The Truth About Working At Aldi, According To Employees
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Aldi employees have said management prizes speed and efficiency over its workers' wellbeing - and it only gets more troubling from there. From doing multiple jobs for the same pay to a difficult work/life balance, working at Aldi isn't all it's cracked up to be.
#Aldi #Workers #Store
Back-breaking work | 0:00
Employees are timed on their speed | 0:52
You'll learn almost every role | 1:42
The pay isn't terrible | 2:49
Difficult work/life balance | 3:44
No time for customer interaction | 4:38
Guilt trips by management | 5:22
Room to advance | 6:25
Good coworkers make the difference | 7:45
Employee claims are ignored | 8:41
Voiceover by: Danica Lopez
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Doesnt matter what company...retail here and anywhere sucks.
Why does this feel like an Aldi hit piece funded by Walmart?
I don't know about worldwide but here in Australia yes you do need to be quick but if me as a 53 year old pack a day smoker can do it most people should be able to do it. You just need a good work ethic.
I’m a DM for ALDI currently looking for a new job. ALDI is the worst company I’ve ever worked for. Back breaking work and an extremely toxic culture.
store assisstant for a year and a half , absolutely hate it .
I could tell you a hell of a lot of bad things this company has done, I’m a sa for 9 years lol joke of a place been looking to leave for a while
I heard it pays better than most retail jobs is this true?
@@junknown4800 I feel like this is the start of a joke lol. All 3 management positions saying they hate it. It's wild lmfao.
If you don’t mind me asking, where did you work? Was it in the US or UK? I have an interview in a few weeks for a store in Glasgow. Hope you found a role you enjoy more 🙏🏻
I have worked for three different grocery store companies in two different states. Timing employees on the register and on stocking is very common.
not in PA.
Agree. Even 40 years ago working as a checker at a small LOCAL grocery store, all of the checkers were ALWAYS timed and kept informed what their speed was... They kept a chart up, visible to all employees, and rewarded the top 3 checkers every month. I saw this as a fun challenge and loved being either #1 or #2 almost every month. 😊
Some fun💩
I would so fail at the register. It's like they're at 2X speed. I'm a tortoise. 🐢
Most of their products have at least 5 barcodes so you don't have to look, it is almost guarantied to scan. It's like they have made it 2x easier to do it
@@Caderic got any tips
I've been an Aldi customer for over 7 years, and I've been working as an Aldi part time stocker for a few months so far. I didn't come into this job nieve or oblivious. As far as My experience goes, I can't say enough good things about my managers at the particular store I work in, they stay focused and sharp, they keep great attitudes even in potentially stressful situations, I accepted the challenge of working a physically demanding job and have lost almost 30 lbs along the way (starting some time shortly before i began working and throughout the past 2 months) and feel great because i manage self care after each shift, stretching, meditating and making diet changes.
I'm Genuinely saying that I'm happy working here. With the pay, the people, and the experience. Ofcourse things don't always go Perfectly smooth everyday in busy working environments with several people occupying within on a day to day basis! but I stay focused and do my best and it's working out just fine for me! They see that I'm putting forth the effort and they acknowledge it and work with me as I develop/learn and, as wild as it may sound to some people, in-turn it makes me WANT to continue putting forth the effort! GOOD MANAGEMENT 101!
Believe me there are Many other jobs that don't pay as much and are waaay more chaotic and physically taxing than what I'm doing!!
I just came from a weird group interview at my local Aldi, sounded like the worst job I've ever heard in a retail store, everyone does everything, doesn't even make any sense except for saving THEM money, which is all that ever really matters to them. Wouldn't work there for less than 20 an hour, 13 is a joke.
Reminds me of waiting tables......I still have bad dreams 😮
Wage slave jobs give me nightmares!
This is all very true. Been with rhe company over 5 years, hurt my back.....and was quickly told i cant do light duty there and was forced to use vacation time.
This is every corporation
Wow. Not too long ago, 2017, Aldi was a stand-out employment option because they took care of their workers and paid higher than any other grocery stores in town.
Well, this is Mashed, sooo....
They like to highlight the rare outliers as if it's the overwhelming majority.
They still pay them 50% more than other store
Adapting to American employers‘ habits.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwano, no they dont. Not anymore. They do pay more still but not 50% more. Atleast in America
They are looking for a big law suit because I be D*****. that I constantly hurt myself for some company to become disabled!!!
6:19 "They were never given praise for a job well done." Sounds plausible. In Bavaria/Southern Germany we say "Nix g'sagt is g'loabt gnuag" which translates to "no complain is enough praise".
Aldi does not pay $1 extra on Sundays anymore.
Whats a $1 anyway? Cheap azz company!
