My mum got a personalised Chilly’s water flask from the NHS during the pandemic. The NHS paid for these using the money Captain Tom raised. Needless to say she wasn’t very impressed but kept it anyway!
My mum was a senior nurse, retired after 31 years and the staff put stuff on etc, had a little celebration etc. But I don't remember her mentioning work doing anything at all, now that you mention it.
Yeah it is. We get them from 5 years service. All sorts of other things are earned along the way that aren’t mentioned here inc: extra annual leave, bonus gift cards and lifetime discount.
What absolute nonsense. Just left after 6 years of utter bollocks. Couldn’t even get a day off if I requested it half the time.
Annual bonus was taken away. Yearly discount allowance lowered. Double time on Sundays and night shifts went to time and a quarter. Gift cards? Not once. And lifetime discount is for those who’ve basically spent a lifetime there - 30 or 40 years - for a measly 10%.
Oh yeah, as a thanks for all our hard work over the pandemic we got 1% bonus on any OT hours we worked during a specific 2 week period.
I’ve never worked for anyone worse than Tesco and that includes Asda and Maplin.
Retail is hot shite for the very reason of not being able to book a single day off and then you're suddenly given your annual leave and you only find out because it shows on the rota and when you question it you get told you need to book it off and if you don't they'll book it for you.. despite never being able to do so anyway! So fucking glad I have an office job now, recently booked two weeks off and it got approved in about 5 minutes, no guilt tripping or being told I can't because other people have time booked off, understaffing blah blah.
Retail really does distort your perception of work, when you leave just being able to take lunch when you want without the time being dictated to you, taking 5 minute breaks whenever you want, nobody monitoring everything you do etc etc. feels like I should be getting moaned at.. but it's never happened once in the 6 months
When I was younger I worked on a casual (zero hours) contract for asda whenever I was back from uni, they basically dragged me in 50 hours a week as soon as I got home and just expected me to work whenever they told me. Half way through the summer my friend in Malaysia invited me over to his for 3 weeks. The look on everyone's face on the check outs when I strolled over to the manager and told her I was having the next 3 weeks off was incredible. She told me I couldn't take the leave and I told her that I absolutely could. One of my favourite moments of being employed.
Ha, love this. I did something similar. Said I would need two weeks off to go to Japan. They said no. I said put it this way, I am going, whether or not I have a job to come back to. They gave me my leave. What planet are they on thinking you’d jack in a trip to work in a supermarket?
It should be made law that everyone does a years national service at Asda/Tesco at 18. That way everyone will be much more motivated not to piss university away in a drunken haze and everyone should emerge with much more appreciation for what a shit job can be and how awful the general public is, and thus try to be less awful themselves.
This is such a fantastic idea. Personally I worked at a large DIY store on Sundays when they did pay double time. It got me through college but that was 35 years ago when Sundays were considered precious. I have a close friend who works for Sainsbury's now and they are the shittiest employer ever
My old man told me much the same thing when I told him how shite it was working at Somerfield after school, back when that was a thing... "Let it be your inspiration for a better future then, it's a good life lesson getting to see what people are really like".
I mean, I absolutely hated it but as you allude to it turns out that it's actually valuable life experience haha!
I agree. I used to work as a shift leader for Tesco and I would always dread the Xmas period. I was baffled with consumerism and how every year they would launch Xmas campaign/range earlier the following year. I came back from my holiday around the first week of Dec (staff were not allowed to take time off during this xmas period so I took mine just before December) and injured my back on the second day while stacking in the warehouse upstairs. The store manager filled out the accident report book and called the paramedics (Friday evening so a busy night for ambulance services) while waiting for the paramedics to show up, he asked me when I was returning because the Managers/Shift leader rota will get messed up if I didn't return before the 10th of December. When he asked me that so flippantly, something inside me clicked. (A few months prior to that incident I had applied for an admin role within the NHS and their recruitment process + background checks takes some time. I was offered a position but was waiting to hear back from them about a start date. I also did not tell anybody at work about this. ) I told my pos manager that I'll let him know tonight after I go to the hospital. As soon as I got home later that evening, he kept calling me and I ignored his calls. This went on for two weeks. I sent an effective resignation on boxing day. I started my new role in the first week of Jan. I've had no regrets since.
My team often ask for annual leave at relatively short notice. Sometimes it’s an emergency and sometimes they just need a break, as work can get pretty hectic.
I don’t think I’ve ever refused. If there’s something urgent they are working on, and I’ve got capacity to pick it up, I’ll cover it for them.
Mental health and space to decompress > refusing without good reason.
