Worse job ever - Deputy Store Manager ALDI Employee Review

1.0
Apr 24, 2021
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Pros

Getting to go home and finally leaving If you want to loose weight work there

Cons

No safety wear issued your dragging out pallets with no safety boots, no googles when using bailer to protect eyes, no proper thick freezer gloves so would get freezer burn on your hands there was a shortage of gloves to wear when putting out stock so I was using gloves from previous employment some staff had paid for their own. Long hours you would be expected to stay over to get stock worked if the day was busy could be 12.30pm or even 4 and 5am then still be expected to do your shift the following day. Heavy work expected to work pallets with unrealistic times a bread pallet would have to be worked is less than 9 mins and 15 mins for the heavier pallets, as a manager you are constantly running around doing the heavy work load while staff are on the tills, micro managed the worse Iv ever experienced assistant store manager constantly on your back, sitting in the office watching staff on cctv then dragging them out the break room on the dot of their break finishing, standing at the tills watching how long it takes for staff to get off the till once’s they have finished with customers, no duty of care to staff, no return to work being done, if you injury yourself your doing your own first aid and no ones recording accidents. You can’t plan your life as rot-as aren’t done in advance. No safe and legal standards managers giving keys to under age staff to authorise alcohol sales without then having to come and do it. Some staff are paid more than the deputy store managers too

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Cons

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Pros

+ industry leading wages Associates - $12/hr, Shift Mgr - $16/hr, SMT - $23/hr, Store Manager - $75,000+/yr + great work environment + excellent training + health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k + 40-50 hr/wk with paid overtime Very fast paced so work hours fly by. I loved working at Aldi. The pay was great! Benefits great! Was training to be a store manager so a lot was expected of me but I was totally up for it. My store manager loved my work, associates loved my fairness, customers loved me.

Cons

+ work/life balance + walked 28,000 steps/day!!! Never thought I would be fired for clocking in only minutes late!!

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