Whoosh has started in our store and the drivers are being asked to wait at the doors to the back of the store. That means dotcom pickers and any member of staff going to get stock are going to be fair game for harassment from drivers. I'm glad I work nights and don't have to deal with that shit.
I'm watching the Italian series The Secret Of The Mountain, which is actually called Una Nuova Vita (A New Life), and the English subtitles are horrific. They're obviously AI generated and at times make zero sense; verb tenses are wrong and translations are overly literal at times making it incredibly difficult to watch.
If this is the way things are going to be from now on we're doomed.
I'm watching the Italian series The Secret Of The Mountain, which is actually called Una Nuova Vita (A New Life), and the English subtitles are horrific. They're obviously AI generated and at times make zero sense; verb tenses are wrong and translations are overly literal at times making it incredibly difficult to watch.
If this is the way things are going to be from now on we're doomed.
Stock take tonight, probably my least favourite thing about working at Tesco apart from working at Tesco. No cages were prepped last night, despite it being known about for weeks. I despair.
Everyone knows that working for Tesco right now is shit. It never used to be; it was a good laugh, you were left to crack on with your job and got help if you needed it. It started going downhill a few years ago when they restructured and got rid of managers, leaving shift leaders to run the store.
A lot of these SLs are just kids who are being used as scapegoats in my opinion. They can't run the store properly because they're busy filling, so (some) people take the piss and do as little as possible because they know they'll get away with it.
Whatever the reasons, Tesco is now officially the worst place I've ever worked at, so well done for that.
I've just done a training module about the new cage/backstock trolley shrouds; basically thermal covers that can extend the cold chain from twenty minutes to forty. As long as I've worked at Tesco, following the cold chain has been impossible on nights if they want everything filled. Faffing around with these shrouds will make it a whole lot worse.
So many posts on here these days seem to be along the lines of "I recently started at Tesco and my boss is asking me to do some work. It's so unfair."
I know It's a shit job, but it does involve doing a bit of work now and then.
Given the way the freezers are going down, I reckon I might struggle with this one!
A new manager started at my store last night, and chatting to him he said he can't believe how understaffed we are compared to his last store. He's come from a superstore to an extra, so that tells you how bad things are. Even accounting for holidays/absence (five people in total last night) he said there's no way there's enough staff for a store this big. I told him "good luck with getting anything done about it."
Still, it's nice to have a fresh pair of eyes seeing what colleagues are up against.
What's the point in Tesco employing staff during the day/evening when THEY DON'T DO ANY FUCKING FILLING? Not one jot of backstock was done when we night shift arrived last night. It's getting beyond a joke now.
Every store has that one person who overfills the chillers and won't be told that they shouldn't do it because they're stubborn gits who think they know better than everyone else, right?
Every Sunday before a bank holiday is the same; no staff and fresh deliveries turning up gone 3.00am. Last night my store had nine staff off due to absence or holidays, with no extra staff to cover. 75 fresh cages/dollies rolled in at 3.00am. By the time it was brought from the back and split it was gone four. Staff still had breaks to take, so you can imagine the state the shop was in. To cap it all, the dotcom manager complained about off sales.
For a multi-billion pound company it really is a fucking shambles.
I'm interested to know what happens in other stores when aisles are being re-merchandised. Do you leave filling the aisles entirely or do you work around the merchandisers and get done what you can? In my store it's the latter, with the expectation that you'll actually finish six cages of backstock and eight delivery.
There's a guy in his sixties who comes to my store and he is known to be incredibly chatty (and a bit boring). Most of the staff duck into the back to avoid him; not me, I make a point of sticking around to talk to him.
Why? Firstly, he said in a previous conversation that he lives alone, so this may well be the only human interaction he gets, so I'll gladly listen to him waffle on. Secondly, whilst I'm listening to him I'm getting paid to stand around chatting and the bosses can't do a damn thing about it.
It's primarily the first reason that I talk to him, but the second is definitely an added bonus.
Next time someone wants to tell you their life story, remember - you may be the only person they've spoken to in ages. And you'll annoy your boss.