Lidl reviews

Plenty of cons too many to list. Close shifts often go past scheduled time. Long hours for managers, 50 a week. Constant pressure from above to perform better and faster. Always told where you went wrong, never praised. Rotas changed at short notice. No extra pay for store assistants on Sundays/bank holidays. Never enough staff in store leads to the most common complaint - long till queues. Managers expected to go well beyond call of duty, contacted out of work often and any time of day. Four years in the company I only ever worked with one district manager (DM) who was pleasant to staff. I won't go on. If you can work had and fast (I managed it) then you will survive and the money is quite good for management. But you will member get any long term job satisfaction working here.

Fortunately, I had a manager that would protect their team but the company is very unorganized. They implement and change policy on a whim and expect everyone to fall in line immediately and execute all the changes to perfection. The demand is extremely high. There is no work-life balance. You have to be EXTREMELY detail oriented because people will use what you say in emails against you. It's best to just copy and paste from the policy to provide people with answers. You just never know who is going to through you under the bus and for what. Even if it has nothing to do with you.