Anyone here work for Tesco?

I do nights in tesco near me. As said before its hard work as its all got to be done by 6AM.

The pay is pretty good i get £114 a week for just 2 nights so its ok i guess.

Best thing for me is the food, its sooo cheap in the canteen. On wednesdayi pad £1.14 for 4 rashers of bacon, egg, hash brown, black pudding, beans, mushrooms, 2 sausage and tomatos
 
I had a mate work at tescs for 5 years. He worked his way up from the shop floor to some sort of manager/team leader. He despised the job by the end. He was working all hours god sends, customers treated him like garbage and his 'team' were a bunch of Kevin & Perry's.

I actually had an interview for a mcjob there a few years back. I got the impression that it was long, tedious, depressing work where you'd have to be the 'yes' and the 'gofor' man.

Having said all that, I'd be interested to see where their graduate scheme takes people.
 
All supermarket jobs are the same. I couldn't stand working full-time hours in one and I can't fathom how people manage to work full-time hours on tills. Management treat you like a juvenile delinquent and customers see you as garbage.

You get no praise for doing anything good and never hear the end of it if you slip up. It's a shockingly bad place to work in.
 
Full Timer on tills here :) (Morrisons though)

Easy job that I can sleepwalk through but what really makes it is the customers. Yes some are complete and utter tools, others apparently have never heard of a shower or washing machine but there are some genuinely friendly people out there.

Been working the same store/dept for near on 5 years (3 years FT) so have built up something of a relationship with the majority of the customer base.

Can be a fun job if your chatty :)
 
Have worked at Tesco this summer, is my first real job (not career), and i've really liked it. Working on the grocery from 4 - 10 pm five days a week. Have only been there two months but already most of the staff in my department ask me for help despite being there for years themselves. Is fairly physical but you don't have to think too much. Really isn't much to say about it, I like the people i work with, make a nice change from ****ing student.
 
I know a guy who is in his 40's at Tesco's as a trolley collector. He started when he was 17, when it was a small local firm that owned the market (something like "spend n save") doing exactly the same job. He's happy doing what he does and will probably continue to be happy in that role until he retires.

The point - everyone is different, you might like it, you might love it. Your sense of ambition might differ from the next person. Anyone slagging off working there are wrong, a job is a job, it is not claiming benefit on JSA!
 
I worked at Tesco for 2.5 years and i don't regret it. It is a VERY good starting point for a CV - dealing with customers and so on. Pay isn't bad at all either, i was on £6.70. Good luck!
 
Worked in Morrisons on Produce for a 2 year ish.

It was ok, looking back to seemed like a lot of hard work for not a lot. Altohugh now I have a proper job (on work experiance), getting really good money, for doing not a lot. Going back to Morrisons will be hard for me to do.
 
I was with tesco's for about 6 months a few years back. The job itself was pretty decent, was on twilight staff, shelf stacking. I just never never really felt comfortable there, moresoe due to the staff being horribly cliquey, can't really say anything bad about tescos itself though.
 
Mp4 said:
Have an interview today! , gonna see how it goes
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Good luck!

Are you applying for management position or shopfloor assistance?

I started working at tesco again on the checkout since early May and it's not bad if you're looking for temporary/part time works. But working there as a full time career is a terrifying prospect for me. Many colleagues I know have been on the shopfloor for over a decade.

Age of the people working on checkouts vary a lot from college/uni students to retired workers. Managers and team leaders are nice to work with as long as you're not being difficult. As with all work places I think you'll always get miserable people who just like to moan about everything and those who are happy to just get on with it.
 
I worked in a new one for a week just before it opened to the public. The management were so arrogant it was unbelievable.
 
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