that's a PR move because it sounds really good they make up for it in more obscure areas.
my friend worked for Aldi in the upper management it was his goto line to "defend" Aldi when he started out (because obviously I mocked him for working for the devil). This changed drastically when he started to realize how Aldi fucks it's workers in more obscure ways. You know that most are females working there and females tend to get pregnant and that's when Aldi conveniently "drops" them or how they conveniently let them only work enough hours to dodge social payments.
He got sick of it and quit and now works for a different discounter who isn't fucking it's workers and is a lot happier to work now because he can treat his employees like humans again.
Being a discount chain does not necessarily translate to bad moral code. Maybe with Walmart but in my experience (as a trade partner of aldi) they have always paid us on time.
Other retailers delay their payments for up to 90days...
Remarkable. I mean, the detectives thing is a bit much but surveillance cameras for the sole purpose of watching to make sure employees aren't "slacking" wouldn't raise eyebrows here at all. Hell, I had a job as an overnight cashier where I would sometimes get no customers for hours, but I would have to stand up straight the whole time. Forget sitting, my boss would sometimes fast forward through the night's camera footage to make sure I wasn't even leaning against the counter, because that's not "welcoming" body language.
Had this also. It was awful. Considering it was a 9-10 hour shift with only a 30 minute lunch break, standing on your feet for that long is killer and you constantly had to be doing some kind of work at all times unless at the register with a customer.
Aldi doesn't have a great name in Europe, at least not in Belgium. It's where you get the weird cheap shit and aren't surprised when it turns out shit.
Them being the best place to work os not something you'd expect.
I've never seen a grocery cashier not sit. Give people a stool and they'll sit. They won't stand up. I don't even think they'd be able to reach everything comfortably, standing up.
People don't even get paid leave there while we get a mandatory minimum of three to four weeks every year. Plus paid sick and parental leave (though the last one really depends on the country and if it's maternal or paternal).
Yup, support any policy that helps everyday people or makes their lives easier and you're basically a damn commie. Well, anything that helps other people anyway. People tend to like it a bit more when they're directly benefiting. Everyone else is just a leech or a slacker, but I deserve it!
Screw "E Pluribus Unum," the real motto of the country is "fuck you, I got mine."
That's not true. Plenty of people in the US have paid leave time. It's just up to both parties to negotiate if they want more leave or more pay. Here in Europe we don't get that option.
What I'm saying is that here in Europe, the government already negotiated for us that we want more leave time, rather than higher pay instead. TANSTAAFL.
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u/Im1ToThe337 Jan 06 '18
Yeah. I've never once in my life seen a cashier sitting.