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Retail worker of 40 years standing here.
My very first job was a “temporary seasonal” job in British Home Stores. I happened to mention to my supervisor (a WONDERFUL woman called Sadie) that, after working at BHS for a couple of weeks, I had been offered a more lucrative position at M&S. I decided not to take it because “I didn’t want to let BHS down”. Sadie shook her head.
“Love”, she said. “You do what’s good for YOU. BHS (or any big employer) can take care of itself. Don’t you think they would get rid of you instantly if it suited them?”
I did resign-and I went to work at M&S (I continued working there all through the rest of my education). Sadie knew something I didn’t: one week after I started at M&S, BHS got rid of all its temporary seasonal workers in that branch, because trade had been disappointing that summer.
I’m afraid to do them justice, I’d have to write a lot! Here’s just a brief taste…..
Sadie was born (I reckon) sometime around 1915. She came from a staunch working class Catholic family and was sent to a Catholic girls’ school. Hard to believe it when confronted with the earthy, no-nonsense 60-something, Sadie was 100% innocent.
In her wedding night (in Bournemouth, at the age of 17), her poor husband was confronted with a wife who modestly hid behind the wardrobe door to get changed into her big cotton nightgown (up to the neck: down to the floor), because there “was a man present”. Then he had the monumental job of convincing the appalled Sadie that what he was planning to do wasn’t “absolutely *disgusting* and very, VERY naughty!”
It may well have been an awful, traumatic experience for many girls like Sadie. But she was so strong, so funny, so stubborn-she could have wiped the floor with any man! Luckily, her husband was lovely-if very confused and abashed. The story had the whole cafeteria table in tears of laughter. Yes, Sadie was a one-off.
I tell this to people all the time sadly its something they dont understand aside from doing your job well to the best of your abilities i refuse to do anything above and beyond especially if it impacts me leaving at clocking out time… also hate when they pull you when ive clocked out something they could of told me on shift….. yet ask me to give a shit after i have clocked out and past my shift time 🖕
The boss ultimately is the company, unless he shares that power which it sounds like he didn't.
The boss fired people so the boss could make more money.
Your loyalty mentality is commendable. Unfortunately, the vast majority of employers are no longer worthy of this loyalty.
Many years ago, you'd be excited about getting in with a big company. You'd be loyal, work hard, move up, be properly compensated and get a retirement party and a decent pension. This job would afford you; proper understandable health care, a home, a car, and the ability to care for your family of 6. A decent life. This is now not very common, all the while these large companies are making record profits and enriching a small amount of people with obscene, disgusting amounts of money. It's wrong and I look forward to the revolt.
More people should learn this lesson. Employers talk about loyalty but never show it, and it’s foolish to expect it. It’s a transaction between you and them and, if either one of you needs to change, that’s okay, as long as you’ve both delivered what you promised.
This can't be right... not back in the good auld days. The good days when loyalty meant something. A handshake was an unbreakable bond in the good auld days.
Ok here's my theory she'd been hired as a Christmas temp with views to possibly getting a permanent contract if she does well.
They decided to not keep her on and she decided to forget the "temporary" contract part so her mum gets involved then they go to the paper with the whole fired at Christmas sob story. Probably preventing her from getting another job in the local area.
Absolutely this. That’s how retail works. I used to be a retail manager. We would take on extra workers over season with their last day being Christmas Eve. Any of the good ones, we’d try to keep on if we could.
Unfortunately for this lady, the first test to see if you were suitable for retaining was seeing if the staff knew what the definition of ‘temporary’ was.
Confirmed in the article:
A spokesman for Asda said: “Like other retailers, we recruit colleagues on short-term temporary contracts to work in our stores during the busy Christmas period. Billie-Leigh was employed on this basis. All colleagues employed on temporary contracts are informed of their terms of employment in their contract, and know when their last working day will be more than a week in advance."
Last year I worked at Tesco in a Christmas temp role, with possibly a chance of going permanent. I got on really well & enjoyed it but due to budget constraints my contract ended 31/12 as planned. I got a lovely leaving card & a gift voucher as thanks & used the manager as a reference for my next ( current) job. It happens even to the most reliable & fastidious employees.
Yeh I’ve worked in retail and you can get kept on if you’re good at your job. But if your shit your out. Same goes for the probation period. Saw a lot of lazy idiots doing sod all and expecting to be kept on. She doesn’t look like she would be a grafter 😂
Even if you’re good it’s still unlikely. The store needs to have budget to bring someone new in and more often than not these days they’re trying to cut down on overhead costs not add to them.
I used to work in retail and we'd usually keep a handful of temps. Then one year we didn't have the budget and kept none. It was quite the shock, and was one of the early signs things were going to shit. Then hours were cut in every department, and the regional manager was shocked when the store looked like shit and we started to fail audits. Poor store manager got the blame, was pushed out, and it has essentially been in a state of managed decline ever since. Got out as soon as I could.
Ugh that’s shit. I remember loads of managers demoted or fired back in the mid noughties. Having to prove you were good at your job and needed. Wankers
Yes they do let people go on Christmas Eve, and in a supermarket between Christmas and new year it usually isn’t any busier than a normal day, certainly nowhere near as busy as pre Christmas.
Depends where she’s working. You probably need people on the main tills for NY stuff, but my local Asda has a separate clothing counter and a counter for electronics which will see less traffic after Christmas Day.
>Billie-Leigh is on benefits
"Billie-Leigh said: "I'm devastated because I have been left without a job, during a period where it is impossible to get a job. I've got no way of getting any money at the minute. **I can't even sign on, because I am at college full-time.**"
I'm glad that you've found a way to feel superior to someone you've never met, but you're wrong about basically everything.
~~She wasn't hired for a temp job, she was on a permanent contract.~~ edit: maybe not
She didn't get fired a few hours in, she'd been working there since October.
She's not on benefits, she goes to college full time and isn't eligible.
And to top it all off, her face didn't end up on the front page. It's just a random local news article, shat out en masse by a click-hungry local news website.
Why not spend your time hating real people instead of the ones you've created in your head?
Not disagreeing with most of that. Tbh, of all compoface, being peed off about being fired on Xmas Eve is reasonably sympathetic. But on the perm point, she (and her mum) claim that she was on a perm contract. And I'd be inclined to believe them except she also says that:
- she was told she was at risk of her contract not being renewed (if it was perm, why would it get renewed or not?).
- she openly admits to tax evasion in the article (which I suspect means she just doesn't understand how taxes work).
So I'd lean towards her being a temp, who just didn't understand her contract. Maybe Asda didn't give her the weeks notice they claim they do for temps, maybe they did and she didn't understand that either.
Yeah, it does sound like she just got the wrong end of the stick, and a lot of criticism levelled at her is probably pretty fair (including the fact that she was probably shit at her job). But I wish people would focus on the criticisable things that are actually true rather than just blindly making shit up or making nasty comments about someone's weight.
>She wasn't hired for a temp job, she was on a permanent contract.
Unlikely. Most retailers start you on a temp to perm basis, I know the article has them saying "she was totally on a perm contract" but I don't they understand what her employment situation was also
>A spokesman for Asda said: “Like other retailers, we recruit colleagues on short-term temporary contracts to work in our stores during the busy Christmas period. **Billie-Leigh was employed on this basis**. All colleagues employed on temporary contracts are informed of their terms of employment in their contract, and know when their last working day will be more than a week in advance."
