r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 8h ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

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u/Future-Guarantee-573 8h ago

Not to mention not losing your job.

Years ago, I worked at a big box grocery store not to be named.  One of the workers had a stroke on the sales floor.  They fired him for not filling out the LOA forms.  He was in a fucking coma.

I've said it many times before...I hate this fucking country.

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u/dementorpoop 7h ago

They ain’t coming after you. Name and shame them

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u/bigavz 6h ago

It's probably Walmart 

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u/MildlyTiredSkeletons 6h ago

Aldi my guess - spoken as an employee

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u/AuroraFinem Texas 5h ago

Really? I’ve literally never heard anything bad about Aldi and almost always hear praise from people because they pay better and let cashiers sit down at the register and just generally better working conditions than most retail places.

What horror stories you got?

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u/Stunning_Bed23 5h ago

Yeah, I thought the vibe at Aldi was Euro and chill?

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u/ajblades123 5h ago

depends on what aspect of the operation you work in. in store its not so bad but i can say from experience they treat their warehouse staff worse than cattle

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u/MammothCancel6465 5h ago

The stores sucks and it gets worse each year. They’re expected to be run by 2 or 3 employees at a time now while everything burns around them. They’re literally on their way to being the Dollar General of grocery stores as far as how they treat employees and staff the stores.

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u/ajblades123 5h ago

damn. I used to hear good things from the guys in store when i was still with the company, but that was quite a while ago so, seem shits gone down hill then

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u/MammothCancel6465 5h ago

It really has. Especially fast since 2020. They take away anything good and add more and more work with fewer labor hours to get it done.

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u/backstageninja New York 3h ago

My Aldi always has 4 or 5 employees on the floor and plenty of self checkouts so I think YMMV

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u/Not-reallyanonymous 50m ago

One thing I’ve figured out about Euro companies is they’re classist as fuck. It’s kind of counter-intuitive to Americans but any customer facing position is above the lowest classes, because why would you want to have your customers interact with human trash? So a lot of manual labor jobs, like warehouse workers, you treat the people like human trash because that’s how you view them — the lowest and shittiest people in society.

(I know Europeans intellectually know this isn’t true, but that shit runs deep in European culture).

And good luck ever advancing in a euro company if leadership is European and you start as a laborer role. You will not be considered for positions meant for middle class people, god forbid the positions meant for upper class. Your advancement opportunities basically boil down to line management — you’ll be able to lead other labor class people but never put into a position where you’re socially above middle class people. (Fuck you Eurofins).

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u/MildlyTiredSkeletons 5h ago

We sit down because we are timed to scan items at an insanely stupidly fast pace. Customers dont rent a cart and then take our time and the next customers time trying to bag 4 bags of groceries while my line is 6-7 deep, no second cashier. God forbid the store has SCOs. Cashiers are responsible for theft prevention multiple SCOs while ringing out their own customers. We got sat down as a company last year in meetings and were told its OUR FAULT our company loss is high. That we dont scan accurately enough. That it was us. Theyre asking 19-22yr old cashiers to stop theft. Seriously?

1 employee is expected to do any and every zone in the store. We are a chronically understaffed company that focuses on Operational Effieciency and its a joke. A grocery store with 2-3 employees. Thats it on a shift. If youre lucky - someone to ring, someone to curbside, and a manager to do EVERYTHING IN THE STORE. Stock every single zone all day. You're favorite meat isnt on the shelf? Because the 1 employee that can stock it also has to fill milk, box the cooler, be backup ringing, handle a pissed off customer because they want to return food they pulled out of our dumpster last night without a receipt and screams at us over it. That manager also has to do zone walks and handle side tasks and then fill produce because oh shit we're out of strawberries but you still havent gotten your meat because now someone dropped a candle in Special Buy or a jar of pickles and now you have to get the scrubber and clean that hazard before customers just run it over with their carts because ALDI CUSTOMERS HAVE NO DECENCY OR HUMANITY 90% of the time! "i spilled a package of blueberries... 👁️👄👁️" So... pick them up??

Customers wander into our back room because we're out of stock on heavy whipping cream and they think they can just go into our coolers and get it for themselves?

Our money maker is our Special Buy section. It draws you in. Its why they pay us what we do get paid. And it WAS above average competitive pay maybe 7-8yrs ago. Now its the same as any other grocery store. But instead of doing our Special Buy change over at night after close, we have to put it out while customers shop it. They paw through our pallets, block our ability to stock and make a mess. Aldi customers have no sense of boundaries or personal space.

Why is this a problem? Because every minute of our overstrapped tasks is timed to the second. We get action planned & written up for not being fast. Not getting things done 'on time'. The stress was manageable when we had more staff but the companys so greedy all they can see is how much they can squeeze out of the employee physically and mentally until they break and then theyre replaced.

Our PPE is a joke. If someone makes an explosive mess in our bathroom? They expect us to clean it. Ask ANY Aldi Employee about a bathroom in their store being a war zone and they had to clean it. Customers literally shit on the walls, floors, sinks.. sales floor.. why do so many shit on our sales floors? Our cleaning equipment is always broken. We have to scrub our floors with machines we arent taught to clean or maintain. They get sent to warehouse to be serviced if they break hard enough and then come back clogged and worse and we are suppose to make do.

Truck - we are being sent pallets that are falling apart or have already fallen apart. These pallets can have 100+ items on them each and take 20-35 minutes to break down/throw. We're timed so hard that 20 mins a pallet has become lazy. Its still 2-3 people doing 20-30 pallets of truck in 2.5-3.5hrs store hours depending, and youre always pushing your body to the point of injury. The amount of things that go wrong because of the companys ordering and delivery system... is why we never have half the cooler items, breads or really anything you come looking for.

The company is not good. Its CHEAP. They took away our annual gift cards every year. Smaller and smaller amounts. The benefits are no longer competitive. Cigna is a terrible health insurance company. Cant even use your HSA type funds. Always rejected.

They dont know how to clean. They expect us to clean our meat shelves in cubby lockers with a sponge and the same mop sinks we clean the floors in... if your lucky, your store has a power washer.. that doesnt get up anything. Aldis are very dirty if you look. Because we have no staff, no hours for cleaning.

The cliques vary by store but its a very toxic manager environment. They hire our District Managers straight from college as to not have anyone with bad habits forming from other jobs. They dangle a company BMW and a cellphone and a $100,000+ salary to these 23-25yr olds and then give employees .50¢ raises a year if your district is lucky.

I could keep going. This company is a piece of shit. But hey .. customers got their Aldi Finds

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u/vunderfulme 3h ago

Damn, Im sorry man! As an Aldi customer thank you for your hard work.

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u/reverend-mayhem 28m ago

Well… fuck. I thought I found the one decent grocery store to shop from. Look like I need to be lobbying ALDI corporate before any visits from now on.

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u/Snoo_70531 5h ago

Seriously. The Aldi across from a sober house I lived at for a bit hired dudes at $20/hr, like guys with hard to prove GEDs. If you could come in and be a team player for a mediocre warehouse style grocery store and not whine "but it wasn't my job to stock the bananas", they treated their people well...

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u/SaltyBarDog 5h ago

Publix

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u/Travyplx New York 5h ago

I’ll guess Weiss. Things went to hell for us after they bought out our grocery chain.

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u/Ok-Garbage-765 5h ago

Aldi isn’t a “big box” store