anyone works at Aldi?

Legacy_user

I am wondering could I choose the number of hours I want to work as job description says 15-30 hours and prefer to work the latter. Need to work the latter as live on my own and have a mortgage

Also the levels of pay. When would you earn the higher amount? How many days do the 30 hour store assistants work per week?

What is the recruitment process like?

Babbawah

Aldi run their stores with a lean amount of staff.

That is, they don't carry passengers.

Anyone who cannot comprehend what they mean when the job description lists 15-30hrs is most unlikely to get the job.

Have you tried Tesco?

Bill.i.am

Also just be aware that the "High" wage is just that because Aldi Staff are mostly self-employed and so therefore you therefore have got to declare it and are responsible for paying both your own tax and your National Insurance Contributions.

duchy

Bill.i.am wrote: »

Also just be aware that the "High" wage is just that because Aldi Staff are mostly self-employed and so therefore you therefore have got to declare it and are responsible for paying both your own tax and your National Insurance Contributions.

Do you have a link to back this up-It seems very unlikely.

OP sounds like they like flexibility and you tend to work more rather than fewer hours (although at times of slow business this could drop but my Aldi never has these times)
This netmums thread might be useful
This pay your own tax thing seems to be a bit of an urban myth though

http://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/working-childcare-692/working-689/768387-aldi-what-really-like-store-assistant-all.html

PlutoinCapricorn

Google "working for Aldi" and you will find a lot of information. There is a thread on Mumsnet for example. A lot of it sounds very negative, but a few people love it. It seems to depend to a certain extent on the managers, good or bad.

When self employment is mentioned, they say that this is not true: people are on PAYE.

Shrimply

Bill.i.am wrote: »

Also just be aware that the "High" wage is just that because Aldi Staff are mostly self-employed and therefore out of that hourly wage you have got to declare and pay your own tax and national insurance.

This is incorrect. It was maybe true at some point in the past but not any more. You are employed by Aldi.

But yes, Aldi offer contracts of say 25 hours a week. While I was employed by them, I never worked a week with that few hours. Aim to get a contract with as high a number of hours as possible.

If I remember correctly, and this may be wrong, or not totally correct. You should get on average 2 days off a week, maybe more, but you can't work for more than 5 consecutive days. You can't finish late at night and work the opening shift as you need 12 hours between shifts.

The recruitment process is simple, just show that you are hard working and want a long term career out of it.

For the record I didn't overly enjoy my time working there, it's the only 4 months I've really worked in my life, haha. But they are fair, and all the management in my store were nice and understanding, as were the area managers. The Area managers tend to know all the staff in the store by name, and in that respect its a pleasing place to work.

But you do need to be prepared to work long shifts, and work hard, and to be pushed to work hard. You'll hear horror stories though about having to complete everything by the end of your shift and not getting paid if the staff need to work later. If we had to stay substantially past when we were supposed to, we were always paid for the extra time.

duchy

Talking to the staff in my local Aldi the general feeling is they work hard and there is no room for passengers but are paid better than the other supermarkets.
One commented to me that a lot of people don't last as they simply don't want to put in the effort. You certainly never see them (staff or management huddled together having chats the way you do in Tesco/Sainsburys and Co-op around here). Personally I find the Aldi staff to be more cheerful than the other supermarkets too which I suppose says something about how they feel about their jobs.

DCFC79

Cant comment on the recruitment procss as it may have changed since I had my interview. As the ad says 15 to 30 hours then you could be working that many hours, you can ask for more hours, tell them your flexible in the hours you work. Once id been there for a few months I was asked if I could do more shifts.

If you show enough promise, not work shy, be punctual for work then you might find your given more hours. Dont forget other staff can be off for holidays so theres the chance of doing extra hors.

DCFC79

Bill.i.am wrote: »

Also just be aware that the "High" wage is just that because Aldi Staff are mostly self-employed and so therefore you therefore have got to declare it and are responsible for paying both your own tax and your National Insurance Contributions.

This wasnt the case when I worked there, all Tax and NIC were paid and staff are employed and not self employed.

Unless its changed and I presume you have something to back this up.

real1314

Bill.i.am wrote: »

Also just be aware that the "High" wage is just that because Aldi Staff are mostly self-employed and so therefore you therefore have got to declare it and are responsible for paying both your own tax and your National Insurance Contributions.

that's not true and it's never been true.

don't you think all other companies would be doing this if there was a way to get out of handling tax and NI?

And what about employers NI?

I've heard this nonsense from so many supposedly intelligent people, but it seems that some people just repeat what they've been told without either checking or applying any critical judgement.

You'd never be classed as self-employed - HMRC would not allow it.

edinburgher

I can't say about Aldi, but what other posters are saying absolutely chimes with the 6 months I spent working for Lidl as a student. Long shifts (10 hours was perfectly normal), hard, physical work and brief/no breaks were the order of business. That said, the job paid 15%+ more than comparable ones :money: