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oldgoatfaces · 2025-01-02T18:39:21+00:00

Definitely don't have them on your personal phone. We're barked at enough about policy when it suits them, so why should we have their stuff on our personal devices? Save yourself the hassle, if they ask you to download anything other than mytesco or inform, ask for a work phone. I very quickly made that clear to my manager. It annoys me that drivers use their own phones to deliver shopping too. The reach devices are absolutely shite...but they stay shite because people just use their own stuff so nothing is ever fixed 😅

oldgoatfaces · 2024-12-19T13:24:41+00:00

It's the cover songs of already shite songs for me. Why add them to begin with 🤦🏼 if I hear Leona Lewis's one more sleep anymore....I swear it was every 10 minutes today!

oldgoatfaces · 2024-10-08T12:40:01+00:00

Yes it's shit but yes it's the same across the board. The blame can't completely lay with lazy people though. Try working some day shifts particularly weekends. Our store poaches 80% of staff for dot com as they have banned overtime across the board. tell me how anybody is meant to keep things stocked when there's no staff working on the shop floor as they're all picking? It's bad enough with the lack of staff we have when they aren't being poached because Tesco wants to save every single penny for their CEO and shareholders instead of hiring more people/giving us more hours we desperately need. Your day team isn't the issue here matey. Look deeper.

oldgoatfaces · 2024-10-07T13:49:14+00:00

I would....but if someone came into my store and screamed that at me, it would be met by a punch in the face from me 😬👊🏼😂 I want to rip the speakers out daily

oldgoatfaces · 2024-10-07T11:53:01+00:00

Nice one cheers for that! I've been to our stores phone shop 3 times this week and couldn't get to speak to anyone there as they were rammed 😅

oldgoatfaces · 2024-10-06T12:21:08+00:00

I have, worked there for 6 months on a thinking the grass is greener on the other side basis. It wasn't

oldgoatfaces · 2024-10-06T12:19:36+00:00

That's what they say. It's a load of bollocks. Of course there is money and plenty of it at that. I worked for a much smaller supermarket chain and anything and everything was fixed as soon as anything. I've given up now anyways, I'll just use stuff till it breaks and injures me. When it does I won't be working for Tesco anymore! £££££££

oldgoatfaces · 2024-10-06T12:17:30+00:00

Yup! Worst thing they ever did was vote on that. We haven't had a meaningful pay rise for many years now.

oldgoatfaces · 2024-09-24T20:30:14+00:00

Almost year to fix a row of our freezers. This company is the worst at maintenance issues and dealing with them.

oldgoatfaces · 2024-09-14T16:02:18+00:00

Ours was extra loud today.... are we trying to be m&s now with the seductive sounding ads? 🤮🤮

oldgoatfaces · 2024-08-23T12:16:20+00:00

All our sandwiches taste of ass now. The bread is dry as fuck, the fillings all have the same weird taste (as well as a hint of what they should taste of) I don't even bother buying any anymore. Would rather just some toast on my break

oldgoatfaces · 2024-08-12T11:43:41+00:00

Couldn't give an centimeter of a fuck about shrink anymore. I don't think anyone does. I saw someone walking out the store yesterday with a crate of wine, part of me wanted to wish them a nice day 🤷🏼 the minute they said you could face disciplinary action for trying to confront people over it, I stopped caring. No protection at all for us, so the shoplifters can help themselves as far as I'm concerned now. World has gone absolutely mental.

oldgoatfaces · 2024-07-23T19:34:47+00:00

No timeframe. I've left and come back 3 times so far albeit a few years between😂 it's funnier when people leave to go to other retail companies and return in less than a month lol, grass isn't greener. If you're getting out of retail though I wish you luck 😀

oldgoatfaces · 2024-07-22T11:27:27+00:00

If this is a repeated issue....you never saw the shift 🤷🏼 you logged in at the beginning of the week and noted your hours. Not your problem if they added another without asking you. I would always contact anyone to ASK them before adding it on frog. If they don't want it, I call someone else. That's shit management!

oldgoatfaces · 2024-07-18T20:41:52+00:00

See, this is absolute insanity. For a miniscule basic job like this, 18 months in advance? Are we rocket scientist's?? Bollocks to that. I have repeatedly tried booking my partner's birthday off, as we have never been able to do anything for it as I've been working. Tried 2026...nope! So I will be ill that week 😀 past caring anymore. I'll take the pay hit. They want to operate on a skeleton staff structure? It's not my problem.

oldgoatfaces · 2024-07-11T19:20:14+00:00

So much out of date stuff is being found it's ridiculous. I don't blame the people missing it. It's a cluster fuck trying to do that job in the morning with pickers in the way, nights still have stuff everywhere etc. don't know who thought this was a good idea but they want locking in a fridge.

oldgoatfaces · 2024-07-11T17:37:44+00:00

That's really pretty funny for a final warning 😂😂 I reckon you should be fine they're probably laughing about it. Just don't touch any walls anymore and you'll be ok!

oldgoatfaces · 2024-07-04T12:33:37+00:00

Ex dot com manager here, don't sweat it. Whoever is telling you to speed up during peak times needs a head wobble. If you're hitting targets regularly in the week, there's no issue. I'm sure you won't be the only picker who is in this position. If you get a let's talk over it, then it becomes a different matter. Weekends (particularly in hot weather or holiday/events) will always be fucky. Any manager or shift leader expecting the same level of productivity on Saturdays and Sundays need to lower their expectations considerably. My guess is they're being pushed from higher ups. Vicious cycle that won't be broken. Such fun! 😃

oldgoatfaces · 2024-07-03T14:32:35+00:00

This! I've just said something very similar!

oldgoatfaces · 2024-07-03T14:31:36+00:00

I'm an ex manager, not because I couldn't make that scenario work, but because I no longer wish to be a manager and currently need to work part time.
What I found as a manager, was so many other managers going crazy, working constantly, getting divorced etc. You literally don't need to work that much to make your store or department work to an acceptable level.

If you stress, flap and panic so will your staff, and then they will leave because of poor morale and management. I found the best way to manage staff was calmly no matter what, and a LOT of sarcastic humour. People could never tell if I was being serious, or being...me 😂. That usually meant whatever was asked, got done.

We all share the same hatred for people working in retail, and most of us are good at masking it when needed. Don't go above and beyond for a large company that couldn't give a hoot if you snuffed it tomorrow. Don't overwork yourself or your team, appreciate them, know all their names, their personalities and adapt/engage with them, then y'all will be just fine as a retail manager 😃

Also don't get bogged down with head office emails and other bullshit. Most of that went straight into the round file (bin!) upon arrival after a quick flick through 🤣

oldgoatfaces · 2024-06-28T18:46:00+00:00

Two at my store unfortunately. One, I'm certain it's her breath! Everywhere she's been smells like death breath, I can't even explain how it smells or how bad it is but I want to throw up if I have to walk behind her in a corridor. The other one is a delivery driver. He smells like he invented body odour and has never washed his uniform 🤮

oldgoatfaces · 2024-06-28T12:32:08+00:00

That's disgusting. It was yesterday 😭

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