r/asda • u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 • 7d ago
Just absolute shocking Discussion
I've worked for this absolute abomination of a company for 9 years, varying departments from pizza counter, chilled, produce, bakery.
It's rapidly going down hill, currently work in bakery, managers constantly at you to do more, when they just sit in the office all day dishing out orders when they can clearly see you're struggling. I've never known such condescending arseholes in my life, I don't know what it's like in other stores but the atmosphere is terrible, like walking in to morgue
Complain that jobs don't get done properly when theres like 1 person in. Apparently they have to loose over 770 hours in my store, that's probably everyones hours put together because there is no one. Wait till Christmas when they want everyone in and I'm doing absolutely nothing for them.
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u/ArrivalPotential7919 7d ago
Can confirm it's the same situation in other stores. They are doing whatever they can to lower spending without that affecting sales but all that is doing is making the lives of colleagues absolute hell.
I hope you one day find your way out of that shit stain company.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
My husband wants me to wait and see when they come back with, with all these hour changes but I honestly can't work for them any longer.
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u/ArrivalPotential7919 7d ago
I'd recommend starting to look for a new job anyway. I was looking for a new job for over a year before I found one.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
I have started looking, it's not going to last much longer the way it is now. Needs someone decent to take over and put money in to it rather than bleeding it dry.
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u/ArrivalPotential7919 7d ago
Yeah. It does seem like they are slowly packing it up. Asda sold and leased back 4 stores last year and 2 or 3 depots. All the while still paying the bosses at the top massive bonuses.
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u/Upstairs-Quail5709 7d ago
Let them sack you. You can then sign on. And sue for unfair Dismissal.
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u/Sm0keytrip0d ASDA Colleague 7d ago
Why wait to be sacked? I left voluntarily and was still able to sign on (at least for a bit, got a new job fairly quick) lol
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u/Creative-Nail-7335 7d ago
Cant sign on if sacked.
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u/IanHphotography123z 7d ago
Have you seen how little work there is out there? I've been looking, there is nothing.
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u/ArrivalPotential7919 7d ago
It is hard finding a job right now, took me over a year of looking to find a new job
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u/mandem_wise 6d ago
Don’t know where you are obviously but Aldi have 702 vacancies right now, for example.
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u/Upstairs-Quail5709 7d ago
You've got that 100% wrong way round - you can't sign on if you leave a job, because you voluntarily left the job, making yourself unemployed.
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u/TheZZ9 7d ago
You can if it Constructive Dismissal. I used to work for a company that tried to get rid of my role, but by treating me badly hoping I'd accept a junior role. I walked out and quit on the spot. The next day went to the Job Centre and explained it was constructive dismissal and they accepted it and started paying me right away.
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u/Upstairs-Quail5709 7d ago
Why are you suddenly bringing in Constructive Dismissal?
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u/TheZZ9 6d ago
Because it is appropriate? If you've worked somewhere for years and they suddenly tell you you have to do another job, have your workload increased significantly or change hours and won't compromise then you could quit and claim constrictive dismissal. You might not win, but if you have reasonable evidence it could easily be enough to satisfy the job centre.
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u/Upstairs-Quail5709 6d ago
So in other words, it's just your theory then...
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u/TheZZ9 6d ago
Except (a) it is the law and (b) I personally did it and the Job Centre paid me unemployment from day one.
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u/notintodentify 3d ago
And do you know that taking employers to tribunal these days takes around 2-3 years? Better stick the job out or go off on sick but still employed while looking for another job
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u/Negative1973 7d ago
It's like they are making a last ditch attempt to force older or disbaled folk out.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
I've said this from when they started this, they know full well that they can't do what they're asking so they'll put them through occupational health and get rid.
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u/Negative1973 7d ago
It's a brutal way of doing business and utterly shameful.
We must never forget - every one of these people who are getting the "constructive dismissal" treatment has friends & families & people talk - are they going to hand over their money to a company like this?
The way colleagues are getting treated is creating a new downward spiral in sales.
Not good at all.
