ALDI reviews

You almost have to be insane to work here.They expect you to run insane productivity numbers and still maintain that the customer is #1. How can the customer be #1 when there is one employee in the building trying to ring, throw a truck and mop up a spill. There is no concern for the employees safety with only one employee there. While it is good pay and benefits, you are basically stuck in the same position for a while. They hire DM's straight out of college and don't hire from within, even store manager with or working on a degree cannot be promoted. They say they are working on work/life balance for employees but that is a lie. As a store manager you are expected to be there when and however long they say. Technology is not in their vocabulary. There are so many ways this company could improve in this aspect its not funny. Anyone that posted and said that they liked this job is a lie. Every DM I talk to is miserable as well as manager. The only reason they don't go anywhere else is because of the pay, but they are not happy. Aldi did a survey that told them that pay was not the number one thing on an employees list. Still they do not see how to make their employees happy. Get your head out of your asses and realize that just b/c you pay someone a lot of money you cannot expect them to be happy and go along with everything you say. This is a German company, but we are not in Germany. WAKE UP!!!!!!!YOU SUCK!!!!!!!

Management is toxic at every level, the only colleagues who enjoy their role do so because they’re self-centred and have no guilt when pushing people to breaking point. The business is so efficiency driven that it comes at the cost of employee welfare. The mindset is very much “achieve, no matter the cost”. Of course senior management can’t be seen to tolerate cheating or figure manipulation, so every so often they will take a Store Manager to disciplinary and sack them for doing what everyone else is doing. Area Managers happily turn a blind eye so long as their Store Managers are delivering results, the moment that changes they’re instructed by the directors to performance manage. Performance management at Aldi serves only as a process to make people so miserable they eventually leave, never to see actual performance improvement. Even annual performance reviews are not constructive, they’re just another tool the business uses to highlight your flaws without the support provision to genuinely see you improve. I cannot stress enough how much I do not recommend them as an employer; it’s celebrated that 50% of all Area Managers quit in the first 2 years. They take pride in this statistic.