ALDI Assistant Store Manager (Deputy) reviews

Early starts and late finishes. They use the whole mentality of maximising efficiency to slave drive workers. Targets for unloading pallets especially during peak trading hours is ludicrous. The store management teams giving you veiled threats and warnings unnecessarily making you feel your job is vulnerable. Career progression at store level is nigh on non existent and the favouritism is stupendous as well. The area managers virtually offer no support whatsoever and then there is the no existent HR department so if you are not happy with certain issues that you want addressed such as sexism or misogyny then you have very little support at all from top management. The company actively dissuades store employees in particular from joining trade unions as these would as put by my area manager 'disrupt the workings of the business'. It seems they would do anything to make sure that you are not fully aware of your rights at work with them. If they mess up your pay it will only get rectified the following month which is not at all lawful but they could not care one bit. This organisation is designed to reward those at assistant store manager level upwards as that is where the bonus system works from.

cutting down on premium hours. only around 1 pound difference between the store assistant and deputy manager wage, but a lot more responsibilities and expectations. no further progression. company prefers to hire ppl from outside other than promote their own ppl. 30 hour contract. if sick even for a day need to bring a doctors sick note, no self certification accepted. holidays being allocated if not all booked in january for the whole year in front. company not keen on training staff. very fast pased, priority on saving money and sending staff home early other than having full and tidy shelves.