* There's never enough staff. 'Prod' or 'labour costs' are very tight. Which means the manager on shift has to do everything, while the rest of the staff sit on till. Work all the stock, ensure compliance, tap dance for the customers. It's unjusifiably difficult..... and then you get a sick call.
And guess what? You're then on till and nothing on shift gets done. And that's your fault.
But... Lidl GB do have the money to parade a fake Cola truck around the country. To upgrade stores that are 5 years old.
* Store Managers are generally terrible. I've met 4 good ones in 8 years. There's no management training worth it's salt, no coaching, as the area managers aren't that great anyway and are overstretched. They're just people who can work stock really fast. Generally men. Go men!!
* Not a job for a woman unless you have balls of steel and can lift weights and run around for 10 hours, with a break after 7 hours.
It's.... not easy at all. And coming home to a young family, after enduring a shift where nobody was made happy today: not the customer, the company, or yourself... well, it's soul destroying. And could easily be fixed by simply allowing us to have more people on shift.
