PetesDad

For new Graduates ........

Rising to £57,000 +

OK, not fantastic, but pretty shocking from a 'Cheapo' Store!?

j4ckos mate

I Rate aldi and netto
no im not pikey,

but have to to day experience of food exporters, and alot of it comes form the same place and is dead cheap

ScoobyDoo555

If it's like the lower-end jobs, you then have to pay tax and ni on top of that...

Dan

Clarebabes

You sometimes have to run a store all on your own and used to have to remember the prices of everything in the olden days! Technology has moved things on a bit now...

LG John

Where is your source of info?

Leslie

I found it interesting to see that Imperial College have instituted an entrance exam because the standards of modern A levels is just not high enough for a university course. That nice Mr ***** will have to look to his business!

Les

PetesDad

Here we go.

Aldi Stores Limited graduate-jobs.com UK graduate recruitment and careers

I draw your attention to the following:-

"All in return for a market leading rewards package including a starting salary of £40k plus car and fantastic career prospects"

mrtheedge2u2

So a graduate at 21 years old gets that??

PetesDad

Yes, if selected.

Bluie

You may want to read this

Aldi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The company is massive in Germany, geared to sell quality products at quality prices, will charge extra for bags.
The brothers who established the firm are stinking rich, they were known as 'The Penny millionaires', now they are 'The Penny Billionaires'
Stack it high and sell it cheap.
They have massive buying power in Germany

EddScott

Not sure how true but someone told me the local boots area manager is on 100K

Quite alot of dosh considering this is supposed to be a deprived area.

Jerome

For £40k and a company car, I'm tempted!

Has got to be easier than IT...

EddScott

I was also told that Aldi and Lidl were started by brothers in competition with each other.

Yet another urban legend from my wifes hair salon

To be fair, some of the stuff is pretty good. The fresh fruit and veg is a bit rubbish but alot of the other stuff is very good and cheap.

ethanrob

iTrader: (3)

think again boys

You "WILL" be working 80-100 hours per week,do the math,breaks down to around minimum wage once stopages have been taken,and you will be a complete and utter wreck

you "will" more often then not,be sat on a till,because there is only you in the store,as the wage budget for the full day's trading of 9am-8am allows for 22 hours worth of staffing(including your hours)

thus i know because........................................... ..........................

I used to work for them and LIDL as a store manager

Aldi pays better,but you can sometimes get a day off at LIDL

marcus

New_scooby_04

iTrader: (4)

Based on my experience on working in retail part time whilst doing my first degree and seeing what it did to the managers, I'd agree with the above!

Wouldn't wish a career in retail on my worst enemy!

Ns04

dpb

Buisness is absolutley booming for this kind of store apparently ..!

StickyMicky

it is not easier then IT

i know somebody that went in for this and was scared away when he found out how much crap you get.

good job for somebody that can handle grief tho!

StickyMicky

doh should have read it all, seams somebody has already explained it

Abdabz

Thing is they do 6/7 days a week - they open the place up and they shut the place last thing at night = ridiculous hours. The stores success rests on them as does the training, hiring, firing etc. It's no easy ride...
It's almost like they own the shop the work is that demanding. I looked into it a decade or so ago when they were paying 27k and after research backed the **** off. Aldi are not daft and they pay top dollar because in most peoples eyes, the work is sh1te and it's the only way they can lure folk through the door...
Stick to IT - I did

StickyMicky

i was doing 70 hour weeks when i first took over the franchise for what i do now

i also did the open up and lock up thing, its a complete killer

4 single days off in a full year (xmas day boxing day, new years day and easter sunday), it wiped me out, the only thing that kept me going was the fact that techincaly it was my buisiness at stake and not somebody elses, i survived tho, and now things are much better

shamrock

£40k for 70 hours a week!?!? Sounds like a lot of stress for £11 an hour.

StickyMicky

i am not with aldi or lidl

i took over a failing carwash franchise with a non existant car valeting business

i lost 2k in the first two weeks as the place was going through a "rough patch"

2 weeks in the firing started

it was a hell of a wake up call to be honest, i remember going home and thinking "WHAT THE **** HAVE I GOT MY SELF INTO"

its all character building stuff apparently, took a good 2 years to make it all "good"

1st year trading the carwash did 18 000 cars
last year it did 33 000 cars, its increasing year on year, valeting business took off.
nowadays i do very little, some weeks i only have to work 4.30pm until 6.30pm
and some weeks i only 8am till 10.30am , which is good

it was worth it, but i doubt i would do it for somebody like aldi/lidl who have a cap on earnings....

LG John

I agree with Micky, if you are going to knacker your pan in you might as well do it for yourself. If these aldi manger guys really are putting in 70h weeks for their £57k then even I'm beating that per hour! The only problem is I'm waaaaaaaaay to lazy to put in even half of a 70h week <sigh>

Petem95

That does seem like a surprising amount of money for a starting salary, basically for a 21 year old.

I remember someone posting a link to this a while back, and the salary was something like £35k then, and you got the A4 as well.

I wonder if maybe the salary includes some performance related bonus?... £25k + £15, so £40k* * if all targets met....

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

No, it states 40K is the starting salary.

PetesDad

Indeed it is just that, a starting salary with the car. pension scheme and 25 days leave.

At 21 - £40k is pretty good ......... not too sure about just £57k at 30 mind you?? Maybe you go onto a better scale by age 30?

MikeCardiff

iTrader: (2)

Its probably fine until you keel over from a stress induced heart attack at 23 after working every spare hour for a couple of years and never getting any time off.

£40K for working what ends up being TWO normal persons working weeks is not good money - it works out as the equivalent of £20K per year, which is a fairly normal starting salary for a lot of graduate positions, but you also get the bad side of working so many hours.

ethanrob

iTrader: (3)

it's not a nice enviroment to work in guys

The head office and area managers are constantly on your back's,no matter how much profit/improvements you are making,they always want more and more,add to the mix they always build the stores in "under priviliged" area's,the issues with teens/theft/abuse,with no security staff just CCTV and they expect you to deal with these scumbags,man the checkouts,do the paperwork(piles of the stuff)stack shelve's,take in deliverie's blah de blah de blah

i worked in that area for seven years,and TBH im paying the price now,been badly for the past 5 weeks or so(stomach ulser)and no sign of improvement as yet

I wouldnt discount taking the plunge to someone young,energy to burn etc,but dont get stuck in the rutt for many years as i did,get in earn some serious brass,twelve months later,when you have no oppotunity to spend your earning's,get out and enjoy yourself for a few months etc

My career there was to be honest decided by my family,enough was enough,missed my child growing up,partner issues etc etc so i walked after being called to head office to explain why our stock loss was £1,200 for the month(see theiving scum above/mixed with selling computer's )

so told the sales op's manager to stick it,threw the store and car keys at him,and walked out the door(now how do i get home from warrington )

cheers marcus