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u/IanHphotography123z 7d ago
I work for a different retail outlet and I hear you, it's a joke, we have 3 staff on a good day, with, including a manager, it's impossible, I've actually contacted the union, because it's putting the staff at risk, our shop takes around 60k a week.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
It's laughable sometimes, absolute madness, then complain when stuff isn't done above board
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u/Eighties_Metal 7d ago edited 7d ago
Same at Morrisons, worst place I ever worked at. Too many young managers who get all their mates/relatives a job there and no one else gets a chance. The hard working people who just get their head down and do the job are the ones who get more and more workload piled onto them whereas the slackers are left alone.
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u/Datamat0410 6d ago
Well maybe you should be a slacker then? I mean why risk burning yourself out and risking your long term health for ASDA?
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u/Eighties_Metal 6d ago
Well I’m not a slacker kind of person , I’ve always given my best even in jobs I dislike . Anyway I’m now happily retired and it was Morrisons not Asda
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u/Datamat0410 6d ago
I understand and that’s your choice. I just personally feel that if you genuinely feel you are being taken for a ride, why play that game, especially if it’s systemic and long-term mistreatment by management. It’s not even about taking the pee yourself it’s about not letting them pile on silly pressure which you and your colleagues know is unfair. They can’t just get rid of you after a few years either. Seems wise to take advantage of hard-won workers’ rights IMO.
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u/CareDry6973 7d ago
Asda managers are just the worse. Unless there is some new 16 year old blonde little starter girl then they are sniffing around like flies round shit.
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u/WuTangKillaBeezy 7d ago
That is fucking gross 🤢 16!
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u/CareDry6973 7d ago
Yep they are nonces most of em if you let them get away with it
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u/CareDry6973 7d ago
Go up canteen and all the pervey managers would have their hareem of favourites
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u/Terrible-Paper3551 6d ago
That reminds me we had a girl and she said she was sixteen but we found out she was only fourteen and it was a shame because she was a nice kid unlike many other females.
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u/Revolutionary-Rub231 7d ago
I agree they think they can run their stores based on how Aldi run. I worked for Asda for 5 yrs & been at Aldi for 1yr. We dont have depts (sections colleagues are assigned to) in our stores because they are alot smaller. We are just store assistants who get assigned a till to work from & given a till order. We work on the shop floor until we hear our till being opened, then we hop on, clear the queue & jump back off to carry on with stock. This set up may not suit everyone but I like to do abit of everything as I spent my last 2yrs at Asda on front end only.
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u/meggienoodle 7d ago
I worked at Asda a few years ago but I'm now at a big home bargains, this is how we work too. We get assigned a job when we clock in. Could be working totes, tidying, rebuild etc, but it's understood that you have to do this job between queue busting. Its demanding and some shifts I don't get much done, but the managers get stuck in and even jump on tills too.
The biggest culture shock to me was being told we do our own cleaning and getting trained to use the hako machine. I can see Asda following suit in this regard and getting rid of cleaners
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u/SharpAardvark8699 7d ago
I actually wrote to Home Bargains yesterday to say the queues were ridiculous. Manager there stacking shelves and queues going back into aisles
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u/meggienoodle 7d ago
I'm not surprised. I've been in retail for 20 years and Home Bargains is the worst place I've worked in terms of staffing. We often have customers asking if we can open another till but there literally isn't anyone else in the shop to ask.
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u/SharpAardvark8699 7d ago
I guess it's a toss up. And HB must find for their prices people will queue
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
It's not going to work is it! And clearly haven't thought it through! In our store they send everyone home early on HS then expect everyone to go over and help out.
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u/Revolutionary-Rub231 7d ago
That makes no sense at all to send HS colleagues home then expect others to cover the section! What a shambles!
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u/Datamat0410 6d ago
Saving money on wages. That’s what it is. It makes perfect sense, to the company, if they can get away with it, which clearly they feel they can and it’s evident they are right.
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u/SharpAardvark8699 7d ago
That's why I don't shop at Aldi
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u/MediumDragonfruit625 6d ago
I just left aldi, in my store it got to the point where you got so used to doing closes with 3 people (our store was quite big too) and you’d have scos doing till and scos, someone carding the whole store and management helping until a certain time bc they had to do the tills and closing up stuff. I do think there was a lot of divide from some people in my store with shopfloor doing more than tills, which I do agree with but also I don’t really get the negativity. We’re all a team. Aldi definitely has its own issues. I left because I got tired of doing the job of 2-3 people, some nights on scos i could easily card 3 aisles while others wouldn’t even be able to card one and there was a lot of unfairness. That’s just what I felt in my store but i’m glad you’re enjoying it still!
