Soldato
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Everyone in Iceland seems happy and I hear they're a good employer.
Ah well, Iceland only has a population of around 360,000.

Everyone in Iceland seems happy and I hear they're a good employer.
Try appyling if you're old and/or fat
You won't get the job.
Many years ago I was looking for work to tide me over as I was contracting in IT until I had the next contact job lined up. I applied to Lidl and they turned me down. The store was down the road from home, a 2 minute walk. I could not have been a better candidate! Their reason for turning me down was that they felt I was too ambitious and qualified in terms of other work experiences. I don't know what kind pf people they were/are still looking for, but given their staff turnover, they can't really be that far reaching!
A lot of people in this thread have mentioned they pay well. What is this pay?
I can't imagine any job in retail being 'well' paid.
Surely their reasoning was justified. As you said yourself, you would ditch them once you got an IT contract.Many years ago I was looking for work to tide me over as I was contracting in IT until I had the next contact job lined up. I applied to Lidl and they turned me down. The store was down the road from home, a 2 minute walk. I could not have been a better candidate! Their reason for turning me down was that they felt I was too ambitious and qualified in terms of other work experiences. I don't know what kind pf people they were/are still looking for, but given their staff turnover, they can't really be that far reaching!
A lot of people in this thread have mentioned they pay well. What is this pay?
I can't imagine any job in retail being 'well' paid.
Probably both, they both have the same model of all staff doing all jobs don't they?My sister was talking about this randomly the other day.
She said the shop staff/cashiers get some of the highest wages of all the supermarkets in her area.
Was it Lidl or Aldi though that's the bit I can't remember![]()
If you've worked in any other supermarket you'll not like working at Aldi as everywhere else is like a walk in the park compared to Aldi. Yes all the supermarkets are cutting down staff and are expecting more out of their staff but it's still a more relaxed atmosphere.
Also "shelf stacking" is so last century. Everything comes in SRP (shelf ready packaging) these days so if anything it's shelf packing.
I hope a Tesco Extra turns over more than £1.5 million, for the size of those kind of stores I would expect them to be doing that per month let alone in a year.
For context I used to work in a medium sized McDonald’s whiched turned over more than £3million a year.
It is the same for all retail now , wife has been store manger for last 18 years and since 2008 all she has moaned about is staff cutbacks but higher sales profits needed with less staff . This is with 5 large high street retailers , of the 4 companies she has worked for since 2008 all have required her to make redundancies but still increase profits.
As for Aldi she had an interview and got to last few and said it looked awful company to work for so she baled
The Son of a friend of a friend went to work there via their graduate scheme, I believe he started on something like £40k which can rise to over £75k and they provide a decent Audi (A4 I think).
Probably because they saw you as a threat. If you're too ambitious then naturally they will feel threatened that you will take over their job, heck you could have been in charge of the interviewers. They want to hire actual brain-dead people who have no real ambition and will work for £7.50 an hour like sheep to generate £70-80 per hour for the CEOs.
Surely their reasoning was justified. As you said yourself, you would ditch them once you got an IT contract.
I didn't state that in the application, but given their high staff turnaround I wouldn't have thought that mattered anyway! I lived literally down the road, would never miss a beat and would be a model employee by any standard!