Working at Aldis was a complete NIGHTMARE...I do NOT recommend this company to ANYONE
Filing a formal complaint after this review. I have over 40 years of working with different companies and Aldi's is the WORST I have ever seen. During my FIRST WEEK I have been verbally abused by one of the "managers". Have been yelled at various times during the day for being too slow. I am NOT exaggerating when I say YELLED at folks. Job threatened because I could only put TWO pallets away in an hour instead of THREE..... Then no break after working 5 hours..as punishment then told to do the deep freezer with NO GLOVES AND NO PROTECTIVE COAT to wear...While in freezer for three hours manager keeps coming in to harass me only to yell at me that she couldn't believe I was STILL NOT DONE and that I AM TOO SLOW. I had to keep coming out of the freezer to get my hands functioning again as they hurt so bad and got yelled again for not working any faster regardless of how bad my hands hurt .. THen was told that I had to provide my own gloves and coat for freezer work as they do not provide this protection.This company forgets that Customer Service starts with its employees. And the fact this manager represents this company in such a manner is alarming.
During my first few d days I was left alone with a floor jack to figure it out on my own. No safety training whatsoever. Just stories of how employees had broken feet after using jacks...
This company is waiting for lawsuits.
THis will be my last week of such hell.
Points positifsPay is NOT worth it.
Points négatifseverything. There is NOTHING positive about working for Aldi's
Unless you are going to a slow store with helpful staff and positivity, get the outta there! They will work you to the bone literally will have injuries, cramps, body aches, finger tingles and possibly something worst like arthritis or carpal tunnel due to the amount of savage work you have to do on a daily basis. Not to mention way understaffed, most of the time overworked and u rarely ever get out on time. Managers are unmotivational and just tell everybody else what to do and get the easy way out. Hated it there and wouldn’t dare to return ever!
Points positifsNone
Points négatifsUnderstaffed, overworked, under compensated, unmotivational environment, negative atmosphere
Nothing in this ad expresses prior experience. I woke up at 5 am to go to Dunwoody only to be told you have to be a manager to even apply, again it is not listed in the description, in fact a person at the interview called that entrapment. I have two college degrees and tons of work experience and leadership experience outside of retail but I was thoroughly annoyed when we were told something different AT the actual interview, what a waste of time. By the way Aldi if anyone has a highschool diploma and can get an opportunity to learn why can anyone else?
4,0
Assistant Store Manager | Normandie | 10 févr. 2016
Good package, long hours
When in store the teams are friendly and everyone works as one team. The company is clear about the direction it is going and each colleague knows exactly what part they play in that.
It's very hard to have a work life balance as if the store is not hitting sales then staff get sent home and lose pay, and if it's busy you are expected to stay for as long as is required.
Points positifsGreat salary, good team work, desire to bring out the best in everyone
Points négatifsVery long hours, hours get cut/added without being discussed
Simply put, this job is incredibly stressful. Their brand is efficiency, and thus they will only have 3-5 people working the entire store at any given time. Everything, and I mean everything you do is timed. It's incredibly fast-paced, physical, demanding and exhausting. You have to know how to do every task/job in the store. Management can be harsh and apathetic towards employees.
Points positifsCompensation
Points négatifsLong hours going past shift time, understaffed/overworked
You will go into this company with an orientation that tells you overtime is strictly forbidden. Then you come to the quick realization that not only is it okay, but it is just about mandatory. The pay is fantastic and the benefits are amazing, but you will never see your family again. For a single person looking for a great paying job that will also be a workout, ALDI is great. For a husband or wife with kids, it is tough.
Points positifsPay
Points négatifsNo breaks, long hours, upper management disconnect
1,0
Adjoint Administratif (H/F) | Boufféré (85) | 7 févr. 2022
Aldi discount jusqu'au bout
A l'image des produits discounts qu'elle propose, l'entreprise Aldi est elle aussi discount.