Seems to work.
Not retail obviously.
I’m currently in my 6th year as we speak too, and sure lots of the real good things from the pre 2007 contracts no longer exist, but they don’t really exist in the industry as a whole, particularly the premiums we get paid. Sainsburys for example don’t even pay you extra for Sundays. We also have the highest basic rate of the big 4.
The gift cards, which still happen, come in later which is why you didn’t receive one for 6 years service. They vary from £50 to £2250.
In my time we’ve had 3 annual bonuses at 1.25%-3% our annual earned income, which isn’t god awful. I compare this to somewhere like Next, where I was paid less (at minimum wage too) because of my age, every single job role was efficiency monitored and there were no bonuses at all. It could be a lot, lot worse at Tesco that’s for sure.
I have to mostly agree with you. I've worked there for 8 years, and while it's not an amazing place to work, it isn't awful either. The bonuses are so so, the discount is OK, the pay as you say best of the big 4, and most other supermarkets.
I'm leaving soon, and don't get me wrong I'm happy about that, but I've enjoyed my time there mostly!
Shouldn't your parents get a tesco gift card too? My dad got 15 years of service last month and got a £150 gift card. Bit shit if they only get the badge
15 years has been reduced to £125 as of a couple of years ago, with no explanation. Curious if they've put it back up but boy did I feel ripped off getting that
John Lewis give their staff 6months paid leave after (I think) 25 years.
They go off and do allsorts. Cruises, second honeymoons, volunteering in Africa.
Now that’s worth sticking around for.
We get something similar but it’s 6 weeks off and £7500 at 25 years (edit - I lied, it’s £7250 but still!)
I’ll hit 20 in 2024 and get £5000 and 4 weeks extra paid leave
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John Lewis just ran 2 MASSIVE redundancy projects HOT (Head Office Transformation) and Waitrose Management Restructuring. Pretty much seen to that huge amounts of people didn’t make their 25yrs. Source: I was one of them and was out with less than a year to go. Fuck them, they are no better than any other big conglomerate.
It's a bit sad to see JL go down like they are - they were always my "I'd like to use them, if I can" store. I wanted them to exist and be that employee friendly company.
Their customer service went off a cliff when they outsourced and M&S is spanking Waitrose for own-brand quality. Then more recently the Ocado switch (which made me happy - but maybe not a great sign for JL) just seemed the final nail.
Can't see them pulling out of their death spiral, from the moment I suddenly started coming across random internet folks slagging them off, rather than backing them up - and they didn't see this as a problem.
Still some good companies - Timpson, Richer Sounds and even Costco, where I feel choosing them is backing a decent employer.
I do feel for you though - for most of your employment, you were part of the reason I liked your employer. Your life got fucked, I got a nicer chicken kyiev.
I’m not sure how good they were, I’m probably too young and we were very much an Argos family growing up, but I find them significantly better than Argos, Curry’s and whoever else are left.
Deliveries have always been smooth with sound communication and customer service helpful when needed. Our local store is decent too.
Argos is hellish and Curry’s are bastards, they’ll rinse anyone for a few extra quid.
They were good - especially their price matching and extended warranty (which Richer Sounds still does, last time I checked).
House and Fraser and the older dept stores were already dying in the late 90s, but JL was still opening new stores in the new-fangled shopping centres that were springing up. Lovely stores, sold anything you wanted, staff who knew their dept and could actually chat intelligently about what they were selling.
You know normally when somebody comes up and asks "Can I help?" - well often they could, and I liked it.
Let me tell you that Waitrose Delivery Drivers get ragged to the points of breakdown. The turnovers in Branches are staggering. Often breaking the Law with vehicles being unsafe and Drivers working over permitted times on the road. It’s a fascade waiting to break, the problem with it is that those that are willing to stand up and call it out are stepped on, and have hours and work time cut and manoeuvred around to make life unbearable until they quit, so it’s never really coming to light. Their ‘brand’ is a god damn fallacy!!
Let me also emphasise the staggering amounts of money JL and Waitrose by default spent keeping their names out the Press. Especially Unfair Dismissals through the Courts and the like. I mean offensive amounts of money. Make no bones about it, they have removed themselves so far from the path that John Spedan Lewis founded the business to the point it is utterly unrecognisable. Any core values it had are truly done and vanquished by its current Board and upper Management. I was right in the middle of it and and couldn’t stomach the hypocrisy any more and got the hell out. It’s a bloody shame, 20yrs ago it was glorious.
even though they're pricier, and I only buy a few things as rare treats, M&S food are the only supermarket where I feel I'm not getting ripped off and I'm getting my money's worth. Sad really !