They got rid of the extra dollar on Sundays, inconsistent scheduling, they favor part over full-time workers.....current aldi employee
Aldi food and prices are outstanding 😊
😊
I have heard a lot of negative things about ALDI. they have acquired regional chain Winn Dixie and by the first of the year the pharmacies that come with Winn Dixie will be closed giving customers one of three alternatives use Walgreens, CVS Caremark mail order pharmacy or find their own pharmacy. It seems like a very cut throat environment to work in. 😢
They say that but once you apply for the job they don’t know you 😢 I applied twice and no dice
Been shopping there for few years. Most of the employees by far are young women under 30. High percentage disappear after a while, not that long since they work very hard. Few older come in and vanish quickly too. Never seen a fat employee either, 35 is old there. Besides that store is Ok, the employees are good too.
Aldi just implemented a policy and hired someone to see it through that discriminates against straight white people.
You're not wrong. I'm over 40 and definitely the oldest person there. I constantly have to keep up with kids 20 years younger than me, or else I'll be labeled as not being productive.
The all these that I shop at and Morris. Everybody is very nice. They get it done, but they still talk. I really like the people at my all days
1300 biweekly after taxes or before before taxes?
Probably gross (before) since 40 hours @ $20 is $800
One grocer doesn't look out for their employees. 😔 Your timed on how long you stay in the rest room, so if your a woman or if your like me and your a two time colon cancer survivor you may take a bit longer to use the restroom. I was threatened to have my pay docked for 25 minutes because i was told that the company doesn't pay me 25 mins to be in the restroom. 😢 The weather has been extremely hot as of late. I asked if i could have water and was told maybe later, but right now stand at the end of your register and wait for customers.
Sounds nasty. I would quit.
Gulag
It's good they pay their workers better than minimum. It's fair. I like that they are efficient and take care of their workers as well.
Just "a little bit better", but yeah, when only the minimum wage jobs are available to you any little more is like a gift from heaven.
They act like they are small company for expect employees to do everything in once like robot. I doubt anybody will stay long working there.
Aldi treats me very well
Sounds like Publix
At Aldi you’d better buy less to keep up with the cashiers speed 😂😂😂
Join the club. I'm a produce manager for another corporate monster with no assistant. I hear that it used to be better before it became publicly traded but now, their "people first" policy just means they squeeze everything possibly out of people that are foolish enough to work for them.
This is a re upload.
Imagine being told to study hard and youll get an easier job...got all A's worked as an ER nurse...12 hour shifts 0 breaks, 0 time to eat, hardly any time for bathroom....gotmyself a herniated disc with 0 compensation...back to school for masters...lets go for round 2
It's high time to revoke the business license of Aldi in Chicago. I'd look to replace them with Pete's, Cermak and Tony's. For real.
Y should I shop at a store that treats its employees like crap?
@@jayaCatLvr-ys5ix is this about Aldi or one of the other ones I mentioned?
too physical? i guess you can go be a landscaper. or pour concrete
Having done both grocery work and landscaping, I'd take landscaping any day. Depending on which department you get tossed into (which sounds like ALL of them for Aldi) the physical toll felt much the same, but at least with landscaping you can put earbuds in and don't have to deal with customers constantly.
@@dubiousspacehamster3833 we need landscapers nationwide. $30 an hour, tips, commissions lots benefits
@@dubiousspacehamster3833
ur outta ur mind if u think landscaping is easier lol
@@mattguxxxtt9629dealing with idiot customers is worse tbh
@@deliverus6856
maybe u have social anxiety or something any normal person will prefer retail over physical labor.
They also break alot of rules. And bully staff.
Es ist halt ein deutsches Unternehmen und da muss man halt arbeiten.😉
I guess it is a cultural thing.... Small talk is not a big thing in Germany. As customer you usually only talk to the staff when you need something (or know them ofc), otherwise it is basicially just "hello", "cash" or "card" and "bye" with the cashier. The staff trying to make small talk are often perceived as annoying. If the customer wants to do small talk he/she will let you know....
Criticism isn´t judgemental by itself. Compliments are though - but also not really much of a german thing. "The food is ok" is basicially counted as compliment, "it is great " could for example perceived as over-the-top and possibly fake.
This is simliar to all stores in Germany. Aldi isn´t really that different- at least from the outside
Simpler said, you have to work and be like a robot, let all of your humanity at the door as you get in there.
not always ... I always give a little small talk when we are not extremely busy, but you shop there for prices, so deal with how we get you those prices ... by being efficient ... or shop st Wal-Mart and love life in one of those hour long checkouts LMAO
@@artmanromit’s a job you dimwit what do you expect
Well, I can’t stand customers who small talk with the cashier as I wait in line behind them. If you’re lonely and need someone to talk to, find another person, like another customer. Don’t waste the time of all those people behind you.
At Walmart you see people standing doing nothing. Many are helpful.
