Training, training, training, and more training. - Associate Lidl Employee Review

Training can be stressful. It's five days a week, 6 hours a day in a classroom for four weeks. Higher-ups expect a lot from you. You are expected to memorize over 100 PLU's. As well as information on hundreds of power point slides. Which you have no access to studying over, even though there's a final at the end of your training covering everything that will determine further employment. District managers seem very young and inexperienced. They play around too much and usually are no where to be found when needed in the training center. Supervisors try to motivate you by telling you if you kiss butt, and make 100's on tests they will put in a good word for a potential promotion to supervisor. Which I don't buy. Because of this, fellow associates become brown-nosers and turn training into a competition. Supervisors seem unprofessional and a little on the rough side. Telling associates that they will judge our appearance harshly, although they dress awful themselves. Bad makeup, crazy hair, lots of tattoos, etc. They also seem cliquey and presumptuous. Expectations seem more like a fantasy than reality. They are all about efficiency and a positive work environment, but it seems a little too perfect. We'll see.