Ok, if you value your home life, relationships, financial security, mental wellbeing please do not work for Lidl. It’s simply dreadful and a thoroughly miserable experience
Non existent training. You get a training plan but after a week it’s forgotten about
Racist Management. If you are not English, you will be racially abused by shift and store managers (note, I’ve witnessed this daily in 3 branches)
If you are new you will be working every weekend.
Sexism - Women on tills, men doing the heavy lifting. Oh, if you are pregnant, be prepared to be looked down upon when you can’t lift a tray of heavy tins potentially harming your unborn child. No work place assessment for such things. Pregnant women are almost seen as an inconvenience.
Rotas change frequently so you have no chance to have a life outside Lidl
Uniform is terrible (and you have to buy your own shoes)
No uniform allowance in wages (for cleaning etc)
Always short staffed (whether to save money or people just don’t turn up)
Horrible customers. Always have an issue, not enough money, always argue over the slightest thing. Witnessed staff being threatened or reduced to tears
Always trying to send staff home early to ‘save hours’.
Inconsistant wages. Could be anything from £80 - £150 different each month.
Impotent Welfare team which appears only to exist to appease staff and have no power whatsoever
Dangerous. You will suffer one one injury a week
Unhealthy culture. Fast food, smoking, sugary drinks. Not to mention danger of catching something from the out of date food that is left to rot in the warehouse. Dirty staff areas.
Awful RDC. They either deliver late, too much, too little on pallets that have been stacked ridiculously high.
Area managers come in expecting Harrods.
Inconsistent wage structure.
Constant breaking of Working Time Regulations (on a late shift, you may only have a 7 - 8 hour break as you have a 5am start the following day)
Oh, they did a Vibe survey recently. Everyone thought it would be a chance to give feedback. No chance, a few generic questions and that was it. No chance to put your only concerns. And the result of that survey was.... nothing has changed.
Please, for your own mental health, look someone else.
