To hate the phrase 'Just get a job at Tesco.'

[LemonSherbetFancies]

Aimed at unemployed people?
As if it's that straightforward and easy to just walk in, ask for a job and start the next day.

ElliFAntspoo I have met many. Mainly to do I think in how I look.

@Bythemillpond

ElliFAntspoo I have met many. Mainly to do I think in how I look.

I don't know how to take that, because I don't know how you look. I'm 18st and have never had a rude word or poor attitude in a supermarket.

Yanbu
Some people don't realise how difficult it is to get a job , even a job at kfc / Tesco. Especially if you have been out of the workforce for a few years.
My mother is like this.

It’s going to get even harder to get a job when furlough ends and unemployment hits 15%!

ElliFAntspoo

This isn’t anything to do with weight

Yes, as I mentioned before, its the worst time to be unemployed. As this thread shows, it doesn't matter how educated you are, it really is tough out there. That's why it annoys me so much when some people think it is super easy to get a job at Tesco. It's also demeaning to Tesco staff who work very hard.

@LemonSherbetFancies

Yes, as I mentioned before, its the worst time to be unemployed. As this thread shows, it doesn't matter how educated you are, it really is tough out there. That's why it annoys me so much when some people think it is super easy to get a job at Tesco. It's also demeaning to Tesco staff who work very hard.

As others have already pointed out, when everyone who is currently furloughed finds out whether they do or do not have jobs to go back to, and when businesses get the chance to reopen and find out whether or not they still have the foot traffic and the buyer to sustain their businesses, that will be the worst time to be unemployed, because if you think there is too much competition now, wait until there is another 3 million or so looking for jobs.

I think it is going to get very hard for everyone to find work in the future. We need to change the way we bring value to those around us.

@ElliFAntspoo

Yeah. You have to be nuts to study something that has no career at the end of it. You also have to be naïve if you believe the university that tells you there are careers at the ends of their courses. They are selling you something for £27K and they can blame you for your failure, so of course they are going to lie to you. That is the whole point of selling.

Don't study a degree in Fruit Juice Making or whatever the trendy dumb degrees are.

This is a really valid point and something that has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, since the commercialisation of higher education. Unfortunately I don't think a lot of lecturers grasp this either.

People today need to understand that at the bottom of the job market the the job is the employee is the disposable thing. There are thousands of them and the employer is looking to get the best value for money. At the top other end of the spectrum the job is the disposable thing, and the employer has to pay what the employee wants in order to buy their time and expertise.

It's been designed to be like this. See comments below about Atkinson's Flexible Firm and the Precariat.

I used to work at Asda and the selection process was more involved than any full time professional job I’ve had. I had to do a questionnaire, an application form, attend a full “selection day” and have a one to one interview. I’m now head of a main team in a charity, and did an emailed CV and an interview 😂.

@Iyiyi

I used to work at Asda and the selection process was more involved than any full time professional job I’ve had. I had to do a questionnaire, an application form, attend a full “selection day” and have a one to one interview. I’m now head of a main team in a charity, and did an emailed CV and an interview 😂.

That's because of the volume of applicants supermarkets get and have to filter a percentage out before the applications get as far as a human.

@Donoteatthekittens

It’s going to get even harder to get a job when furlough ends and unemployment hits 15%!

Who has predicted it will be this high? My understanding is that companies have been letting go of furloughed staff from Aug/September last year (when the company had to start contributing towards the cost).

There are more redundancies to come, wouldn't be surprised if they hit that high.

I love our local Iceland staff (and drivers). The lady that’s usually on the till when I go in asks about my children and she’s recently become a grandmother and we chat about all that sort of thing (I go in when it’s quiet so I’m not holding up the queue with our nattering). There’s also a guy that works there that busy must remember me and he says hello and because I can’t smile because mask I wave and say hello how are you doing etc. They are so friendly and as someone that is anxious going shopping at the moment, they make me feel very relaxed during my time in the store. Whatever they’re paid, it’s not nearly enough!!

I can honestly say I have never met a rude staff member in a supermarket, so whatever they do to select their staff gets a big thumbs up from me.

Same here. Apart from the old security guard at M&S food - I used to cycle to work, so had a rucksack and he used to follow me around whenever I went in on my way home from work. I'm assuming people with rucksacks are designated as shoplifters in Security Guard 101 😂.

@LemonSherbetFancies

There are more redundancies to come, wouldn't be surprised if they hit that high.

Ok, you may not be surprised if they hit that high but most of the finance and economic articles I'm reading are predicting 8% and that's across both the left (Guardian, Economist) and right (Times).

@SittinOnTheDockOfTheBay

I can honestly say I have never met a rude staff member in a supermarket, so whatever they do to select their staff gets a big thumbs up from me.

Same here. Apart from the old security guard at M&S food - I used to cycle to work, so had a rucksack and he used to follow me around whenever I went in on my way home from work. I'm assuming people with rucksacks are designated as shoplifters in Security Guard 101 😂.

I don't count security staff and supermarket staff. Most of them are agency workers and neither the supermarket not the security staff are capable of controlling their behaviour.

Either way, there's going to be an enormous amount of redundancies and loss of livelihoods. I don't think anyone can dispute that.