Points positifsTickets cadeaux à valoir dans leur magasin sous condition de dépenser de l'argent
Points négatifsProblèmes de paies et de calcul des heures, Mutuelle obligatoire et prélevée sur salaire mais pas utilisable car pas de carte, Direction totalitaire, Ambiance négative et malsaine
● Work-life balance
Horrible management,unprofessional,racist,and overwork the new hires.
● Management
Unprofessional down talk employees
● Overall
It may possibly be a good company to work for but this specific location was horrible. Management is very unprofessional, lots of drama, and favoritism.
Depending what store you are located at is the type of experience you will get. I love what I do, but managment is horrible. Nothing is ever good enough doesn't care about anyone else but their self. Will make comments about you to others. Immature managment basically.
I am responsible for daily set up, counting and sorting papers and signing rounds out to all delivery agents. I also help assist in opening the shop daily. I open up 7 days per week.
I am also work as a shop assistant at weekends and in my free time in Martins, where I am responsible for till operation and stock control
An sich scheint die Stelle bei Aldi besonders als Student attraktiv da der Lohn recht hoch ist. Aber die Firma nutzt diesen hohen Lohn als Ausrede für kompletten Terror. Schon von dem Anfang an wird sehr viel von einem erwartet, und man wird enorm gestresst. Man wird konstant unter Druck gesetzt und alles muss schnell gehen. Fehler dürfen nicht passieren, und wenn man mal einen Fehler macht, wird man zusammengeschrien. Keiner hatte so richtig Lust mir was beizubringen, und stattdessen wurden mir alte Videos gezeigt, die veraltet waren und wo viele Sachen gar nicht mehr so gemacht werden. Wenn ich dann etwas falsch gemacht hab, weil es mir im Video so erklärt wurde, war die Leitung dann direkt sauer. Aber wie schon gesagt, es wollte mir auch keiner so richtig helfen. Als es zur Kasse kam, hatte ich zwei Tage wo mir die Kasse "beigebracht wurde". Danach durfte ich nie wieder an die Kasse, und man hat mich immer die harte Arbeit machen lassen.
Als Student fühlt man sich bei Aldi direkt von allen verurteilt. Meine Mitarbeiter hatten eine herabschauende Art und Weise mir gegenüber. Ich musste mir oft höhnende Kommentare anhören wie " man merkt dir an, dass du nicht viel Erfahrung hast". Anstatt wie versprochen in einer Freundlichen Umgebung seine ersten Schritte in die Arbeitswelt zu machen, wird man terrorisiert. Es ist klar, dass ich als Student nicht viel Erfahrung in der Arbeitswelt habe, aber wenn man nach Studenten werbt und bereit ist diese einzustellen, sollte man auch a
Points positifsKostenloses Wasser, Früchte, Kleine Snacks und hoher Lohn
Points négatifsStress, Gigantische Erwartungen, Man darf praktisch keine Fehler machen, Alles muss schnell sein, keiner will helfen
Fix the check-out process at your company; it is the root of so many unnecessary problems!
Unfortunately, several negatives come to mind about working for this company. Virtually all of them center around Aldi's one biggest weakness as a company which it has failed to address.... for years and years: its highly stressful and just downright silly checkout process. As an employee, working on the cash register at Aldi is a monstrosity of a nightmare! It's dumb, it's inefficient, and just downright ridiculous if you want my brutally honest assessment of the situation. Because when you are assigned 'main cashier' duty at Aldi, you are basically required (and expected) to chuck, toss, slam, throw.... any way you can do it, other people's groceries.... which they just bought with their own money...... into the next shopping cart. Management doesn't care if you break or damage items in the process, as long as you keep that line moving at all costs! I literally have had customers scream at me in one ear for scanning way too fast during the checkout process and accidentally damaging their stuff as a result, simply because I'm literally scanning as fast as I can, only for management to then scream in my other ear (literally) about not ringing fast enough and not moving the line along fast enough. This "speedy" check-out process has been a systemic problem at this company for years, yet nothing is ever done to address the situation!! I've worked for this company for a very long time, and have worked in enough of their stores to tell you firsthand that it's a systemic problem e
Points négatifsThe check-out process at this company is unnecessarily stressful.
