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14 Oct 17
07:58
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Asda, Tesco or Sainsburys all have vacancies. Steady little number for someone looking for a six month career break?
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Mate of mine was a delivery driver for Tesco a little while back. It's not the doddle of a job most people think.
You're constantly being monitored by the store, under pressure to make more and more deliveries. The stores don't take into consideration the difficulties in making deliveries, eg tower blocks where the lifts don't work, having to carry slabs of water, sometimes half a dozen because they're too heavy for the buyer to get home. parking is a big problem, sometimes having to park some distance from the address. It's not just a matter of dropping Mrs.Jones carrier bag of goods off. Speak to someone who's doing it first before taking the plunge. |
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Yep, usually a good reason for so many vacancies. Can't be much fun when it's icy, lashing down, snowing etc.
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They have times for distances eg roundabout to roundabout, length of time to be spent with a customer in which time you have to make sure the person receiving the goods is age appropriate for all the goods and also telling them about upcoming promotions. If anyone get hit by one get an injury lawyer I doubt it would take to much delving into to find fault. Was behind an ASDA van going 40mph past a school ! Oh and by the way as I've mentioned ASDA they will get to read it, they have a company that's trolls the Internet looking for negative comments from staff
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Speak to someone who's doing it first before
taking the plunge. but i don't no anyone  |
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*know
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Order some groceries then when he arrives you'll know someone and can follow johnizere's advice.
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Steve - check your messages
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All supermarkets are ramping up pressure on customers who use plastic bags, like it was them who invented and profited from their over use.
It means that more and more home deliveries will be loose items in the future, slowing deliveries and adding extra pressure on delivery drivers. Because sure as eggs are eggs enterprise doesnt accept the argument that things become less efficient and slower, hence the ball breaking of drivers. I worked at tesco unloading the trucks while I was at uni many years ago. There was an old bird there who had worked for the company for 25 years and was retiring. The gave her a bunch of flowers. |
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My mate used to work for Asda he said it is a Nightmare in the dark nights,sat nav usually takes you half a mile away and the tips are lousy.
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Order some deliveries from each company and ask each driver!
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Most aren't even allowed to accept tips.
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cheers Lee Ho Fooks
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Tips?
The thought never even crossed my mind. Why would I pay the money that a share holder corp doesnt? |
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I have vastly different standards to share holder corps. Tips given to taxi drivers, hairdressers, restaurant waiting staff, delivery workers etc etc etc.
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Also bookmaker's staff, casino workers after a big win.
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DIE LINKE
Date Joined: 26 Jun 03 Add contact | Send message 14 Oct 17 13:58 Joined: 26 Jun 03 | Topic/replies: 6,769 | Blogger: DIE LINKE's blog Also bookmaker's staff, casino workers after a big win. Never had the opportunity to do this  |
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I always tip the guy that delivers my shopping......It's hard work lugging them crates around.
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Do not attempt to subsidise enterprise for the short comings in the pay they offer.
Clement said 'its not for those to give to charity, but to pay their taxes gladly' or words to that effect. Its the same here, if enterprise drive down the value of workers then subsidising that creates a precedent. Like when the tories try and count foods banks as part of the benefits package. |
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UNISAW or somebody like that are their union
Its for them to attack the employers and gain a fair wage. |
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USDAW
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ufcdan • October 14, 2017 11:14 AM BST
they have a company that's trolls the Internet *trawls saying asda trolls the internet could get you into legal trouble...... |
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Lee Ho Fooks, been a long time since i've tipped in a bookies/casinos!
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Aye, tipping is an anathema to me. USA a good example, carp wages and staff encouraged to build up customer checks to receive larger tips instead of paying a living wage ffs. 20% expected for bringing a plate of food or opening a bottle of beer, ridiculous.
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I've been using Morrisons for a few months now.....
Because I'm a tight fisted old git, I don't want to pay £4.50 for delivery, so elect for unsociable hours, such as before 07:00 or after 22:30.....cost £1.00 On a 06:30 delivery, he said I was his third drop, and starts in Leeds at 05:00 (I'm in YO8)! On a 22:30 drop, he still had two to go, and then had to go back to Leeds! He couldn't find me, and was trying to call my mobile, but there is only enough service here to send/recieve a text, so it was almost 23:00 before he arrived! Tipping never came into my mind but, now it has been mentioned, I will consider this as, if everyone chucked in at least £1.00, it would be a significant difference for the guys! |
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tips ?
 youre havin a giraffe, surely. the exorbitant delivery charge is the tip. and anyway, they don't even climb stairs anymore. tip my ar.....s.e as Jim Royal might say |
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At least tip at Christmas ya tight fooker.
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here's a tip for them. why not just omit the item from the shopping list altogether if you can't find it on the shelf, rather than substituting it with some sh1.te thats not fit for purpose?
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and if you leave your stack of bins in the aisle blocking my access to a product, don't be surprised if I pull it into the non food section and hide it.
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Platini a kitchen roll can do the same job as a toilet roll ffs.
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Platini you should be able to opt for no substitutions if the required item's not available.
Can with Sainsburys at least. |
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acey, I'm well versed in the kitchen roll ass wipe scenario
nothing to do with online grocery delivery malfunctions, tho. More a needs-must situation |
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Naw but that is what i got as a substitution on my order the other week.
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always tip
look both ways at a t junction |
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i couldn't live with myself if i didn't tip even a modest amount regardless of how short i was - poor buggers have a difficult job
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If they have a difficult job it is within an environment of profit.
My personal experiences are of me opening the gates to the estate and them wheel a railway trolley upto the back door. All finished within 10 mins, no strains no issue. Why would I tip that? If people deem effort to exceed reward then responsibility is with those whom profit. |
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I is typical of the human consiounce to acrue guilt for others' loss when we see struggle.
It is true we all should feel guilt, not for the travesty of the singular effect, but because we all allowed ourselves to be dragged into a culture of greed. Offers of benevolence are nothing and gifts of aid. If man works for others in the way that the west has forced all people born of this generation shackled to the system made by others, then those who dont work and yet profit must sacrifice. You have been thrown to the woleves and money has been the excuse. |
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