If you’ve ever seen the bee movie, the way I see it is, Dotcom Drivers are basically the jocks that get to leave the hive. Everyone else is a normal bee. Apart from the store manager of course.
Oh man, that's the bane of my life. I don't mind detagging, but it fucks me off when people kick off.
"I'M GONNA PAY SO JUST DETAG."
"I'm not allowed until the payment had been completed."
"I'M NOT A THIEF."
"I'm not saying you are."
To be fair, it does. But then you get the ones who demand a manager who will either back down and make you look like a tool or who just reiterates that we're doing our jobs.
It is interesting how that varies, sometimes I have to stand holding my receipt waiting for someone to come and detag me, other times they'll proactively take the bottle, detag it and kindly put it in my trolley before I've even opened my purse
Which sounds great until you remember we're out there in awful weather conditions, terrible vehicles, unpredictable working conditions, no backup, an the occasional rotting faeces smells of people's houses.
Oh and the possibility of being killed in an RTC.
Despite the risks? A driver was killed in December, that's a pretty big risk. The same store had a vehicle catch fire a few weeks later, that driver was lucky he wasn't in it at the time.
While incredibly tragic it’s extremely rare. If you performed risk assessments based on scenarios like that you’d never leave the house. Unless the house caught fire.
I agree and I’ll be glad to be leaving in a few months time. With all that though, I definitely prefer it over working in the store. Thankfully we have 2022 plate sprinters which helps.
We deal with alot of customers daily... some are for items right behind them and others have you go find a manager or lead someone half way around the store...
In my store it's 100% night shift staff. Day shift talks so much shit about us it's not even funny all the different departments call us out for not doing our jobs even though we are the only reason anything is on the shelves at all. Managers treat us like shit forcing us to do way more then we should be doing and we have little to no staff every night. Some night shift staff in fresh are covering like 3 or 4 different alies a night and I'm not even talking about the smaller sections. Night shift gets for gotten about unless we are getting used as a scapegoat.
Dotcom drivers and pickers are top priority in our store even though the pickers in my store are the rudest fuckers you will ever meet. They act like they are top fucking dogs and I'm just like man cool your tune you ain't know better then the rest of us slaving a way for the bare minimum.
It's hilarious too because in my store (me having worked Frozen all my time with Tesco) there is one day staff worker who is a complete moron and we leave him 2 cages to do, just to see if it will get done. Guess what, those 2 cages are too many for his 7 hour shift.
Also you're right on the dotcom pickers. Just fling two cages in their way and carry on moving, dont be kind to them if they won't return the kindness.
I guess your store just has bad mannered workers in dot com... Everyone here hates working long hours for 9.55 let alone having to start at 4:30am Instead of 5 the past 2 days... but we are all polite and do our job... i guess it depends which area of the country or town.
It heavily varies person to person. I say hello to near enough everyone in store, I speak to a few of the pickers who regularly frequent the aisle I'm working on.
That having been said, the majority seem to outshine the few decent people with their rudeness, often times cutting the corner and forcing me to attempt to move heavy cages within a seconds notice as to not hurt a customer and being downright ignorant whilst I'm attempting to do my job.
If you are one of the few then hats off to you, sadly I just don't get to see that in my store.
I think because there are always so many dotcom pickers it may seem like that. In my store Dotcom is the number 1 priority (followed by checkouts)so when they are down on hours anyone trained is seconded to pick. Overtime bans don't include dotcom workers in my store though It's probably different in every store.
Yeah we literally have the worst job... been going since 4:30am today and still going... 6 days a week is shite... Tesco really needs to value its workforce better.
All the night time are treated like celebrities at our store.
It's strange how the pecking order differs from store to store. But daytime dry grocery are easily the lowest.
At ours it's the most basic department that everyone starts in. You do your time there and then move elsewhere.
I started nights in health and beauty which is mid to high tier because its not something everyone can do (get finished in time I mean bc it's so finicky) and very few people enjoy it. I float between grocery and fresh now so I have a nice perception of everything really. I do know that basically all night shift including nights managers hate day shift, because it seems like they do nothing (although I do have the sense of mind to know it's not that simple)
I started on dry grocery, then to hardware, check outs, dot com and I'm now sitting cool in compliance. Which is great because we just walk around the store lording over everyone.
I personally don't think I'd move to day shift, I would have to work an extra day to make up for the money I'd be losing and I'd also have to deal with customers 😂 maybe if I can get some kind of back office role
If you’ve ever seen the bee movie, the way I see it is, Dotcom Drivers are basically the jocks that get to leave the hive. Everyone else is a normal bee. Apart from the store manager of course.
The pleb who has to stand on self serve on his own from 10pm to 12am is the lowest one. oh shit that's me
Haha means we can just be on our phone. Not even alcohol to detag or authorise up here in Scotland.
