Anyone here work for Tesco?

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Hi all,

Basically im going to a recruitment day, is it worth the hasstle? Most peeps that i have talked to said that every supermarket is the same. But every time i go to my local Tesco , the staff always seem happy!

Anyone have anything good or bad to add to this?
 
The Tesco next to me seems to be almost entirely staffed by 14-16 year olds, I'm really not kidding.

Chances are where you go won't be, just something to think about seeing as it's the summer hols.
 
Well thats expected really , and over xmas + uni students :P

Are the oppertunities at Tesco any good? e.g Managment
 
What's the staff heirarchy like? Is it shallow? If so career progression will be slow.
 
Too many Chiefs, not enough Indians is my general experience when chatting to the "Back Door" staff whilst I'm delivering to the average Tesco - Most hate the place with a passion! Think about it, they have to look happy on the shop floor, its actually ,so I'm told,company policy.

Reasonable pay at stores, not so good at distribution centres.

I shop at Asda. ;):p
 
I work part time at a tesco extra store. I enjoy it but it probably helps that everyone else on checkouts is around my age and a student.
 
Yep.

Its a sound job if you like getting paid to do nowt and being around people your own age.


There's a lad where I work training to be a team leader and then he wants to do the managment training. Seems a pretty rubbish way to get into such a position as he has to work crazy hours at the moment. He works till midnight on a Friday!!
 
I have worked at 7 different tescos (student).
Most of the staff are dopey (not all).
Managers get so much crap and long hours it really is not worth the 20k a year (they have list of people who are willing to take your place if you dont like it...after all it is an unqualified position). When becomming a manager they let you do 11hour days for no extra money and string you on for months.

I get 6.49 an hour, time and a half on sundays, 1.32 more after 10pm and 1.94 more between midnight and 6am. The starting wage is lower than 6.49 though but deffo over 6quid.
Shop floor is ok, checkouts is so so so boring. Days arent too hard on shop floor, but nights are...but nights pays MUCH more. If you are a student, no other job money wise even comes close.....as a full timer the wage is about 12.5k a year after you have been there a year (so rubbish!). The 10% discount card after 6months service is nice though:)

Some of the staff you work with are thick, and some tescos like to employ lots of till staff who cant speak english. Understaffed is a word you hear often too:p

EDIT: forgot to mention, im a customer assistant (fancy name for shelf stacker....currently on nights). I am working summer holidays at a store as there was no otehr available jobs. Night money is very good though. The student transfer service isnt too shabby either:)
 
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i work nights at a 24/7 Tesco's, blooming hard work as the whole store has to be ready by 6.00AM unlike the day staff who seem to do hardly anything. Not heard of company policy about being happy on shop floor, Ample choice of progression if your repaired to brown nose and be a yes man to everything they tell you to do. Average age of night staff i would say is about 30, most seem to be around 30 to 35 yrs old
 
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McManicMan said:
i work nights at a 24/7 Tesco's, blooming hard work as the whole store has to be ready by 6.00AM unlike the day staff who seem to do hardly anything. Not heard of company policy about being happy on shop floor, Ample choice of progression if your repaired to brown nose and be a yes man to everything they tell you to do. Average age of night staff i would say is about 30, most seem to be around 30 to 35 yrs old
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This sounds about right for where I work. Days dont seem to do much, nights do loads.

Captain Planet said:
I'd expect that the day I started!
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It used to be a year til you got it! The discount card does cover booze, food, tvs, ps3s etc etc...everything pretty much but fags lottery and petrol.


To the OP: Tesco should be a job, it deffo isnt a career unless you make management, and it just isnt worth the crap you have to do.
 
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I work for Tesco... .com :) Doing home deliveries... i dont mind it to be honest!

I was working on the shop floor, it was ok! The staff in my store are lovely... say hi to most people even if ya dont know them... but i tend to be quite smiley lol

Moved to my department for better pay and better hours... job flys in :)

I wouldnt like to progress through the shop floor management, supervisor, teamleader and all that. Think if thats what you wanted to do, id go to uni get a qualification then join one of their graduate schemes... apparently they are very good! :D

I have just been working this year on a year out to build up some cash, maybe college/uni this year to finish what i started (computing :P)
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
Think about it, they have to look happy on the shop floor, its actually ,so I'm told,company policy.

;):p
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Used to be the same when i worked at B&Q, people used to get mithered to death of management if they werent smiling, like you'd done something wrong. It wasn't like people were frowning either.
 
mglover070588 said:
The 10% discount card after 6months service is nice though:)
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I left after nearly 3 years last weekend. after my "Exit Interview" they said i could do one last shop then hand the discount card in on my way out.

I do remember reading that your supposed to smile constantly, but towards the end of me working there on the checkouts (only a second job on sat/sundays) i was clinically depressed and couldnt even force a smile but kinda needed the money
 
mglover070588 said:
To the OP: Tesco should be a job, it deffo isnt a career unless you make management, and it just isnt worth the crap you have to do.
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But have to take crap to work your way up no?

Any idea what managers are on?

Atm your all putting me off ..lol
 
Ive worked for tesco for 11 year's and still enjoy it.

yes it has it's ups and downs but what job dosent.

ive never been in trouble and just go to work and do my job and a bit more to keep the managers happy.

night managers money is about 26k a year depending on what days you work(ie-Saturday/Sunday)

prospects are good for the management team and the course is very good(one of the best in retail).

im heading for the management course soon to further my career......i wont be leaving tesco until i retire(sad isnt it)

pension is good and all the benefits.
 
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