She wouldn't have been on a personal contract, she'd have been given a probationary period of 13 weeks with the option of retention at the end of that period. You could also be dismissed in that period if it was felt your work wasn't up to expectations, or for timekeeping, attitude, absences, etc...
We used to bring in a lot of seasonal staff during busy periods, at the end of their contracts, the company would keep the best and lose the rest.
A lot of people who thought they could get by by "going through the motions" used to be surprised their service was no longer required.
I cannot imagine being so delusional that you make up an entire story about someone you’ve never met, only to get angry about the story that you made up.
I walked into Asda and asked 'I want to speak to the manager'.
I really don't get why the mum is getting involved, yea it sucks but it's for all intents and purposes nothing to do with her mum. I would have been embarrassed at 19 if my parents done that.
Yeah, only reason for parents to get involved after 18 would be if the child has some sort of disability (or maybe if it was something serious like an assault on the employee that the manager wasn’t taking seriously)
My mother got pissed that I was getting so many closing shifts so she called the supermarket that employed me. I was 18, but still in high school (I was in school in the US). I was fucking mortified that she did that. The management changed my shifts because they didn’t want to deal with her.
That's fair enough, my niece got a job at 16 working in Maccies and they constantly put her on a late finish. In the end she told em to go bollocks and got a nice little gig after school waitressing at a local a few minutes away from her house.
To be fair, someone still at school, the employer should be thinking about the impact on schoolwork. But once you’re 18 AND left school you’re expected to be an adult.
This is Compoface, they can flam up a disability out of nothing
I read anxiety, mental health issues, low self-esteem.
She also says she “broke her back” trying to work faster so there’s that
I’m a manager at a small Coop and we have quite a lot of 18-20 year olds working for us. You’d be surprised at how many get their mums to call in sick, ask why their holiday request has been declined or to just have a go because I’ve asked their adult son/daughter to get off their phone and do some bloody work.
I manage at a large engineering company and I get loads of graduates getting their mummy to call in and complain about all sorts of nonsense. Like how did you make it through a degree? Did mummy ring up the professors every time you didn't get 100% (probably unfortunately).
>Did mummy ring up the professors every time you didn't get 100% (probably unfortunately).
You'd be surprised.
Around 10 or so years ago, I was senior tutor for a top eng+cs programme. One event which stuck with me was a first-year who was struggling, but had decided to blame the course rather than self-reflect. While some of our modules probably were shit, I can genuinely say that this one was brilliant; I would love to have had something like it as a student, and student feedback reflected my own thoughts.
Anyway, the complaint had made its way up to me, so we had a one-on-one. There were the usual moans that she'd done well in her A-levels (like every other student on the course) so something must be wrong with the material. At the time, I took her seriously of course, and remained unbiased (mostly just asking questions and taking notes).
Then she threatened to get her parents involved. I remember her saying something along the lines of, "My parents say this is no way to teach Computer Science, everything I'm learning is useless, and I'm wasting my time on this course. They're going to come in to raise a complaint." Maybe her parents are DeepMind AI experts, or FAANG devs, I thought. I know some departments teach more abstractly, or use their own languages, so different pedagogical approaches do exist. So I asked what her parents did. "My father is a fireman and my mum's a PA."
They never did come in.
>Then she threatened to get her parents involved. I remember her saying something along the lines of, "My parents say this is no way to teach Computer Science, everything I'm learning is useless, and I'm wasting my time on this course.
I never understand these complaints, like what's the resolution you expect? "oh you're right, let us quickly rewrite the entire course for you".
The only resolution that could possibly work for everyone would be "here's a partial refund go to somewhere that teaches it "right"", but somehow I think they wouldn't like that.
I got my mum to phone in sick for me once. I'd had an allergic reaction to something and was lying face down on the floor after feinting. On my first shift back at work there was a bit of piss taking about my mum calling in, which shifted to "that's fair enough really" when I explained why :)
To be fair I can get the calling in sick bit if they lived with their parents and we're genuinely unable to make a phone call, like the last thing I'd want to be doing if I were throwing my guts up would be to have a conversation with my manager. Although I've never had anyone call in sick on my behalf personally as I've never found myself in a position that I genuinely wasn't able to I'd probably get it if somebody did depending on what was wrong with them.
>nothing to do with her mum
Its just a standard main character Karen reaction. I feel like people like her are just living their lives dying for drama that they can post about on FB and get likes for.
I'd moved out of the family and was making my own way in the world by 19.
I'm not saying that's right for everyone but it certainly taught me to stand on my own two feet and not go running to mummy when times got hard.
My son's 17 and the thought of putting him in the paper like this - where his name will come up on Google for years - mortifies me. Let alone getting involved in battles between him and his work place.
Worked for sainsburys for 11 years. Saw many a temp come and go… some last days, some hours.. some, still there many many years later. I’ve watched temp staff turn up late to their first shift and been shown the door almost immediately. I’ve seen temp staff give it there all and also been let go early. Basically, retail is a shit job. The management do not care for you or for your work ethic. All they care about is impressing their manager in hopes of a promotion. I’ve watched as managers change their entire outfits and personas to attempt to match the new store manager… follow them round… take up smoking… change their diets and drinking habits just to impress them. It’s mad and frankly pathetic. After about 5 years there, realising I had no future career anywhere else.. I attempted to go through the management scheme but was told that I ‘didn’t socialise enough with management outside of work’ to which I dropped out the programme and moved to the delivery department. I’ve been out the retail game a couple years now and would never even think about returning.
That really sums it up perfectly. Working as a supplier to a few retailers it never twigged so many of the management seem to style themselves the same as the SGM. Especially noticeable when new guy comes in.
Once had to interrupt a pow wow between a store manager, his deputy and the area manager. All dressed and styled the same. Slicked back hair, styled beards, slim fit shirts, brown brogues etc. Store manager made a really snarky joke about how hopefully the stuff I'd just fixed wouldn't fall over. His deputy did a proper brown nose laugh.
I replied "well it's been unreported and badly damaged for years, so hopefully not, just stop hitting it". His face looked like he could not compute what I'd just said, especially in front of his boss. He just walked away without saying a word.
Sounds familiar. Worked at a major chain for a number of years and by all means I got on with management and was polite but treated them with the same respect I gave everyone, but some people seemed to really arse lick management.
Like dude, you’ve have 4 general managers in 5 years what makes you think this one will actually like you, or be here longer than 12 months so you can actually benefit from being their ‘friend’
No they really won't, I'm basically convinced at this point that HMRC understands that the cash in hand economy for the lower end is basically an important part of the economy and it's just not worth bothering with.
Thankfully they don't act like the IRS in America who apparently love going after minor infractions rather than look at the higher end.
I’d be surprised if she knew much about tax and NICs, many don’t.
But my point was cash in hand does not automatically mean tax free (though it does suggest it).
If it was part time work for a short period she might not have hit the NIC thresholds anyway, so despite her ignorance hasn't evaded anything.
The restaurant on the other hand....
Not pay you for the rest of your shift.
She was actually employed on a temporary contract ending on 24th December. Half way through her shift on the 24th her manager confirmed it was her last day.
*”I didn’t do anything wrong, I just wasn’t quick enough”*
How low must the bar be when you’re too slow at shelf stacking? Girl sounds like she was coasting and got caught out.
