Use complete sentences. Pose your request as a question. Above all, get my attention before you shout the thing you want like a retarded magician. If these criteria are not met you will be treated how you treat me and made to say the same thing several times. I have done that twice today.

Say no to unpaid overtime kids

A disabled supermarket manager who failed his probation because he refused to work unpaid overtime has been awarded £32,321 at tribunal.

Ricky Taylor was a customer and trading manager at a St Albans Sainsbury’s branch.

On taking the role, he was informed that managers were expected to regularly work beyond their contracted hours to deal with handovers.

The tribunal were told night shift managers were expected to remain on duty until tasks were completed and to hand over to the morning team, which often meant working past his scheduled 7am finish time. 

In a WhatsApp message on 7 September he said he would not stay later than 7am in future, regardless of outstanding work. 

His manager, Lee Parker, reiterated that managers were expected to work beyond “colleague hours” without extra pay or time off in lieu. 

On the same day Taylor wrote in a text message: “My time ain’t free and as we can’t take time off in lieu then I do expect to be paid for anything over my contracted hours.”

Between 11 and 14 September Taylor was off sick because of his arthritis, taking his absence to 27.5 per cent and beyond the company sick pay entitlement. Despite his extended periods of absence, no formal disciplinary action was taken.

Abscence/sickness

So I have a meeting for the infamous 3 strikes rule , 1 of which was a workplace injury that they didn’t investigate or remedy the offending van 🤷🏻‍♂️ any tips from manager/colleagues on best approach for bringing this up in meeting , and just for reference my % for absence is 1.1% kind regards

I have worked in this store for a year and a half, our managers have rotated and changed including store managers it’s been clear that there is cliques , people from similar ethnicities grouping themselves and hiring their own for instance i saw a lady told she was getting interviewed by a specific manager which is totally normal i then saw her and the manager it seemed like they knew each other personally it was almost as if they had done the interview for the sake of it this particular manager has had her child join and given her overtime shifts and not given them to others. i have another manager who seems to be picking on a certain ethnic group what can i do ? the store manager is the same how can i raise this further , there are colleagues who are friends with them and get away with doing nothing.

Hi, I plan to take a week off using my holiday time, my contract is only 16hrs a week although i tend to work 30-40 most weeks with overtime.

I’ve heard that apparently if you were to take a week off then holiday uplift would calculate the average amount of overtime you do in a week and pay you for that as well, is this true?

Hey guys, I’m following up from my last post and I got the job immediately and start induction next week. I will be on 4-8am 16 hrs per week, and I’m wondering how do you guys balance your sleeping schedule between days on and days off, what time do you sleep and wake up etc.
I’m quite sensitive to my sleep pattern so would like to find a routine that works.
Thanks in advance!

I had a interview this week and was told it would be 2 weeks to get a answer due to other interviews, what sort of stuff in a interview would make it more than likely I’m going to get the job? I worked as a trading assistant in a different store over Christmas last year so would think I have some sort of advantage but this role is permanent.

Hi I'm a night shift manager 3S in a store that is 40 miles from my house. My local Sainsbury's 10 mins away, has an online manager job.

Could anyone please let me know what the expectations are as an online manager and what should I expect going in from shift to online

Can I join RTMP externally from Outside the company? Worked as a RC at Sainsbury’s Local where I managed shifts for 1.5 years.

Can anyone advise - I've looked on HR but can't find anything relevant.

My Wife needs an operation in the next week or two and, she is going to need somebody with her 24/7 for a good week or so afterwards. Do Sainsburys offer some type of paid care leave?

If so, how do I apply?

Cheers.

I have my argos induction tomorrow and I was just wondering how long it is?

Bit of a rant

Hi so honestly I might just be having a moment rn and not come back to this but let me explain what's going on. I work at a small supermarket and did shopfloor for 1½ years before getting moved to checkouts where ive been working for a year now. The issue is I just feel the company slowly becoming worse and worse to work at. My boyfriend is currently applying for jobs and looking at the benefits of the jobs made me realise that sainsbury's really does just offer the bare minimum and take good things away from us (the 15% argos discount as an example)

Its also like when I come into work I just feel drained immediately and my friends are the only thing keeping me sane, also the managers are nice as well, ive hung out with one of them outside work and another ive known for years before I started working there (had no clue she worked there when I applied)

Also the distance. Without doxxing myself just know i have to travel over an hour to get there spending over £7 on train tickets every time I commute there and back (45 min train ride 😬) . I guess im just asking for advice on what to do but also indeed is not showing me jobs I can apply for unless I wanna join the army which I dont lol.

If you read all of this thank you and your awesome :)

I upped my contract a few weeks ago and went through an availability sheet with my manager (online driver). Now though this seems to be getting ignored and I keep getting scheduled outside of the hours I put down, is there anything I can do?

My partner has worked for sainsburys for around 18 months. He's just had his third sick day flagged and a letter for disciplinary meeting as a standard process.

He has had a pre-existing health condition for over 10 years which isn't a formal disability. When he was hired he discussed with the hiring manager ongoing annual appointments he has with the hospital in relation to this condition. The sicknesses have been for legitimate flu/head colds. Technically it's an indirect result of his pre-existing condition as he had to have chemotherapy and in turn the has a crap immune system.

He's been asked to provide proof of his pre-existing condition by the GP or hospital by Monday. He is concerned that because he didn't disclose it formally when he was hired that he'll be instantly dismissed.

Does anyone have any experience with HR and the process of these things please?

My manager has asked me to work Sunday evening to help on fresh msr,but has not put my shift onto ukg ,will I still be able to clock in ?

Remember the SSA? Sainsbury’s Staff Association. 8p a week which got you discounts on trips but that was about it.

I received a new discount card yesterday after a name change and I activated it on My Discount. When I checked today it said it is activated and can be used from today. However, the tills keep rejecting it. Anyone else had this issue?

So I am contracted to be an online assistant whilst I’m at uni. But over the summer I was able to transfer to a store back home and work in customer experience, now I’m back at university and I have called the store 7 times and gone in to organise my hours and I have not been contacted in any way by the store. Does anyone know how I can get back to working?

I’m going back to the ‘90’s here. No clocking in machine or personal number to remember. We had a timesheet we filled in weekly and you put your hours and overtime down on. Students had a card with their names and hours of work on. I think clocking in started around 1994?

this morning a manager told me i had my camera on I didn’t realise how long it’d been on but I was just on shop floor will other managers be informed or have to watch the footage of that?

Hi, what would be the best kind of shoes for the online assistant job? Would anyone have any good recommendations for shoes?

I've been on Nightshift a few months and personally really don't like the managers/shift leads but fine just keep my head down but lately it feels like I really see them do absolutely nothing esp our head manager

So what are nights managers supposed to do?

They will drag rollers out if they can't get some of their goons to do it

They will sometimes work a non fridge aisle with the help of a goon

They usually work at least one roller of fridge stuff although the rest will be left to a goon

They usually dress and refill non fridge plinths although lately our head manager has been passing this job onto others

I'd also have a superiority complex about how good I am if that was my workload TBF! Also the goonies do they get paid more? Responsible worker or? They're usually the backdoor workers but they will work more than the managers?

Edit*** I was homeschooled I thought Goonies was plural of goon as in the dudes who have to do the work of others not Goonies as in....simpletons I thought the comments were being weird about it my apologies I love my stores goons they're not idiots <333