Tesco banned me!

lolarentt

C_Ronaldo wrote: »

hwo do tesco pay people pittance to work for them, tehy have to pay the minimum wage so its not pittance

"............The £4.6 million in salary and bonuses for Tesco’s chief executive Sir Terry Leahy could pay the annual wages of more than 25,000 Bangladeshi garment employees who supply its stores, based on average wages of about £15 a month......."

Tao81

lolarentt- thanks for tip. Ocado don't deliver here, but we do have waitrose a few miles away so maybe in the future?? Probably well into the future tho?!! as everything corporate seems to move that much slower down 'ere in Devon!!!! Grrrgh:mad:
Have registered my interest and may do a little bit of whinging to HO to see if can put a toe up their butt?!! We should all start boycotting Tesco, they are far too big and they lie about price matching and having the same if not better prices than other supermarkets! It's all a perceptual trick!
For example their Organic butter went up in price to £1.04 a few weeks ago....Seen it cheaper in most other shops and supermarkets since (Somerfield being the exception) and this is not the only descrepancy I have noticed in their so called price competitiveness!)...... DON'T FALL FOR THEIR LIES, VOTE WITH YOUR PURSE, GIVE THEM THE BOOT!

An even more shocking example..........

Medium Organic eggs (1/2 dozen)

Lidl £1.48
Tesco £1.78!!!!

Now tell me Tesco, like most supermarkets over here, aren't fleecing us dry?! They are taking the pish!!!!:mad:
I even find M & S are often slightly cheaper or on a par with Tesco and Sainsbury prices yet their food is ten times better!

Can't think why someone would want to eat mediocre tasting food above delicious food that is equal in price or even cheaper on some items?!!!

Even more shocking examples.............

Tin Organic chopped tomatoes
M&S 49p
Tesco 85p!!!!!

See the trick?? Some very basic items that you would never conceive T and S et al would have the cheek to charge extortionately higher prices for. It's Magic! To them! It's grossly swelling their profit margins whilst you think you are actually being given a fair deal?!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't be taken in!

DO YOUR OWN PRICE MATCHING, takes a bit of time but can save loads of money, DON'T TRUST TESCO et al, IT'S NOT ALL WHAT IT CRACKED UP TO BE!!!!! Watch out for their illusions, there are many!!

Take the perceptual blindfold off and Go forward and prosper!

A_little_stressed!!

Minimum wage is a pittance! And I don't see why at 21 I deserve less money per hour than a 22 year old!!!!! I have a family to support just like every1 else, I don't get an under 22s discount on my food/bills!

RANT OVER!

heather38

tesco pay more than minmum wage, always have done

Tao81

A_little_stressed!! wrote: »

Minimum wage is a pittance! And I don't see why at 21 I deserve less money per hour than a 22 year old!!!!! I have a family to support just like every1 else, I don't get an under 22s discount on my food/bills!

RANT OVER!

I agree wholeheartedly. This should be changed and a person should be paid on the basis of skill and experience offered for the job regardless of age! :mad:

kittyscarlett

Tescos sucketh, for many reasons. Poor quality overpriced goods for one, and appalling customer service for another. I vowed nearly 3 years ago that I would never use them again and have stuck to it. I would suggest the OP does change to someoe more reliable that provides better value for money goods/service, but also write to Tesco's and complain about the phonecall, the ban, and their misconception that you have been a " professional complainer ". I guess if that was me and I was determined to keep using their service, I would be taking pictures of the shortcoded rubbish they were sending me contrary to the information on the helpline.

Tribulation

Tao81 wrote: »

I agree wholeheartedly. This should be changed and a person should be paid on the basis of skill and experience offered for the job regardless of age! :mad:

I don't disagree with what you say, but age can have a great effect on someone's skills and ability to pick something up. I have seen a lot of youngsters in the workplace who make me shake my head in wonder (have also seen some outstanding ones, but sadly these are the few exceptions).

My wifes a hairdresser, has been all her life. She started off at the bottom, sweeping the floor and making the tea. Had a day release once a week to attend college and got top marks in her qualifications. Roll on 25 years to a couple of years ago, and the salon she worked at had a real struggle finding anyone new that would actually put in a bit of effort. The totally unqualified ones given a chance to work their way up and make something of their lives were bad enough, doing things like not returning from lunch breaks because it was raining and they didn't want to get wet, quitting because they weren't let loose on a customers head in their first week etc.

