Asda staff to strike.

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

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.

And here the nail has been struck firmly on the head.
Well done New labour,how very proud they must be in the Islington salons,this shambles of a government has successfully brought back slave labour to this country after hundreds of years Nice one.Aaagh the joys of champagne socialism.

 

[desprateseagull]

i worked on the tills many years ago, xmas job- treated lke s***. you had to put your hand up, and get permission to go to the loo (made a right mess on the floor..!)

i doubt any shop staff will become millionaires by working there..

 

[blueandwhitearmy]

I work at the Hollingbury ASDA.

Like Dawesy said, the checkouts = worst.job.ever.

 

[Captain Pugwash]

well im not going for that check out job now

 

[Albion Rob]

Get out on the trolleies, kids.

I used to do it when I was a kid and the advantages are awesome.

1. Loads of acope for dossing around and going to the puib for a swiftie.

2. No twat of a manager or line manager breathing down your neck as they think the entire place will fall apart the minute they step foot outside.

3. People think you're wither simple or crazy so you get a bit of cult status.

4. You can help the old dears to their cars and they'll usually bung a buit of cash your way.

It's a bit cold in the winter but is easily the best job in suprtmarker-land.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Strike? That's Asda Gripes.

 

[Captain Pugwash]

i dont think i could trust myself with a trolley, i would just end up hitting people with it.

its this hand to eye co-ordination i aint no good at

 

[tedebear]

Isn't it the delivery peeps that are striking - so shelves may empty?

I don't care frankly ASDA is WALMART is EVIL in a big fashion!!

 

[CHAPPERS]

ASDA is SHIT anyway.

You won't see SAINO'S staff striking. Oh NO. Plus their taste the difference burgers are AWESOME. GET INVOLVED.

 

[tedebear]

We do Tescos as its closer to home, I don't really like shopping at monstrosities who make bazillions of pounds each year but its a better evil than the ASDA poo heads...

 

[Gully]

At least working for ASDA is better than picking cockles in Morecambe Bay for a pound a day, now that really is slave labour, and the only thing that you have to contend with is stinky customers and not the lightning tide washing you away.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Asda in Grimsby pay £5.44 per hour which is a fairly good wage for this area, the problem being that these jobs are like golddust, like when Tesco opened a new store last year over 4000 applied for 180 jobs (most of these went to Birds Eye staff who had just been made redundant, coveniently just before the General Election). Living in a place which is reliant on food proccessing means the only work available is agency labour on minimum wage in one of the factories which really kills you if you've got a bad back.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Marina, why?

I used to work at the Marina ASDA. An utterly, utterly soul destroying job. So boring and some of the customers were rude beyond belief. I used to spend my time dreaming of the day I would walk out of there for the last time.

Having said that, the conditions weren't so bad. They paid for us to go on a jolly/football tournament in Manchester, bought us a kit and paid for our hotel(actually, not sure about the hotel bit...). Plus, if it wasn't too busy it wasn't too bad. You could wander around pretending you were helping a customer and stop and talk to the other staff members.


Is 'Freezer Paul' still there?

 

[Gwylan]

In a previous life, I was an assistant manager for a supermarket. That was the dossiest job going - I did cock-all but make sure that other people were working (and half the time I couldn't be arsed to do that).

Wal-Mart are scum: Boycott them: it's as simple as that.

 

[surrey jim]

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.

£60 p/h WHY are they striking

 

[Dawsey]

Get out on the trolleies, kids.

I used to do it when I was a kid and the advantages are awesome.

1. Loads of acope for dossing around and going to the puib for a swiftie.

2. No twat of a manager or line manager breathing down your neck as they think the entire place will fall apart the minute they step foot outside.

3. People think you're wither simple or crazy so you get a bit of cult status.

4. You can help the old dears to their cars and they'll usually bung a buit of cash your way.

It's a bit cold in the winter but is easily the best job in suprtmarker-land.

I did that briefly as a temporary position, best month of my working life by a mile!!

 

[Braders]

Get out on the trolleies, kids.

I used to do it when I was a kid and the advantages are awesome.

1. Loads of acope for dossing around and going to the puib for a swiftie.

2. No twat of a manager or line manager breathing down your neck as they think the entire place will fall apart the minute they step foot outside.

3. People think you're wither simple or crazy so you get a bit of cult status.

4. You can help the old dears to their cars and they'll usually bung a buit of cash your way.

It's a bit cold in the winter but is easily the best job in suprtmarker-land.

'bout right

and my day off anyway 'SAKE

 

[Lander]

My part time cleaning job pays £5.64 and im only 16

 

[portlock seagull]

Don't worry if you find checkout working boring - in a few years time RFID will be making nearly all checkout jobs redundant; goods will be scanned instantly without the need to remove anything from your trolley. It's what we term a non-value added activity anyway and given checkout queues are the number 1 customer grip, and what supermarkets call their primary battlefront (it's a decisive factor in the Xmas shopping war), it's worth enormous money to the big 4. It's already used in most major supply chains and the next step will soon take it onto the shop floor.

But before everyone starts to moan about Supermarkets, it's you that makes them all powerful because we're primarily seduced by their convenience. The true cost of them is frankly frightening, a catastrophe waiting to happen in many respects.

 

[London Irish]

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.

It's stuff like this that makes me very angry when I read that we are all better off now that the unions were smashed by Thatcher in the 1980s.

Let's be clear about this, SOME people are better off, mainly the shareholders and Fat Cats who earn more profit while paying crappy wages to their workers.

The ordinary British worker is worse off, but don't expect to read that in the brainwashing Daily Mail, Sun, Express, Times, Telegraph etc etc.