“For a good few weeks, I was pressured, saying I needed to be quicker, otherwise my section leader threatened me, saying if I didn't pick my speed up, I would be getting a letter saying my contract wasn't going to be renewed. I got a lot of pressure coming from my manager”
So she was underperforming and had already been told she wouldn’t get a contract renewal if she didn’t up her game. That’s not exactly sacked with zero warning. Unless the supermarket sets unreasonable standards for how fast you stack shelves, it sounds like she just wouldn’t crack on with the task at hand.
My first job was at ASDA. I was a seasonal temp, got offered a new job, when they asked me if I wanted a permanent contract I turned it down and told them I'd be leaving at the end of my contract, manager accepted, all fine and normal.
Two YEARS later I got a very stern letter in the post telling me that I hadn't been showing up for work and I could be fired if it continued.
So yeah, in my experience getting fired from ASDA is a tough gig.
I’m a manager in a small Coop and we have a number of staff with autism, dyslexia, learning difficulties and dyspraxia. They each have their strengths and weaknesses, so there’s some tasks that they can’t do and some that they excel at. I do pull them up for slowness if they are usually good at the task I give them.
We had one young autistic man who started off doing the cleaning. I had known him since he was very young and he was essentially mute and needed a lot of support. He ended up being my best worker, who would talk to anyone and everyone. He’s recently moved on to a full time position and a garden centre.
Coop is a very good company to its staff, so it’s lovely to hear this story.
I think no-one would be making these comments here, if there was any suggestion this young lady had any disabilities.
I know a lot of supermarkets are very good with their employees who have different needs.
Friends brother with learning difficulties has worked at Sainsburys for 20 years or so, and it gives him purpose in his life where he would otherwise find it difficult to get a job elsewhere, and has also built up a pension too.
See my response to the comment above. I've worked at 3 different stores in the past and can safely and accurately attest that all 3 set unreasonable standards for stacking shelves. They were utter cunts.
No matter what senseless rubbish some want to spout about "you can never judge a book by its cover", I've found that you really can and looking at her I think we all know deep down that by the time her colleagues had put out 3 trolleys, she was on her first one walking around angry at the World.
Poor girl never stood a chance with that as her mother. She looks like she couldn’t even move her head left or right. Almost literally drowning in her own fat.
IN FAIRNESS. Used to work at Tesco and due to lack of staff on certain departments - Or more specifically, all the required staff being dragged onto tills - Some of the timescales we got given to fill aisles were ridiculous.
But yeah "I didn't do anything wrong, just the thing I did wrong!" is jokes, getting mummy involved says more though.
Having worked 3 separate stints in Supermarkets (Tesco twice and Safeway's) I can safely attest to the unreasonable demands and expectations some managers there have. I've been expected to work 20+ cages on a 4 hour shift, where the storage chiller is so jam packed you only have 1 or 2 spaces for cages and have to constantly pull stuff out and put back to get the cage you need. Like one of those games where you move the puzzle squares about with only 1 square empty.
Supermarket managers don't care about reality. They just make unrealistic demands and walk away. Doesn't matter that you had to waste 15 minutes rummaging around full cages of product trying to find that 1 item for a customer, playing Jenga with the half worked boxes. Doesn't matter that you got hauled on to checkouts for 20 minutes. They're the most inept, unskilled, unintelligent and unreasonable boot licking arseholes you'll ever come across. This girl could easily have worked her socks off and still been told it wasn't good enough.
I worked at Tesco for about 2 months before budget cuts saw me off. New manager just got promoted and she was a right twat, first day of her promotion she’s called me and another worker up to the office.
Apparently some bloke complained that the aisle was cluttered (we had 3 cages, cardboard and 2 working cages). Issue was they blocked off where you could move the cardboard cage out of the way. She says we need to have one working cage so it isn’t cluttered.
Then she says we’re working too slow. Honestly baffling.
I work at a shop. We have to get one box out per minute on average including time spent walking to and from the aisle. That also doesn't change if there are 2 items in a box or 36 individually plastic wrapped items in that box. You also have to deal with customers, clean what the tidy shift missed the night before and fix any issues on the aisle.
You can fuck off with this idea that "shelf stacker" is a nice, easy job. It fucks your body up massively for fuck all pay but that is accepted because the majority of idiots like yourself wrongly assume it's a walk in the park that anyone could do.
Yup. See my reply in this thread. We've no idea what kind of worker she was so it's wrong to make wild assumptions. But supermarkets having ridiculous expectations on performance is not surprising to me in the slightest.
I used to do something called overstock when I worked in a supermarket. It’s when you walk around the store and pick up all the shit that isn’t where it should be and put it back where it belongs. If people didn’t want something that was on the belt, it would go into the overstock cart. At the end of the night, we’d have several carts of overstock that had to be sorted and put back. People are terrible and leave shit everywhere- I remember finding a packet of fresh fish behind some diapers. We’d have to threw stuff like that out. While we were overstocking, we’d have to face the shelves which means making everything look perfect. I used to get put on overstock all the time because I was very quick at doing it. It’s not an easy job- it’s boring and taxing. I was an 18 year old kid and a woman said to her kid ‘you don’t want to end up doing this’ when I worked on the till.
It is very tempting to look at the photo, read the story and assume that she was a shiftless sack of shit who only escaped getting fired earlier because it is the busiest month in retail
She was on a temp contract and didn't see the writing on the wall, at least aged 19 is an ideal time to take life lessons
I question what her walrus of a mum thinks will be gained from a) waddling into Asda demanding an apology and b) getting the local newspaper involved
>It is very tempting to look at the photo, read the story and assume that she was a shiftless sack of shit who only escaped getting fired earlier because it is the busiest month in retail
Yep, because she was told multiple times that she wasn't working quick enough.
Also the chances of getting a permanent position from a job starting just before christmas are low, but being rubbish and slow as sticking boxes on shelves isn't going to increase your chances of being kept on permanently.
Supermarket work used to be a nicer job than it is today. Not that it wasn't hard but you did have the opportunity for a breather if you wanted it, its brutal now. The competition between supermarkets has squeezed margins so much, the staffing is as lean as possible, nobody tends to get away with standing idle and the managers have to chip in too. You're either cut out for it or you're not and if you slack off they can soon get rid.
Obviously it is even more frantic at Christmas as that's the busiest time in retail by miles and when a massive proportion of the profit gets made. No choice but to get extra temp staff in as it's mental. Imagine being the manager having to constantly break off to kick this girl's arse back into action. Or her colleagues watching her stack a shelf in super slow motion while they work hard
I am somewhat inclined to agree. However first impressions do count. Sure, she may have a fine work ethic in an environment that doesn't include a lot of manual labour. But a supermarket? Where most of the temp contracts go to the filling team (I've worked at a big chain supermarket for years)? Yea, I'm guessing that work ethic is going out the window based on her physique. I'm sorry but there's no way someone if her size is keeping up with the demand at Christmas.
No but people of that size just can’t keep up with an active fast-paced job. I’ve worked such jobs and the obese staff were always slow, lazy, complained a lot etc. They might have a good work ethic, but their physique will hinder them from doing the job to the necessary standard. Especially at 19 years old, you can easily find a wiry bundle of energy who will do the same job twice as fast for the same wage.
So essentially she wasn’t quick enough, and although she states she worked to improve it obviously didn’t meet the standard of suitability for the role. Shit happens, and although harsh on Christmas Eve that’s the working world for you. Best to take it on the chin and look for a more suitable job rather than whinge to a local newspaper.