Wow doesn't seem much different than my first job working as a bagger/stocker back in the early 70's at a local grocery chain. They just expected everyone to hustle, no issues with that. It is always pretty easy to find disgruntled employees at any company.
I guess this is what happens when a majority of Aldi workers call their company out without a union. I have known associates that were not allowed to take a day off while having covid. It can get pretty toxic/abusive.
But hey, boomers know best. 👌
Thats cuz wage slaving sux and most people hate their jobs.
I agree that you can't please everyone no matter how hard you try.
Aldis is abusive and horrible to work for. They're constantly on you about how fast you're not going while stocking heavy stuff. They treat you like you are stupid and if you don't retain everything right then there they dont like you. They claim Aldis cares for their employees but they don't! You are not just a cashier. You stock, in between customers and unload huge bails. It's A LOT of work. You won't understand unless you work there. Horrible company.
This is how they can keep expanding like a baloon !! Agressivity !
oh,,thanks God,,i am not going to work with a lousy people any more,,thats good to me,,
I don't shop at Aldi anymore. The choice is restricted, the fresh produce is poor quality and I hate having keep up with the checkout
Yeah I've never really been a fan of Aldi. Only been a couple of times and wasn't impressed with the selection at all. I'll stick with Publix. Well worth the extra expense.
@@johniii8147 the tomatoes go bad in a day
@@DeadyD0rightWhat a surprise: fruits and vegetables don't last as long if you don't pump them full of chemicals.
I don't like their extensive bags search at the end of my shopping. Stopped visiting Aldi, even I used to like some of their products
Not much better than Starbucks then I suppose 😂😅
Yeah, both of them use unskilled labor!
1:14 just like Jerman no small and work fast
There is a Aldi. We're I go I fine the staff in there are very rude a talking away on their headset you can see they're looking of people and more likely talking about them I asked the staff one day something and should just see to be snobby you're going to a shop you expect to find some of the stuff being nice I think mortalism have got an attitude problem being on them headset
They ask if you believe in god during the interview
hahah why would they ask that! everybody???? does???
I do not think that that is a proper question. Separation of church and state.
@@Stephenrsm7600 I’m 30 rn and this interview was after highschool so like 12 years ago. I was thrown off by the question because it wasn’t relevant. Needless to say I didn’t get the job
@FredrickKrueger FredrickKrueger, I am pleased that you did not get the job, it sounds like you could have been physically hurt or psychically injured by so accepting. WoW, 12 years ago!!!
I would just laugh and leave if I were asked that in an interview.
A BAD ATTITUDE SHOWS UP EVERY
WHERE AT ALDI.
THEY HAVE NO CUSTOMER SERVICE NUMBER, SO I HAVE TO RING THE LOCAL
COUNCIL TO COLLECT THEIR
$ 1000 TROLLIES AND FINE THEM $400
FROM THE LOCAL GOVT, TO GET THEM BACK.
Are those old, fat and young people actors or actual employees? Cause it reality this job isn't for them.
Dont let Aldi's fool y'all they are super horrible towards theire employees. I had shopped at few locations and some employees broke down in tears bc of the high demand. I actually talked to management and said y'all need do better and treat you're employees with more respect but they act like they didn't care.
Does a 4 legged cow test better than a 3 legged cow 🐄 🤔
There's zero work life balance.
oh no i might sit in the AC and scan bar codes or they may tell me to sweep the floor in the AC! and i only have to pass kindergarten? i work 70 hrs a week and what i do ranges from framing, drywall, roofing, concrete, tile, landscape, mowing, cutting trees, rebuilding engines and transmissions, office work, passing out flyers, welding, spraying chemicals, electrical, plumbing, carpentry websites, graphic design, hiring, fixing computers, and lot more. but i guess thats why i make $15k a year
These kinds of jobs are like concentration camps. Unfortunately there is nothing one can do and it’s so disappointing.
Quit the nasty wage slave job.
Boo on Aldis!
Yes, i agree getting paid the same to scan barcodes and sweep the floor is wrong. they should get paid less to sit and scan bar codes than they do to sweep. so cut their pay. like store gonna hire someone to come in 1 hr a day to sweep and like anyone would take that job. employees think they should be robots and do the same thing all day long. well go work on an assembly line then. bolt the same 2 pieces together all day every day for next 20 years.
This sounds like another 'let's bad mouth a company with lots of Reddit and anonymous complaints' so we get some clicks on UA-cam.
german standart 🤷
I don't get what all the whining is about. Sounds like you don't have to get bored doing the same things over and over again, because variety is built into the schedule. Physical activity including some lifting is included as part of the job--you don't have to go to the gym. You don't see a lot of overweight workers at Aldi. On top of that, you develop several skills that will make you more valuable than you were when you came in as an unskilled worker, and you can interview at another store with confidence. Pay is better than average, and they expect you to work hard (gasp!) for that. I'm sure you are told the requirements before you accept the job.
