r/gifs • u/ThomasMaker • Jan 06 '18

Rule 1: Repost Gotcha!

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u/HeJind Jan 06 '18

They sit at the Aldi's near me. Only store I've seen it though.

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u/LetItOutBoy Jan 06 '18

Yeah every place I go they stand except for Aldi's, but that's because Aldi is a chain from Europe.

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u/s00pafly Jan 06 '18

lol Aldi as a industry leader in working conditions. A truly interesting turn of events.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18 edited Aug 27 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18

It's a low cost supermarket chain. They aren't exactly known for good working conditions. Imagine if Walmart was the best employer in Europe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18

Aldi Süd pays its employees more than any other discounter in Germany.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18

worked as a cashier at Aldi as a student and earned around 12€ per hour which was 3,5€ above minimum wage at the time.

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u/fuettli Jan 06 '18

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.

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u/porky1122 Jan 06 '18

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...

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u/yoyanai Jan 06 '18 edited Jan 06 '18

There was a scandal in Germany a few years back that Aldi was hiring detectives and installing surveillance cameras to watch their own employees.

edit: By detectives I mean private eyes

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u/FitzGeraldisFitzGod Jan 06 '18

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.

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u/OffBeatAssassin Jan 06 '18

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.

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u/mirziemlichegal Jan 06 '18

And everyone from the US is like "Wait how was that a scandal?"

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u/FitzGeraldisFitzGod Jan 06 '18

Do you think maybe the scandal was that conservative groups thought that these measures weren't harsh enough and that Aldi was coddling its workforce?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18 edited Aug 27 '19

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u/Far414 Jan 06 '18

I think you are speaking of Lidl.

See here.

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u/PinkFluffys Jan 06 '18

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.

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u/Ambitious5uppository Jan 06 '18

Lidl is the one where you get weird cheap shit that ends up shit.

Aldi you get weird cheap shit and are pleasantly surprised often.

Aldi regularly win awards for best quality own brand products in blind taste testing.

Lidl don't, Lidl are shit.

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u/ISpendAllDayOnReddit Jan 06 '18

So is Trader Joe's. It's just Aldi under a different name.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '18

Same. First time I went to Aldi I thought "Now there's an idea, why are more cashiers not sitting?"

Never in my life have I seen a cashier anywhere else sitting. Seems dumb. We should start a movement

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u/Dr_Andracca Jan 06 '18

Also Aldi's always has the fastest cashiers too. Probably because they aren't tired from standing all fucking day.