Unreasonable - Anonymous employee Lidl Employee Review

3.0
15 Sept 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Every branch I have dealt with have employed staff that have great sense of humor. Its one of the key characteristics they look for when employing. Easy to grow within the company Hard work and hard workers are recognized. Better salary than most grocery stores

Cons

Too much is expected in the time given. Speed is priority and not quality. Rules are created that assistant managers and managers are themselves unable to live up to. Managers don't work full hours and hand over their tasks to assistant managers who then hand it over to the rest to finish over their regular tasks within the same amount of time. I have been given several tasks with out training. And when I asked for help they make excuses for not training. And when I am not able to perform those tasks to a standard of one who had been working their for years(I was working their for only a month), then I am the butt of everyone's jokes. A family member died and I was not allowed to in home because the 'big guys' were coming to visit. I had diarrhoea and was not allowed to go home. I landed in hospital because of a blood blog in the brain and stress and I was accused of pretending even though the hospital gave the papers of proof. Even though it is a grocery store they will not supply coffee for their staff. Manager had provided coffee when I started and the 'big guys' threw it into the trash because they don't want to pay for it. There are never enough staff. There are so much more to say but I think this gives a pretty good idea.

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