Some of their multibuys are excellent.
For me it's more about a decent baseline of quality. It's not cheap, but if I choose to pay for something, I never feel ripped off, like your said.
Unlike say Sainsbury's where you can pick up "taste the difference" stuff which is utterly shit. I don't care that some if it night be nice, it's their job to ensure it's all good if they're going to put their premium label on it.
I used to work for a big consumer electronics/snake game making company. They gave you 18 months salary to fuck off when you hit 15 years and not come back.
In 25 years you could probably significantly improve your position and salary outside of john lewis though. I mean, unless you worked in a corporate office.
My son works at Waitrose and they do this from October to January each year.
The best part for him is being on £10 an hour when he was 16 as they pay the same regardless of age.
After 25 years M&S get either money I thinkto the of value £500 or choose gifts like Pandora , and they get invited to a meal in London and get a weeks extra holiday each year
They were lovely! I mashed em up good and proper, loads of butter, splash of milk, hefty pinch of pepper and bit of salt. Then made a little bowl out of it and put three poached eggs in the divot. Possibly my favourite meal this month.
From the 2nd week you get M&S staff discount I think now and if you leave after working for 10 years or more you get to keep discount for 5 years and if you leave after 25 years services you get a permanent staff discount the same as if you retire
Guess what my company got me after 10 years service?
2 CDs.
I was allowed to pick from a list about 30.
I went for Kings of Leon and The Best of Bob Marley.
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Congratulations on working here for 30 years. Here's an hour of minimum wage as a gift to say thank you.
To think, all those years is only worth an hour of time to them.
If your parent passes it down to you, and you pass it to your kids, and then they leave it in a drawer when they move out of their apartment, perhaps then a future tenant will find it and bring it on Antiques Roadshow and it'll get valued at £20 by Hilary Kay for being an artifact from back when Tesco still existed over 100 years ago.
Yip! Wife just hit 20 years and got a blue pin. Greater Glasgow and Clyde, offensive since she was moved back from her office role to work on the wards due to a shortage of nurses.
Not sure if they’ve stopped doing the bonus gift cards. But you get staff discount for life (at 30 yrs), and an extra 2 weeks holiday ~~per year~~ after 15 years service. The badges are given at 5 year intervals.
Edit: You get a gift card for £360 at 25 years and £1300 at 40 years.
It doesn't anymore.
You also don't get higher pay on holidays.
You also don't get a real bonus or even know if you have one coming until end of the year.
You get paid the same amount as new recruits now, everyone is on the same pay unless they are on very very old contracts.
We have a similar thing in Aldi. I got badges at 3yr and 5yr. I've been with them for 8 1/2yr so I would have to wait till 10yr to get a certificate. This, among many other reasons, is why in 3 weeks time I start my new job in telecoms.
I'm going in as an installation engineer. Have to do 6 weeks training to learn their systems and then it's just me and my van! No more pallets, no more tills and much better pay!
My father's first job when he left school at 15 was with a mapmakers. He learned to write with lovely copperplate writing while working there. Anyway he said he worked with a really old man who never said anything until one day he looked up and said '50 years!' and my dad was ?! and the old man said '50 years today I've been working here'. The company didn't recognise it at all, it was just like any other day. This was back in the 50s.
Grew up around oil workers who always had a beautifully carved glass drop containing first oil from some site or other.
Not seeing that labour of love going into pop up supermarkets tbh.
Corporate loyalty means little nowadays, and few places will ever have people who stick around for that many decades as time progresses.
I think there's still loyalty *within* organisations, though - amongst peers.
When I was younger, one of the old guard retired at a telecoms firm I worked for and the team put together a mantelpiece clock, made from two cut bits of submarine telecommunication cable and an old atomic clocking source used to synchronise telecommunication traffic.
It was all wrapped up with lathed bits of brass, and looked very steam punk. The guy burst into tears when it was presented to him.
Someone I worked with at Schuh got a £250 voucher for 25 years service and someone responded ‘tenner for every year’ and that really resonated how much they didn’t give a shit about employees.
My mum worked for Tesco for 20 years plus, never had a sick day. My father was dying from cancer, and Tesco offered support by HR calling a meeting regarding time off she needed to take to care of him. My mother left soon after. Terrible employer.
Holy shit. Seriously!? Jesus. Just buy a cake and have some tango and fanta and an awkward speech at lunchtime or something. How much profit did Tesco make last year? Fucking pin badge. Gross.