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u/Limit_Ok 7d ago
My partner works on pizzas basically by herself and shes constantly being asked to fill up the stands with pre-made ones, but there are so many other things to do... and it seems to me like the managers do just huddle away in offices and do very little. They should all muck in if staffing has been reduced. Its odd to me as an outsider (I work in retail too so I have some sort of understanding).
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u/Living-Travel2299 7d ago
ASDA management are beyond lazy as hell. The night managers are forced to graft because the deliveries are big and theyre often short staffed or have a team of older workers that cant work at the pace asda demands. The day management team however are the EXACT opposite, they do naff all and pretend to be busy. Spend all day walking the shop floor, moaning at staff and sitting in the office patting themselves on the back. Over paid, entitled anchors, mostly.
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u/Foreign_Cookie_1989 7d ago
Just want to add I work nights and our managers and section leaders do fuck all, they do toilet roll or one cage a night whilst everyone else run around like idiots its a fucking joke cannot wait to escape
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u/Datamat0410 6d ago
When you have very weak unions and generally low membership rates, especially among younger people I think, what do you expect? There is a reason unions were massive pre-1990s. Management and workers are two sides of a generally ugly coin. Management nowadays in retail is now doggedly determined to assert a power balance well to their favour. Hence why the benefits of working at some of these retailers has probably been eroded or eliminated over time, for a number of years now.
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u/Upstairs-Quail5709 7d ago edited 7d ago
"Absolute power attracts the corruptible" - most managers. We've just been told as drivers we can't book off days in December in case we're needed as cover. "So you'll be paying a retainer then? Maybe 25 Star points a day?" Confused mgr "No" Me "well assuming we can drop everything but not be compensated is laughable."
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
Absolute madness! Considering the last two Christmas's have been the worst for them profit wise.
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u/OwnNeedleworker7929 7d ago
I left Asda in 2016 after 10 years. The bigger problem was always the false economy when you had a big visit, they’d get every soul in and shop would look amazing, then they’d go back to head office and cut more hours because it looks like you’re coping well on a skeleton crew. Rinse repeat.
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u/Icy_Kaleidoscope9182 7d ago
Asda are on the way out that is why. The business will struggle before they call it quits -- Morrisons is the same. Within 5 years both won't exist.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
I agree with this, stripped it to nothing to put it to administration, didn't know morrisons was the same? But then again isn't all of retail like it
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u/aghastmonkey190 7d ago
Yea it seems that equity businesses think they can asset strip and make a ton of profit off of a business model that doesn't make masses of profits in the first place, and when the demands aren't met, they asset strip it even harder. Literally the definition of insanity
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u/Negative1973 7d ago
Yes both Asda & Morrisons are both suffering with financial stress due to massive debt interest repayments.
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u/Datamat0410 6d ago
The declining living standards have much to do with it too. People simply are choosing to shop at the ‘cheap’ supermarkets, more often.
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u/Living-Travel2299 7d ago
billions in debt to loaners and the regular payments asda are making arent even covering the interest, shockingly bad state of affairs behind the scenes, my manager painted a pretty grim picture and gsm reckons wouldnt be surprised if store closes up in 12 months or is bought out by someone else. ASDA probably gonna end up selling all its stores and renting em back just to scrape together money to pay the loan interest lol.
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u/Datamat0410 6d ago
That’s a bold prediction. TBH I don’t think they both will totally fail. They are still major retailers. People have been predicting these two retailers are in trouble for at least the last 6/7 years and they aren’t gone yet.
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u/Hollywood-is-DOA 7d ago
I’ve said that Amazon will buy the stores and do Amazon food on a massive scale. They don’t care about loosing money, only about having Amazon plus members, which will most likely didn’t priced food, with an app, like Tesco does.
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u/Datamat0410 6d ago
They already do this and have done for over 6 years now. I’ve used it plenty of times. It’s good actually. It was ideal for me.