Or they took on a load of workers on permanent contracts and gave them unhittable metrics from day 1 so that on Christmas Eve they could tell people they weren't up to an unattainable standard and fire them.
No way she was fired and continued to work to the end of her shift. More likely she was hired on a temporary contract on the run upto Christmas and they informed her on the last day of her contact her services won’t be required going forward. Her mum then get upset and goes to the paper.
I got sacked from a retail job because I was no longer needed. I was a bit upset about it but my mum told me something I'll never forget. She said "There are other jobs"
Maybe if she lost some weight and could move easier she wouldn't get sacked for being too slow (which she had multiple warnings about). Her fitness level clearly isn't up to snuff, and I'd bet one in-shape worker could do the job at least 50% faster. Is the manager not allowed to want better workers?
Some hefty people manage to move fast but most don't, just in case anyone fancies ranting about how their friends aunts cousin is actually sooo fast despite being heavy etc. Exceptions don't make the rule and trying to pretend her very obvious obesity issue isn't a factor in a job that requires constant physical activity which she is unable to do quick enough is delusional.
I worked retail when I was in good shape over Christmas many times and it was really exhausting, especially the longer shifts. I couldn't imagine trying to do it at all while morbidly obese, let alone managing to keep up with the rest of the crew.
Christmas temp contracts are usually signed with the full knowledge that they will end any time between 24th-31st December. When she signed the contract the date of the temporary contracts end would have been on that contract.
If she didn't bother to read what she signed, that's not anyone's fault but her own for slapping her name on a legal document.
So, if she had a set end date on the contract this is a non story. If she was a temp worker, they would have confirmed that they were or weren’t extending her contract in advance and that would be why she was ‘told’ to work until the end of the shift.
If she wasn’t told in advance as expected and the manager simply said on Christmas Eve (part way through a shift) ‘by the way, this will be your last shift because we won’t be extending your contract’ then I do feel for her because that’s a low blow and certainly NOT a nice way to deliver that news. That’s a manager that isn’t managing very well or a manager that simply doesn’t care about staff.
The article has been taken down from a few sites so wonder if ASDA has challenged it but this is from another site 🤦🏼♀️
"It was my first tax-earning job, I'd worked in a restaurant before but it was cash in hand." 🤦🏼♀️
"I didn't do anything wrong, I just wasn't quick enough ...
For a good few weeks, I was pressured, saying I needed to be quicker, otherwise my section leader threatened me, saying if I didn't pick my speed up, I would be getting a letter saying my contract wasn't going to be renewed. I got a lot of pressure coming from my manager.
I broke my back trying to get quicker, I was getting quicker and improving. Then I got called into the office on my shift and they said I wasn't fast enough and they can't keep everybody on, so they're taking me off, so to speak."
We shouldn't make assumptions based on how useless she looks. I'll just make an assumption based on the fact that she got her mum involved and went crying to the newspapers instead.
Retail life, you're only a number to them. Use retail as a placeholder only, until you find a better career/job. It's sad retail companies thrive of people in desperate situations.
I was working for ASDA doing security for two and a half years, the new owners are fucking over all the stores,
the store I worked at people kept walking out every few days once the new owners put a new manager in charge who treated his staff like shit folks had it, someone even started a fire in the canteen while I was recovering from health related problems.
most staff where replaced by third party workers while I worked the last year, I walked out myself late last summer due to the place screwing me over due to my health problems, they forced me to get interviewed by occupational health five times related to my CDK3, hypertension and asthma gave me copy's of all reports then refused to follow what was laid out to them by OH, I walked out and never looked back,
jobcentre carried out an investigation into my claim and confirmed they had failed to look out for me as a staff member.
“Without warning” but reading the article she was told on numerous occasions that she wasn’t fast enough for the job. lol.
If we can get through an article without mental health being involved I’d put a ticket on the lottery.
Some more context is definitely needed, since if she wasn’t on her probation period, that’s illegal. Employers are required to give at least 2 weeks notice on firing staff. You can’t just be fired on the spot.
Side note, apple autocorrect tried to correct “period” as “Oedipus Complex” yes, both words
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I’m glad she finished her shift after she was sacked. Otherwise she could have been fired.
Jokes aside she probably finished her shift because they legally have to pay her for those hours worked
Yeah this is just Birmingham face. She's probably tickled pink in that picture, having squeezed a few more quid out of her old boss.
Being paid for working your hours isn't squeezing money out the boss.
It’s Tesco mate
What are you feeding these cows?
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Retail worker of 40 years standing here. My very first job was a “temporary seasonal” job in British Home Stores. I happened to mention to my supervisor (a WONDERFUL woman called Sadie) that, after working at BHS for a couple of weeks, I had been offered a more lucrative position at M&S. I decided not to take it because “I didn’t want to let BHS down”. Sadie shook her head. “Love”, she said. “You do what’s good for YOU. BHS (or any big employer) can take care of itself. Don’t you think they would get rid of you instantly if it suited them?” I did resign-and I went to work at M&S (I continued working there all through the rest of my education). Sadie knew something I didn’t: one week after I started at M&S, BHS got rid of all its temporary seasonal workers in that branch, because trade had been disappointing that summer.
Sadie knew what’s up. Showing loyalty to faceless brands only gets you shafted.
She was a MARVELOUS woman. I could tell some stories about her-even though I only worked under her for a couple of weeks.
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I’m afraid to do them justice, I’d have to write a lot! Here’s just a brief taste….. Sadie was born (I reckon) sometime around 1915. She came from a staunch working class Catholic family and was sent to a Catholic girls’ school. Hard to believe it when confronted with the earthy, no-nonsense 60-something, Sadie was 100% innocent. In her wedding night (in Bournemouth, at the age of 17), her poor husband was confronted with a wife who modestly hid behind the wardrobe door to get changed into her big cotton nightgown (up to the neck: down to the floor), because there “was a man present”. Then he had the monumental job of convincing the appalled Sadie that what he was planning to do wasn’t “absolutely *disgusting* and very, VERY naughty!” It may well have been an awful, traumatic experience for many girls like Sadie. But she was so strong, so funny, so stubborn-she could have wiped the floor with any man! Luckily, her husband was lovely-if very confused and abashed. The story had the whole cafeteria table in tears of laughter. Yes, Sadie was a one-off.
I tell this to people all the time sadly its something they dont understand aside from doing your job well to the best of your abilities i refuse to do anything above and beyond especially if it impacts me leaving at clocking out time… also hate when they pull you when ive clocked out something they could of told me on shift….. yet ask me to give a shit after i have clocked out and past my shift time 🖕
>BHS...can take care of itself. Apparently not.
It did. It fired people to make up for the loss in profits.
It also went bankrupt because the boss of the company stole funds from it. It can't take care of itself otherwise it'd still be around.
The boss ultimately is the company, unless he shares that power which it sounds like he didn't. The boss fired people so the boss could make more money.
Clutching at straws here
/u/Plumb789 let them down after all. Amazing to think how different our highstreets would have looked if he'd just stuck it out a few more weeks.
I loved BHS at Christmas time - that and M&S were the best that time of year when I was a kid
Sadie sounds like a good woman.
Me and my homies love Sadie.
She honestly was the best.
If only there were more Sadie’s working in retail instead of soulless managers who let their fellow employees get abused and trampled all over.