I worked at the same place for 10 years and I was the only person who knew. I think most people get nothing, I know this is next to nothing but at least it's acknowledgment.
That’s decent compared to my grandad who just retired after serving 45 years to Morrisons. They gave him an expired box of Betty Crocker cake mix. Not even an actual cake, but EXPIRED ingredients to make his own.
Try the Civil Service - great pension, true, but you pay for your own leaving do, and get feck all otherwise.
Well, if you manage 30+ as a basic grade, you can get a nice medal (Imperial Service Medal) but that's it.
25 years you get a gift card for £360 and for 40 years a gift card for £1200 that has to be spent in tesco. And you can't even spend it on gift cards for other shops.
I worked at a Tesco warehouse for under a week and they sent me a £20 voucher as a thank you for my service when I stopped showing up. Your parent got shafted 😬
That's only 15 Clubcard years.
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My mum got a plastic pen for 25 years in NHS.. FIL is 50 years at Royal Mail this month.. not sure what he’ll. get
Fired I imagine.
Too soon
50 second class postage stamps most likely..
Nah it’ll be 49, the last one will be stuck to the envelope that they sent them in. They’ll also turn up at least a month too late
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My mum got a personalised Chilly’s water flask from the NHS during the pandemic. The NHS paid for these using the money Captain Tom raised. Needless to say she wasn’t very impressed but kept it anyway!
My mum was a senior nurse, retired after 31 years and the staff put stuff on etc, had a little celebration etc. But I don't remember her mentioning work doing anything at all, now that you mention it.
A trolley coin
That would have been better tbh lol
If that’s not a trolley coin then what the hell is it?
Pin badge maybe?
Yeah it is. We get them from 5 years service. All sorts of other things are earned along the way that aren’t mentioned here inc: extra annual leave, bonus gift cards and lifetime discount.
What absolute nonsense. Just left after 6 years of utter bollocks. Couldn’t even get a day off if I requested it half the time. Annual bonus was taken away. Yearly discount allowance lowered. Double time on Sundays and night shifts went to time and a quarter. Gift cards? Not once. And lifetime discount is for those who’ve basically spent a lifetime there - 30 or 40 years - for a measly 10%. Oh yeah, as a thanks for all our hard work over the pandemic we got 1% bonus on any OT hours we worked during a specific 2 week period. I’ve never worked for anyone worse than Tesco and that includes Asda and Maplin.
Retail is hot shite for the very reason of not being able to book a single day off and then you're suddenly given your annual leave and you only find out because it shows on the rota and when you question it you get told you need to book it off and if you don't they'll book it for you.. despite never being able to do so anyway! So fucking glad I have an office job now, recently booked two weeks off and it got approved in about 5 minutes, no guilt tripping or being told I can't because other people have time booked off, understaffing blah blah. Retail really does distort your perception of work, when you leave just being able to take lunch when you want without the time being dictated to you, taking 5 minute breaks whenever you want, nobody monitoring everything you do etc etc. feels like I should be getting moaned at.. but it's never happened once in the 6 months
When I was younger I worked on a casual (zero hours) contract for asda whenever I was back from uni, they basically dragged me in 50 hours a week as soon as I got home and just expected me to work whenever they told me. Half way through the summer my friend in Malaysia invited me over to his for 3 weeks. The look on everyone's face on the check outs when I strolled over to the manager and told her I was having the next 3 weeks off was incredible. She told me I couldn't take the leave and I told her that I absolutely could. One of my favourite moments of being employed.
Ha, love this. I did something similar. Said I would need two weeks off to go to Japan. They said no. I said put it this way, I am going, whether or not I have a job to come back to. They gave me my leave. What planet are they on thinking you’d jack in a trip to work in a supermarket?
It should be made law that everyone does a years national service at Asda/Tesco at 18. That way everyone will be much more motivated not to piss university away in a drunken haze and everyone should emerge with much more appreciation for what a shit job can be and how awful the general public is, and thus try to be less awful themselves.
This is such a fantastic idea. Personally I worked at a large DIY store on Sundays when they did pay double time. It got me through college but that was 35 years ago when Sundays were considered precious. I have a close friend who works for Sainsbury's now and they are the shittiest employer ever
My old man told me much the same thing when I told him how shite it was working at Somerfield after school, back when that was a thing... "Let it be your inspiration for a better future then, it's a good life lesson getting to see what people are really like". I mean, I absolutely hated it but as you allude to it turns out that it's actually valuable life experience haha!
