A relationship thread with a difference

GordyR said:
I'm on holiday this week but to give you an example of last week... I worked 80 hours. I did six days last week with the shortest day being 12 hours. I had a visit on Friday from David Potts, he was coming to sign off one of the trials we are on for company wide rollout. Making sure we were in the right place required going above and beyond.

Though I felt very proud when I was walking around with him and three operations Directors. We had achieved an incredible standard.
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so your the people i see walking round supermarkets in suits looking all emo about whether to put the mayo next to the tomatoe sauce or the branston pickle lol
 
Do you happen to have a BMW M3 as a company car, and were looking at a DB9 prior to that?

One of my dads friends is a local area manager for Tesco and he said he knows a chap who is well, fitting of your description :p
 
cm1179 said:
me too, then i realised this thread was 2 years old and he hasn't been back 'boasting' since. maybe the 80 hour weeks took their toll and he now lives in a timber shack on a beach and has become a surfer dude?
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Yes I agree. This thread was one of the most cringe worthy examples of willy waving ever to grace the forum.
 
These store manager types take things far too seriously anyway. They have huge mettings in the middle of the fruit and veg isle, getting in peoples way, shouting and abusing the kids at the bottom of the ladder, discussing how important their new "fresh food initiative" is.

Reality is of course, Dorris just wants some carrots for her soup, and i want a salad pack for me tea ...
 
MrLOL said:
These store manager types take things far too seriously anyway. They have huge mettings in the middle of the fruit and veg isle, getting in peoples way, shouting and abusing the kids at the bottom of the ladder, discussing how important their new "fresh food initiative" is.

Reality is of course, Dorris just wants some carrots for her soup, and i want a salad pack for me tea ...
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If it doesn't look appealing, people aint gonna buy it :p
 
its not that they discuss, have you listenned to them ? its life or death whether they put the bannanas two rows back or 1, and its a matter of national security whether to put them next to the cucumbers or the onions :D
 
Sounds hilarious - but then you'd take rubbish like that seriously if it was netting you a 6-figure salary too... To think people get up in arms about a Primary headmaster earning 6-figures, I think they're more valuable...
 
MrLOL said:
its not that they discuss, have you listenned to them ? its life or death whether they put the bannanas two rows back or 1, and its a matter of national security whether to put them next to the cucumbers or the onions :D
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As a produce supervisor it's job or no job to me :eek:
 
MrLOL said:
huh ? you've got me :confused: with that comment.
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I'm a supervisor for produce in my store, it's my job to make sure produce is "blocked" correctly, not just put in any old how. If I don't do it correctly, and make everything 100% tidy and presentable, I'll lose my job. So yeah, it's a big matter to me :p

Personally I wouldn't normally be overly fussy, but the managers.. christ.. half the time they don't order enough for me to make it look decent, and it's still my fault :(
 
Keep on dreaming

GordyR said:
Yep, deputy store manager for Tesco. And I love it.

Should have my own store very soon which will put me in the six-figure salary bracket. And from then on, assuming all goes well I hope to have my first directors position by the time I am 30-32.
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Director of Tesco at 30 - ummmm no.
 
el_dazza said:
If I don't do it correctly,
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dorris will still come into buy her carrots and i will still come in for my salad to have with my pizza for tea.

Nobody will care lol.

Obviously everybody does what they're told, but theres obviously some idiot at the top who thinks it all matters lol.
 
MrLOL said:
These store manager types take things far too seriously anyway. They have huge mettings in the middle of the fruit and veg isle, getting in peoples way, shouting and abusing the kids at the bottom of the ladder, discussing how important their new "fresh food initiative" is.

Reality is of course, Dorris just wants some carrots for her soup, and i want a salad pack for me tea ...
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To be honest some stores it is. The one I work at in Mold is shocking. The amount of money they lose from waste is amazing. I can't remember what the exact figures are but I'll look when I'm next in.


And most mangers, at the store I work in do take things far to seriously and are **** because of it. Our store manager has just come back from a 2 month lifestyle break, because he is a fat slob! The woman who was meant to be store manager while he was away has gone on a manager training program because she couldn't do the job, so the daytime produce manger is now the acting store manager. Also the store doesn't have a bakery manager, CS manager, provisions manager and I'm sure there is another missing from some department. So the managers that are left are so stressed and worried about their job they treat everyone like rubbish. It's a great system they have in place. :D

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And don't get me started on the people on options who are training to be team leaders & they hope managers!!



p.s.

Great to see you post again Gordy. :) Happy things are looking up for you.
 
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Azza said:
It's a great system they have in place. :D
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it seems to be the same across all the major supermarkets

A culture of fear and opression of the person below you. All pressured and punished into thinking everything is life and death and your in constant danger or loosing their job.

Meanwhile the little old dears will still continue to come in at the same time each week and spend x ammount on their shopping completely obvlivious to all the effort and stress that went into getting the store just how the person above them wanted it to be.


Azza said:
Great to see you post again Gordy. :) Happy things are looking up for you.
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this thread is old. He still hasn't posted in nearly a year ;)
 
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