Tesco boss raps school standards

lostinrates

This is all quite interesting. o

I think a lot of the skills related to customer facing/entry level work at Tesco could well be lacking due to the failures of society/parenting not (just) schooling. People skills, inititative, the bility to be proactive, self starting, lateral thinking and able to offer the customer alternatives. The abilty to apologise for spillages and ask customers to return in a few mintues rather than stand embarrassed by a yellow sign......

kennyboy66_2

As UK companies spend less than the OECD average on training, perhaps they should be wary of throwing the first stone.

In fact from the Institure of Personal Development site;

• Seventy per cent of organisations surveyed have
  a specific training budget for the next 12 months,
  a decrease of 7% from last year.
• The median training spend per employee is £220, substantially less than last year (£300) and previous years (£272 and £278). In comparison with other sectors, voluntary sector organisations continue to spend more per employee per year on training.
• While large organisations have larger training budgets, they also have to spread this across a greater number of people, thus organisations with 250 or fewer employees continue to spend far more per employee than those with more than 5,000 staff.

Much as I don't like to disagree with a fellow bluenose, it would be nice if some of the media actually challenged Leahy on this.

How about a simple - how much do Tesco spend on training per employee, per year ?

abaxas

kennyboy66 wrote: »

As UK companies spend less than the OECD average on training, perhaps they should be wary of throwing the first stone.

In fact from the Institure of Personal Development site;

• Seventy per cent of organisations surveyed have
  a specific training budget for the next 12 months,
  a decrease of 7% from last year.
• The median training spend per employee is £220, substantially less than last year (£300) and previous years (£272 and £278). In comparison with other sectors, voluntary sector organisations continue to spend more per employee per year on training.
• While large organisations have larger training budgets, they also have to spread this across a greater number of people, thus organisations with 250 or fewer employees continue to spend far more per employee than those with more than 5,000 staff.

Much as I don't like to disagree with a fellow bluenose, it would be nice if some of the media actually challenged Leahy on this.

How about a simple - how much do Tesco spend on training per employee, per year ?

Why train someone who can already do the job?

I'd agree with inital training or training when systems change, but a 'shelf stacker' doesnt require much top up training.

kennyboy66_2

abaxas wrote: »

Why train someone who can already do the job?

I'd agree with inital training or training when systems change, but a 'shelf stacker' doesnt require much top up training.

And that ladies and gentleman, sums up why the UK lag behind the rest of Europe on productivity.

"Just stack shelves will yer!"

abaxas

kennyboy66 wrote: »

And that ladies and gentleman, sums up why the UK lag behind the rest of Europe on productivity.

"Just stack shelves will yer!"

Please read what I said!

I might help you replying

Sir_Humphrey

kennyboy66 wrote: »

Much as I don't like to disagree with a fellow bluenose, it would be nice if some of the media actually challenged Leahy on this.

How about a simple - how much do Tesco spend on training per employee, per year ?

This story probably has it's origin in a press release.

- Tesco expect the state to subsidise low wages with tax credits instead of paying a living wage

- Tesco expects the state to back their expansion

- It seems that Tesco also expect the state to be their training provider. School is about education, not training drones.

- Tesco allegedly tries to get all this for as little tax as possible.

Bl00dy cheek from Leahy of you ask me. Perhaps if Tesco agrees to pay more tax, the state could train more staff for them? :rolleyes:

sarah_elton

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/school-leavers-not-even-clever-enough-to-work-at-tesco%2c-says-tesco-boss-200910142136/

"But economist Julian Cook said: "While Sir Terry is right to be concerned, Tesco does actually depend on a pathetically bad education system to make sure people keep shopping there.

"You see, it works like this: The privately educated and those with postgraduate degrees shop at Waitrose; BAs, MAs and BScs shop at Sainsbury's; the skilled working class shop at Morrisons and then Tesco and Asda divvy up the troglodytes with half price offers on Albanian vodka and pizza made from chips."

He added: "Aldi and Lidl, meanwhile, are for highly educated people with a sense of irony who need something new to talk about at dinner parties.

"'Oh you must try their prosciutto, it's surprisingly fabulous and costs just 4p a tonne' - that sort of thing.""

kabayiri

This would be the same Tesco currently in a fight with El Revenue over a 5 billion sale n leaseback deal for all their stores via Jersey would it?

All to avoid 4% sdlt. Perhaps the store managers are struggling to work out what 4% is....

kennyboy66_2

abaxas wrote: »

Please read what I said!

I might help you replying

If all whats required is stacking shelves, then I wonder what he is moaning at.

Surely our education system has not fallen so low that a school leaver cannot put a tin of beans on a shelf ?

reehsetin

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

If you think that these are the sorts of areas covered by many students at GCSE then you're very mistaken!

my GCSEs were only about 6 years ago and I did all of those!? hard to believe they have changed that much in that time
English and math are standard for everybody and I did double science but fairly sure chemical reactions were covered in both