But the qualified ones were just as bad. Now, instead of working in the salon and a day release from college, they do 2 years at college and in their second year, start working in the salons for part of their week. My wifes salon had person after person that when asked to do something like sweep the floor (something my wife still does after 25 years), would get the response "I'm a hairdresser, I don't sweep floors"

Uni Grads can often be a LOT worse. They seem to think society owes them something. When I ran a computer room, grads were the worst people to employ. Again they didn't want to do certain jobs that everyone else did, as they felt it beneath them (I haven't spent xyz years at Uni to clean a tape drive). I found that experience was worth more than qualifications, employ someone who had no qualifications but wanted to make something with their lives, they were keen, willing, quick to learn and still with the company 3 years later. Employ a grad, they would resent the fact that someone who hadn't been to uni earned as much as them, would shirk off any of the menial day to day tasks, and 6 months later would have moved on to someone paying a few thousand more (bearing in mind that this was 10 years ago and a 18yr old trainee would start on £10000 plus 30% shift allowance, plus had the ability to easily double their salary with overtime, so it wasn't badly paid)

Personally while I'm a firm believer in the minimum wage, I think it should be entirely up to an employer as to what he/she pays individual employees. You might run a company, advertise for a vacancy, ask the interviewee what they were earning in their previous job, they might say they were earning £15K and were looking to earn around the 20K mark. You offer them 19K they are happy. The fact that another member of staff might be earning only 15K for the same job or even £25k for the same job is totally irrelevant in my opinion. You sell yourself to the company at interview. 9 years ago I changed jobs. When at the interview I was asked what I expected, I gave a figure, I got slightly less than that. Turns out there were a lot of people earning a lot more than me and if I had said, I could have got a company car. Was I annoyed? No. I was earning what I wanted for what I negotiated for. I don't think everyone has a right to the same wage for doing the same job because like it or not, we rarely do do the same job, whether if it's filling shelves in the local supermarket or programming a supercomputer. Monitor 2 people closely and there will be differences. One might take that extra bit of care lining up the tins on the shelves etc.

At the end of the day, if your a good employee, whether you start at the bottom or get a lucky break, you will end up with a good wage because good employees are few and far between. I haven't got a qualification to my name, was expelled from school at 15, yet every place I've ever worked, I've flown up the ladder. This is for only one simple reason, if I'm given any job to do, I'll do it to the best possible standard I can (putting in the extra effort, such as finding something to do if works slack etc). One of my first jobs was cutting and vacuum packing cheese. It was monotonous and boring but I still put in the best effort I could and was determined to do the best I could possibly do. It wasn't hard, yet I managed to do in 1 hour what others were doing in 4. My day flew by because I kept myself busy, their days dragged by because they put so little effort into working and so much effort into moaning. Guess what, the managers liked me working on their shift and when a vacancy opened for a trainee manager, guess who got it.

skintas_2

i like tesco the asda near me isnt bad its just the area its in is a bad area not nice people that shop in there, its so depressing goin there

Timmne

Brilliant - great to see Tesco biting back for once.

My guess is that OP is someone that complains to them all the time - as per a previous post OP has probably called 24 times in the last year. I would never be so blind as to keep shopping somewhere that delivers such bad service, but OP seems to be happy with their fortnightly phone call!

In my business (Management accountants) if we feel that a client is not happy with the work we're doing for them, we'll sack them. Not out of cockiness or anything like - purely because we don't want to work for someone that will not appreciate us and who will probably moan about us to others.

This is probably the same as Tesco have done. To prevent them having to keep handing out replacement goods or their admin staff dealing with complaints left right and centre, they've nipped it in the bud and told OP that they don't want to keep giving him/her bad service. Besides, even if they did keep supplying OP they'd not only be making a loss on each delivery but OP is hardly recommending them to all their mates are they?

vickypink

C_Ronaldo wrote: »

hwo do tesco pay people pittance to work for them, tehy have to pay the minimum wage so its not pittance

Its not minimum wage, Tesco are the highest paying of the supermarkets. With a brillant package included.