ALDI reviews

Exhausting, back breaking work. Management restructure during a pandemic that lead to shift managers taking a large paycut, after record breaking sales and putting our lives on the line being called "heroes". District managers play favorites and would rather hire people off the street than internally promote willing leaders who want their weekly pay to be the same before the pandemic. You will be expected to help train these new managers while making $4 to $5 less per hour than them. If they quit (and most do because they are not expecting the amount of labor in the job), you will be expected to do their job (without getting their payrate) while District Managers look for another fresh hire to replace them.

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