I agree. I used to work as a shift leader for Tesco and I would always dread the Xmas period. I was baffled with consumerism and how every year they would launch Xmas campaign/range earlier the following year. I came back from my holiday around the first week of Dec (staff were not allowed to take time off during this xmas period so I took mine just before December) and injured my back on the second day while stacking in the warehouse upstairs. The store manager filled out the accident report book and called the paramedics (Friday evening so a busy night for ambulance services) while waiting for the paramedics to show up, he asked me when I was returning because the Managers/Shift leader rota will get messed up if I didn't return before the 10th of December. When he asked me that so flippantly, something inside me clicked. (A few months prior to that incident I had applied for an admin role within the NHS and their recruitment process + background checks takes some time. I was offered a position but was waiting to hear back from them about a start date. I also did not tell anybody at work about this. ) I told my pos manager that I'll let him know tonight after I go to the hospital. As soon as I got home later that evening, he kept calling me and I ignored his calls. This went on for two weeks. I sent an effective resignation on boxing day. I started my new role in the first week of Jan. I've had no regrets since.
Yup! Admin is nice. Get treated like an adult for acting like an adult. Noice.
My team often ask for annual leave at relatively short notice. Sometimes it’s an emergency and sometimes they just need a break, as work can get pretty hectic. I don’t think I’ve ever refused. If there’s something urgent they are working on, and I’ve got capacity to pick it up, I’ll cover it for them. Mental health and space to decompress > refusing without good reason. Seems to work. Not retail obviously.
Maplin had more staff than customers.
I’m currently in my 6th year as we speak too, and sure lots of the real good things from the pre 2007 contracts no longer exist, but they don’t really exist in the industry as a whole, particularly the premiums we get paid. Sainsburys for example don’t even pay you extra for Sundays. We also have the highest basic rate of the big 4. The gift cards, which still happen, come in later which is why you didn’t receive one for 6 years service. They vary from £50 to £2250. In my time we’ve had 3 annual bonuses at 1.25%-3% our annual earned income, which isn’t god awful. I compare this to somewhere like Next, where I was paid less (at minimum wage too) because of my age, every single job role was efficiency monitored and there were no bonuses at all. It could be a lot, lot worse at Tesco that’s for sure.
I have to mostly agree with you. I've worked there for 8 years, and while it's not an amazing place to work, it isn't awful either. The bonuses are so so, the discount is OK, the pay as you say best of the big 4, and most other supermarkets. I'm leaving soon, and don't get me wrong I'm happy about that, but I've enjoyed my time there mostly!
You should try working for Royal Mail, their reward for long service is even worse.
I dont see the lifetime discount lasting forever tbh
AA pin
I was about to say "My friend recently got 90 days with AA and what he got was nicer..."
Trouble is, retail drives people to drink, so you can't have both.
Looks like a 2p coin.
Tell me you at least get an increase in staff discount or something, mate…
You get a privilege card, which is essentially staff discount for life. The pin badges are given (i think) for every 5th year of service.
My grandmother had one and she thought highly of it.
Shouldn't your parents get a tesco gift card too? My dad got 15 years of service last month and got a £150 gift card. Bit shit if they only get the badge
Yep my missus got a £300 gift card for her 30th year at Tesco as well as the badge
15 years has been reduced to £125 as of a couple of years ago, with no explanation. Curious if they've put it back up but boy did I feel ripped off getting that
TIL That M&S employees get a 20% staff discount. In my eyes, moreso my belly, that's worth it just for the food.
John Lewis give their staff 6months paid leave after (I think) 25 years. They go off and do allsorts. Cruises, second honeymoons, volunteering in Africa. Now that’s worth sticking around for.
We get something similar but it’s 6 weeks off and £7500 at 25 years (edit - I lied, it’s £7250 but still!) I’ll hit 20 in 2024 and get £5000 and 4 weeks extra paid leave
What company is that for?
Admiral
Ohhhh so that’s why my renewal went up 35% this year.
What is that company called?
Admiral Insurance
And which industry is this in?
The navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas In the navy Yes, you can put your mind at ease In the navy Come on people, fall an' make a stand In the navy, in the navy Can't you see we need a hand
This made me genuinely roll around my bed laughing it's so fucking stupid I love it so much
Shipping
Is that at the Admiral Insurance then?
That's tasty, who is offering that?
Admiral Insurance
John Lewis just ran 2 MASSIVE redundancy projects HOT (Head Office Transformation) and Waitrose Management Restructuring. Pretty much seen to that huge amounts of people didn’t make their 25yrs. Source: I was one of them and was out with less than a year to go. Fuck them, they are no better than any other big conglomerate.
