hacked off with tesco

Craig321 · 11 Mar 2007 at 02:12

mglover070588 said:
any thoughts on this?

Get knocked over by a car. As you say, you should get thousands of compensation off it.

dbmzk1 · 11 Mar 2007 at 02:24

mglover070588 said:
right i work at tesco one eve a week as a student.
not only do they always short staff us rediculusly on trolleys, now 3 yes 3 out of the flood lights in the carpark work!! bare in mind it is an extra store so its biiiiiiiig. its almost pitch black out there and im still expected to work. they have even been broken for 3 weeks now!!

Surely this is illegal as there must be some rule against working light conditions. Just think if a customer gets hit by a car and claims off tesco they'l be liable for thousands! I no for a fact that if i get injured due to it being too dark there will be trouble.

To top it all off there are loads of rude boy chavs who like to sit on the carpark wheelspinning etc. Also there is a sex offender on the loose in the local area who strieks outside the union, but this carparks surely a likely spot for an attack.

any thoughts on this?

Grow some balls and tell them you refuse to work in an unsafe environment and you are not going out there until it is safe to do so.

Rebelius · 11 Mar 2007 at 02:57

dbmzk1 said:
Grow some balls and tell them you refuse to work in an unsafe environment and you are not going out there until it is safe to do so.

If you joined USDAW, I'd speak to your rep before doing that - they might just sack you an get someone else.

basmic · 11 Mar 2007 at 09:54

mglover070588 said:
Also there is a sex offender on the loose in the local area who strieks outside the union, but this carparks surely a likely spot for an attack.

any thoughts on this?

Yeah! Which Tesco did you say you worked in, again?

lookitsjonno · 11 Mar 2007 at 09:56

no lights = more places to skive.

better than being a shelf stacker imo.

Duke · 11 Mar 2007 at 10:15

zain said:
Tell the press, the more bad reputation Tesco get the better for us all!

How does that work?

cleanbluesky · 11 Mar 2007 at 10:19

mglover070588 said:
any thoughts on this?

Are you male or female?

Scythe · 11 Mar 2007 at 12:06

Azagoth said:
Or Sainsburys in Stoke! I can safely attest to the fact that all their lights work and there no chavvy types on the car park.

Haha, of course not! There are no chavs in stoke!

OpenToSuggestions · 11 Mar 2007 at 12:13

cleanbluesky said:
Are you male or female?

male but there are female workers (obviously its a supermarket

) and the sex offender on the loose is actualy a rapist

4T5 · 11 Mar 2007 at 12:14

mglover070588 said:
any thoughts on this?

You work 1 evening a week, Life is Tuff a

Making you go out in the dark as well, i never realsied Tesco were such a bad employer

Get over yourself before i send the little green men down there to get you

OpenToSuggestions · 11 Mar 2007 at 12:17

OMG just found out there were shootings in lboro area last night :eek:

4T5 · 11 Mar 2007 at 12:19

You'll be safe as long as you have your Tescos jacket on

Caged · 11 Mar 2007 at 12:31

1 shooting

Digital Punk · 11 Mar 2007 at 12:47

pyro said:
If he is "loose" he doesn't need lube!

Every little helps.

SexyGreyFox · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:11

Azagoth said:
...please tell me you're not at the Longton Tesco! Longton is even worse than Stoke!

Excuse me, even I do some shopping there, regulary buying my Classic Rock, Guitarist and Stuff magazines.
Never seen any problems there.

Cupra · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:26

mglover070588 said:
right i work at tesco one eve a week as a student.
not only do they always short staff us rediculusly on trolleys, now 3 yes 3 out of the flood lights in the carpark work!! bare in mind it is an extra store so its biiiiiiiig. its almost pitch black out there and im still expected to work. they have even been broken for 3 weeks now!!

Surely this is illegal as there must be some rule against working light conditions. Just think if a customer gets hit by a car and claims off tesco they'l be liable for thousands! I no for a fact that if i get injured due to it being too dark there will be trouble.

To top it all off there are loads of rude boy chavs who like to sit on the carpark wheelspinning etc. Also there is a sex offender on the loose in the local area who strieks outside the union, but this carparks surely a likely spot for an attack.

any thoughts on this?

bend over gig boy

Lopéz · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:28

Duke said:
How does that work?

Raging against the machine is cool remember?

dbmzk1 · 11 Mar 2007 at 15:40

Rebelius said:
If you joined USDAW, I'd speak to your rep before doing that - they might just sack you an get someone else.

What has USDAW got to do with it? You don't need to union to tell you that you should refuse to work in an unsafe place! If they sack you for that, sue them.

I'm a member of USDAW as it happens, they are crap anyway! haha

Rebelius · 11 Mar 2007 at 15:52

he might just be on a temp. contract or whatever, they may be well within their rights just to get rid of him and get someone else.

zain · 11 Mar 2007 at 16:27

MNuTz said:
why? just a grudge or some juicy gossip?

Neither.

Duke said:
How does that work?

Tesco is growing larger by the day, if you know about economics you will know about the characteristics of a monopoly/oligopoly.

One of the key characteristics is that they are price makers, which means they can charge what they want. An example can be local fruit and veg stores around new Tesco stores, they (Tesco) go 1/2 of the price of the small shops and once that shop closes they went about 3 times the price. If we keep buying from them and giving them power they will abuse it. They are already very powerful, if not more than the government.

In a society where ethical issues are playing more of a role in peoples choices to buy products or not, hopefully the bad press for Tesco and its abuse of power will deter consumers away

I hope the government does some sort of requirement on superstores like they have done in the USA. Most of the profits big businesses make is taken out of the country, which means no tax and the small businesses suffer.