Lidl/Aldi

sonofenoch

Why are their staff made up of at a guess 90% European (or Polish to be exact) every store I'e ever been in, from security to shop staff .......where exactly do they advertise for job vacancies? I've never seen any

mariaalice

Not in the ones near me, the Aldi is nearly all Irish or English and they often advertise for staff. The Lidil is a mixture of Irish, Chinese, and Polish.

The store manger in both is Irish.

Tarzana2

I've seen them advertise jobs on career sites. They have a careers section on their own website too. I know Irish people who have worked there, there's no big conspiracy. More likely, Irish people stay away, feeling there's a stigma to working there.

sonofenoch

mariaalice wrote: »

Not in the ones near me, the Aldi is nearly all Irish or English and they often advertise for staff. The Lidil is a mixture of Irish, Chinese, and Polish.

The store manger in both is Irish.

You're 1 of the 10% aren't you .....seriously tho in Dublin you're talking about? I've honestly never seen it, not saying I've never seen any Irish staff but definitely huge majority European

uck51js9zml2yt

Seeing more Irish working in the shops in recent years than non Irish.

I've seen them advertise jobs on FAS or whatever they call themselves nowadays website.

222233

sonofenoch wrote: »

Why are their staff made up of at a guess 90% European (or Polish to be exact) every store I'e ever been in, from security to shop staff .......where exactly do they advertise for job vacancies? I've never seen any

You have to apply online (for aldi anyway) and they actually have some really good career/management progression options. I may be wrong but I think the hourly rate is 11ish euro?

deni20000

mariaalice wrote: »

Not in the ones near me, the Aldi is nearly all Irish or English and they often advertise for staff. The Lidil is a mixture of Irish, Chinese, and Polish.

The store manger in both is Irish.

Aldi Nenagh is mainly staffed by Eastern Europeans, a few Irish, one English - manager is EE.

DoYouEvenLift

Plenty of Irish working in them nowadays. Makes a positive change as well compared to the days when it was basically as you say, all Polish/Europeans, and they wouldn't even say anything whereas most Irish cashiers instinctively greet the customer and thank them.

sonofenoch

222233 wrote: »

You have to apply online (for aldi anyway) and they actually have some really good career/management progression options. I may be wrong but I think the hourly rate is 11ish euro?

Was talking to someone who works in them once (Polish as it happens ) and yeah the money on offer is extremely reasonable

Annasopra

sonofenoch wrote: »

Why are their staff made up of at a guess 90% European (or Polish to be exact) every store I'e ever been in, from security to shop staff .......where exactly do they advertise for job vacancies? I've never seen any

Any store I've been in is mixed!!!

PARlance

sonofenoch wrote: »

Why are their staff made up of at a guess 90% European (or Polish to be exact) every store I'e ever been in, from security to shop staff .......where exactly do they advertise for job vacancies? I've never seen any

More than 90% European in most stores.

They advertise regularly, some Irish Europeans do have problems seeing adverts for these kind of jobs.

Mr.Crinklewood

Here you go OP

http://jobs.lidl.ie/cps/rde/career_lidl_ie/hs.xsl/index.htm

https://www.aldirecruitment.ie/

Seems to be a mixture of nationalities in my local store.

Anyway, good luck in your application. I hope all goes well.

sonofenoch

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Here you go OP

http://jobs.lidl.ie/cps/rde/career_lidl_ie/hs.xsl/index.htm

https://www.aldirecruitment.ie/

Seems to be a mixture of nationalities in my local store.

Anyway, good luck in your application. I hope all goes well.

Nope..... tho if I needed a job I could probably get over the stigma, was more an observation question than an application one

kneemos

Ladi.

Paramite Pie

The new Oranmore Aldi has plenty if not mostly Irish staff. The Doughiska Lidl is more mixed -- but the checkout staff are chatty regardless.

The innercity Galway ones are more straight to the point but alright when spoken to (also mixed staff as well). I imagine the rural stores have more Irish staff in general.

fryup

nothing against the foreign staff

some of those eastern european check out girls are hot, usually wink at them as they're scanning my condoms

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Why is there a stigma with working for them? Their management programme requires a degree, being able to speak at least intermediate German and pays 60 k with a car thrown in. You won't do much better than that at any first job.

vicwatson

sonofenoch wrote: »

Why are their staff made up of at a guess 90% European (or Polish to be exact) every store I'e ever been in, from security to shop staff .......where exactly do they advertise for job vacancies? I've never seen any

Security staff? What? Where?

fryup wrote: »

nothing against the foreign staff

some of those eastern european check out girls are hot, usually wink at them as they're scanning my condoms

That "wink" could be thought of as something else

My local Aldi, the staff rock, even the Irish staff are cool.

fryup

is there a stigma ?

