Hello people as someone who currently works in a supermarket(all be it driving a home shopping van)
I am trying to get my class 1 done this year but the last few months have been tough,
No supermarket now gives full time hours,They give you part time hours which can get put up with overtime.
People do get a premium after a certain amount of hours that is true but following a pay review that is no longer happening.
Basically you can work as many hours as you like but on basic pay.
Over christmas it was tough I was averaging my flat rate of hours ie 22 and by the time bills come out there is not much left.
On a good take home ie 6 day weeks including every sunday over a 4 week period I can take home £1000.
I am trying to better myself by doing something that I have wanted to do for years and it makes me laugh people thinking supermarket staff can earn as much as a HGV driver.
I hope this is not classed as trolling as I just wanted people to know that supermarkets re not the way to go to earn any money as people on here seem to say quite often.
Thanks Thomas
I work for a large Irish company with various operations in transport and vehicle services. I work within the vehicle repair area of the business and, we get a flat rate for all hours worked. Outside our standard shift - overtime we get our standard hourly rate, less shift allowance. We actually earn less on overtime, needless to say I avoid overtime.
montytom:
Hello people as someone who currently works in a supermarket(all be it driving a home shopping van)
I am trying to get my class 1 done this year but the last few months have been tough,
No supermarket now gives full time hours,They give you part time hours which can get put up with overtime.
People do get a premium after a certain amount of hours that is true but following a pay review that is no longer happening.
Basically you can work as many hours as you like but on basic pay.
Over christmas it was tough I was averaging my flat rate of hours ie 22 and by the time bills come out there is not much left.
On a good take home ie 6 day weeks including every sunday over a 4 week period I can take home £1000.
I am trying to better myself by doing something that I have wanted to do for years and it makes me laugh people thinking supermarket staff can earn as much as a HGV driver.
I hope this is not classed as trolling as I just wanted people to know that supermarkets re not the way to go to earn any money as people on here seem to say quite often.
Thanks Thomas
Mate any one with half a ounce of sense knew stacking shelfs doesn’t earn you a comparable wage to truck driving , best of luck with bettering yourself .
As for trolling it’s the new in word , if you have a different point of view , they don’t agree with you , don’t like the uniform you wear your a troll , pathetic , boring
montytom:
Hello people as someone who currently works in a supermarket(all be it driving a home shopping van)
I am trying to get my class 1 done this year but the last few months have been tough,
No supermarket now gives full time hours,They give you part time hours which can get put up with overtime.
People do get a premium after a certain amount of hours that is true but following a pay review that is no longer happening.
Basically you can work as many hours as you like but on basic pay.
Over christmas it was tough I was averaging my flat rate of hours ie 22 and by the time bills come out there is not much left.
On a good take home ie 6 day weeks including every sunday over a 4 week period I can take home £1000.
I am trying to better myself by doing something that I have wanted to do for years and it makes me laugh people thinking supermarket staff can earn as much as a HGV driver.
I hope this is not classed as trolling as I just wanted people to know that supermarkets re not the way to go to earn any money as people on here seem to say quite often.
Thanks Thomas
we just got a new Cleaner. Think he has £1260.-
Warehouse £1600.- to £1800.- depence Position (Countabalance around £8.50 p Hour i think)
Go for it especially if the supermarket you work for has a depot near to where you live, my company take newly qualified drivers from stores and depots and train them.
The go to remark is that the people stacking shelves get paid the best. ‘Lucky’ for us some employers let us work 60hrs plus a week so obviously our take home money is alot better.
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You’re a bundle of enthusiasm and positivity. Someone who absolutely loves rolling their sleeves up to keep the store running as efficiently as possible. A naturally friendly colleague who loves smiling at customers to make their day. A queue of customers at the till? You’ll jump on a different till and halve their waiting time. A pallet of bananas waiting in the stockroom? You’ll put them out in the store, rather than wait for someone else to do it. You’re thoughtful, flexible and full of initiative.
Benefits £8.40 rising to £10.00 per hour. *£9.45 rising to £10.45 per hour in London Usual contracted hours are around 25 hours per week, but can vary from 15 - 25 hours per week
28 days annual leave (includes bank holidays)
Full training provided
Company sick pay scheme
Company maternity, paternity and adoption leave after 2 years
Long service awards
Additional hours available
Overtime rate available (hours over 40 hours per week)
Night premium rate available
Double pay for any hours worked on Bank Holidays
So you get on £10hr which is more then some Class 1 drivers but some weeks you only get 15hrs a week (Over a few days) which the Class 1 driver can do in one day.
That wont stop the usual posters repeating themselves, don’t let facts get in the way of a good story or in this case an argument.
mrginge:
The go to remark is that the people stacking shelves get paid the best. ‘Lucky’ for us some employers let us work 60hrs plus a week so obviously our take home money is alot better.
ALDI Advert:
Store Assistant
You’re a bundle of enthusiasm and positivity. Someone who absolutely loves rolling their sleeves up to keep the store running as efficiently as possible. A naturally friendly colleague who loves smiling at customers to make their day. A queue of customers at the till? You’ll jump on a different till and halve their waiting time. A pallet of bananas waiting in the stockroom? You’ll put them out in the store, rather than wait for someone else to do it. You’re thoughtful, flexible and full of initiative.
