A truly awesome experience
I started work at the O2 Store in Pontefract in April 2005 as Assistant Branch Manager. The store was brand new, as were all of the team from the Manager down to the 16 hour part time sales advisors. The training we received before the store opened was, in a word, “FANTASTIC”, considering none of the team had ever worked in the mobile phone industry before, when our doors finally opened we were more than ready to greet our first customers armed with all the knowledge we needed.
The store management team all progressed within 12 months of the Pontefract store opening with myself being promoted to Branch Manager as our current Manager moved to a much busier store in Leeds.
In May 2007 O2 become the proud sponsors of what used to be the millennium dome and it became The O2 Arena. And boy did they celebrate it’s opening in style! O2 closed nearly all of its Retail Stores on a Saturday and EVERY (yes every!!) member of O2 staff in the country plus a guest were invited to a special premiere concert featuring Tom Jones, The Kaiser Chiefs and Basement Jaxx on the music front while Peter Kay gave us all a good laugh in-between Dermot O’Leary hosting proceedings. We were all put up in hotels in London and had all of our travel taken care of by O2. What an experience, it was truly awesome!
But the icing on my O2 career cake came in May 2008 when, after being chuffed to bits at just being nominated to represent O2 in the mobile industries best sales person of the year competition “Shop Idol”, I went through to the final and was in the last six nominees. Alas I didn’t win but my wife and me were both invited to the mobile industry awards (a bit like the Brit Awards but for mobile phones) and had an all expense paid overnight stay in London. Another truly awesome experience!!
So, yes, I would definitely recommend O2 as a great place to work as would all of my team I’m sure. I know it’s a little cheesy but O2 definitely live the old motto “work hard, play hard”.
Justin
Branch Manager