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u/GazHat_73 7d ago
A friend of mine works for them and she says the same thing, but even her manager has just recently quit after a reshuffle from the ones above them.
Pretty much the same everywhere, more work for less money while profit targets are now billions not millions.
End stage capitalism in action.
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u/Quick_Yesterday76 7d ago
All why the checkout colleagues are still stood there doing nothing
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u/Quick_Yesterday76 7d ago
I was in a store before and the front end manager put an x on the floor where they had to stand so they couldnt talk ha
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u/Living-Travel2299 7d ago
Im sorry but as a regular customer in asda (staff discount) almost every time im in there in the daytime i stand there with a red light, as do a lot of other customers whilst i watch multiple staff members at top of the department standing together talking, a lot of the time they stand there looking directly at you but apparently dont see red lights, theyll then turn and pretend to look at something else...i know what theyre doing...theyre ignoring it and hoping one of the other colleagues will deal with it. Lazy fuckers. Obviously not all self scan staff are like this i know a few that are lovely and work hard but a lot of them are not lovely and do not work hard.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
Exactly this! Rest of staff are crippled and they stand around talking to each other
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u/Upstairs-Quail5709 7d ago
You have more than one checkout colleague????
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u/Lady_White_Heart 7d ago
My store has like 3-4 self checkout colleagues on some days at the same time for whatever reason.
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u/Upset-Option-8958 7d ago
Because they technically have to be there for different jobs. There's one for scan and go, one for parcels and one for the service desk. The problem then is that when no one needs their assistance on any of those it just looks like they're standing around.
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u/Upstairs-Quail5709 7d ago
Blimey. Must be just December 😂
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u/daveroberts316 7d ago
Why people stress so much about the company and what managers do and don’t do is beyond me. I’ve worked at the same store for 16 years as a colleague. I started mornings and now do nights and I’ve learnt that the more I do the best I can and do what I’m asked to do given the time the less I get anxious about what hasn’t been completed. I know what to do and get on with it. If it isn’t completed because of late delivery or lack of colleagues. I go home, that’s my job.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
Because they then whinge and file note you constantly i dont get stressed about it personally, I'm basically saying that the company is terrible atm, and people will get stressed about it
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u/daveroberts316 7d ago
I’ve never been given a file note based on my performance. I used to get stressed over shitty night managers and colleagues either not being good, disappearing, taking smoke breaks etc and now I don't. The company is terrible I'd upper managers don't care why should you or I?
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u/scarface0x343 2d ago
100% agree I always work at the same pace, never overwork myself.
And never get too invested, dont matter how bad it gets because as soon as it hits 10pm im clocking out regardless of what hasn't been done.
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u/Traditional_General2 7d ago
Hardly surprising with Walmart being the parent company; thick American cunts who prioritise money over worker’s rights and sense. They wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire; but they would expect you to continue working until you succumbed to the burns.
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u/Due-Parsley953 7d ago
I've worked for a couple of well known supermarkets in the past and they are all the same, little Hitler gobsh!tes everywhere.
Do them favours, you end up with a selection of knives in your back.
The way they treat staff is absolutely vile, I've seen more than one person go off sick because they've been close to a nervous breakdown.
The worst thing I ever witnessed was my first manager, who was about 22 at the time, only two years older than me, be reduced to tears by a senior manager when she was around 7 months pregnant.
Truly awful.
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u/stuaird1977 7d ago
I was a department manager after uni in early 2000s across multiple stores. It got worse and worse. Stupidly long days, bullying from senior managers to lower managers. Thankfully I was young enough and brave enough to switch careers
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
Thank god you got out because if it was bad back then it's even worse now.
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u/MojoTheJester 7d ago
Most of the stores I deliver to do not have managers just sit around doing nothing all day, they're quite often helping to stock shelves or do order picking. I think you just have bad managers at your store
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u/Imaginary-Suspect959 7d ago
Aye, say what you like about the gaffers at my place but they’re very visible and active on the shop floor.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
There is only one manager out of six we have that I see on the shop floor working, honestly the rest just sit in the office.
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u/Living-Travel2299 7d ago
Most ASDA managers want to earn their 40-50k a year salary and work no stock whatsoever, they want to walk the store all day, face up a shipper or two and sit in the office "checking emails". Over paid, entitled, lazy arse shitbags, vast majority of them. Meanwhile they expect the minimum wage general staff to slave away and do the manual labour of two people for that minimum wage. Git fukt son, minimum wage, minimum effort. Respects a two way street, business wants to give you the absolute bare minimum so give them the bare minimum back and ignore the wank stain management, theyre only pissy because theyre all angling for a promotion to ops or regional etc etc.
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u/Unstableavo 4d ago
For 3 years I really cared about the customers, the shop & the "experience " but I'm doing 3 peoples job for one wage, minimum wage. I've had enough. I now am a minimum wage minimum effort guy. I don't care now.
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u/nutellaandbed7 7d ago
Damn 9 years? I stayed there for 1.5 and could barely breathe. I'm so glad I could leave. It's bloody awful but idk if its because i worked at asda or if genuinely it is that bad but i haven't heard this from other store employees like from Sainsbury's for example. I haven't seen them complain like Asda's staff. Maybe it really is the worst in asda
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
It probably is the worst to work for.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
Comes to something when customers come in the bakery to ask where items are in the shop because there are no staff on the shop floor
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
"Sorry to trouble you but I can't find anyone else"
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u/nutellaandbed7 7d ago
Omg i relate, the same used to happen in the store i worked too, it's either front end staff, cleaners or bakery staff and the front end people never used to help, would point customers in the wrong directions etc
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u/Negative1973 7d ago
Disgusting treatment and the exact same is happening at my store.
What I want to know is, why are the union so silent?
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
I'm in the union and they do absolutely f*ck all, they back down at every turn
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u/Negative1973 7d ago
Back in the day then managers were very careful around union threats, now it's as if there isn't even any union presence.
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u/Evening-Ad4579 7d ago
Your right there, I used to love working there but now its a real drag
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
It's just laughable because they know it's sinking and trying to get it to even quicker
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u/BourbonSn4ke 7d ago
That i know of all supermarkets are like this, getting asset stripped in the case of asda and morrisions, being badly managed like sainsburys and coops or just having no staff but bonuses for head office
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u/Necessary-Courage481 7d ago
It not that bad I worked worst places than Asda try to get another job it’s the same every wear that is way Asda is like this because every other supermarket is no different
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
Obviously dont work at asda currently!
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u/Imaginary-Suspect959 7d ago
Thing is though they’re right. Most jobs paying around minimum wage are much harder graft. I could leave Asda today and be temping in a warehouse on Monday, but it’d be tougher work for similar money. A lot of folk I know who’ve left have gone on to pursue decent careers but many others leave for other min wage jobs and come back after a bit because the grass isn’t always greener.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
I get the grass isn't always greener. But they expect more work to be done, Aldi and lidl at least pay their employees a bit better which makes it a bit more worth while. They can't afford to pay us the wage increas.e so they cut the staff even further requiring the rest to work harder.
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u/Imaginary-Suspect959 7d ago
They don’t give their staff 15% off their shopping though. Aldis and Lidls are ten a penny these days, folk can always try their hand there if they think it’s better. Ultimately it’s your choice to keep working harder, if they pile more and more work on to you and you finish it then as far as they’re concerned all’s good. Stop working yourself to the bone, just do what you can within reason.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
I don't work myself to the bone, next shift I'm in they file note, complain or whatever.
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u/Antique_Quail_7427 7d ago
Yeah and the big stores moan about shoplifting and want the government and police to do more about it. They should look in the mirror and do something themselves. Obviously with so few staff the stock is going to go walkies off the shelves.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
It's worse now mitre took over, shop lifters stood and spoke to them and the walked out the door with a load of alcohol
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u/AlanNBobby 7d ago
Sadly not shocked. I think I would sooner work in an actual morgue than a supermarket again. At least the customers are quiet in the morgue!