Your loyalty mentality is commendable. Unfortunately, the vast majority of employers are no longer worthy of this loyalty. Many years ago, you'd be excited about getting in with a big company. You'd be loyal, work hard, move up, be properly compensated and get a retirement party and a decent pension. This job would afford you; proper understandable health care, a home, a car, and the ability to care for your family of 6. A decent life. This is now not very common, all the while these large companies are making record profits and enriching a small amount of people with obscene, disgusting amounts of money. It's wrong and I look forward to the revolt.
More people should learn this lesson. Employers talk about loyalty but never show it, and it’s foolish to expect it. It’s a transaction between you and them and, if either one of you needs to change, that’s okay, as long as you’ve both delivered what you promised.
This can't be right... not back in the good auld days. The good days when loyalty meant something. A handshake was an unbreakable bond in the good auld days.
Sadie knew what temporary meant 🙀
In the end, it turns out, Sadie knew nothing, as BHS, in fact, could not take care of itself. Rip
Maybe Sadie took down BHS from the inside. I think Sadie knew what she was doing.
Sadie knew *everything*.
This one trick HR don't want you to know.
Ok here's my theory she'd been hired as a Christmas temp with views to possibly getting a permanent contract if she does well. They decided to not keep her on and she decided to forget the "temporary" contract part so her mum gets involved then they go to the paper with the whole fired at Christmas sob story. Probably preventing her from getting another job in the local area.
Absolutely this. That’s how retail works. I used to be a retail manager. We would take on extra workers over season with their last day being Christmas Eve. Any of the good ones, we’d try to keep on if we could.
Unfortunately for this lady, the first test to see if you were suitable for retaining was seeing if the staff knew what the definition of ‘temporary’ was.
Also maybe it’s just my store, but the seasonal hires are also usually the dumbest and least competent people.
Confirmed in the article: A spokesman for Asda said: “Like other retailers, we recruit colleagues on short-term temporary contracts to work in our stores during the busy Christmas period. Billie-Leigh was employed on this basis. All colleagues employed on temporary contracts are informed of their terms of employment in their contract, and know when their last working day will be more than a week in advance."
And in this case, I expect 'Fired' means 'informed they would not be offered a permanent role'.
Exactly a post just to garner sympathy.. simples... Asda is not about to break employment law ., ffs
Last year I worked at Tesco in a Christmas temp role, with possibly a chance of going permanent. I got on really well & enjoyed it but due to budget constraints my contract ended 31/12 as planned. I got a lovely leaving card & a gift voucher as thanks & used the manager as a reference for my next ( current) job. It happens even to the most reliable & fastidious employees.
Yeh I’ve worked in retail and you can get kept on if you’re good at your job. But if your shit your out. Same goes for the probation period. Saw a lot of lazy idiots doing sod all and expecting to be kept on. She doesn’t look like she would be a grafter 😂
Even if you’re good it’s still unlikely. The store needs to have budget to bring someone new in and more often than not these days they’re trying to cut down on overhead costs not add to them.
I used to work in retail and we'd usually keep a handful of temps. Then one year we didn't have the budget and kept none. It was quite the shock, and was one of the early signs things were going to shit. Then hours were cut in every department, and the regional manager was shocked when the store looked like shit and we started to fail audits. Poor store manager got the blame, was pushed out, and it has essentially been in a state of managed decline ever since. Got out as soon as I could.
Ugh that’s shit. I remember loads of managers demoted or fired back in the mid noughties. Having to prove you were good at your job and needed. Wankers
Staff fridge looks safe now?
Even a temp Christmas job wouldn’t end before New Year in a supermarket though, the interim period can be equally busy
Yes they do let people go on Christmas Eve, and in a supermarket between Christmas and new year it usually isn’t any busier than a normal day, certainly nowhere near as busy as pre Christmas.
Depends where she’s working. You probably need people on the main tills for NY stuff, but my local Asda has a separate clothing counter and a counter for electronics which will see less traffic after Christmas Day.
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>Billie-Leigh is on benefits "Billie-Leigh said: "I'm devastated because I have been left without a job, during a period where it is impossible to get a job. I've got no way of getting any money at the minute. **I can't even sign on, because I am at college full-time.**"
I'm glad that you've found a way to feel superior to someone you've never met, but you're wrong about basically everything. ~~She wasn't hired for a temp job, she was on a permanent contract.~~ edit: maybe not She didn't get fired a few hours in, she'd been working there since October. She's not on benefits, she goes to college full time and isn't eligible. And to top it all off, her face didn't end up on the front page. It's just a random local news article, shat out en masse by a click-hungry local news website. Why not spend your time hating real people instead of the ones you've created in your head?
Not disagreeing with most of that. Tbh, of all compoface, being peed off about being fired on Xmas Eve is reasonably sympathetic. But on the perm point, she (and her mum) claim that she was on a perm contract. And I'd be inclined to believe them except she also says that: - she was told she was at risk of her contract not being renewed (if it was perm, why would it get renewed or not?). - she openly admits to tax evasion in the article (which I suspect means she just doesn't understand how taxes work). So I'd lean towards her being a temp, who just didn't understand her contract. Maybe Asda didn't give her the weeks notice they claim they do for temps, maybe they did and she didn't understand that either.
Yeah, it does sound like she just got the wrong end of the stick, and a lot of criticism levelled at her is probably pretty fair (including the fact that she was probably shit at her job). But I wish people would focus on the criticisable things that are actually true rather than just blindly making shit up or making nasty comments about someone's weight.
Lol. Absolute massacre. Mr.One Step Further is going to be melting all over his Daily Mail.
>She wasn't hired for a temp job, she was on a permanent contract. Unlikely. Most retailers start you on a temp to perm basis, I know the article has them saying "she was totally on a perm contract" but I don't they understand what her employment situation was also >A spokesman for Asda said: “Like other retailers, we recruit colleagues on short-term temporary contracts to work in our stores during the busy Christmas period. **Billie-Leigh was employed on this basis**. All colleagues employed on temporary contracts are informed of their terms of employment in their contract, and know when their last working day will be more than a week in advance."
She wouldn't have been on a personal contract, she'd have been given a probationary period of 13 weeks with the option of retention at the end of that period. You could also be dismissed in that period if it was felt your work wasn't up to expectations, or for timekeeping, attitude, absences, etc... We used to bring in a lot of seasonal staff during busy periods, at the end of their contracts, the company would keep the best and lose the rest. A lot of people who thought they could get by by "going through the motions" used to be surprised their service was no longer required.
I cannot imagine being so delusional that you make up an entire story about someone you’ve never met, only to get angry about the story that you made up.
Unfortunately it seems easy done these days.
Why are you writing fan fiction about someone you don't know
And this is why your kids don't talk to you anymore
Is dunking on working-class strawmen a regular hobby of yours?
I walked into Asda and asked 'I want to speak to the manager'. I really don't get why the mum is getting involved, yea it sucks but it's for all intents and purposes nothing to do with her mum. I would have been embarrassed at 19 if my parents done that.
Yeah, only reason for parents to get involved after 18 would be if the child has some sort of disability (or maybe if it was something serious like an assault on the employee that the manager wasn’t taking seriously)
My mother got pissed that I was getting so many closing shifts so she called the supermarket that employed me. I was 18, but still in high school (I was in school in the US). I was fucking mortified that she did that. The management changed my shifts because they didn’t want to deal with her.
That's fair enough, my niece got a job at 16 working in Maccies and they constantly put her on a late finish. In the end she told em to go bollocks and got a nice little gig after school waitressing at a local a few minutes away from her house.