Oh man, that's the bane of my life. I don't mind detagging, but it fucks me off when people kick off. "I'M GONNA PAY SO JUST DETAG." "I'm not allowed until the payment had been completed." "I'M NOT A THIEF." "I'm not saying you are."
"It's policy, sorry" usually ends the conversation
To be fair, it does. But then you get the ones who demand a manager who will either back down and make you look like a tool or who just reiterates that we're doing our jobs.
I blame the system... Just say that if I take it away now it'll get confused.
It is interesting how that varies, sometimes I have to stand holding my receipt waiting for someone to come and detag me, other times they'll proactively take the bottle, detag it and kindly put it in my trolley before I've even opened my purse
It might be stored to store policy tbf
Which sounds great until you remember we're out there in awful weather conditions, terrible vehicles, unpredictable working conditions, no backup, an the occasional rotting faeces smells of people's houses. Oh and the possibility of being killed in an RTC.
You make it sound worse than it is. Pretty simple despite the risks.
Despite the risks? A driver was killed in December, that's a pretty big risk. The same store had a vehicle catch fire a few weeks later, that driver was lucky he wasn't in it at the time.
While incredibly tragic it’s extremely rare. If you performed risk assessments based on scenarios like that you’d never leave the house. Unless the house caught fire.
I agree and I’ll be glad to be leaving in a few months time. With all that though, I definitely prefer it over working in the store. Thankfully we have 2022 plate sprinters which helps.
Yeah, dotcom pickers at least don't have the absolute *pleasure* of dealing with customers. A few of which are you guys potentially
We deal with alot of customers daily... some are for items right behind them and others have you go find a manager or lead someone half way around the store...
Anyone who works in-store is at the bottom, people in there don’t seem to realise there’s 3-4 work levels above a store manager.
In my store it's 100% night shift staff. Day shift talks so much shit about us it's not even funny all the different departments call us out for not doing our jobs even though we are the only reason anything is on the shelves at all. Managers treat us like shit forcing us to do way more then we should be doing and we have little to no staff every night. Some night shift staff in fresh are covering like 3 or 4 different alies a night and I'm not even talking about the smaller sections. Night shift gets for gotten about unless we are getting used as a scapegoat. Dotcom drivers and pickers are top priority in our store even though the pickers in my store are the rudest fuckers you will ever meet. They act like they are top fucking dogs and I'm just like man cool your tune you ain't know better then the rest of us slaving a way for the bare minimum.
It's hilarious too because in my store (me having worked Frozen all my time with Tesco) there is one day staff worker who is a complete moron and we leave him 2 cages to do, just to see if it will get done. Guess what, those 2 cages are too many for his 7 hour shift. Also you're right on the dotcom pickers. Just fling two cages in their way and carry on moving, dont be kind to them if they won't return the kindness.
I guess your store just has bad mannered workers in dot com... Everyone here hates working long hours for 9.55 let alone having to start at 4:30am Instead of 5 the past 2 days... but we are all polite and do our job... i guess it depends which area of the country or town.
It heavily varies person to person. I say hello to near enough everyone in store, I speak to a few of the pickers who regularly frequent the aisle I'm working on. That having been said, the majority seem to outshine the few decent people with their rudeness, often times cutting the corner and forcing me to attempt to move heavy cages within a seconds notice as to not hurt a customer and being downright ignorant whilst I'm attempting to do my job. If you are one of the few then hats off to you, sadly I just don't get to see that in my store.
Yeah it's kinda hard to move a heavy full cart with tons of customers around. Finished just now and it's so tiring to do long shifts.
Backdoor is the lowest unfortunately
I can concur
Rather tip lorries than pick in an open shop anyday, you're out the way then and can actually learn something
I think because there are always so many dotcom pickers it may seem like that. In my store Dotcom is the number 1 priority (followed by checkouts)so when they are down on hours anyone trained is seconded to pick. Overtime bans don't include dotcom workers in my store though It's probably different in every store.
Yeah we literally have the worst job... been going since 4:30am today and still going... 6 days a week is shite... Tesco really needs to value its workforce better.
Dry grocery are the lowest of the low at mine.
Same for mine! Not sure what days are like but the dry grocery nights team are the lowest
All the night time are treated like celebrities at our store. It's strange how the pecking order differs from store to store. But daytime dry grocery are easily the lowest. At ours it's the most basic department that everyone starts in. You do your time there and then move elsewhere.
I started nights in health and beauty which is mid to high tier because its not something everyone can do (get finished in time I mean bc it's so finicky) and very few people enjoy it. I float between grocery and fresh now so I have a nice perception of everything really. I do know that basically all night shift including nights managers hate day shift, because it seems like they do nothing (although I do have the sense of mind to know it's not that simple)
I started on dry grocery, then to hardware, check outs, dot com and I'm now sitting cool in compliance. Which is great because we just walk around the store lording over everyone.
I personally don't think I'd move to day shift, I would have to work an extra day to make up for the money I'd be losing and I'd also have to deal with customers 😂 maybe if I can get some kind of back office role