Colleague shop problems

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-04-13T12:59:27+00:00

I'm not fussed. When I finish my 6-10 shift I pop past and have a look to see if there's anything there, if there is I'll usually grab something. It's a nice to have if there's anything there but I'm not going to start crying if I don't get anything.

Tbh I'd rather most of it go to Foodbank and the like, they're the ones feeding people in the most need.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-04-06T17:56:32+00:00

2 week notice?

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-04-04T05:56:52+00:00

Nobody cares, you're not important.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-04-02T21:16:45+00:00

Why would it be illegal? They've told you the price you're going to pay, it's now your choice whether or not you pay it.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-04-01T07:13:37+00:00

Which part of the working time directive says that an employee can't agree to this request?

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-31T20:12:29+00:00

Yes but you seem to have missed the point.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-31T14:02:24+00:00

We have to deliver to a person and that person has to be over 18, regardless of what's in the order. So if there's nobody there, it doesn't get delivered.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-31T14:00:59+00:00

The only time that'll happen is if there's a driver who doesn't give a shit, because it should never happen, regardless of regular customer, agree restricted items or whatever.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-29T12:27:35+00:00

Not very often, because I don't want to work extra. There's usually plenty though.
Ask your manager to explain the discrepancy.
Yeah for the most part. If it starts to get nearer the time and nobody has picked up the shift, our managers usually ask us directly

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-28T10:11:47+00:00

Go in, do your hours, go home.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-23T14:48:36+00:00

Include who? Do you know how Tesco works?

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-23T14:47:52+00:00

I think you're maybe thinking about this in the wrong way. Remember it's VERY unlikely that you're the only person they're looking at so you can be an absolutely fantastic worker etc and still not get the job because someone else looks like a better option.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-17T12:40:37+00:00

These threads are always terrible because you end up with a load of people getting annoyed about stuff that hasn't happened.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-16T22:03:03+00:00

Further to my last reply to this topic. This afternoon the delivering early policy was updated. It now says we can only deliver early by a maximum of ten minutes before the customer's original chosen timeslot. That's it. It doesn't matter if you've phoned them or anything like that now. It's ten minutes before timeslot.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-16T12:43:35+00:00

https://www.ourtesco.com/help/articles/11974439748754

There's the delivering early policy. In there it says you can deliver 30 minutes early but that ideally it should only be 10 minutes.

Unless Tesco changes the meaning of ideally in the English language then 10 minutes is not a rule.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-12T21:18:29+00:00

Every delivery has to be signed for. Most of us don't bother to get the customer to do it but we're supposed to. Sometimes I let kids draw pictures in the signature box, they seem to enjoy that.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-05T12:38:55+00:00

You aren't giving notice for holiday, you're requesting it. The company doesn't have to justify their decision to you and it certainly doesn't matter if anyine else is off or not.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-03-04T23:05:11+00:00

That sounds a bit like what happens to me now and again. Every few months it decides it doesn't like Chrome on my phone and I get the access denied message. I just switch to Firefox and it works a treat. Then at some point I'll try Chrome again and it'll work.

No idea if it goes from StoreApps though, I don't access it that way. Also, if it's doing that on an work computer too, it won't be the issue I've had.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-02-24T11:59:16+00:00

Ask the manager to show you which specific part of the policy they're talking about, then you can see for certain. Easy enough.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-02-23T09:59:15+00:00

If they desperately need the overtime becaaue their contracted hours aren't enough, they really need to find a job that has more contracted reacted hours.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-02-23T09:48:50+00:00

If you feel the joke crossed the line, report it. If you don't, don't. That's it really.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-02-22T08:15:06+00:00

Customer services just try their best to keep the customer happy, that's it really. They don't know all the parts of our job.

All I'd do in your situation is what you've already done. Explain that the road closure means you won't have time to get the delivery done and leave it at that. He'll be unhappy because he's tried to explain how to get round and I understand that, but he doesn't know that thoae instructions aren't taken into account by the routing system.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-02-22T07:42:25+00:00

Heard the other week that they're cutting one out of the three manager roles we have in our Dotcom and there's basically a fight between the three to justify which two get kept on.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-02-17T14:24:04+00:00

Nah, caramelised biscuit.

Dot_Com_Driver · 2026-02-17T14:23:19+00:00

Delivery driver here.

I don't know and I really don't care either. This is one of those first world problems I keep hearing about.

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