Quit after 3rd day, they treat workers like robots
Seriously, I would not recommend working here unless you are a robot or absolutely desperate and can't find another job. Don't let the hourly rate and ok benefits rope you in. They are not transparent, not understanding, and expect too much. What should be a red flag is that this company is always hiring which means people are always leaving. The amount of pressure they put on you for what the job actually is and how much you are paid is unrealistic. You might apply for the associate, cashier or stock position but you will do literally every position in the store and then some. You will be stocking shelves doing register stocking the freezer and cooler doing the curbside orders and cleaning the entire store, constantly back and forth all in one shift. If only they had actual assigned positions like other companies the job wouldn't be so stressful. But they want 1 person to do the job of about 5 people, in order to "save money". This is how they're able to have such low prices on products. At the expense of their employees They seemed to be understaffed, and you will quickly understand why. Every single thing is timed from how much items you can scan in an hour or how quickly you can find and pack orders for the curbside pick up. How fast you clean the store and how fast you restock or box the shelves. If you're not fast enough they would constantly threaten you. They do not fully explain what the job actually is because they know it will turn people away. They didnt even trai
Points positifsNone
Points négatifsEverything I would not recommend you working here unless you are a robot, bodybuilder, or have no life outside a job or super desperate for a job
Aldi presents themselves as a company that cares about their employees and efficiency but in reality all they care about is the efficiency and money. They treat you like robots and record your every move as a cashier from how many items per minute, how long it takes to scan each customers order, how long it takes in BETWEEN customers orders (when customer walks away and u start scanning the next one, how long it takes to complete Instacart orders, time it takes you to find each individual item, how long THE CUSTOMER takes to pay. Why are you being penalized for how slow the customer is? A Great question that they don’t have an answer to. And if your statistics aren’t up to their standards, even if it’s just slightly off, they will let you know that and keep pressing you about working more and faster. As if you’re a computer and not a human being.
Feeling sick? Need to care for a family member? Possibly have covid? Doesn’t matter, because if you’re not able to find someone to cover your shift they’re gonna force you to come into work anyways. Yes, illness and all. The most they’ll offer to do is let you go home early but that’s maybe 1 to 2 hours before your shift ends, which is basically nothing. They also require you to call out 4 hours before your shift starts in order to not get written up, so if your shift starts at 6 am? You will somehow get in trouble for not calling out 4 hours before that…at 2 am…when the store is closed and literally no one is there. And they also
Points positifsPay higher than other companies in the area
Points négatifsPay still trash because you barely get hours, Terrible management
My experience working for Aldi was at the store in musselburgh(yes the one that was on TV for terrible managment). Although I was meant to be going to the store in Tranent I never got the chance, the time limits are ridiculous, the managment is terrible whilst I was working there the other staff or atleast A large portion of them would sit on there phones in the warehouse whilst I was expected to do ridiculous amounts of work. I sometimes due to the extreme time limits (30 seconds per case) was not able to complete these so there was a time or 2 when i failed a "test" given to me on the picklist, although I have been told by 3! members off staff that the pick lists dont matter and that no one does them properly and to add to this i actually had one of the staff members infront of me speaking to a manager telling him that apprently "he dosent do picklists" in a manner that he was expecting the manager to not care. The managers literally have no idea what they are doing or how to train staff properly although I had been complimented several times on my work and received multiple good feedback forms from the store manager, I still never got kept on past my probation period( just after christmas), they used me for the extra graft that they needed and I bet they are devastated that now that im gone they are actually going to have to do some work no really that must be soul destroying. I could go on and on and on and on but the point is its not a good place to work its a graft whi
Points positifsgood pay(1/5 chance you get paid correct though)
Points négatifsVERY! poor management, lazy staff and ridiculous time limits, bad shift pattern and terrible work atmosphere.
