Bad management - Anonymous employee Lidl Employee Review

1.0
1 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

We were paid a good salary.

Cons

Higher level management talks to people without real understanding of the projects they are working on. So they sell some idea but don't understand any aspect of its execution. The one senior manager I worked with made several racist comments towards me which I wrote off as being some type of European sensibility. Overall a bad employment experience for me. They didn't know what they are doing and kind of jerking their employees around. Maybe things have changed? Also, the whole culture, values, or work satisfaction speeches you get at orientation are a complete joke. They literally could care less.

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