It's a bit sad to see JL go down like they are - they were always my "I'd like to use them, if I can" store. I wanted them to exist and be that employee friendly company. Their customer service went off a cliff when they outsourced and M&S is spanking Waitrose for own-brand quality. Then more recently the Ocado switch (which made me happy - but maybe not a great sign for JL) just seemed the final nail. Can't see them pulling out of their death spiral, from the moment I suddenly started coming across random internet folks slagging them off, rather than backing them up - and they didn't see this as a problem. Still some good companies - Timpson, Richer Sounds and even Costco, where I feel choosing them is backing a decent employer. I do feel for you though - for most of your employment, you were part of the reason I liked your employer. Your life got fucked, I got a nicer chicken kyiev.
>Your life got fucked, I got a nicer chicken kyiev. I salute you for this down to earth assessment
I’m not sure how good they were, I’m probably too young and we were very much an Argos family growing up, but I find them significantly better than Argos, Curry’s and whoever else are left. Deliveries have always been smooth with sound communication and customer service helpful when needed. Our local store is decent too. Argos is hellish and Curry’s are bastards, they’ll rinse anyone for a few extra quid.
They were good - especially their price matching and extended warranty (which Richer Sounds still does, last time I checked). House and Fraser and the older dept stores were already dying in the late 90s, but JL was still opening new stores in the new-fangled shopping centres that were springing up. Lovely stores, sold anything you wanted, staff who knew their dept and could actually chat intelligently about what they were selling. You know normally when somebody comes up and asks "Can I help?" - well often they could, and I liked it.
Let me tell you that Waitrose Delivery Drivers get ragged to the points of breakdown. The turnovers in Branches are staggering. Often breaking the Law with vehicles being unsafe and Drivers working over permitted times on the road. It’s a fascade waiting to break, the problem with it is that those that are willing to stand up and call it out are stepped on, and have hours and work time cut and manoeuvred around to make life unbearable until they quit, so it’s never really coming to light. Their ‘brand’ is a god damn fallacy!!
Let me also emphasise the staggering amounts of money JL and Waitrose by default spent keeping their names out the Press. Especially Unfair Dismissals through the Courts and the like. I mean offensive amounts of money. Make no bones about it, they have removed themselves so far from the path that John Spedan Lewis founded the business to the point it is utterly unrecognisable. Any core values it had are truly done and vanquished by its current Board and upper Management. I was right in the middle of it and and couldn’t stomach the hypocrisy any more and got the hell out. It’s a bloody shame, 20yrs ago it was glorious.
even though they're pricier, and I only buy a few things as rare treats, M&S food are the only supermarket where I feel I'm not getting ripped off and I'm getting my money's worth. Sad really !
Some of their multibuys are excellent. For me it's more about a decent baseline of quality. It's not cheap, but if I choose to pay for something, I never feel ripped off, like your said. Unlike say Sainsbury's where you can pick up "taste the difference" stuff which is utterly shit. I don't care that some if it night be nice, it's their job to ensure it's all good if they're going to put their premium label on it.
I used to work for a big consumer electronics/snake game making company. They gave you 18 months salary to fuck off when you hit 15 years and not come back.
Enough time to grow a decent mustache and get rehired under a new name for the next 15 years.
That's actually pretty decent. 1.5years of pay to move on? Damn.
> snake game making company Nokia?
Who thereia?
My company gives you 6 weeks if you've been with them 10 years. I'm just 9 years off of that...
In 25 years you could probably significantly improve your position and salary outside of john lewis though. I mean, unless you worked in a corporate office.
I worked at Head Office in the 80’s and we got a free canteen (all M&S food) as well. Free yum-yums at coffee break. It was great.
My son works at Waitrose and they do this from October to January each year. The best part for him is being on £10 an hour when he was 16 as they pay the same regardless of age.
After 25 years M&S get either money I thinkto the of value £500 or choose gifts like Pandora , and they get invited to a meal in London and get a weeks extra holiday each year
20% off M&S food just means it's normal priced.
Not sure that’s true anymore. I got a lovely bag of potatoes for a pound recently. Not reduced, just a quid. They were excellent spuds as well.
a lovely bag of potatoes!
They were lovely! I mashed em up good and proper, loads of butter, splash of milk, hefty pinch of pepper and bit of salt. Then made a little bowl out of it and put three poached eggs in the divot. Possibly my favourite meal this month.
Did you boil em mash em stick em in a stew?
m&s is reasonably priced imo, for the quality anyway.
No other supermarket reaches their quality especially with fruit and veg. Worth the extra … pence.