I did an interview last week and it honestly seemed they were just desperate for workers coming into this new season of covid where everything is beginning to open because literally the day and within the hour I applied for the job I was asked to come for an interview and a few days later I was successful. I applied for a job I must be honest, not really knowing what it entailed as when I read the job description it didn’t really tell me any specifics. It just talked about customer service etc so I assumed I’d just be a normal customer assistant. But it turned it out it was a warehouse job. Now I’m 5ft 4 weighing just under 9 stone and how they employed me for that specific job is beyond me. The more I realise things, the more I think I definitely wasn’t a suitable candidate for the job. Started my induction today and the training was dreadful. Took 4 hours and they just had us read stuff on our phones. The videos didn’t work. The person conducting the induction didn’t know the answers to any of the questions we had to get 100% on to pass so that we could actually start work. It was ridiculous. They threw us all in to “til training” which wasn’t til training at all. We watched a worker do one checkout and then we had to go for like half an hour. The checkout supervisor watched us do checkouts and got really angry and nasty when you messed up. This particular woman who supervised us made me feel less than, stupid and embarassed me and made me flustered in front of customers. The scanner and belt thing wasnt working that well either. When the scanner wasn’t working I used the handheld one and she came and snatched it out of my hands and told me to stop doing that. I told her that the scanner wasn’t really picking up most of the items and I didn’t want the customer to be waiting ages on me as I could tell he was quite a grumpy customer and I would have got really sad if he said anything nasty to me so I tried to get it done as quick as possible. She told me I wasn’t scanning stuff right and showed me how to do it but I had been doing that. A few times I messed up or the til kind of malfunctioned I would have spoke up for help and then it magically worked when she came to watch me do it which just made me look like even more of an idiot. I honestly think they need better training methods. In my previous job in m&s, we had mock tills upstairs in the training rooms and we learned everything on them. It just meant that we could try different things and get good at it before we had to encounter real customers. I sometimes do think the best way to learn is to be throwb into the deep end but Tesco was extremely busy that day and I know that if I was in for a shop and a trainee was taking ages to do my groceries I’d get kind of annoyed. Who decides to train people during busy periods? Absolute shambles. In that moment I honestly could of walked out but then a manager came along and told me I would be going off the til in ten minutes and I could have leapt with joy.I have worked in retail before, but Tesco’s tills, at least in this shop, aren’t modern at all. I did that for half an hour and then I was threw into the alcohol section on my own. Had to stock check and then put stuff out but I was left on my own here aswell and when customers asked me questions on where stuff was, I had to just go by my own experience of shopping in the store to assist them as there’s only one person on per day who actually knows about the alcohol so I couldn’t go to a regular customer assistant for help. Then I was told that what i did on my first day isn’t what I’m actually doing. I will be there first thing every morning working 9 hour shifts taking in deliveries etc. Every person in the shop who I told about where abouts in the shop I was working laughed, felt sorry for me, kept telling me it was tough and just made me feel uneasy about it. The job was also advertised as 16 hours but they’ve threw me in 45 hours this coming week which I didn’t plan for and I’m already feeling sick and nervous about it. I haven’t worked in two years due to anxiety and furthermore covid. I told my boyfriend that I don’t know it I’ll be able to stick it as the warehouse job is seemingly strenuous plus I feel like they are literally working me to the bone. I mean imagine going from 16 hours to 45 when I don’t even have a uniform yet and what if I had plans? Also, the person conducting the induction didn’t even check it I had all my necessary training done so I’m not even prepared for tomorrow coming. Which isn’t my fault as I was just randomly threw in till training even though I’d hardly be on tills as I’m a background worker. My boyfriend told me it’s a job and I should be happy but it’s only been my first day and I feel miserable. I think I might try it for a few weeks and if it’s not great then I will start to look for another place to work. I always think that your mental health should always come first. Also noticed that everything they promised in the interview doesn’t even apply to temporary workers such as the 10% discount which basically means I am working to the bone with no benefits. Feel like they employ temporary workers so that they don’t have to get any or the benefits which is so sly to me but yea. A place where I thought would be good to work for is kind of slowly turning into kind of a hell hole. One of my friends works there and actually really likes it but I don’t think I am suited to this job at least in this store. I feel like the management aren’t that nice, they’re disorganised, not helpful, kind of patronising and/or not friendly. I’m so embarrassed that I’ve finally got into work again and I hate it so much after just one day and being so excited to start for it to literally make me sick of the thought of having to go back in. I honestly feel like tomorrow when I go in and I can’t hack it after a few hours and may feel so stressed as to quit on the spot. But everyone would be so disappointed in me. I am currently looking for jobs within my area.

Eh? What phrase?

I have never heard anyone say this......

I realise this is an old thread but:
I have recently applied to work at Tesco, 16 hours a week. I received a request to submit documents proving right to work.
I am 59 and have never left the UK so no passport, and I have no driving licence. Last year I changed my name by deed poll. The DWP , my current employer, and my Housing Association, and my bank accept I am who I say I am. I followed the directions in the upload your documents and uploaded what they requested. It took me 4 hours as I kept gett failed to upload. I got invited to interview. I then got another email saying my RTW was revoked as I didn't send the correct documents! I spent 2 hours more trying to upload, with no success, phoned recruitment who said they don't deal with that. I cancelled the interview. I want to work, but it's ridiculous I can't prove to Tesco who I am when I'm pretty sure I'd have been dealt with long before if I was illegally here, and I have proved my identity to the satisfaction of banks, DWP and a social housing provider....
I'm seriously considering removing my custom from Tesco now too