No life outside work - Shift Manager Lidl Employee Review

I worked 4/5 deliveries a week. This meant starting at 5am and working hard and fast or you get told off. You never get a lunch hour, it’s half an hour, despite working mostly 10 hour shifts…. Hence why I lost weight so quickly. I would wake up in agony a few times a night in my arms from heavy lifting The training kept saying not to lift above your head but you constantly had to as the delivery pallets were built very high. The staff all looked dog tired in the mornings… probably because they chose to live a life outside of work. I was too exhausted to do that. I would finish 3pm ish, come home and sleep, wake for tea, then sleep again. I couldn’t go out in the evenings any more. When you work on the first till, you have to manage 7 self check-outs at the same time. No joke, you were scanning someone’s shopping with them and you literally had to keep getting up to help people on self service whilst the customer at first till just waited for you to come back. One day I was made to do 7 hours on that till and self service run around. 2 sales staff came in during my shift and was assigned elsewhere. Yet they say “management” weren’t supposed to be on tills unless absolutely needed… Sickness was a joke, happened so often and then the workload was increased. I later found out, there was absolutely no policies in place to deal with sickness, no return interviews or check ins, nothing. So is it any wonder the staff were not deterred? I hurt myself so much on pallets because of the fear of a telling off if you didn’t work fast enough. One day we had a telling off at 5.05am and another at 7.50am. What a motivator before you even see a customer - albeit disgustingly sweaty (no showers provided). I never had a problem with my hands before Lidl. Within 2 months of leaving I was told both hands needed to be operated on urgently. You could pay me double and I would never do this job again.