Off Topic Politics Thread

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St Badger said:
I was a Department Manager with Sainsbury’s for 10 VERY long years, during the 90s.
Everything you say is true.
I was fortunate enough to be made redundant, during one of their reshuffles, and as I didn’t get on with the store manager I knew I was in line for going. Being proactive I had already applied for jobs and had interviews and was literally unemployed for just a few hours, due to a job offer coming through on the day I was “escorted from the branch” after having been made redundant.
I got a level of revenge though.
As I was being paid up to the end of the month, I was still effectively an employee, so I logged a formal complaint against the store manager, a bit about him going awol to see his bit on the side during work hours, a bit about how he had his deputy managers covering these absences by lying to the Area Manager about him not taking his calls because he “was busy with a customer” then ringing him to get him to call the AM back, and another bit about how he allowed company property (phones) to be left in the local bookies for football scores and race results.
End result was that the manager was removed from Lordshill store and punished by being put into the Winton branch, the smallest on the district at the time.
When the Area Personnel Manager called me to tell me the result of my complaint, he asked if I was satisfied with the outcome.
My reply was “No. If a trolley boy had abused his position in the same way, he would likely be sacked. For someone with the ultimate responsibility for a major store to do this, it should have been instant dismissal as it was a complete abuse of trust.”

Your last sentence is pretty accurate too, about it applying to all supermarkets. Waitrose was once held up as being the best to work for, but even they have gone the same way.
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That sounds like the Sainsbury's I remember. <laugh>

A bit of constructive dismissal here, some inter-management affairs in the cash office there.

I think the final straw with me was getting a verbal warning for 2 days and 2 hours of sickness in 11 months (as they were individual events), the two hours was when I had to leave a shift to go to A&E after injuring my hand on shift. As you say it was readily apparent that I was for the chop and my future was decided as one of the senior managers had taken a personal dislike to me, so I got out asap and managed to get a job at t'council - probably the best thing that has ever happened to me frankly.

Couldn't believe the difference in working culture, I had come to believe that every environment would be the same as retail.

It was ultimately a good lesson for me though, as I learned how NOT to manage. I feel like I am better at my current job for that experience.

Absolutely sod going back to retail, its a viper pit.
 
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