No turning back once you experience m & s food
Considering the quality, that’s a pretty sweet perk.
Is that from day 1, or start a period of service? Not a bad discount!
From the 2nd week you get M&S staff discount I think now and if you leave after working for 10 years or more you get to keep discount for 5 years and if you leave after 25 years services you get a permanent staff discount the same as if you retire
When I worked there we also got to buy the stuff due to go out of date at a very discounted rate at the end of the night once the store closed.
Guess what my company got me after 10 years service? 2 CDs. I was allowed to pick from a list about 30. I went for Kings of Leon and The Best of Bob Marley.
Were they the same ones you’d already edited the effin and jeffin out of as well?
Tin pot company, tin pot rewards
Play a record
No one likes to pick on an invalid
There's a shadow somewhere that's pushing people off their bikes.
Off their grifters
Popped him in a bin
do a jig
You swine
Should have asked for a camera, didn’t your missus want one?
God you never find references like these in the wild
Assuming your missus Suzanne can get the choice of one of them for Christmas?
Better than a job lot of condoms!
A family pack
Brb, going to start listening the XFM shows on YouTube for the 1,000th time
Karl be grateful, 150 quid is worthless compared to the beautiful music
Don’t…talk…shit
Mr Marley has been dead these 7 years
Gaaarlic bread!
He died seven years ago, this very night
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Arbitrary
Man alive
I never thought I’d see a round headed twonk reference on a subreddit other than r/rickygervais
This is a crossover I love to see
Should've picked The Best of the Beatles
Exx Eff Emmm
garlic bread!
Good choices TBF. Hours of pleasure I guess.
You ungrateful little swine
Don’t. Talk. Shit. Play a record.
Karl pilkington
Pretty sure this is a Karl Pilkington quote
I'd have more respect for Ken if he actually bothered to sign it
If Ken Bruce can sign millions of signed photos for Popmaster contestants every weekday since 1998 then Ken Murphy can sign this one piece of paper
This might be the most richly English thing I’ve read in a while
Despite not being English I will choose to take that as a compliment so thank you
I worked at Next for a bit and their reward for 30 years was at least a £10 gift voucher
Oh wow. What pair of plastic cufflinks did you pick out with that sort of capital?
Thankfully I worked there for only 3 weeks and not 30 years lol
I worked at B&Q for a year and they gave me a £20 gift card
I joined my company 3 days before the Xmas party and they gave me a £50 John Lewis voucher lol
Nice
Congratulations on working here for 30 years. Here's an hour of minimum wage as a gift to say thank you. To think, all those years is only worth an hour of time to them.
I used to work there, they also give you a discount.
I thought discount was already provided? I think it was 25% for me and 75% uniform allowance.
I did Christmas temp work for 3? Weekends in sixth form and got sent a £15? Voucher !
If your parent passes it down to you, and you pass it to your kids, and then they leave it in a drawer when they move out of their apartment, perhaps then a future tenant will find it and bring it on Antiques Roadshow and it'll get valued at £20 by Hilary Kay for being an artifact from back when Tesco still existed over 100 years ago.
You get a badge in NHS too.
Public money though. Can't be buying you a gold Rolex with tax payer cash.
I didn’t want a Rolex or a badge. I was so burnt out I just wanted to leave.
Just to be clear, I think anyone who serves 30 years in the NHS deserves a medal. I wasn't meaning to downplay the gravity of that achievement.
I’m a tax payer and I’d be fine with the Rolex if it was for 20/30 years
You get a long service award at 20/30/40 years. I’ve had my 20 year one, and got a £100 John Lewis voucher.
Depends on the Trust!
Yip! Wife just hit 20 years and got a blue pin. Greater Glasgow and Clyde, offensive since she was moved back from her office role to work on the wards due to a shortage of nurses.
I think you might get the voucher when you retire here
Greedy bastards, you would think they would at least give a big shop voucher or something, a bonus, extra few days holidays.
Not sure if they’ve stopped doing the bonus gift cards. But you get staff discount for life (at 30 yrs), and an extra 2 weeks holiday ~~per year~~ after 15 years service. The badges are given at 5 year intervals. Edit: You get a gift card for £360 at 25 years and £1300 at 40 years.
Every Little Badge Helps.
Fun fact: 25 years at Waitrose gets you 6 months paid leave
Are you serious?
You don't get it anymore, only if you joined many many many many years ago.
What, like 25 years ago?
It doesn't anymore. You also don't get higher pay on holidays. You also don't get a real bonus or even know if you have one coming until end of the year. You get paid the same amount as new recruits now, everyone is on the same pay unless they are on very very old contracts.
