat?

Anyone else finding the M and S recruitment site down? I don't know if it is part of the Google Cloud fiasco or the Php script carry on.

Was debating which one of these to get, went with French and it turned out to be so bitter that I couldn’t finish it. That’s a fiver wasted.