Badly Drunk Boy

vicwatson wrote: »

Security staff? What? Where?

There's always one security guard in my local Lidl. Either Polish or Nigerian.

Badly Drunk Boy

(I always get those two mixed up).

kneemos

The only place I've seen blatant pilfering,don't even bother looking around to see if anybody is watching,just straight in the pocket or up the sleeve.
Remove the contents and leave the box seems the preferred technique.

The Backwards Man

They have the audacity to expect people to earn their wages through honest hard work, that would have been a bit of a foreign concept for a lot of the Celtic tiger pups.

uck51js9zml2yt

The Backwards Man wrote: »

They have the audacity to expect people to earn their wages through honest hard work, that would have been a bit of a foreign concept for a lot of the Celtic tiger pups.

The scandal of it........
I think its time to call Joe.....those foreigners are making us work for our wages.!

monkeysnapper

I used to work for aldi and the mix was roughly 40/60 , Irish workers being 40 , but that was because Im a non national from Wales , apparently it still counts as they used to tell me . I Tell them I'll wipe the smug off your Irish faces when we knock you out of World Cup ...............


Again........

vicwatson

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I used to work for aldi and the mix was roughly 40/60 , Irish workers being 40 , but that was because Im a non national from Wales , apparently it still counts as they used to tell me . I Tell them I'll wipe the smug off your Irish faces when we knock you out of World Cup ...............


Again........

Whats wiping the smug off? Welsh expression maybe?

kneemos

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I used to work for aldi and the mix was roughly 40/60 , Irish workers being 40 , but that was because Im a non national from Wales , apparently it still counts as they used to tell me . I Tell them I'll wipe the smug off your Irish faces when we knock you out of World Cup ...............


Again........

Good luck in that group pal.

monkeysnapper

kneemos wrote: »

Good luck in that group pal.

Yeh I know.... Thanks ..... ;(


Ireland have a great chance this year . Come on the boys in green

Harry Palmr

I see Lidl in the UK are introducing a "living wage" of 9 quid per hour, that is 12.36 euro any know what the basic rate is here?

The King of Moo

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Plenty of Irish working in them nowadays. Makes a positive change as well compared to the days when it was basically as you say, all Polish/Europeans, and they wouldn't even say anything whereas most Irish cashiers instinctively greet the customer and thank them.

Nonsense. Most of the checkout operators in my local Aldi are Eastern European and are pleasant and smile and say hello.
Perhaps that's something to do with the fact that they're normal people and I interact with them the same way I would with Irish people.

sonofenoch wrote: »

Nope..... tho if I needed a job I could probably get over the stigma, was more an observation question than an application one

You've answered your own question from your original post.

Tarzana2

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Why is there a stigma with working for them? Their management programme requires a degree, being able to speak at least intermediate German and pays 60 k with a car thrown in. You won't do much better than that at any first job.

I know, but a fair few people are mort to be seen shopping there so I guess some people care about these things.

Pablodreamsofnew

Poland? No seriously, good few Irish in the ones I go too.

Love Lidl but have to avoid because of the temptations of that bakery. So good to Aldi instead.

sonofenoch

The King of Moo wrote: »

Nonsense. Most of the checkout operators in my local Aldi are Eastern European and are pleasant and smile and say hello.
Perhaps that's something to do with the fact that they're normal people and I interact with them the same way I would with Irish people.



You've answered your own question from your original post.

Nope, see post 3 in the thread....there's where 'stigma' was first used, I used it in jest

joe_six_cans

sonofenoch wrote: »

Was talking to someone who works in them once (Polish as it happens ) and yeah the money on offer is extremely reasonable

pay is good per hour but they have to work extremely long working weeks , my sister is a solicitor and has represented a former employee of one of the retailers in question , very hard to work for

majority of staff are not irish in the outlet i frequent but its untrue their are no irish there

monkeysnapper

joe_six_cans wrote: »

pay is good per hour but they have to work extremely long working weeks , my sister is a solicitor and has represented a former employee of one of the retailers in question , very hard to work for

majority of staff are not irish in the outlet i frequent but its untrue their are no irish there

They do not have to work extremely long weeks , that's rubbish .everybody gets 2 days off a week and assistants and deputy's dont work over 40 hours a week , management 45 .
And loads of Irish work there ,

DoYouEvenLift

The King of Moo wrote: »

Nonsense. Most of the checkout operators in my local Aldi are Eastern European and are pleasant and smile and say hello.
Perhaps that's something to do with the fact that they're normal people and I interact with them the same way I would with Irish people.



