ASDA = Scrooge

SallyForth_2

geordieracer wrote: »

So on the one hand you think shops should close early in the run up to christmas-The biggest shopping period of the year- but then you like shops staying open late because other people work late? Confusing yourself.

This december im on lates all month due to illness to my staff so im happy they stay open later means i may actually get some shopping in.

Nope, that's not what I said, nor is it what I think.

Gothicfairy

emay wrote: »

ooh please enlighten me, what £300?

I don't have my xmas rota yet, still waiting for the depot to confirm our delivery times for xmas/new years eve

The rotas for the midlands have been out for months as they were trying to get the xmas period covered. Most here also seem to be on a fixed rota so you can work it out yourself..But then it is wallmark so there is no way it is going to be easy from each depo

There was a pay rise in April this year as it was to bring the rest of the country into line with London and other higher end pay areas
(still not there yet but the gap is being closed each year ish)

The pay rise was meant to start in April but that was never done and by Nov it still was not sorted so a one off payment of £300 was given to make up for it.
I thought that was wallmart wide..Guess not.
Did you get your pay rise on time in April then ?

emay

No, we got ours in October. Last year we got two pay rises, one in April, then another in October, and were told that from now on our payrises would be in October every year to bring us inline with the US.

I do have fixed hours but I work in the George warehouse and our delivery time is 5pm, which is pretty useless on xmas/new years eve when the store closes at 7!!! waiting for the depot to tell us if they're sending it in early on those 2 days so still kind of in limbo for 2 of my shifts (the 2 I'd really like to be out of the building for!!!!)

Gothicfairy

Ahh we only get one a year here and it was so late ( hence the £300) we got told it was to bring us inline with the highest paid part of the uk. Odd how it is a different story for each area but not really a suprise.Much like the deadhead insurance.

whereabouts in the UK are you from ?

molerat

Many companies are doing away with bank holidays and giving 8 days extra holiday, saves a fortune on premium pay rates. We only closed 2 days a year, one in England and if Christmas day fell on one of my work days I had to take holiday. We now need some of the essential services ( you know who you are, the ones that always whinge when shops shut early during their xmas week off !!) to take this approach to make life easier for the general public.

geordieracer

SallyForth wrote: »

Nope, that's not what I said, nor is it what I think.

Oh im sorry i must have read it wrong, because i was under the impression thats exactly what you said.

SallyForth wrote: »

When a significant a public holiday is looming like Christmas then shops should be closing early, there's no need for them to be open in the evening on Christmas Eve, nor should they need to be open on Boxing Day. I don't think I have ever stepped inside a supermarket on Boxing Day!

I do however like shops staying open later during the week though. As so many people work, if they only stayed open when eveybody is working, Saturday shopping would even more horrendous than it is now.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Makes Lidl and Aldi look like positively caring employers, this thread.

sparkymark_3

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Makes Lidl and Aldi look like positively caring employers, this thread.

Yet to meet anybody who say ASDA has got better to work for under Walmart, the reverse is the normal opinion !

barbiedoll

Sadly, it is the consumers who drive the market towards opening all hours over the Christmas holiday. I worked in Woolworths a few years ago and we worked up until 7pm on Christmas Eve so that we could get the store ready for the Boxing day sale. Boxing Day was on a Sunday that year and I can remember saying to my manager that I couldn't see the point of opening on Boxing day as no-one would be out shopping that day anyway.

Of course, we were packed out from the minute the doors opened in the morning. I was so shocked that people had nothing better to do than shop and that they actually had money left over to spend on yet more CD's, DVD's and plastic tat for their kids. I asked one woman, who was accompanied by her 3 small children, why she was out shopping that day. She told me that the kids were bored so she had brought them out to spend their Christmas money! :eek:

Personally, I can't bear the thought of shopping at all once Christmas day is over, the only thing I go out for is food. I hate the sales (last year's overpriced carp) and there's no way that I'm standing outside Next at 6am for a pair of cheap trousers, I wouldn't even if they were giving away free beer and sex with every pair! :rotfl::rotfl:

qetu1357

barbiedoll wrote: »

Sadly, it is the consumers who drive the market towards opening all hours over the Christmas holiday. I worked in Woolworths a few years ago and we worked up until 7pm on Christmas Eve so that we could get the store ready for the Boxing day sale. Boxing Day was on a Sunday that year and I can remember saying to my manager that I couldn't see the point of opening on Boxing day as no-one would be out shopping that day anyway.

Of course, we were packed out from the minute the doors opened in the morning. I was so shocked that people had nothing better to do than shop and that they actually had money left over to spend on yet more CD's, DVD's and plastic tat for their kids. I asked one woman, who was accompanied by her 3 small children, why she was out shopping that day. She told me that the kids were bored so she had brought them out to spend their Christmas money! :eek:

Personally, I can't bear the thought of shopping at all once Christmas day is over, the only thing I go out for is food. I hate the sales (last year's overpriced carp) and there's no way that I'm standing outside Next at 6am for a pair of cheap trousers, I wouldn't even if they were giving away free beer and sex with every pair! :rotfl::rotfl:

Well said.

Close all the shops on Bank Holidays and Sundays for the benefit of the staff and the saddos who can't do their shopping during the other days and nights