Tesco Minus Hours?

FNGsam · 14 Apr 2011 at 11:45

Eatchipz said:
Well I do the bakery (its only a small express store) on Friday, Saturday mornings. One Saturday I ate a croissant when I was doing the bakery and genuinely forgot to pay for it. Thing is I didn't finish it and left a bit of it on one of the bakery trays and when a colleague went to clean the bakery on a Saturday night they reported me.

Now it was not 100% guaranteed I would have got fired but I according to my rep I didn't sell my self in investigation meeting and he advised it would like better on your CV that you resigned instead of getting fired.

Did you smash that pastry

pepp77 · 14 Apr 2011 at 11:49

Eatchipz said:
Technically I haven't used any holidays with it being a new tax year.

Most companies oddly dont usually run their tax/holiday years from April to April. My companys tax year runs from October, and holiday year from January.

So it could be you have used up holiday.

vincent1989 · 14 Apr 2011 at 11:50

pepp77 said:
Most companies oddly dont usually run their tax/holiday years from April to April. My companys tax year runs from October, and holiday year from January.

So it could be you have used up holiday.

supermarkets seem to run tax to tax. it's because he resigned and couldn't work the rest of his weeks notice due to pilfering from his employer.

Sonea Fifer · 14 Apr 2011 at 11:57

pepp77 said:
Most companies oddly dont usually run their tax/holiday years from April to April.

Tesco holidays run from April to April - they pay on a 4 weekly basis with 13 payments PA. However with April being the start of the new financial year there's two two weekly payments made to their staff one on the 1st of April and one on the 15th. It then reverts back to every four weeks with the next payment being made on May 13th / June 10th / July 8th etc etc.

It is entirely possible this maybe what has caused the showing of minus hours on the OP's wage slip. If in doubt I'm sure they'll have no problem advising if the OP contacts the HR department.

GAC · 14 Apr 2011 at 11:57

i thought that was one of the benefits of working in the bakery being able to sample the odd thing.

Eatchipz · 14 Apr 2011 at 12:03

I got suspend after my shift that I work on Sunday. But for the whole time I was suspended with pay I wasn't down to work. Cause my contracted hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I resigned the following Friday.

4T5 · 14 Apr 2011 at 12:07

GAC said:
i thought that was one of the benefits of working in the bakery being able to sample the odd thing.

Do you really want staff eating whilst they are baking & handling your goods ?

Part of this though is that They can't keep track of theft if the staff are allowed to eat on the shop floor, I forget the Funky name they have for eating/consuming food whilst on the shop floor but it's All handled the same.
You cannot have staff helping themselves to whatever they fancy munching whilst walking about the store it would be Chaos & everybody would spend the whole shift down the Sweets eisle.

Combat squirrel · 14 Apr 2011 at 12:11

Eatchipz said:
Technically I haven't used any holidays with it being a new tax year.

And I wasn't aware I had to give any notice once I had resigned. At the start of a meeting they offered if I wanted to resign which I accepted. There was no mention of working a certain amount before giving it.

Holiday isn't related to tax year. It could be at tesco but most companies I know don't, mine runs jan-jan

Sonea Fifer · 14 Apr 2011 at 12:12

4T5 said:
I forget the Funky name they have for eating/consuming food whilst on the shop floor but it's All handled the same.

It's called grazing excuse the American terminology

It's also a lot more widespread than ever publicised - not just in shops but in the warehousing industry too.

4T5 · 14 Apr 2011 at 12:14

Sonea Fifer said:
Grazing

That's it, Cheers & everything there is an Americanism. :rolleyes:

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Pestilence · 14 Apr 2011 at 12:16

Eatchipz said:
Well I do the bakery (its only a small express store) on Friday, Saturday mornings. One Saturday I ate a croissant when I was doing the bakery and genuinely forgot to pay for it. Thing is I didn't finish it and left a bit of it on one of the bakery trays and when a colleague went to clean the bakery on a Saturday night they reported me.

Now it was not 100% guaranteed I would have got fired but I according to my rep I didn't sell my self in investigation meeting and he advised it would like better on your CV that you resigned instead of getting fired.

What a prat (your colleague, not you).

Working in a petrol station in the past I forgot (or other times, "forgot") to pay for things LOADS but just stuck some money in the till when I remembered. Literally nobody cared.

vincent1989 · 14 Apr 2011 at 12:17

Pestilence said:
What a prat (your colleague, not you).

really? just no.

matt_fsr · 14 Apr 2011 at 12:45

Did you really hate the job?

