Asda staff to strike.

[Leekbrookgull]

Guess it time to vote with my cash card. Believe shop staff are paid around £5-60 p/h.(guess that is the going rate?) Think a firm of that size can pay more? Time to Boycott Asda.

 

[Robbie G]

It's a minimum wage job (well, technically not, but near enough)

Doesn't require a great deal of skill, so why should employers pay anymore? Not a shortage of supply for workers...

(incidentally i think supermarket staff should get paid more. Unless you work in one, you often don't realise how rude and unpleasant some people in this world are. Plus the job can be incredibly boring)

 

[clapham_gull]

Having shopped in ASDA for a few years, I noticed a massive drop in staff morale since the Yanks took over.

I was in there a few months ago and there was a girl with a very, very bad cold at the checkout - she could hardly speak, water streaming from her eyes etc..

I asked her why she didn't go home and she explained that if she did whe wouldn't get paid.

I won't be shopping in there until the dispute is resolved.

 

[dougdeep]

F...

 

[Leekbrookgull]

good point,Clapham

 

[Dandyman]

Walmart subsidary.

Walmart = spawn of the Devil.

 

[Rangdo]

I hope they don't close the stores while they're on strike. There will be pikey scumbags everywhere.

 

[Easy 10]

They're striking next Saturday - the day England will play their Quarter Final (after they're past their bye this Sunday).

I don't care. I shop at Tesco.

 

[Rangdo]

Oh no!!! They're striking for a whole day!!!
How are shoppers going to cope with only the six other days that week to choose from.

 

[bigc]

Having shopped in ASDA for a few years, I noticed a massive drop in staff morale since the Yanks took over.

I was in there a few months ago and there was a girl with a very, very bad cold at the checkout - she could hardly speak, water streaming from her eyes etc..

I asked her why she didn't go home and she explained that if she did whe wouldn't get paid.

I won't be shopping in there until the dispute is resolved.

I heard a much worse story about the Tesco's attitude to staff sickness.

a friend of mine had glandular fever, she was really ill and run down, was coming to college cos she couldn't afford to get behind and trying to go to work.

it was really getting on top of her, she had been in a shift for an hour and felt awful, and asked if she could go home.

a supervisor gave her hell, told her to stop taking liberties, so she just walked out and left.

bastards they were for that...she was doing her best to keep going when anyone else would have been at home, the state she was in.

 

[Easy 10]

bloody skivers.

 

[Dawsey]

Having shopped in ASDA for a few years, I noticed a massive drop in staff morale since the Yanks took over.

I was in there a few months ago and there was a girl with a very, very bad cold at the checkout - she could hardly speak, water streaming from her eyes etc..

I asked her why she didn't go home and she explained that if she did whe wouldn't get paid.

I won't be shopping in there until the dispute is resolved.

I work in ASDA myself and I've been in that sitation before myself - we simply can't afford to just go home.

We get paid £5.94 an hour, more than any other supermarket I believe. However, until you've done an eight hour shift of sitting on one of those checkouts, you will never know how boring it is. From the moment I start I begin to count down the minutes. Its the most depressing job in the world.

 

[Captain Pugwash]

was thinking of applying for a checkout job in co-op dont think ill bother now

 

[Dawsey]

was thinking of applying for a checkout job in co-op dont think ill bother now

Don't ever do checkouts. Shop floor is bearable because you have people to talk to and you can walk around, but whatever you do don't get a job on checkouts.

 

[Captain Pugwash]

cheers mate,

just out of interest what ASDA do you work at?

 

[Dawsey]

cheers mate,

just out of interest what ASDA do you work at?

Marina, why?

 

[timco]

I believe it is only the people who do the job I do for Sainsbury's, for ASDA that are going on strike. That being Distribution Centres, warehouses in other words.

I work in one of Mr Sainsbury's better paid RDC's but even so I am only on about £11 an hour + shift allowence + bonus all in all about £30,000 a year for 2 days and 2 nights 4 on 4 off.

 

[Chicken Run]

I work in ASDA myself and I've been in that sitation before myself - we simply can't afford to just go home.

We get paid £5.94 an hour, more than any other supermarket I believe. However, until you've done an eight hour shift of sitting on one of those checkouts, you will never know how boring it is. From the moment I start I begin to count down the minutes. Its the most depressing job in the world.

Oh well living in China, of course you cant change your job

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The way things are going the ever-growing tide of Poles coming into the South East will be quite happy to take these jobs at £5 an hour or under I shouldn't wager.

 

[Captain Pugwash]

Marina, why?

because everytime i go there all the people on the checkout' seem very bored