Ok place to work while in college - Anonymous employee ALDI Employee Review

3.0
23 May 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Full time is considered 25 hours a week, used to be 20. This is ideal for a person in college. Benefits are good.

Cons

The pay is decent, but not something a person could live on. Sometimes you were paid cashier pay, and other times shift manager pay ($4.00 more per hour). If store manager was in, you got cashier pay. The amount of work expected was not justified by getting cashier pay. There are so many other duties required and you are not compensated fairly, in my opinion. Hours fluctuated, so it was hard for people relying on their paycheck to live on. One week you get 25 hours, the next 39, and the next 27, etc.... No room for advancement at the store level. The highest you can go is Store Manager, but that requires no life outside of Aldi.

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Pros

+ industry leading wages Associates - $12/hr, Shift Mgr - $16/hr, SMT - $23/hr, Store Manager - $75,000+/yr + great work environment + excellent training + health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k + 40-50 hr/wk with paid overtime Very fast paced so work hours fly by. I loved working at Aldi. The pay was great! Benefits great! Was training to be a store manager so a lot was expected of me but I was totally up for it. My store manager loved my work, associates loved my fairness, customers loved me.

Cons

+ work/life balance + walked 28,000 steps/day!!! Never thought I would be fired for clocking in only minutes late!!

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