ALDI reviews

Where should I start? From Area Manager and above it is a very toxic environment. As a Store Manager you have so much pressure from above even if you are already working like a donkey daily. It is all about KPIs. No care about people. Area managers do not care how you achieve KPIs, you just have to achieve them in any possible way. You have to put yourself in grey areas to achieve them because they are so challenging and unrealistic. If you achieve them, the Area Manager is ok. If you do not, the intimidation and bullying behaviours start. They basically push you to even not follow the company policies to achieve them. But if an external audit comes well then they throw you under the bus pretending they do not know anything and sack you. I personally know 4 Store Managers that have been sacked or ill this year for stress or depression or bullying behaviour by their boss. It is just ridiculous.

No consistent schedule, there were many times I worked until 10 or 11pm and had to go back and open at 5am. Bullied by store managers, district managers did nothing about it. Hours cut after installing self checkout when we were told they wouldn’t. An associate I worked with at one store was hurt on the job and then bullied about their restrictions until they left the company. I was told by my store manager I was “too nice” to the employees by being encouraging. Was often forced to stay late to do work the store manager was supposed to do. My schedule got changed after being posted 3 separate times and then I was wrote up for being late and told I should “be checking the app instead” manager was well aware that the app hadn’t been working on my phone but they still changed my schedule the day before the scheduled shift. Anytime someone had to call off sick they were made to feel guilty or were bullied about it. After one associate called off, on their next shift the store manager told them over the walkie “as punishment for calling off yesterday you will be ringing all day”. Store manager also did this to a lead for being late, embarrassing them in front of the whole staff. I was yelled at, swore at, and talked about behind my back by the store manager for not being able hear something. When I was a store associate, I was called a homophonic slur by one of my superiors and upper management didn’t do anything about it.