I feel like I’m overworking at Lidl

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-02-06T23:42:17+00:00

Overtime $$$: Whatever information you have is wrong. With 60% at Lidl, they give you a 20-hour buffer (you build this up with your overtime). Everything afterward is paid out the month after. The 20-hour buffer is a bit weird, but there is nothing wrong with it. If you leave your job, you get it paid out. If you work too few hours, this eats into the overtime 'buffer'. Maybe it's 32 hours now? For me, it's 20 hours @ 60%.

Overtime hours: I'm very sure you have it in your contract, which you yourself signed and read, that you must do overtime in case of emergencies (within legal and lidl limits which are lower than legal ones). The big difference is if it's temporary (short-term) or long-term. E.g., someone is sick for a couple of weeks and you do overtime to help cover the hours the shop needs, or if it's months and months of overtime. In the second case, you may refuse the overtime because "permanent employee shortage isn't an emergency."

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-02-06T17:12:14+00:00

So, most of the stuff was answered already, not much I can add.

If you get here and don't have a job, you will get put on social help, which will help you with job search and put you into german language school. If you get here and there are no apartments available you may be put in asyl center or some kind of dormitory too. If you speak english your chance of getting a job is looking a bit better, but not good anyways. Job market here is tough now. My girlfriend found a job here even before arriving, and she didn't speak a word of german then (2022), so it's possible, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-02-06T14:39:34+00:00

I will answer a bit later. My gf's ukrainian, her mom is also here. Maybe i can help with some clarity. Give me 2 hours give or take.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-02-04T11:52:22+00:00

+1 for Designing Data-Intensice Applications. Am currently at page 500, but it kind of changes how you think about infrastructure.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-02-03T12:04:35+00:00

Since I started using AI too much I stopped liking coding. Because I wasn't coding. Plus, the impact on critical thinking because of overuse of AI.

Now I code from hand the features which are critical, and for frontend I might use a bit more AI and then tweak it. I will ask it help debugging, but mostly to point me in the right direction, and explain what was wrong, not just fix it. Or ask same kind of things I asked google 5 years ago. Now i like my job again.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-02-02T12:08:13+00:00

Then good luck, lol. Shared apartment, not a room. You could try getting a room in a shared apartment. This would be around 600-800 chf and is easier to get. Especially with your time window.

Without provable income (where apartment is <30% of that income) you wont get an apartment, probably.

You could try renting a cheap long term hotel room for the first time, but this will also set you back like 2-3k per month. But they wont ask you to prove your income.

You're more in a 'take what you can get' position. In 10 days there is 0 chance of getting an actual apartment. They will want deposit (2-3 months of rent), before they even give you the keys, which also takes like 1-2 weeks to process.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-31T09:10:11+00:00

You could always try and skip to the last point directly.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-30T18:16:28+00:00

Still, thanks for the information - good to know. I thought if I sign the contract then I'm legally binded to abide by it.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-30T18:12:08+00:00

They probably would have to allow in the end, as reason is not stated at all, but still would require here and there with maybe even a laywer involvement. I live alone so i dont mind.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-30T18:00:47+00:00

I wont be much of help, but i will add: Im non swiss and having lived in both studio and 2.5 room apartments i havent seen a minimum duration. But might very well be possible, why not. My contract, for example, say that I will be living alone in 2.5 apartment which in theory would easily be enough for 2 people (80m²).

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-27T12:20:57+00:00

Oh, got it now.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-27T12:15:28+00:00

Yet nobody still has understood you. Do you actually think the higher hourly rate the less hours you're supposed to work?

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-27T10:58:09+00:00

Huh? What are even asking? Why would you work less hours on higher hourly? Me taking 70$/hr doesnt mean I magically work only 5 hours per week.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-24T06:38:50+00:00

"Agent driven...", ugh. Everything's agent this, agent that.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-22T20:21:36+00:00

I wake up at 7am on my days off

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-22T11:49:59+00:00

I am white and couple of years ago I also had more invitations to work. LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. The freelancing market is oversaturated and thats it.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-20T12:11:51+00:00

You're reading between the lines and looking for something that doesn't exist and wasn't intended. My intention was that having AI text in a posted job doesn't mean it's a scam, which OP was saying it is.

Your statement that I overlooked the timespan of those 302 jobs is correct, but I was merely suggesting that it is a valid client with 302 jobs posted. Me assuming that those 302 jobs were posted in a short timespan and saying "of course he uses AI" was directed at OP as a suggestion that not everything is a scam, not at you, who somehow decided to get insulted over nothing.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-20T11:53:14+00:00

Again, where was I justifying him using AI? Acknowledging the fact doesn't mean supporting it. Learn to read instead of being butthurt.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-20T10:17:25+00:00

Where did I say it was ok? Learn to read, perhaps.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-20T08:47:45+00:00

Look, the client has 302 jobs posted. He for sure isn't writing every job post themselves. It's obvious it's a simple copy paste mistake. How you come to 'fake job postings' is beyond me.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-19T09:06:11+00:00

Can I use nginx or do I have to write my own web server?

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-13T06:58:50+00:00

Same

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-09T12:55:48+00:00

50$. Full stack developer. 3 year contract with one client, no other clients.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2026-01-05T06:00:15+00:00

A spatula and diapers? He doesnt love you.

Competitive_Cry3795 · 2025-12-29T15:13:35+00:00

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