ALDI reviews

Where do I begin? Eventually the negatives outweighed the positives working here. I was constantly losing hours getting cut all the time, even though I was hired as part time. There was one week specifically where my hours were cut down to 15 and I had to waste a sick day just to hit 25 for the week. When I confronted management on this, I was told there was never a guarantee for 40 hours as a "full time" employee, as "full time" according to the Aldi handbook is actually an average of 25 hours or more per week in order to maintain full time status. My store had three new district managers during the time that I was working at this location. Also if you intend to quit, they don't let you finish out the final two weeks of a two weeks notice, you're just done and walked out. I knew this, so I waited until I had a new job secured before turning in my keys and walking out the door. I honestly haven't missed all the drama from having to do my shift managers jobs for cashier pay. I was often told how I was doing such a great job, but then right afterwards was heavily criticized for silly things that prevented them from choosing me as a shift manager. Instead, two newer people than me, who weren't even performing tasks to standard, were promoted instead. The drama felt like high school with the favorites and secrets and gossip behind people's backs. But the biggest thing, you'll never have a life outside of this job. Hours were never consistent and even though I and others didn't live close, a lot of us were scheduled for close/open shifts, working until 9-10pm and then having to come back in at 6am the next day. If a shift manager made the store manager mad, they would get less shift manager shifts and would have to work as a cashier more throughout the week. And speaking of favorites, I've seen people get fired over the stupidest things before, and then let others get away with heavily marking down product to buy for herself without letting it be available to the customer to buy. There is no consistency in fairness in how management treated those below them. They may have a lot of policies that are supposed to make sure everyone is treated fairly, but they failed many times to keep those policies. Time and Time again I saw and experienced people and myself doing extra work because a manager wasn't in a good mood or didn't like how someone did something, or didn't think they did a task right or fast enough, so extra work was given to certain people on purpose. One night towards the end of my nearly two years with the company, even though I had never seen anyone have to do this before, I had to get on my hands and knees and scrub the cooler's grates/catchers at the bottoms of the doors for two hours without any help. Ended up staying over an hour after my scheduled shift to complete this, too. I ended up doing a ton of things I didn't even sign up for, and would often get reprimanded for not being good enough and was even yelled at for talking on the radio incorrectly (because I didn't say someone's name twice before talking on it). I tolerated the people I worked with despite how they treated me and others, but eventually had to find a better job.

1. They sell you lies to get you to work for them. 2. They ask for availability but never mention your schedule is not going to be as they say. You pretty much have got to be available from 6am to after 12am. Why? Because when closing they’re always under stuffed. The store is always a mess and they want you to swipe, mop, clean bathrooms, box, throw away bad food, fill in, do everything. So even if it says you’re gonna be out by 10. When there’s only 3 people closing and out of those 3 two work you’ll be out by 12:30am 3. They hire pretty much anyone. Meaning, your coworkers are gonna be mostly uneducated, bad mannered, nasty people. They ones that stay for more than a year are usually people who just gave up in life. And don’t care about not learning something or doing something new. They are gonna make your life miserable cause you’re a new hire. Making you do everything. Giving you nasty looks and yelling at you . 4. Managers and shift managers are not properly trained or educated on how to deal or talk to people (employees) they yell at you all they long, talking about numbers, rate, how many costumers you took, how many items you rang, how many carts of go back you did, how many pallets you finished. 5. Aldi’s are mostly on really poor and bad areas. So that means your costumers are gonna be really bad, uneducated and dirty (literally) people. You are gonna get sick really easy since they don’t even give you gloves to work with ( I was sick twice on my first two weeks working there ) 6. There’s the manager (male) and the rest of workers are female. I guess they only hire women since we tend to be more submissive and may don’t like confrontation. And still they want you to work like a man lifting heavy things all the time. 7. Managers have no boundaries. They would text or call you are any time of the day. If you call out cause you’re sick you’re gonna get a call right away pretty much like an interrogation: it’s horrible 8. It’s a boring but really hard work. If you wanna deteriore you’re health fast then work for them