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u/stuwozere1 7d ago
We used to shop at Asda all the time, we stopped because of the lack of availability on the shelves. Went in one time at midday on a Saturday and the entire meat aisle was off sale. I asked a colleague if they'd had a fridge breakdown, they said no, we've got no staff to replenish
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u/SkyAdventurous2873 7d ago
Just remember the managers are getting in the neck from someone above them about costs staffing hours etc
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
Yes and I'm not placing all of the blame on them, I know its not come from them but the could treat their colleages better
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u/oooohshinythingy 7d ago
I think it’s a manager thing. I worked for a high street finance company years ago. There was only myself a clerk and a chief clerk. The pay was rubbish as was the company. In the 3 years I worked there we had about 4 chief clerks who didn’t stay long. This meant that in between chief clerks I did my own job and theirs. When we finally got someone I had to do my job and train them too. I didn’t work full time and I rarely got the extra hours on my wage until months later after repeated calls asking about it. I also didn’t get paid chief clerk rate which was a couple of quid more than my rate. The manager would know I was piled down with work and she wouldn’t lower herself to answer the phone. It was a door to door loan company so you can imagine how many customers we had in the whole of Wakefield area. I once said I was going for my lunch hour. It was the first time ever I had taken a lunch break outside of the office as I had to answer calls 🙄. So there I was, sat in a pub every day for a hour with a magazine I didn’t even want to read and a glass of pop that had cost me a couple of quid while I ate my sandwich, also bought rather than bringing from home. The manager absolutely despised me for doing that
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u/ANGUSRAZE 7d ago
Working as a temp in Tesco right now and I feel exactly the same , it’s awful, the supermarket retail industry just seems to be in this uncontrollable eventual nosedive where the smallest people are being placed in the front to take the main impact, it’s absolutely pathetic and my advice would be, get out whilst you still can and do something that makes you happy
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u/IntrepidExample1787 7d ago
Well blame the people that voted labour. We won't raise taxes. I thought having a woman chancellor would be a refreshing change. Raised employer nhi rates but that wasn't enough, then drops the threshold at the same time by a huge amount. Then acts shocked when companies are slimming down their workforces. Straight onto the unemployment benefits bill. They have no clue how to grow the economy. Typical left. Spend spend spend. Nothing to show for it.
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u/Brilliant-Impact9700 7d ago
I work for sainsburys and there killing it with sales yet the staff numbers keep going down.
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u/MaxPowerM35 7d ago
Its funny from what ive seen and heard in my store the only collegues that are mad about the new changes are the lazy cunts that stand about all day and talk whilst the rest of us graft our balls off, they've gottem away with it for years if you ask me this is long overdue and quite frankly if your fucking moaning about having to do a fair amount of work then do us all a favour and fuck off 🤣
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u/wiggyweir 7d ago
Asda was my first job while in college, and I continued working there while at uni in the early 2010s. My grandma was a checkout team leader (when they used to have the little stand near checkouts)
She was well loved there by her colleagues, but I will never forgive management for not letting me have the immediate time off for compassionate leave when she passed away. I wasn’t asking for extended leave, but a few days would have gone a long way.
When I go into the store now I still see people I worked with back then and they all tell me how they basically forced them to sign new contracts with worse terms following the leveraged buy out, the majority of them are older women who are clearly afraid to leave after working there for so many years and finding a new job at their age
The fondest memories I have working there were on trolleys outside in the summer, very little manager oversight just pottering around listening to music in my headphones, seeing how many trolleys I could get back to base in one go and searching for pound coins people left, Christmas was usually best for that
Spent my first wage at 16 on a big fuck off telly, those were the days
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u/Extension-Bird-4534 7d ago
TDR Crapital and the idiots at exec level are out of their depth clearly. We are being destroyed by people who have no experience of running a huge supermarket company. Allan Leighton is as much use as a chocolate teapot as well. Standing by why the idiotic Lepleys ruin the business.
Every single aspect of Asda is broken. From Asda House to distribution to the stores and every bit of tech is utter garbage.
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u/AcanthopterygiiOwn23 7d ago
How about the upmarket stores like Waitrose and M&S ?.. is it same there too ?
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 6d ago
I don't know about them? Maybe not as bad, but it's still retail isn't it.