I have a bad attitude about work. I "HATE" it all.
Good luck finding people to work with these policies...millenials/gens will not do it.
Lol what
Hire boomers. They love to work, especially for free🤣🤣🤣
poor babies have to actually work at work.
Wage slaving is so nasty and it ruins a person's life. U like wage slaving? Then keep at it. Have fun!
Slavery 😢😢😢😢😢
I have worked for ALDI for a year now and i am 43 and about to take my store over in another month I think $85,000 is decent ... I notice that people half my age are lazy slow pathetic and full of excuses... everything in this video is no secret in fact ALDI tells you all that and more, I ask people at interviews if they are "athletic" just to see the reaction... my best employees are athletes and it is a $17 an hour to start job ... bottom level ... HYVEE one of our competitors starts at $12.50 go work there if you can't hang we pay people for work not hanging out. PS the benefits are awesome and the breaks are PAID so maybe give it a go before you write off ALDI... It's my favorite company I have ever worked for...
3 months later...
How's everything been thus far?
People who were raised with a good work ethic wouldn't mind this. Those who were raised coddled (spoiled) do. Just shows the decline of society nowadays. JMO.
Not necessarily. Given what kinda jobs pay it's often just not worth it.
It's more like I get hired to do a specific task, like stocking meat before running register. Then, the management fires 30% of our employees and a shift goes from 6 people down to just 3 and often just 2 with call offs. Especially since Aldi keeps hiring like 18 y/os who don't actually want to be there. Now I've got to stock meat, stock inside and outside cooler, and stock bread and pastry before running register for the same pay as when I just did meat. If I don't finish it on time, the shift supervisor who now has to do 20 pallets of produce and freezer will have to pick up my slack. This is all a part of the day from 5:30am to 8:30am opening. Three hours to do all of this, making sure to rotate and inspect product and sort through backstock. This is a big reason why quality at aldi has slackened in my opinion. We don't have the time anymore to inspect every tomato or cabbage to see if it's fucked up. Before, you had enough employees to cover every department and usually they kind of became the experts in that area and could make it your own. Since everyone jumps around right now and is so stretched for time, there isn't really an incentive to organize and really set up a department because on your day off a part time 18 year old will fuck it up anyway.
Usually we get it done, and then the shift supervisor has to start putting out grocery (everything not in freezer, meat, cooler, produce, or pastry) which can be as bad as 14 pallets standing taller than they do. Both employees need a break, the shift lead will have to cover the cashier for 30 minutes for their lunch. So for 30 minutes nothing important really gets done. Adding on all of the other tasks, like making cardboard bales which can be time consuming, restocking meat and produce several times a shift as it will run out from fully stocked a few times, cleaning up customer messes, helping boomers find shit right in front of them, collecting carts from the parking garage/lot, and dealing with crackheads who wander in off the subway harrassing customers and stealing, two people cannot get everything done. The nightshift has an equal workload of different tasks they have to do before closing, so being slow just screws you over the next day with more work since night shift will also only have 2-3 people. You are absolutely expected to stay until it's finished, unless you are at risk of earning overtime, in which case you are practically escorted to the time clock and then out the door. That's the other thing, ALDI will let you have fulltime benefits but you will rarely be 40 hours on the schedule. They have five or so hours where you are just expected to stay or come in early when the story needs it regardless of your personal schedule since they can't predict how fucked up any particular day will be. Since they purposely short change people on hours like this, there's weird shit going on in the weekly schedule where there's gaps in store coverage when there could have been another person but isn't.
When people say "Oh no robots are stealing your job" with the self checkout stuff, I'm thinking "Please let it happen" We have 2-3 people a shift and one is chained to the register not achieving anything actually useful since you aren't allowed to leave the register area.
Thank you for sharing this. I applied and was asked to come in for a group interview. I'm not a physically fit person, so I will pass on this company.
I agree, but as somebody that does have good work ethic, I can confirm that these stores used to be an opportunity, however now- especially with the world's economy- it is more work on the individuals, ridiculous standards that are seemingly one-way, and micromanaging up the wwaaahoo.
I honestly used to love the challenges and saw it as a workout while working. Now, we have a whole new wave of ridiculous standards that are meant for some type of unrealistic utopia.
If a worker have covid, they will still be expected to come into work and give 110%
If a worker's spouse has a heart attack, they will need to find coverage for their shift before they are allowed to leave. (Of course there is the exception of having a kind enough boss to say "holy shit. yeah, get to it. I'll get you covered.")
After working in a pallet factory with experience in the manual areas with actual back breaking work, this looks comfy. The pallet factory was constant heavy lifting for 8 hours with a 30 minute break. I think anybody young and fit should experience that hell, it'll make you thankful for almost anything else
i love aldis cashiers cause it's only time i get to be near women
HAHA smh
Great, let's check it out. 0:03