Quote Man in Madrid="Man in Madrid":D Well, after working in a fairly senior role at Tesco for the last 4 years, I can pretty much say that I'm certainly not treated like sh**e! I enjoy an industry-leading, award winning pension scheme, staff discount, free shares, save as you earn shares, buy as you earn shares, free life insurance: the list goes on. NB. these are available to ALL staff, by the way. Don't forget, Tesco employs more than 295k staff in the UK, (largest private sector employer in Europe, I believe) and more than 500k worldwide - it's pretty difficult to satisfy all those people all of the time.'"
I guess you've had a different experience to everyone else I've heard from, then. Which is good. For you, obviously.
Quote Man in Madrid="Man in Madrid"In relation to workfare, Tesco weren't the only retailer involved, (Sainsburys?) and I recall that we confirmed that anyone taking up a placement would be taken on permanently if they did a good job: don't see what the problem with that is?? '"
The scheme allowed companies to take on staff without paying them in the guise of work experience and CV building. So rather than giving people who were out of work the chance to do a paid job, even if only temporarily, they were asked to work for free instead. All of this on a scheme which was found, when reviewed, to no provide any improved chance of finding work after you'd been through it.
But, we're digressing, this is a completely different thread topic altogether. Hopefully come tonight we'll have more positive things to talk about.