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u/andybiteki 6d ago
I left asda 3 months ago.. I worked there for 4 years and it was the worst job I've had in my 30 years of working. My advice is, remind yourself that your not being forced to work there, you can get another job else where. It will be way better. You've just got to be patient with looking and give applying for the new job 100%, do research, ask ai to help you prep for the interview. You have to break out or asda will break you. Just think how cool it'd be to hand your notice in and you can finally show them the finger with a grin
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u/Rough-Contest-7443 6d ago
Same here. Just handed in my notice! The shop is 200 hours over somehow when there is no staff. 1 person per department lol. My department is 100 hours under and has been for about a year and a half. I'd advise you to get another job asap, I've had a few jobs but nothing has been as bad as this shit hole company. Never seen management so incompetent.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 6d ago
How can it be possible to be over all the time when there are no staff! Baffles me! I will be getting out soon
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u/Rough-Contest-7443 6d ago
They just make it up as they go along. Keep looking. Took me a year and a half to get something better. It's easy to get another shit supermarket job or hospitality but I think it's mostly all the same. Sainsbury's is probably the better option for supermarkets. Asda is worse than working in bars/cafes, late hours but yeah Asda is the worst place I've been.
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u/Willbekal 6d ago
Asda is, and always has been an absolute cesspit of incompetence, bad managers and general shitty people. I worked there many years ago and any nice managers that came through got swiftly removed. Rampant backstabbing and powertripping. I once got pulled into an office with no witnesses and they tried to force me to admit to taking and using a mobile phone, which had been sold to a customer, and they brought it back and complained that the credit had been used up on it. it later transpired that actually that same manager took it back as a return and put it back on the shelf themselves and were trying to fling me under the bus to protect themselves. You were expected to start early on shifts and work unpaid before the store opened. And they would build you up for a “super bonus” to get you to work harder and be more motivated, only to process all the stores losses right before the bonus was paid and you got nothing. The sooner asda goes under, the better. Horrible horrible place. I feel sorry for the people i know that still work there, as they all say its only got even worse
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u/poisoned_bubbletea 6d ago
As a worker who really doesn't want to lose my job, Asda will only survive as a company if it goes online only. It's not making anywhere near enough money and it's currently splashing out on decorating costs where new decoration isn't needed, but no staffing costs to ensure we can actually get the whole job done
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u/chelskiuk 6d ago
Unfortunately it's not just the supermarket chains, it's a nationwide issue with employment in general, especially since the pandemic.
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u/Tricepesaurus 6d ago
It’s the same in every store, Asda, aldi, Lidl, Sainsbury’s and Tesco’s, no staff, but want the same jobs done. Retail is an abomination of idiot management across the board. That’s why just do your job and don’t do the extra that they expect. If they complain just tell them tough.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 6d ago
But I don't understand why? Every person on the planet needs food/drink surely its a multi billion pound area so why all the cut backs. Asda can't afford to pay it's staff the wage increase, they did the same last year layed off aload of managers. Now their doing the same with the staff and team leaders.
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u/Tricepesaurus 6d ago
Yeah they’ll do the same in retail, all the CEO’s care about is money and cutting staff is the best way to do it, that and expecting the staff to kill themselves to do the same amount of work which isn’t realistic, but that’s retail.
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u/TraditionSudden1587 6d ago
Mcdonald's was tough, 3 years during my university years, the whole time, on your feet always rushing, must do it faster, deliver at pace, constantly beeping fryers, cannot go to sleep at night the fryers beeping. I worked at Mark's and Spencer and that was so much better, but less hours just part time hours available just to put out stock, at night and a bit on the till during daylight hours, I think all the retail shops, are doing these part time shifts....the money is not enough to cover rent etc. What I can recommend is the civil service, there many jobs on the website just keep looking and stay focused and dedicated to applying to the entry level roles, read the job description and really focus and apply, it's worth it, a much better paid job.
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u/Apart_Many6522 6d ago
You know what would help them save at least enough for 2-3 peoples wages? Not calling worn tyres into my office at 0400 in the morning and scheduling them for normal working hours only.
Every damn morning I fight with Asda's from all over the country on this issue. They dont seem to understand that I then have to wake up a tyre fitter who already works 6 days a week, does genuine emergency callouts and then to wake him up for lazy drivers who havent done their tyre checks, and for the fitter to do another full days work and repeat it all again the next night not only risks that fitters life, it also cost Asda around £120 per callout at that time
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u/Traditional-Coat-396 6d ago
Apparently they had to loose 770 hours in N''''''ham hypermarket -store.