You've answered your own question from your original post.

Lol, are you implying you think that I don't and that I've a problem with E. Europeans? Because I don't, I love E.E and it's people, I have been there multiple times.

Galwayguy35

A fella that used to work with me got a job with Aldi as a manager, the money is good.

As far as I know the ordinary joe soaps get something like a tenner an hour up to €13 depending in what they do and it's around a 30 hour week.

kneemos

monkeysnapper wrote: »

They do not have to work extremely long weeks , that's rubbish .everybody gets 2 days off a week and assistants and deputy's dont work over 40 hours a week , management 45 .
And loads of Irish work there ,

Amazed there's a manager anywhere that does 45 hours.

custard gannet

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Lol, are you implying you think that I don't and that I've a problem with E. Europeans? Because I don't, I love E.E and it's people, I have been there multiple times.

Of course he is. Can't say anything these days without being tarred as racist.

I find young Irish girls in supermarkets, clothes shops and bar staff to be generally far more smiley and chatty than E European ones the same age, yet on the flip side there seems to be some awful ill tempered middle aged Irish ones on the tills in Dunnes. I suppose if you spent 30- 40 years working in a place that treats their staff as badly as Dunnes is meant to you would be pissed off and all.

The King of Moo

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Lol, are you implying you think that I don't and that I've a problem with E. Europeans? Because I don't, I love E.E and it's people, I have been there multiple times.

So you just think that they have poor customer-service skills then? (Again, I disagree, I don't notice any different between sales assistants of different nationalities here)

custard gannet wrote: »

Of course he is. Can't say anything these days without being tarred as racist.

Sure you can't even make broad generalisations about multiple national groups these days without someone calling you a racist.

booooring!

Why get increased rent on your council house and lose other benefits to work in a minimum wage job? you would actually be down money!

The King of Moo

booooring! wrote: »

Why get increased rent on your council house and lose other benefits to work in a minimum wage job? you would actually be down money!

But if the Eastern Europeans are all coming here for our generous benefits, then why are they all working in Aldi and Lidl?...

mirrorwall14

MrsYelnekoff wrote: »

Poland? No seriously, good few Irish in the ones I go too.

Love Lidl but have to avoid because of the temptations of that bakery. So good to Aldi instead.

God if they had a coffee machine I would be in there every frigging morning.....

booooring!

The King of Moo wrote: »

But if the Eastern Europeans are all coming here for our generous benefits, then why are they all working in Aldi and Lidl?...

A lot of people coming over don't bring their families with them and send money back home.

The King of Moo

booooring! wrote: »

A lot of people coming over don't bring their families with them and send money back home.

They should tell the social welfare that they identify as black African women and they'll have to accept that now because of the new legislation and then they'll get free prams which they can then sell to Aldi who can sell them on on Thursday mornings and they'd have more money to send home to their families who're laughing at us for being so soft.

Cold War Kid

kneemos wrote: »

Amazed there's a manager anywhere that does 45 hours.

Plenty of them in supermarkets.

I've heard Lidl and Aldi are very tough to work for too.

neilthefunkeone

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Plenty of them in supermarkets.

I've heard Lidl and Aldi are very tough to work for too.

I've heard, I've heard.. Lots of that in this thread...

Worked there for a few years on the floor.. Good pay, hours were normal(in fact I work longer days in IT now). In our store was about 70% eastern european.

Tough work for someone who justdoesnt want to work maybe.

monkeysnapper

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

I've heard, I've heard.. Lots of that in this thread...

Worked there for a few years on the floor.. Good pay, hours were normal(in fact I work longer days in IT now). In our store was about 70% eastern european.

Tough work for someone who justdoesnt want to work maybe.

couldnt agree with you more, i also worked there and exactly the same as you said.

tuisginideach

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

Plenty of Irish working in them nowadays. Makes a positive change as well compared to the days when it was basically as you say, all Polish/Europeans, and they wouldn't even say anything whereas most Irish cashiers instinctively greet the customer and thank them.

Actually I would have the opposite impression - in our local Lidl (where I shop a few times a week) the ONLY cashier who doesn't greet every customer at the till is the irish person - every other cashier always says 'hello' / 'Good morning' etc.

custard gannet

The King of Moo wrote: »

Sure you can't even make broad generalisations about multiple national groups these days without someone calling you a racist.

Generalisations are generally very accurate, only a leftist clown could argue otherwise. In all my years the only generalisation I have found to be incorrect is that all Swedish women are model standard and all Italians are football mad- there's a significant minority of them who couldn't give a toss about it.

Aside from that, they pretty much all stand.