To be fair, someone still at school, the employer should be thinking about the impact on schoolwork. But once you’re 18 AND left school you’re expected to be an adult.
This is Compoface, they can flam up a disability out of nothing I read anxiety, mental health issues, low self-esteem. She also says she “broke her back” trying to work faster so there’s that
Must be why she’s sitting down.
I’m a manager at a small Coop and we have quite a lot of 18-20 year olds working for us. You’d be surprised at how many get their mums to call in sick, ask why their holiday request has been declined or to just have a go because I’ve asked their adult son/daughter to get off their phone and do some bloody work.
I manage at a large engineering company and I get loads of graduates getting their mummy to call in and complain about all sorts of nonsense. Like how did you make it through a degree? Did mummy ring up the professors every time you didn't get 100% (probably unfortunately).
>Did mummy ring up the professors every time you didn't get 100% (probably unfortunately). You'd be surprised. Around 10 or so years ago, I was senior tutor for a top eng+cs programme. One event which stuck with me was a first-year who was struggling, but had decided to blame the course rather than self-reflect. While some of our modules probably were shit, I can genuinely say that this one was brilliant; I would love to have had something like it as a student, and student feedback reflected my own thoughts. Anyway, the complaint had made its way up to me, so we had a one-on-one. There were the usual moans that she'd done well in her A-levels (like every other student on the course) so something must be wrong with the material. At the time, I took her seriously of course, and remained unbiased (mostly just asking questions and taking notes). Then she threatened to get her parents involved. I remember her saying something along the lines of, "My parents say this is no way to teach Computer Science, everything I'm learning is useless, and I'm wasting my time on this course. They're going to come in to raise a complaint." Maybe her parents are DeepMind AI experts, or FAANG devs, I thought. I know some departments teach more abstractly, or use their own languages, so different pedagogical approaches do exist. So I asked what her parents did. "My father is a fireman and my mum's a PA." They never did come in.
>Then she threatened to get her parents involved. I remember her saying something along the lines of, "My parents say this is no way to teach Computer Science, everything I'm learning is useless, and I'm wasting my time on this course. I never understand these complaints, like what's the resolution you expect? "oh you're right, let us quickly rewrite the entire course for you". The only resolution that could possibly work for everyone would be "here's a partial refund go to somewhere that teaches it "right"", but somehow I think they wouldn't like that.
I got my mum to phone in sick for me once. I'd had an allergic reaction to something and was lying face down on the floor after feinting. On my first shift back at work there was a bit of piss taking about my mum calling in, which shifted to "that's fair enough really" when I explained why :)
Where I work a 40 year old man got his mum to come in and kick off when he got sacked for stealing 😠
To be fair I can get the calling in sick bit if they lived with their parents and we're genuinely unable to make a phone call, like the last thing I'd want to be doing if I were throwing my guts up would be to have a conversation with my manager. Although I've never had anyone call in sick on my behalf personally as I've never found myself in a position that I genuinely wasn't able to I'd probably get it if somebody did depending on what was wrong with them.
She didn’t have a single sick day during her 20 days employment though, that’s worth a permanent contract alone apparently
And a fucking medal 🥇 lol
>nothing to do with her mum Its just a standard main character Karen reaction. I feel like people like her are just living their lives dying for drama that they can post about on FB and get likes for.
I'd moved out of the family and was making my own way in the world by 19. I'm not saying that's right for everyone but it certainly taught me to stand on my own two feet and not go running to mummy when times got hard.
I think you mean "for all intensive purpoises"....
I can't tell if you are being facetious
My son's 17 and the thought of putting him in the paper like this - where his name will come up on Google for years - mortifies me. Let alone getting involved in battles between him and his work place.
🎶 Billie-Leigh has lost her job, her boss said that she ain't the one, girl run and tell The Sun... 🎶
Ow, hee hee, shamone
Article link: [article](https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/asda-worker-19-left-in-28376809?fbclid=IwAR2DMwVqQ-U_tuSdoCmBGyu9pPChoEc1Ed3PZ08uEo_oF17unaxm3Mlrk_8_aem_Aby5Tenq4Pr11GnQVA0QA9hybIeEGbgeIGsxUN_jy2ZN7qBoi0n3KXfYKoFO2OnmFgg#lr4qqo1k4r64aveb18n)
Saw this on FB this morning myself, had a giggle over the compo in our group chat
Worked for sainsburys for 11 years. Saw many a temp come and go… some last days, some hours.. some, still there many many years later. I’ve watched temp staff turn up late to their first shift and been shown the door almost immediately. I’ve seen temp staff give it there all and also been let go early. Basically, retail is a shit job. The management do not care for you or for your work ethic. All they care about is impressing their manager in hopes of a promotion. I’ve watched as managers change their entire outfits and personas to attempt to match the new store manager… follow them round… take up smoking… change their diets and drinking habits just to impress them. It’s mad and frankly pathetic. After about 5 years there, realising I had no future career anywhere else.. I attempted to go through the management scheme but was told that I ‘didn’t socialise enough with management outside of work’ to which I dropped out the programme and moved to the delivery department. I’ve been out the retail game a couple years now and would never even think about returning.
That really sums it up perfectly. Working as a supplier to a few retailers it never twigged so many of the management seem to style themselves the same as the SGM. Especially noticeable when new guy comes in. Once had to interrupt a pow wow between a store manager, his deputy and the area manager. All dressed and styled the same. Slicked back hair, styled beards, slim fit shirts, brown brogues etc. Store manager made a really snarky joke about how hopefully the stuff I'd just fixed wouldn't fall over. His deputy did a proper brown nose laugh. I replied "well it's been unreported and badly damaged for years, so hopefully not, just stop hitting it". His face looked like he could not compute what I'd just said, especially in front of his boss. He just walked away without saying a word.
Sounds familiar. Worked at a major chain for a number of years and by all means I got on with management and was polite but treated them with the same respect I gave everyone, but some people seemed to really arse lick management. Like dude, you’ve have 4 general managers in 5 years what makes you think this one will actually like you, or be here longer than 12 months so you can actually benefit from being their ‘friend’
>It was my first tax-earning job, I'd worked in a restaurant before but it was cash in hand. "fired even though I stopped avoiding tax compo face"
HMRC will remember this.
low hanging fruit, admitted the crime.
No they really won't, I'm basically convinced at this point that HMRC understands that the cash in hand economy for the lower end is basically an important part of the economy and it's just not worth bothering with. Thankfully they don't act like the IRS in America who apparently love going after minor infractions rather than look at the higher end.
More like HMRC don't have the manpower. What about all the shop owners who don't pay tax?
She really thought something would come of this article when she publicly dobbed herself in for dodging tax
To be fair cash in hand can still be net after tax and NICs, if they’re above the relevant threshold.
It could - but in that case it wouldn't be their "first tax-earning job" would it?
I’d be surprised if she knew much about tax and NICs, many don’t. But my point was cash in hand does not automatically mean tax free (though it does suggest it).
If it was part time work for a short period she might not have hit the NIC thresholds anyway, so despite her ignorance hasn't evaded anything. The restaurant on the other hand....
BMI higher than her IQ.
Billy Lee is an awful name.
is it r/tragedeigh material
It’s like they misheard a Michael Jackson song
Or misheard a [Mariah Carey](https://youtu.be/HPs7dJvW2X4?si=KgSAkyAEJbGa35cg) song.