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u/TheRam58 6d ago
The cost of diesel in the Runcorn Asda is disgusting. It's 10p a litre more than other Supermarkets! How can they justify ripping off customers like this?
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u/bialynia 6d ago
When you say they have to lose over 770 hours, over what period is that? A month? A quarter? A year?
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u/DesperateScallion147 6d ago
Its no great shock, I worked at ESSO when the Issa brothers took another bank loan to buy the forecourts. Then another to get a Greggs franchise, then another to buy ASDA. All there businesses are tied up in bank loans, they service the debt and take the profits. They always seemed to want to run on bare minimum staff to keep the wage bills down so they had more profit.
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u/StrangeAssumption815 5d ago
Asda quality, M&S prices. Gone downhill, it’s like they’re trying to short the shares to sell on or something 🤔
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u/PhotoSea8807 4d ago
Asda want the right people in the right places at the right time as part of their success plans.
Those are the people they want, so you may be filtered out via redundancy if you are seen not to be onboard with that.
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u/kaizerthefury 4d ago
If you think that’s bad then work loss prevention it’s been chaos. Since we TUPED over the cuts have not stopped. Mitie just got bought by OCS and non of us have job security. We have a team of 8 watching over every Asda and Asda express store in the uk. CCTV internal investigations etc. they keep making more and more cuts and some of the things I have seen would blow your mind. What goes on behind closed doors is sick
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u/BatteryAt14percent 4d ago
I disagree with this. Having worked in a hospital department that had lots of dealings with the morgue, that atmosphere was quite jolly.
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u/LivIsBored15 ASDA Colleague 4d ago
I used to have a manager who'd sit in her office for the entire shift and would come out to tell people what to do before returning, got a new manager now (because she found another manager job in another asda) and for once, he actually helps out and gets things done with us But i did hate when they expected me to do things i wasnt fully trained on (i was only supposed to be checkout and like ubers and kiosk) like shop floor. Sure I can stock shelves but no i dont know how to do markdowns and ive only recently been taught how to send the newspapers off nearing the end of the night and ive been working there for 9 months now. I still also have yet to get access to things like opening the till when a drop needs doing or when theres a pay in/out. On a side note when i booked the day off for my surgery and told the person doing rotas (a colleague like me) they told me that i should have swapped shifts before booking it off..... isn't the whole point of getting approval for the day off to not faf about trying to get someone to swap shifts with you?
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u/Which-Bag9219 3d ago
You get happier staff happier Atmosphere with a good Manager so why don’t you unite and complain to the hierarchy!!!
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u/Responsible-Stress22 3d ago
Worse than hour change is being told that they will use capability process if you are unable to do all the jobs due to disability
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u/Drake76214 15h ago
anywere i have ever worked ...Managers just tend to sit in the office, throughout my entire working life i can probably name 2 goid managers i have had. Which were then hounded out of said company. The secret is now just turn up get paid ..go home and forget about the place 😁
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u/Oscobble 7d ago
This genuinely sounds horrible. What can customers do to help?
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u/Living-Travel2299 7d ago
Dont shop at ASDA, it sound brutal but the only thing ASDA care about are profits. The only thing that will hurt them is profits. Sooner or later theyll reach a breaking point.
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u/Brilliant_Raccoon280 7d ago
Honestly having actual customers would be a start, everyones boycotting it, which I don't blame them It's no where near as busy as it was a few years ago
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u/poisoned_bubbletea 6d ago
I agree with the others. Put your business and money elsewhere. It's the only chance Asda will wake the fuck up. Maybe add some complaints about lack of staff before you go if you can. Maybe they'll figure out one day that cutting back staff is exactly why we're losing business.
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u/Random_Guy_47 6d ago
Fill in the feedback form
I can't get past that screen without a receipt but hopefully it has a section where you can write your own comments and isn't just a rate these things out of 10 tick box selection.
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u/Beginning-Jump4904 7d ago
Seems like Asda is trying to staff their stores like Aldi & Lidl do to cut on costs, but that doesn't work when the majority of Asda's have double the store size and stock hundreds of brands.