Anyone work/worked for ALDI?

[aproctor]

I used to work for Asda. When I applied, I had to wait 8 months before they acknowledged my application form. Seriously, these things take a long time these days. Job queues at supermarkets.

I had the opposite experience, i applied for a job and they rang me the next day and offered me another one.

 

[flibbage0]

I had the opposite experience, i applied for a job and they rang me the next day and offered me another one.

Where was this though, was it a supermarket?

 

[Swifty55]

Guess where I applied.

I had the opposite experience, i applied for a job and they rang me the next day and offered me another one.

I worked at ASDA for over 2 years when I was 17. When I applied it took less than a week to be employed by them.

 

[aproctor]

Where was this though, was it a supermarket?

Asda (head office).

Looking back, i'm pretty sure the store applications are dealt with by each supermarket.

 

[RomanNose]

No but their chewing gum is first class, 60 pieces for less than a pound, don't eat them in one go though ( they contain a lot of laxatives).

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Only problem is I don't do ties. Reason being I have a phobia/don't like tight things around my neck.

http://www.jamesmortonties.co.uk/ties/show/clip_on_ties

If you couldn't figure that out for yourself you'll fit right in at Aldi!

 

[Swifty55]

http://www.jamesmortonties.co.uk/ties/show/clip_on_ties

If you couldn't figure that out for yourself you'll fit right in at Aldi!

Guess I'll fit right in then!

 

[mrk]

Got an interview with them on Friday and wanted to know what I may be letting myself in for?

Thanks.

What did you put on your application form lol!

I applied to Lidl once because the closest store is 60 seconds walk down the road but they sent me a letter saying that I was not what they were looking for.

Is it because I'm black?






I do hope your potential success after interview will not be a long term plan for employment there though and only a stop gap! Every time I go into an Aldi or Lidl (they sell the very finest Custard cream biscuits out of all the super markets!) the staff always look miserable and out of the 5-6 checkouts only one is manned so queues build up.

For all that they pay especially after grad schemes etc they could at least improve moral around the shop floor!

 

[deusexlumina]

spend a little, live a lot.

 

[franco_22]

Is it because I'm black?

Yes it is.

 

[Thorper]

Thanks for the advice.

Only problem is I don't do ties. Reason being I have a phobia/don't like tight things around my neck.

So going as smart-casual and selling myself will have to do I guess. :/

Clip-on ties bro!

e: beaten

 

[paulh]

Everyone at Uni used to rave on about the Aldi grad scheme. 40k + Audi A4 to start with, earning 60k after 2 years.

Try getting on the grad scheme if you can!

My mates brother is on this.

It is super money, but has to work a billion hours a week. He looks like a zombie, it can't be good for him.

 

[Uther]

A jobs a job these days! Good luck with it.

 

[randomshenans]

lol at the "look at all I had to do for this role" - wait until you are going for much higher up jobs, you can have a lot more than that to do. Technical tests, presentations, hours of interviews... it's what it's like!

 

[Hotwired]

The Aldi grad scheme looks like the deep end all right.

A year of training in all aspects of the business can get you an area managers position in charge of 4-6 stores.

 

[mrk]

lol at the "look at all I had to do for this role" - wait until you are going for much higher up jobs, you can have a lot more than that to do. Technical tests, presentations, hours of interviews... it's what it's like!

That's not the problem though, the.problem is the extended and unsociable hours that affect you physically.

 

[Cosimo]

That's not the problem though, the.problem is the extended and unsociable hours that affect you physically.

A part and parcel of that business. Not suitable for people who want to spend their life doing 9 to 5.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Yes, but I got told that years ago they use to make you be self-employed etc. Want to know if it's still the same case?

I very much doubt it. HMRC would nail them to the wall for that.

 

[Hotwired]

That's not the problem though, the.problem is the extended and unsociable hours that affect you physically.

Are you talking about getting overweight and having circulation problems from sitting at desks and travelling for long periods?

 

[mrk]

Are you talking about getting overweight and having circulation problems from sitting at desks and travelling for long periods?

No, I am on about what was mentioned someone else above about their friend, that working those long hours and getting less sleep results in you looking like a zombie. Probably feel it too (I know what that's like having worked long/late hours for work in the past).