Anybody worked for Lidl or Aldi?

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Younggrinner

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Hi,
I'm thinking about applying for the store/district manager position in Lidl or Aldi. I've heard some horror stories from 'friends of friends' who have worked there. However I don't personally know anybody who has actually worked there. Has anybody here worked for them and what were their impressions of the conditions/environment?

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Again, this is only what I've heard - which is that pay & conditions are generally better than their competitors - but that you really work for your money.
 
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I rather like this bit.

This bad press continued in the Czech Republic, where female workers were allegedly forced to wear headbands during their menstruation periods so that supervisors would allow them more bathroom breaks than other staff.
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My friend has just quit an Asst. Man. position with Aldi - after clocking up an average of 70 hours per week. She said it was the worst place she ever worked.

Unbelieveable!!!
 
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Ciadan said:
My friend has just quit an Asst. Man. position with Aldi - after clocking up an average of 70 hours per week. She said it was the worst place she ever worked.
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..........why? what made it so bad?
 
This bad press continued in the Czech Republic, where female workers were allegedly forced to wear headbands during their menstruation periods so that supervisors would allow them more bathroom breaks than other staff.
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Ciadan said:
Unbelieveable!!!
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Key word on this page: "allegedly".
 
[broken link removed]I rather liked this bit from the article:
"Checkout understands that the policy of multi-tasking (where all employees, including managers, are expected to engage in every kind of general work across the store) is still used in discounter stores."

Demarkation! Demarkation! Demarkation! (if you say it in a north Dub accent, you sound like a dalek).
 
One of my family members did work in that position but had to leave. I will ask her more about it but I do recall hearing her say that she was getting lots of points on her licence for speeding because she had to travel from one shop to another and did not have enough time to do it.
 
woods said:
I do recall hearing her say that she was getting lots of points on her licence for speeding because she had to travel from one shop to another and did not have enough time to do it.
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Amazing - just when you think that some motorists can't come up with even more imaginative and creative excuses for speeding somebody else comes along and ups the ante.
 
ClubMan said:
Amazing - just when you think that some motorists can't come up with even more imaginative and creative excuses for speeding somebody else comes along and ups the ante.
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I put your carefully thought out and well presented comment to her by way of rebuke and her reply was
" Ok, let that smart--s find himself in Letterkenny late some evening and be told that the manager in Killarney is not coming to work tomorrow and he has to be there at opening time to cover for him and see how well he does"
I backed you up and told her that 2 wrongs do not make a right and then I left so that she would have time to think about what she had done.
 
woods said:
One of my family members did work in that position but had to leave. I will ask her more about it
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The money was good. She started on 52K plus expenses.
Eight out of her graduating class joined the company and when she left about 10 months later there was only one other survivor.
 
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Eight out of her graduating class joined the company
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Just curious (if you're at liberty to answer) - graduates from what course, what attracted them to this job and what did they do after? On the face of it, €52K (flat salary or base + bonuses + other benefits?) for a graduate job sounds pretty good to me anyway!
and when she left about 10 months later there was only one other survivor.
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How are they doing?
 
They were graduated from a business masters program so that may explain the inflated salary, that and the long hours and the tough expectations.
They are all doing well and none of them have returned to the company.
 
Thanks - that would explain matters a bit alright. Do you mean a (postgrad) masters degree or an MBA or something else?
 
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