When Asda workers have taken our quiz, we will share with you their best things and their worst things about working there.
Colleagues
Management is awful, don’t understand anything about the shop. Blame often gets passed down to the employees.
Asda Employee, May 2022
The girls I work with
The Management. The lack of people to complete our jobs. The constant cutting of hours. The firm no longer thinks of its staff.
Asda Employee, May 2022
People I work with
Managers changing rotas and hours and not being able to get holiday
Asda Employee, May 2022
Get to see new places and people.
Heavy lifting,disorganized,lack of communication,rude co-workers,management don't listen.
Asda Employee, May 2022
Get to talk to different people and help to make a small difference in theor day.
Asda Employee, April 2022
The people you work with are the best bit of your job
The actual company take you for a ride
Asda Employee, April 2022
Staff are really friendly
Management are amazing
Asda Employee, April 2022
The college's I work with
Night operations manager
Asda Employee, April 2022
the people I work with minus manages but otherwise going home after shift
being in work, unorganised madness at times, promote wrong people
Asda Employee, April 2022
Working on my own
Need more help at busy times ie weekends
Asda Employee, April 2022
Getting paid to talk to customers while serving them
When it's really busy can be stressful
Asda Employee, April 2022
The pay, quite chilled place, nice colleagues
Not being listened to. Bullying from section leaders. Overworked
Asda Employee, April 2022
The team I work with
Not enough colleagues
Asda Employee, April 2022
My school hours.
Too many managers/ section leaders.
Asda Employee, April 2022
Working with people that I class as friends
Not enough tools to do the job
Asda Employee, April 2022
Building customer relations
Not being paid for breaks , having to take Easter Sunday as a holiday if I want to get paid for it considering we are closed
Asda Employee, March 2022
Good colleague , discount
Most often your working by yourself,
Asda Employee, March 2022
Friendly colleagues, good workload, customer interaction
Management are unhelpful and unsupportive, stressful, no one around to train you properly
Asda Employee, March 2022
The colleagues are great
Management is awful and don’t care
Asda Employee, March 2022
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Low pay, heavy work schedule, heavy loads, delivering to apartments and office blocks and flats with no lifts
Asda Employee, March 2022
Team members
The stress caused by lack of everything.
Asda Employee, March 2022
Working on my own
Overworked
Asda Employee, March 2022
My colleagues
No respect, no instructions, not enough training, uninterested management, favouritism, low pay, low morale
Asda Employee, March 2022
Doing a job I enjoy
Management
Asda Employee, March 2022
Social side
Boring, not enough challenges, everyday is the same, managers ain't great
Asda Employee, March 2022
Hours
Management and no staff
Asda Employee, March 2022
I met some good friends there, very easy to get lots of hours when you need the extra money.
So many things. It’s both good and bad for students considering they’re so flexible in the summer for shifts. However, when it comes to seasonal periods such as Christmas or Easter - the times when students are most busy revising for January and May exam periods - they basically tell you that you HAVE to work. I nearly failed exams because my manager had me working 6 days a week and refused to let me take days off for my education. Speaking of management, there is basically no respect for those that work under them. They have their own rules, like they will take 2-3 hour breaks, but if you’re so much as 5 minutes late coming back from a break they kick off. There was a point where they made us runners time the breaks of colleagues. In terms of where they place people in front end, there’s almost no negotiation. If you are young but are susceptible to issues with your feet, they won’t let you sit down even if you get to the point where the pain is so bad that you are crying. They immediately use the excuse of “you’re younger than me and I have no issues with my feet therefore you’re overreacting”. Management also have favourites that they let take longer breaks or basically do no work, give them extra smoke breaks etc. I was personally berated by a colleague in a different department and the store manager told me, to my face, that I was overreacting. They immediately did not even take concerns into account. When I first started I was also forced to divulge extremely personal and sensitive information in regards to my family when an emergency came about and I couldn’t come in. They would not leave me alone until I went into detail with what had happened. When I came back to work, all my colleagues knew what had happened because my manager had told everybody. There’s almost no sense of confidentiality. Even though they seem to be regularly advertising for positions, departments still tend to be lacking in the people that we should have due to poor scheduling. Morning shifts are often given more people than they need whilst evening shifts are left sparse for people, leaving colleagues massively stressed and customers very unhappy with the service they’re getting. Overall it’s genuinely just a terrible job.
Asda Employee, March 2022
People
Hard work not enough colleagues
Asda Employee, March 2022
better future
job is hard
Asda Employee, March 2022
Benefits
Rude customers and unappreciative managers
Asda Employee, March 2022
The people I have made friends with while working here.
Nobody cares about how the order of things should be done or how to tidy up after themselves.
Asda Employee, March 2022
Rewarding to help customers who appreciate it
Some customers can be horrible, staff I work with sometimes don’t pull their fair share of the weight, not informed about goings on in the business until it’s public knowledge
Asda Employee, March 2022
The colleagues I work with
Managers not caring or recognising who works
Asda Employee, March 2022
The colleges I work with
The place at the moment
Asda Employee, March 2022
The people I work with
It's easy to get injured
Asda Employee, March 2022
Flexible and varied job roles. Plenty of opportunities for progression
Can be fast paced and hectic on rare occasions
Asda Employee, March 2022
Some of the colleagues
Pretty much everything
Asda Employee, February 2022
It's ok
Heavy,tiring, trying to do your job quickly and efficiently but customers are often in the way
Asda Employee, February 2022
The hours and the people I work with.
Doing other things apart from my own work. Not enough staff.
Asda Employee, February 2022
The people I work with
Too much expected in a shift
Asda Employee, February 2022
Night shift
People who i work with don't treat others with respect
Asda Employee, February 2022
The people I work with
Underpaid
Asda Employee, February 2022
Zero stress. Move stock then go home.
Physically hard, difficult if you are not fully fit.
Asda Employee, February 2022
The people I work with
Asda Employee, February 2022
Pay, the staff
Can be hectically busy
Asda Employee, February 2022
Gets me out of the house.
Treated like machines
Asda Employee, February 2022
The people/team we work with. Hard workers.
Given too many tasks and not having enough staff to complete the tasks. Feel like your trying to do the job of 4 people.
Asda Employee, February 2022
friendly people to work with.
constant stress
Asda Employee, February 2022
Most staff are younger which is ideal if you're a student. Hours are okay and you can pick up shifts when needed
Management is a shambles. Important information doesn't get passed on between section leaders / management as their communication is terrible. Shop floor is always crammed which is hard to divert the home shopping trolly. You are expected to hit a specific pick rate which cannot be achieved most of the time due to stock availability and the volume of customers in the store. Management are quick to let you know if you're slacking but slow on letting you know when you're excelling
Asda Employee, February 2022
They pay
Easy hours
Early starts
Toxic colleagues
Asda Employee, February 2022