''The real truth behind the store - Anonymous ALDI Employee Review

1. Serious office politics - There are multiply ''FAVOURITES'' within the work place which, includes deputy and senior management. If you are favoured then you can get away with taking extra breaks (which adds up to nearly an extra full hour), turning up nearly an half an hour late to shifts or more... IF YOU ARE NOT; then you are outcast, treated like dirt, have foul language thrown in your face by Store Assistants and Management, NEVER rotated from tills and always become placed on main till (due to the fact that the ''FAVOURITES'' will ONLY WORK with the other favoured), have the ''FAVOURITES'' belittle you as well as bully you distastefully when your back is turned...Its disgraceful and DISRESPECTFUL! 2. Shifts that are ILLEGALLY being scheduled e.g. working a close, followed by an open which gives you 7 hours between shifts! This is continuously reoccurring, and you the employee are told to ''DEAL WITH IT'' by the management (but their response uses more vigorous and vile language) 3. If you are sick and have legitimate documentation from a doctor for Sick Leave, you will still be investigated and become threatened by management that they CAN do sudden home visits without unwarranted visits. As well as threaten your job completely with disciplinaries or instant dismissal. Not only that your hours DO become slashed/lowered as a punishment for being sick 4. Customers ARE ALLOWED to treat you with as much disrespect as they like. This includes vile language, having things thrown at you, threatened. When complain/ask for advice from your management they will do nothing to help you the employee. Instead they give and advice the customer on how to word and write out their Complaint Form... 5. You are NEVER EVER praised or shown even the slightest piece of gratitude Overall: If you want to be treated like a piece of cattle, become used and abused by your colleagues and management, have you opinion literally thrown in the bin, and have your life sucked out of you, then this is the place to work...