1,0
Retail Sales Associate | Chicago, IL | 18 juil. 2019
Understaffed, too physical & stressful (UNBIASED REVIEW)
THE SECRET:
The secret for the company to keep prices so low is because is understaffed all the time, and if one person call-off, everyone is screw because the company keeps a tight schedule so everyone has to work even faster than what we already have to, the company pay above minimum wage, but you have to work for 2 persons.
NO 3RD PARTY COMPANIES:
Inventory is every 3 months, so we stay between 12 am to 2 am and we usually never get off on time. The company doesn't hire 3rd party companies to do the cleaning neither, so we have to do ALL cleaning too (cleaning washrooms, scrubbing, edging the areas that the scrubber machine doesn't reach, map, sweep, etc.).
REGISTER:
We work the backstock and have to jump to the register quickly and go back to our project stacking up the floor and jump back to the register again and so on. We have to ring at least 40 items per minute, which is also very fast peace even in the register.
MORNING SHIFT:
The morning shift is the most physical and painful shift because some stores open at 5 am and others at 6 am, so we only have 3 to 4 hours to finish ALL pallets IN LESS than 30 minutes each pallet. So, if you are in charge of groceries, for example, you have to do an average of 7 to 12 PALLETS BY YOURSELF or in some rare cases you and another person. If pallets are not done before the store opens, you will STILL have to work the pallets AND the register BACK AND FORWARD until is fully done, otherwise you will n
Here is what they won't tell you in the interview:
Here's everything you need to know before applying here. Enter at your own risk. First off all you are timed on everything. If you cannot stock huge pallets of food into the loading shelves in 25 minutes or under you are subject to immediate discipline including termination. The same thing with ringing. If you cannot ring at least 2000 food items per hour you could also get written up or fired. This is what happened to me. I was written up so many times for basically refusing to throw and smash customers groceries into their shopping carts. Management didn't care though. They told me: ring faster or you are fired. So I just decided to quit instead of having this extra pressure. Plus it didn't seem right just throwing and smashing customers groceries around which is very rude. However if you don't ring this way you will be written up time after time then eventually fired. You also get injured a lot here. Every day huge pallets of food products are left on the floor for customers and workers to trip and fall over. Again this also happened to me at least a couple times. You think the company did the right legal thing by complying with workers compensation laws? Nope! Think again. The next thing you should know is the company won't follow labor laws either. For example they force you to skip your mandatory 15 minute rest breaks. Same thing with meal periods. There just won't be enough time in the day to take them. So management makes you forego them. Also your timecards get fudge
Points positifssome customers, some coworkers
Points négatifseverything else: awful management, work injuries, no work/life balance, impossible job metrics
2,0
Customer Service Representative | Fenton, MO | 1 oct. 2019
My Experience as a Store Associate
I worked for Aldi's for over three years. I was happy working there for the first year. The benefits are very good at Aldi's and the raises are nice. You do work very hard and the work load was manageable in the beginning. When I started, I was happy with the District Manager and the Store Manager that I worked with. Unfortunately, the management staff gets moved around a lot within the company and we received a new Store Manager and District Manager. This, along with the store receiving a huge increase in the number of customers (Save-A-Lot closing), created a not so pleasant work experience.
I will start with the fact that the new store manager was not as committed in his concern and regard for the company. I went to him on a few occasions requesting different shifts because I was always closing, he did not take my concern seriously and never made any changes or effort in compromising with me in regards to the schedule. I am a single parent of three children and working nights and weekends all the time is very difficult. I also later asked the manager and district manager for a store transfer, and I was told they couldn't approve the transfer unless we were fully staffed at our store.
When the manager first started working at our store, he would close once a week. After a couple months he changed his hours to only working day shifts. Nearly every day he left early. For example, if he was scheduled till 5pm, he would usually leave by 2:00 or 3:00pm.
Also, rec
Points positifsGood benefits, nice raises the first two years
Points négatifsExtremely overwhelming and chaotic work environment
I worked with Aldi's for a few months and it was terrible. You go in blind expected to know where everything is immediately. Was never told during the interview that I would be required to purchase steel toe shoes/boots. The "reimbursement" for purchasing the shoes/boots is a joke, you get an extra three dollars in your paycheck, pay is bi-weekly and it's spread out over the year.