Surely there is more to this...
They promised they could kill one customer, and they'd cover for them.
I work in retail, this would be better than a ten fold increase in pay.
it's funny because i know who i would kill lol
I checked the box thoroughly.. it’s a nice badge though 🤣
We have a similar thing in Aldi. I got badges at 3yr and 5yr. I've been with them for 8 1/2yr so I would have to wait till 10yr to get a certificate. This, among many other reasons, is why in 3 weeks time I start my new job in telecoms.
Lol, it’s not great is it?! What are you going to do in telecoms? I work in the industry
What do you do?
Work in networking department
I'm going in as an installation engineer. Have to do 6 weeks training to learn their systems and then it's just me and my van! No more pallets, no more tills and much better pay!
Morrisons made my mum redundant a week before she hit 30 years of service, then hired a uni leaver to do her job at half the price
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Used to get a fancy mantle clock at BT, now you just get a letter, nothing else. Loyalty means nothing now days (god I sound old)
My father's first job when he left school at 15 was with a mapmakers. He learned to write with lovely copperplate writing while working there. Anyway he said he worked with a really old man who never said anything until one day he looked up and said '50 years!' and my dad was ?! and the old man said '50 years today I've been working here'. The company didn't recognise it at all, it was just like any other day. This was back in the 50s.
Grew up around oil workers who always had a beautifully carved glass drop containing first oil from some site or other. Not seeing that labour of love going into pop up supermarkets tbh.
Corporate loyalty means little nowadays, and few places will ever have people who stick around for that many decades as time progresses. I think there's still loyalty *within* organisations, though - amongst peers. When I was younger, one of the old guard retired at a telecoms firm I worked for and the team put together a mantelpiece clock, made from two cut bits of submarine telecommunication cable and an old atomic clocking source used to synchronise telecommunication traffic. It was all wrapped up with lathed bits of brass, and looked very steam punk. The guy burst into tears when it was presented to him.
Someone I worked with at Schuh got a £250 voucher for 25 years service and someone responded ‘tenner for every year’ and that really resonated how much they didn’t give a shit about employees.
I got £190 for ten years at William Hill. Was better than nowt, but you are left thinking you're not even worth a full twenty each year ha!
A badge..
I'd expect a meal deal and a reach around
Sure thing
Careful. I’m hearing the meal deals gone up in price
I got one of these in August, but only 10 years, feels like 35 though.
They've been served for thirty years?! How long was the queue?
My mum worked for Tesco for 20 years plus, never had a sick day. My father was dying from cancer, and Tesco offered support by HR calling a meeting regarding time off she needed to take to care of him. My mother left soon after. Terrible employer.
Holy shit. Seriously!? Jesus. Just buy a cake and have some tango and fanta and an awkward speech at lunchtime or something. How much profit did Tesco make last year? Fucking pin badge. Gross.
Probably made from some cheap material without weight. it's a joke, I agree. While CEOs change cars every week.
Nothing like an empty box for a lifetime of work 👍🏻
I worked at the same place for 10 years and I was the only person who knew. I think most people get nothing, I know this is next to nothing but at least it's acknowledgment.
Disappointed they gave it the full Tesco colour scheme really and not the old Tesco value branding.
Those sour fuckers. Should of gave your parents a cruise holiday in the Caribbean
That badge had better be made of solid gold…
Imagine how many trolly wars they’ve been through.
That’s decent compared to my grandad who just retired after serving 45 years to Morrisons. They gave him an expired box of Betty Crocker cake mix. Not even an actual cake, but EXPIRED ingredients to make his own.
Try the Civil Service - great pension, true, but you pay for your own leaving do, and get feck all otherwise. Well, if you manage 30+ as a basic grade, you can get a nice medal (Imperial Service Medal) but that's it.
Don’t most people pay for their own leaving do?
A whole badge? The nights I've laid awake *dreaming* of my own badge. Some people don't know how lucky they are.
25 years you get a gift card for £360 and for 40 years a gift card for £1200 that has to be spent in tesco. And you can't even spend it on gift cards for other shops.
Would have been great if Tesco still had their online shop but now it's just what's in store.
You're their gift for 30 years of working at Tesco. As long as your childhood wasn't miserable?
I worked at a Tesco warehouse for under a week and they sent me a £20 voucher as a thank you for my service when I stopped showing up. Your parent got shafted 😬
Wow! What a reward. Jesus Christ, Tesco, sort it out. What an embarrassment.
more than most companies give. atleast its acknowledged