ALDI reviews

Company is stuck in the Stone Age. A lack of technology makes communication slow and time consuming. The pay is great for being right of college but after a few short months they throw you to the wolves running a store. 70-80 hours a week is common and basically expected while running a store. Once you finish training and take over a territory your hours stay about the same. The only way to move up in the company is to work yourself to death and show upper management that you care about nothing but your job. There is a lot of turn over at the DM level and many burn out quickly. In the division I worked in there were very few DM's over the age of 40 because most would quit or be fired by then.

Management was never on the same page. Someone would not order items and take it out on employees. Managers (one in question at my store) wouldn't work during their shift and instead would constantly sit in the office for hours talking on their personal cell phone. This is hard especially when you are the only other employee in the store working, usually meaning we get out of the store extremely late. Always was called on my day off to work and if I couldn't work that day due to appointments I had scheduled around days I worked I would be called into the office and told I wasn't a "team player" because I couldn't come in that day due to a doctors appointment I had requested off weeks earlier. Pay was GREAT but working with people at that store have been the worst co-workers I've ever worked with. I had put in requests to transfer to stores closer to my home and they would always be ignored. New DM's come into the store during training and pretty much look at you like you are not intelligent.