ALDI reviews

I was so excited when I got this job, but now I wish I'd taken one of the other offers I'd gotten. This job will destroy you. Don't expect to have a social life after starting because all your time will revolve around the store and you'll never have weekends off. Heaven help you if you dare get sick and have to call out. My schedule is constantly changed, sometimes the day of, and no one is ever notified. I can guarantee you that you'll never leave on time, ever. 9+ hour days even when you're not a shift manager. I've had a few 9 hour shifts turn into 10 or 11 hour shifts. Working one night 2-10 and then the next morning 6-2 is not uncommon, so add sleep to that list of things you don't get to have anymore. There's not enough associates to handle the amount of customers in the store. We're so understaffed it's not even funny, and we keep having "hiring events," but no one is ever hired? I'm only 24 and this job has given me severe aches and pains in my wrists, shoulders, and lower back. Truck has to get done in 3 hours, meaning you have to work 8 pallets in that time. Employees are expected to move so fast and get things done at an unbelievable pace that safety gets pushed to the back burner in exchange for speed. The stress and high blood pressure is definitely not worth the pay.

Work is crazy physical and moves at lightning fast pace. Went in expecting to work hard, but was completely unprepared for 10-12 hour shifts of marathon/P90X type activity. You don't just lift heavy boxes of produce and meat, you do this for almost the entire length of your shift. Even at the register, employees are expected to scan a certain number of products per minute and this is tracked. Fast, faster, fastest. Company MO is to staff stores sparingly. In any 30 minute period, you will stock shelves, get called to a register, clean up broken eggs or jars, unclog a toilet and show a customer where a product is located and this cycle is on a loop for the duration of your shift. Depending on the store, shifts are all over the place. It is not at all uncommon to close one day (get off at 10 or 11 pm) and open the next (start work at 5 am). Every day needed off for life stuff must be scheduled. You'll work nearly every weekend and holiday and rarely if ever, have two days off in a row unless requested. Again, depending on store, it is rare to get off of work at scheduled time. At least 3 of 5 work days run over from 30 minutes to 3 hours. Extremely hard to work around real life. It's retail. For every 100 great customers, there's that one who you just can't please -- and they ruin your day. There are no real perks aside from insurance. There is a 401k with a company match, but match isn't put into your account with your contribution, but instead at the end of the year. So who gets the compounded interest on the match? There are no discounts for groceries, gyms, car purchases or rentals, day care, etc. You work. You get a 30 minute lunch break and you get paid. You will become insanely intimate with cardboard -- opening boxes, pulling it from shelves, stacking it, crushing it, and baling it. On the upside, if you're moving you have access to boxes.