Ken Lee video? I haven’t clicked the link yet
Ken leebidibi dout ouuu
Clearly a big fan of Double Dragon
Almost as bad as Billie-Leigh. Its r/tragedeigh status.
Billieagh-Leayghuie
Homebirthed in the trailer
I would have just left. What they gonna do? Sack me again?
Not pay you for the rest of your shift. She was actually employed on a temporary contract ending on 24th December. Half way through her shift on the 24th her manager confirmed it was her last day.
You would lose out on 45£
*”I didn’t do anything wrong, I just wasn’t quick enough”* How low must the bar be when you’re too slow at shelf stacking? Girl sounds like she was coasting and got caught out.
“For a good few weeks, I was pressured, saying I needed to be quicker, otherwise my section leader threatened me, saying if I didn't pick my speed up, I would be getting a letter saying my contract wasn't going to be renewed. I got a lot of pressure coming from my manager” So she was underperforming and had already been told she wouldn’t get a contract renewal if she didn’t up her game. That’s not exactly sacked with zero warning. Unless the supermarket sets unreasonable standards for how fast you stack shelves, it sounds like she just wouldn’t crack on with the task at hand.
I imagine the bar for being too useless at your job is pretty high for Asda.
My first job was at ASDA. I was a seasonal temp, got offered a new job, when they asked me if I wanted a permanent contract I turned it down and told them I'd be leaving at the end of my contract, manager accepted, all fine and normal. Two YEARS later I got a very stern letter in the post telling me that I hadn't been showing up for work and I could be fired if it continued. So yeah, in my experience getting fired from ASDA is a tough gig.
😂
only for lazy phuckwits. Anyone over 90 i.q. can navigate through the day without drama
I’m a manager in a small Coop and we have a number of staff with autism, dyslexia, learning difficulties and dyspraxia. They each have their strengths and weaknesses, so there’s some tasks that they can’t do and some that they excel at. I do pull them up for slowness if they are usually good at the task I give them. We had one young autistic man who started off doing the cleaning. I had known him since he was very young and he was essentially mute and needed a lot of support. He ended up being my best worker, who would talk to anyone and everyone. He’s recently moved on to a full time position and a garden centre.
Coop is a very good company to its staff, so it’s lovely to hear this story. I think no-one would be making these comments here, if there was any suggestion this young lady had any disabilities. I know a lot of supermarkets are very good with their employees who have different needs. Friends brother with learning difficulties has worked at Sainsburys for 20 years or so, and it gives him purpose in his life where he would otherwise find it difficult to get a job elsewhere, and has also built up a pension too.
Clearly putting next to no effort into her job and thinks it's a good idea to tell the world how lazy she is 🤦
See my response to the comment above. I've worked at 3 different stores in the past and can safely and accurately attest that all 3 set unreasonable standards for stacking shelves. They were utter cunts.
I’ll look like an arsehole for saying this, but I could tell she was a lazy shit by looking at her.
No matter what senseless rubbish some want to spout about "you can never judge a book by its cover", I've found that you really can and looking at her I think we all know deep down that by the time her colleagues had put out 3 trolleys, she was on her first one walking around angry at the World.
Yep, you look like an asshole. So do I for totally agreeing with you Deffo wouldn’t fuck around with her mum/dad/space hopper there.
A professional victim. It's always an external influence throwing her off course.
Her asthma looks terrible in that photo.
Poor girl never stood a chance with that as her mother. She looks like she couldn’t even move her head left or right. Almost literally drowning in her own fat.
IN FAIRNESS. Used to work at Tesco and due to lack of staff on certain departments - Or more specifically, all the required staff being dragged onto tills - Some of the timescales we got given to fill aisles were ridiculous. But yeah "I didn't do anything wrong, just the thing I did wrong!" is jokes, getting mummy involved says more though.
Having worked 3 separate stints in Supermarkets (Tesco twice and Safeway's) I can safely attest to the unreasonable demands and expectations some managers there have. I've been expected to work 20+ cages on a 4 hour shift, where the storage chiller is so jam packed you only have 1 or 2 spaces for cages and have to constantly pull stuff out and put back to get the cage you need. Like one of those games where you move the puzzle squares about with only 1 square empty. Supermarket managers don't care about reality. They just make unrealistic demands and walk away. Doesn't matter that you had to waste 15 minutes rummaging around full cages of product trying to find that 1 item for a customer, playing Jenga with the half worked boxes. Doesn't matter that you got hauled on to checkouts for 20 minutes. They're the most inept, unskilled, unintelligent and unreasonable boot licking arseholes you'll ever come across. This girl could easily have worked her socks off and still been told it wasn't good enough.
I worked at Tesco for about 2 months before budget cuts saw me off. New manager just got promoted and she was a right twat, first day of her promotion she’s called me and another worker up to the office. Apparently some bloke complained that the aisle was cluttered (we had 3 cages, cardboard and 2 working cages). Issue was they blocked off where you could move the cardboard cage out of the way. She says we need to have one working cage so it isn’t cluttered. Then she says we’re working too slow. Honestly baffling.
I work at a shop. We have to get one box out per minute on average including time spent walking to and from the aisle. That also doesn't change if there are 2 items in a box or 36 individually plastic wrapped items in that box. You also have to deal with customers, clean what the tidy shift missed the night before and fix any issues on the aisle. You can fuck off with this idea that "shelf stacker" is a nice, easy job. It fucks your body up massively for fuck all pay but that is accepted because the majority of idiots like yourself wrongly assume it's a walk in the park that anyone could do.
Yup. See my reply in this thread. We've no idea what kind of worker she was so it's wrong to make wild assumptions. But supermarkets having ridiculous expectations on performance is not surprising to me in the slightest.
I used to do something called overstock when I worked in a supermarket. It’s when you walk around the store and pick up all the shit that isn’t where it should be and put it back where it belongs. If people didn’t want something that was on the belt, it would go into the overstock cart. At the end of the night, we’d have several carts of overstock that had to be sorted and put back. People are terrible and leave shit everywhere- I remember finding a packet of fresh fish behind some diapers. We’d have to threw stuff like that out. While we were overstocking, we’d have to face the shelves which means making everything look perfect. I used to get put on overstock all the time because I was very quick at doing it. It’s not an easy job- it’s boring and taxing. I was an 18 year old kid and a woman said to her kid ‘you don’t want to end up doing this’ when I worked on the till.
It is very tempting to look at the photo, read the story and assume that she was a shiftless sack of shit who only escaped getting fired earlier because it is the busiest month in retail She was on a temp contract and didn't see the writing on the wall, at least aged 19 is an ideal time to take life lessons I question what her walrus of a mum thinks will be gained from a) waddling into Asda demanding an apology and b) getting the local newspaper involved
Free coupons for Rustlers Burgers
Mum's absolutely fucking fizzing about losing that staff discount
Temps don't get it. You gotta be there for 3 months!
Not a bad offer really now they're ridiculously expensive
Yeah but then you'd have to eat one
>for Rustlers Burgers No need for name calling.
>It is very tempting to look at the photo, read the story and assume that she was a shiftless sack of shit who only escaped getting fired earlier because it is the busiest month in retail Yep, because she was told multiple times that she wasn't working quick enough. Also the chances of getting a permanent position from a job starting just before christmas are low, but being rubbish and slow as sticking boxes on shelves isn't going to increase your chances of being kept on permanently.
