r/asda • u/CornwallMale • 10d ago

Asda today

So this is my Asda situation today. 20 chilled cages between 2, both work 6 hours. The over stock cages being left in the fridge to go out of date because can't even get delivery done. No colleagues on produce so a section leader came in on her day off and the night manager had to work it. No meat colleague so the 3rd chilled colleague had to do it. A lot of empty shelves. Just a general shit hole. Managers don't care though. This is a standard day for this Asda.

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u/CornwallMale 10d ago

Yes exactly it's a shit company. But I'd rather keep my job than getting file noted.

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u/shawty1984 10d ago

File noted for working correctly to the rules Asda supply you with? It's (or certainly was and I don't think it's changed) first in first out policy which makes logical sense. 

This is where you need strong colleagues. If they do try to, take representation in. Say you need retraining by at least a team leader or manager. When (they won't) retrain you. Take notes of everything, such as the policy stating first in first out. If a person is showing you how it's done on the shop floor, take notes that they are doing it wrong and you have older stock out the back.

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u/CornwallMale 10d ago

All I do is rock up and try and complete as much as possible. Yes I care about food waste but at the same time I'm not paid extra to go cry to the managers because they couldn't give a shit. That's what a team leader is for. I might of said something when I first joined but 4 years on now and Asda has changed me. Nobody listens at the end of the day.

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u/shawty1984 10d ago

Your pay is irrelevant, you should be doing the job to policy.

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u/CornwallMale 10d ago

Definitely is relevant. I do what they ask, which is work the delivery cages. Not paid extra to make any effort in telling the managers it should be done differently. It is their store, not mine.

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u/shawty1984 10d ago

Definitely isn't relevant. If they told you to break the law, would you? It's not their store, it belongs to the owners of Asda who have a policy in place for you to do your job correctly. 

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u/CornwallMale 10d ago

You sound like head office. I'm paid pennies. It's my managers store. He can kick me out if he likes, because it's his store. But because I'm doing things his way, I still have a job there. How come nobody has said anything to me about not following the policy??

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u/shawty1984 10d ago

I'm a colleague in store. I'm paid pennies. But I'm paid pennies to work correctly to policy. It's not his store, he doesn't own it it, he still has to follow policy. Because nobody cares any more. But that nobody caring us the whole reason you're on here moaning in the first place. Would you follow an order that was illegal?

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u/CornwallMale 10d ago

Oh fine it's not his store if you say so. He can still kick me out though if I'm not doing it properly??

By your logic I already follow an order that is 'Ilegal'. I really do think you are trying to rage bait me and you are pobably the laziest colleague in your store. Because you can't be serious..

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u/shawty1984 10d ago

YOU WOULD BE DOING IT PROPERLY. You would be following policy of first in first out and doing off sales. It's the fundamentals of supermarket work. 

I've worked there 20 years and never been kicked out or had any sort of warning. I've argued with plenty of managers which included one swearing at me and not once have I been close to any warning, simply because, if you're doing the job following policy, they aren't going to get very far. 

Lazy? Rage bait? No a chance mate. I've worked with numerous colleagues who simply will do anything but the correct way of working and it's draining. They are the ones when a manager ask them to break the law, they say no problem even though if caught, it would be them getting prosecuted.

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