Tesco reviews

-They really don't understand that young people have a life. They tried to get me onto a 'flexi-contract', by 'flexi' they mean they want you to be available for overtime 24/7 and will constantly hassle you on your days off to drag you in for an extra 8 hour shift. - Book over a year in advance to take holidays in August, utterly ridiculous - Jobs for the boys culture- your only chance of promotion is if you are mates with the department manager so many team leaders weren't there on merit and it showed. - Impossible to speak to a senior manager about a grievance - No room for moving shifts or departments. If you work Saturdays you are stuck with them. - Different rules for checkout staff- you have to sign off your till at precisely the minute your break starts and be back on your till by the precise minute your break finishes (bear in mind that it is a good 5 minute walk to the canteen). You'd see folks from other departments congregating round the clock 5 mins before their shift finished. Just not fair at all. - No training. I was forever scheduled for a training session but it was always cancelled due to the store being busy. I never did recieve my mandatory training in the end and thus made lots of mistakes and broke regulations that I was totally unaware of. Managers had no sympathy. - Constantly abused by customers with no action taken. I saw staff reduced to tears by abuse and the team leaders did nothing to comfort them.

Staff aren't valued for more difficult roles. Management are usually poorly trained or have poor attitudes and pass a lot of their workload onto the base rate workers. Company is on a trend of cutting most employee benefits and replacing them with lip service. While some of the benefits are good a lot of them are difficult to access - particularly anything relating to another business Tesco owns eg vision express or pizza express. Replacing most of their staff with self service, then blaming staff for higher rates of theft. No protection / security if your store is deemed to be low risk. High rates of customer abuse. Extra hours are entirely dependent on how your store manages theirs - tends to be no overtime in the new year. Extra contracted hours only appear if somebody leaves, and will usually go to the staff most liked by managers. Lots of poorly trained managers with no knowledge of company policies. Hard to get rid of a bad manager / bad colleagues because it's difficult to get sacked for anything but cut and dry gross misconduct. Entirely variable based on the store you're in and who you work with. Wouldn't recommend working in an express to my worst enemy.