I think in your position I'd have offered a full apology and offererd to pay for it and to refrain from any further eating whilst at work, and taken the punishment.

If you'd been sacked you could have made thousands from flogging your story to the Sun!

Pestilence · 14 Apr 2011 at 13:33

vincent1989 said:
really? just no.

What? Going whining to a manager because somebody ate a bloody croissant?

Yeah, I'd call that pratty. Or brown-nosing. Take your pick.

vincent1989 · 14 Apr 2011 at 13:45

Pestilence said:
What? Going whining to a manager because somebody ate a bloody croissant?

Yeah, I'd call that pratty. Or brown-nosing. Take your pick.

part of the cost of food is down to shoplifters, yes the company could absorb the cost but they don't, they pass it on to the consumer.

Makunouchi · 14 Apr 2011 at 13:52

Working in a supermarket is serious business!

/yawn

RastaManBob · 14 Apr 2011 at 15:20

vincent1989 said:
part of the cost of food is down to shoplifters, yes the company could absorb the cost but they don't, they pass it on to the consumer.

Is your problem that the OP ate whilst at work? Or is your problem that the OP did not pay for his croissant? If the latter, then I personally see no reason for the OP to have been sacked. In this case then it's probably likely that others know that people eat whilst at work (and accept this) and have probably seen the OP pay for his food in the past. In this case it'd clearly be a one-off mistake, and hardly costing the consumer.

On a side note, have you seen how much 'waste', bakery included, [read: perfectly good food] is thrown out from supermarkets every single day? I do not think that one croissant, by an employee of all, makes a blind bit of a difference.

On the other hand, if your issue is the fact he was eating whilst at work, then I can agree in seeing potential hygiene issues. The solution to this, though, is clearly a verbal warning/training, on a first offence.

vincent1989 · 14 Apr 2011 at 15:59

RastaManBob said:
Is your problem that the OP ate whilst at work? Or is your problem that the OP did not pay for his croissant? If the latter, then I personally see no reason for the OP to have been sacked. In this case then it's probably likely that others know that people eat whilst at work (and accept this) and have probably seen the OP pay for his food in the past. In this case it'd clearly be a one-off mistake, and hardly costing the consumer.

On a side note, have you seen how much 'waste', bakery included, [read: perfectly good food] is thrown out from supermarkets every single day? I do not think that one croissant, by an employee of all, makes a blind bit of a difference.

On the other hand, if your issue is the fact he was eating whilst at work, then I can agree in seeing potential hygiene issues. The solution to this, though, is clearly a verbal warning/training, on a first offence.

it will have been made very clear to the OP that consumption off food, not paid for, on the premises would result in a disciplinary hearing for an act of gross misconduct should he be discovered to be doing such a thing.

I'm a person of morals, theft is wrong, if he'd been a customer doing just the same his company would have had the right to prosecute. consumption of something you don't pay for is theft, ignorance is no defence against the law, nor is 'forgetting to pay'.

the person reporting the incident is of no importance in this instance, s/he only brought to the attention the consumption of food on the premises, how tesco chose to act on that information is entirely their choice.

how you can insult someone you've never met based purely on one incident of which you had no involvement is a bit arrogant to say the least.

edit: to address your aside; yes I do, I have a personal role in trying to prevent waste from supermarkets ending up in land fills, yes lots off food is thrown away, and no it does not please me but it is an unfortunate consequence of our fast food culture and demand for availability coupled with ridiculous food laws that allow for no common sense in addition to a deal of incompetency.

did you know for example that the big bread manufactures insist on no mark down of their products?

arknor · 14 Apr 2011 at 16:04

vincent1989 said:
part of the cost of food is down to shoplifters, yes the company could absorb the cost but they don't, they pass it on to the consumer.

and if a store eliminates shop lifting do you think the price comes down? i doubt most shops even lose much to shop lifters seeing as its so much harder than it was in the 90's when most places didnt even have cameras

vincent1989 · 14 Apr 2011 at 16:10

arknor said:
and if a store eliminates shop lifting do you think the price comes down? i doubt most shops even lose much to shop lifters seeing as its so much harder than it was in the 90's when most places didnt even have cameras

we lost nearly £10 million due to thefts of vac pac beef joints last year alone, £4 million on strawberries etc, it all adds up and the money lost needs to come from somewhere.