Very fast pace as a cashier, they expect you to be fast. I've always been one of the fastest cashiers at any other grocery stores as I typically ring a minimum of 25-30 items per minute. Aldi's expects you to ring a minimum of 40-42 items per minute. The register is very sensitive and items would double scan pretty quickly and I would end up with a higher void count, especially when items would fall across the scanner. Not to mention when a customer needs to take an item off because of lack of funds whether it be because they are paying with cash or they have a limited amount on their food stamps card. Another problem with the food stamps card is that when the customer pays with the card and they only have a certain dollar amount on the card, for example if their total comes to eighty-five dollars and the ebt card only has forty dollars, the register will decline the card due to "Insufficient funds" and you'd have to pull up the receipt, find out how much is on the card, inform the customer and type in the amount on the card and then have the customer slide the card again. Very time consuming. Ald
Points positifsGood coworkers.
Points négatifsShort breaks, lack of help. Expected to do the work of two to three people. Lack of communication.
Keep in mind while I write this review, I'm going to give my opinion as an Assistant Manager with years of managing experience prior to this job.
The main issue with this store is the employees. There is a handful of good employees that come and go. But this store has that issue when you try your hardest to get caught up on a project and get everything up to speed, just for others to drop the ball on your days off. So, you feel like Sisyphus every time you come back.
The associates here call out from a drop of snow. They get hired and wait until their first shift to tell you that they can't lift more than 15 pounds, or they can't do repetitive motions, or they simply just don't like the cash register. They pay decent here and this job requires some physical capability to get things done. Yet they hire typical retail associates that live at home still when they're 30 or don't have a phone or a car.
I get it, I didn't do the hiring here, but I have done interviews and hiring in the past. No one is good at hiring, but you have to be good at firing. If someone comes in and can't do the job, why give them 100 chances to call out and burden the rest of the staff. Everybody deserves a chance I get that, but it seems like they just avoiding what is best for the business.
The scheduling system here is computer generated. A perfect team for Aldi is 2 people if possible. Meaning the computer generates a schedule that doesn't work for the volume of business the store gets. Managemen
Questions et réponses au sujet de l'entreprise ALDI
Comment décririez-vous le rythme de travail chez ALDI ?
Posée le 9 juil. 2018
Ponctuelle et dynamique
Réponse du 4 janv. 2021
Très intense mauvaise pression
Réponse du 4 mai 2020
Quels sont les horaires de travail chez ALDI ?
Posée le 14 nov. 2018
Bonjour quels sont les horaires pour une employée commerciale, peut-on demander des arrangements si enfants en bas âge ??
Réponse du 8 août 2021
Les horaires son 8h30 19h30
Réponse du 23 sept. 2019
Quel est le code vestimentaire dans l’entreprise ?
Posée le 12 avr. 2018
J sui pour
Réponse du 2 févr. 2022
Le voile et àccepter ?
Réponse du 6 janv. 2022
Quels conseils donneriez-vous à une personne ayant un entretien chez ALDI ?
Posée le 20 août 2018
Bonjour, il est conseillé de s'informer sur l’enseigne avant votre entretien. N'hésitez pas à vous rendre sur notre site internet ainsi que sur notre page carrière, ou même sur nos réseaux sociaux ou en magasin (en observation!). En entretien, une bonne posture, un savoir-être ainsi qu’un discours clair et construit sont autant d’atouts vous permettant de réussir.
Réponse du 29 mai 2020
L'ambiance est super.
Réponse du 22 févr. 2020
Comment décririez-vous l’ambiance de travail chez ALDI ?
Posée le 4 févr. 2018
Sourient motivé et rigueur
Réponse du 23 sept. 2019
Ambiance électrique l'organisation ne va pas du tout, hiérarchie pas a l'écoute.
