hard work - Anonymous employee Lidl Employee Review

3.0
May 31, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

wages are good but could still be better because of the work load home time staff discount only recently brought in staff clean

Cons

training is rubbish, having to train new staff is rubbish they need to have a dedicated source for training new as they are only allowed so many hours and a training mentor (which r the staff that could not give a hoot) has quarter of these watch a video tick a sheet and that's u passed the training joke . for managers it is totally inadequate (high wage, car, promise of a store in reality current store deeps could do a better job , but they have to pass a store manager development day that they have had no training for) current store managers also had to pass smdi day the managers that could talk the talk passed ( big pay rise and company car the failures kept their jobs (without pay rise or other perks) but still have to do the same work as those that passed. bizarre . work life balance zero. audits audits and audits how managers deal with this is beyond me. feel for them. deputy is the way to go as it does not matter what they do wrong there store manager gets the blame and we have no accountability but get paid really well

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