Benefits £8.40 rising to £10.00 per hour. *£9.45 rising to £10.45 per hour in London Usual contracted hours are around 25 hours per week, but can vary from 15 - 25 hours per week
28 days annual leave (includes bank holidays)
Full training provided
Company sick pay scheme
Company maternity, paternity and adoption leave after 2 years
Long service awards
Additional hours available
Overtime rate available (hours over 40 hours per week)
Night premium rate available
Double pay for any hours worked on Bank Holidays
So you get on £10hr which is more then some Class 1 drivers but some weeks you only get 15hrs a week (Over a few days) which the Class 1 driver can do in one day.
That wont stop the usual posters repeating themselves, don’t let facts get in the way of a good story or in this case an argument.
To get the higher rate - £10, and £10.45 for London you had to have worked there for quite a while, 2 maybe even 3 years if I remember correctly. Lidl offer the same sort of rates and rises but again after around 3 years of service. In that time you might as well spend a couple of years re-training or getting qualified as something else anyway!
As someone who worked for Tesco for 11 years from 2001-2012 I feel I am somewhat qualified to give an opinion on the “shelf stackers get more than class 1 drivers” debate. So here goes … They DON’T in around 95% of cases. The average pay for a general assistant level type in a supermarket whether stacking shelves, sat on a till or whatever is around £7-£8. Also when looked at in context most now don’t offer full-time contacts, you will in all likelyhood be working one, possibly both days of the weekend - This is also for no extra premium rates.
Going back to the Aldi and Lidl argument too, For your money you will be made to work for it too - Not saying for a second you shouldn’t either but it is not the doddle of a job some make it out too be.
You’re missing the point.
The argument is whether someone with very few skills, I.e. a shelf stacker should earn around the same as a HGV driver.
Think of the differences for a moment in terms of training, cost of the licence, CPC, consequences of a lapse in concentration by a driver, compared with the checkout operator who on a particular bad day might give out a packet of custard creams without scanning them.
Someone actually posted that at least we as drivers get the chance to do 60 hours to make up for the poor wages. Well isn’t that just rubbing salt in…instead of being fleeced for 40hrs we’ll fleece you for 60!! You dopey gets.
We should be on par with train drivers at least.
Fogive me .Am guilty of using shelf -Stackers…on this forum… It was used as an analogy… Reason a hgv 1 driver would have had to undergo immense training at his own expense… Then gain further experience gained through 5 yrs + plus on the road.and then receive a wage that is received by someone who has received minimal training… Your being Sxxt on as much as we are…It was an analogy… Next post I make will use…let me think now…I know a dog walker…Bet now I will offend those that are dog walking… Never meant to offend apologies
Immense training ! All one week of it (I use the term of a week very loosely, 20ish hours).
Oh and as for dog walkers, there’s a guy around Milton Keynes who walks about 15 dogs at once, some on lead, some not.
All behaved and under control too, whereas other people struggle with just one.
As for supermarket workers, they’re just keeping quiet about their huge wages so people don’t jump on the gravy train.
A bit like owner drivers with new trucks and no money in it type scenarios.
cheekymonkey:
We should be on par with train drivers at least.
Not being funny mate but no we shouldn’t we drive something that at most will weigh 44tonne or if on the heavy haulage game more. A train driver will drive somthing weighing in at a good few hundred tonne, add into that mix a few hundred passengers then you see where I’m coming from.
It’s all to do with the anomaly in comparing ‘hourly’ based wage rates.Truck driving often involves relatively long hours which often aren’t directly proportionally reflected in wages.Probably because if they were it would break a large proportion of the industry especially bearing in mind fuel taxation costs that don’t apply to other industries.
cheekymonkey:
We should be on par with train drivers at least.
I wonder how many of the people on here saying truck drivers should have pay parity with train drivers also accused tanker drivers of being greedy when they threatened to go on strike a few years ago?
cheekymonkey:
We should be on par with train drivers at least.
Not being funny mate but no we shouldn’t we drive something that at most will weigh 44tonne or if on the heavy haulage game more. A train driver will drive somthing weighing in at a good few hundred tonne, add into that mix a few hundred passengers then you see where I’m coming from.
The question then being does driving 44 tonnes and around 60 ft x 8 ft on public roads involve a larger degree of responsibility than a train on a closed to the public fixed rail track with all the automated driver aids like train signal and collision protection devices.Although LHV’s would obviously be an even more valuable addition to road transport’s productivety and driver responsibility.
mrginge:
The go to remark is that the people stacking shelves get paid the best. ‘Lucky’ for us some employers let us work 60hrs plus a week so obviously our take home money is alot better.
cheekymonkey:
Someone actually posted that at least we as drivers get the chance to do 60 hours to make up for the poor wages. Well isn’t that just rubbing salt in…instead of being fleeced for 40hrs we’ll fleece you for 60!! You dopey gets.
cheekymonkey:
We should be on par with train drivers at least.
Not being funny mate but no we shouldn’t we drive something that at most will weigh 44tonne or if on the heavy haulage game more. A train driver will drive somthing weighing in at a good few hundred tonne, add into that mix a few hundred passengers then you see where I’m coming from.
The question then being does driving 44 tonnes and around 60 ft x 8 ft on public roads involve a larger degree of responsibility than a train on a closed to the public fixed rail track with all the automated driver aids like train signal and collision protection devices.Although LHV’s would obviously be an even more valuable addition to road transport’s productivety and driver responsibility.
Surely you’re not suggesting that the average road vehicle driver is carrying a comparable risk to the average train driver?