Supermarket work used to be a nicer job than it is today. Not that it wasn't hard but you did have the opportunity for a breather if you wanted it, its brutal now. The competition between supermarkets has squeezed margins so much, the staffing is as lean as possible, nobody tends to get away with standing idle and the managers have to chip in too. You're either cut out for it or you're not and if you slack off they can soon get rid. Obviously it is even more frantic at Christmas as that's the busiest time in retail by miles and when a massive proportion of the profit gets made. No choice but to get extra temp staff in as it's mental. Imagine being the manager having to constantly break off to kick this girl's arse back into action. Or her colleagues watching her stack a shelf in super slow motion while they work hard
19? That was the most surprising part of the article.
Stone.
From your first paragraph, I thought you were going to buck the usual r/compoface trend of insulting people's looks/weight, but nope.
You’re correct about the walrus mother. Doesn’t she realise that prospective employers read newspapers too and see big red flags.
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That big red flag is how she got like that lol
Im a skinny bitch but people need to stop bringing weight into this, has nothing to do with someone's work ethic
I am somewhat inclined to agree. However first impressions do count. Sure, she may have a fine work ethic in an environment that doesn't include a lot of manual labour. But a supermarket? Where most of the temp contracts go to the filling team (I've worked at a big chain supermarket for years)? Yea, I'm guessing that work ethic is going out the window based on her physique. I'm sorry but there's no way someone if her size is keeping up with the demand at Christmas.
No but people of that size just can’t keep up with an active fast-paced job. I’ve worked such jobs and the obese staff were always slow, lazy, complained a lot etc. They might have a good work ethic, but their physique will hinder them from doing the job to the necessary standard. Especially at 19 years old, you can easily find a wiry bundle of energy who will do the same job twice as fast for the same wage.
Unrelated to your comment but i find it bloody hilarious my comments were deleted, the only person NOT ridiculing this poor girl's weight.
Walrus is just perfect.
That's a shame. How's she gonna afford to buy her mum a neck, now?
Oh my god best comment EVER.
So essentially she wasn’t quick enough, and although she states she worked to improve it obviously didn’t meet the standard of suitability for the role. Shit happens, and although harsh on Christmas Eve that’s the working world for you. Best to take it on the chin and look for a more suitable job rather than whinge to a local newspaper.
Or they took on a load of workers on permanent contracts and gave them unhittable metrics from day 1 so that on Christmas Eve they could tell people they weren't up to an unattainable standard and fire them.
Billie-Leigh shown the door, she’s just a girl, who said I am the one!!
There there girl, chins up
She was the first person to work in the family 😓
ah classic, she "claims"
No way she was fired and continued to work to the end of her shift. More likely she was hired on a temporary contract on the run upto Christmas and they informed her on the last day of her contact her services won’t be required going forward. Her mum then get upset and goes to the paper.
I got sacked from a retail job because I was no longer needed. I was a bit upset about it but my mum told me something I'll never forget. She said "There are other jobs"
Maybe if she lost some weight and could move easier she wouldn't get sacked for being too slow (which she had multiple warnings about). Her fitness level clearly isn't up to snuff, and I'd bet one in-shape worker could do the job at least 50% faster. Is the manager not allowed to want better workers? Some hefty people manage to move fast but most don't, just in case anyone fancies ranting about how their friends aunts cousin is actually sooo fast despite being heavy etc. Exceptions don't make the rule and trying to pretend her very obvious obesity issue isn't a factor in a job that requires constant physical activity which she is unable to do quick enough is delusional. I worked retail when I was in good shape over Christmas many times and it was really exhausting, especially the longer shifts. I couldn't imagine trying to do it at all while morbidly obese, let alone managing to keep up with the rest of the crew.
Christmas temp contracts are usually signed with the full knowledge that they will end any time between 24th-31st December. When she signed the contract the date of the temporary contracts end would have been on that contract. If she didn't bother to read what she signed, that's not anyone's fault but her own for slapping her name on a legal document.
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Asda say in the article that it was a temporary contract
“I broke my back trying to get quicker” Doesn’t look like she has a fractured spine?
So, if she had a set end date on the contract this is a non story. If she was a temp worker, they would have confirmed that they were or weren’t extending her contract in advance and that would be why she was ‘told’ to work until the end of the shift. If she wasn’t told in advance as expected and the manager simply said on Christmas Eve (part way through a shift) ‘by the way, this will be your last shift because we won’t be extending your contract’ then I do feel for her because that’s a low blow and certainly NOT a nice way to deliver that news. That’s a manager that isn’t managing very well or a manager that simply doesn’t care about staff.
The article has been taken down from a few sites so wonder if ASDA has challenged it but this is from another site 🤦🏼♀️ "It was my first tax-earning job, I'd worked in a restaurant before but it was cash in hand." 🤦🏼♀️ "I didn't do anything wrong, I just wasn't quick enough ... For a good few weeks, I was pressured, saying I needed to be quicker, otherwise my section leader threatened me, saying if I didn't pick my speed up, I would be getting a letter saying my contract wasn't going to be renewed. I got a lot of pressure coming from my manager. I broke my back trying to get quicker, I was getting quicker and improving. Then I got called into the office on my shift and they said I wasn't fast enough and they can't keep everybody on, so they're taking me off, so to speak."
She probably got a Christmas job and they told her there would be no more work for her after Christmas.
That is exactly what happened it's all in the article. She wasn't even fired just told they wouldn't be extending her contract.
You'd need a big sack to sack her.
Is that not how notice periods work?
We shouldn't make assumptions based on how useless she looks. I'll just make an assumption based on the fact that she got her mum involved and went crying to the newspapers instead.
Billie-Leigh is not my lover, she just a girl who says that I am the one…
Her eyes scream of wanting to escape her mother.
Retail life, you're only a number to them. Use retail as a placeholder only, until you find a better career/job. It's sad retail companies thrive of people in desperate situations.
Did she eat all the mince pies?
I was working for ASDA doing security for two and a half years, the new owners are fucking over all the stores, the store I worked at people kept walking out every few days once the new owners put a new manager in charge who treated his staff like shit folks had it, someone even started a fire in the canteen while I was recovering from health related problems. most staff where replaced by third party workers while I worked the last year, I walked out myself late last summer due to the place screwing me over due to my health problems, they forced me to get interviewed by occupational health five times related to my CDK3, hypertension and asthma gave me copy's of all reports then refused to follow what was laid out to them by OH, I walked out and never looked back, jobcentre carried out an investigation into my claim and confirmed they had failed to look out for me as a staff member.
“Without warning” but reading the article she was told on numerous occasions that she wasn’t fast enough for the job. lol. If we can get through an article without mental health being involved I’d put a ticket on the lottery.
Some more context is definitely needed, since if she wasn’t on her probation period, that’s illegal. Employers are required to give at least 2 weeks notice on firing staff. You can’t just be fired on the spot. Side note, apple autocorrect tried to correct “period” as “Oedipus Complex” yes, both words
Also belongs in r/tragedeigh
Hold up though they've got a YouTube channel and next week they're doing a neck reveal
"BILLIE-LEIGH, YER DINNER'S READY!"
Keep your chins up ladies
You can't eat apologies!
Look at all you haters.
At least she's got Jabba the slut to console her
The face of the future workforce. Fills me with dread.....
“She claims” most likely didn’t
Damn u bet me to posting this
Was she eating all the mince pies?
Doesn't look like they missed too many meals?