Passed my assessment last weeks been there over a week now, its quite an easy job apart from all the annoying parts like they monitor your braking & revs. Quite a decent job I just hope its on going and not just for the easter month! Oh and sat navs are banned lol.
…and mobile phones too!
The only gripes I’ve got with tesco are
(1) Unavailability of the start times you want, despite a lot being generally available,
(2) You get marked down for “harsh braking” which means just about every cyclist/pedestrian running out in front of you whilst doing a London drop
(3) Having to be a dustcart on the backrun, complete with the sliding block puzzle when on multidrop.
(Drop half load at store one, reload rubbish on top of rest of load, get to store 2, take off all rubbish leave lying around, unload goods, reload with THAT stores rubbish, then the other rubbish lying around - and that’s just with a double drop. 4-5 drops is a nightmare!
(4) Turning up at nobbies only to get confronted by some Fagin who moans because you’ve been sittin in the tip queue for 7 minutes refusing to go on a vacant bay at the far end to where your unloaded rubbish goes. Moan is already official by the time you get “de-moaned” back at the office. 
I refused to pick up one stores rubbish until i had made my 2nd drop, said i would pick it up ont he way back when i was passing…queue phone calls every 10 mins from when i left that store on the way to the other store and every 10 mins until i arrived back…i had 10 missed calls by the time i got back to that store.
the good old days of working for tesco are gone though.
gogzy:
I refused to pick up one stores rubbish until i had made my 2nd drop, said i would pick it up ont he way back when i was passing…queue phone calls every 10 mins from when i left that store on the way to the other store and every 10 mins until i arrived back…i had 10 missed calls by the time i got back to that store.the good old days of working for tesco are gone though.
Me too.Now i generally dont take RSU except i get it ordered everytime for a Particular Store
Immigrant:
gogzy:
I refused to pick up one stores rubbish until i had made my 2nd drop, said i would pick it up ont he way back when i was passing…queue phone calls every 10 mins from when i left that store on the way to the other store and every 10 mins until i arrived back…i had 10 missed calls by the time i got back to that store.the good old days of working for tesco are gone though.
Me too.Now i generally dont take RSU except i get it ordered everytime for a Particular Store
Don’t seem to get the option down here - RSU pickup is compulsory on the end of every drop, even if it means reloading rubbish on top of the rest of the groceries for elsewhere!
Can’t be healthy can it? 
Morrisons blows Tesco out the water. No loading or unloading allowed. I used to sit in their canteen and wait for a call from the back door man.
Easiest agency job I’ve ever done.
Hello Winseer, That wouldn’t be SL by any chance? Do you still have to walk sideways in the RSU to get between the cages because it is so full up when it’s busy?
The op`s at the wind ups surely. 
Morrisons can get right boring eventually.
cav551:
Hello Winseer, That wouldn’t be SL by any chance? Do you still have to walk sideways in the RSU to get between the cages because it is so full up when it’s busy?
Yes, it would be.
Assessor says "Pick a bay that matches the bulk of what you’ve got to unload, eg. dollies on the left, cardboard in the middle, plastic on the right. Made enough sense.
Then some bignob I’ve never seen before wants me to unload a 100% plastic load on bay 1 into the dollie end, and then push each cage across the front of all the other bays (busy with other drivers unloading) until they are parked up at around bay 16. An email was sent back to base because I was arguing the toss about such a move, and I think he accused me of sleepwalking on the job with others waiting to unload… It’s not as if I was preventing anyone else pulling past me to get onto bay 1 if they’d had a load of 100% dollies, but arguments like that just ain’t kosher it seems… At least from the bignob in question with the kosher accent! 
“dressingtable macht frei” more like! 
Is it really that bad?
Everyone dobbing you in , at every opportunity, not allowed to vocalise your thoughts on a stupid set-up, not allowed to think for yourself…Is it always like this at Tesco?
Maybe this is why the drivers drive so slowly, as their brains have been totally mushed and they have become the robots that tesco desire 
Williams9881:
Passed my assessment last weeks been there over a week now, its quite an easy job apart from all the annoying parts like they monitor your braking & revs. Quite a decent job I just hope its on going and not just for the easter month! Oh and sat navs are banned lol.
Are you allowed to pick your nose?
Couldn’t work for a company who monitors every single action like that.
Winseer:
Immigrant:
gogzy:
I refused to pick up one stores rubbish until i had made my 2nd drop, said i would pick it up ont he way back when i was passing…queue phone calls every 10 mins from when i left that store on the way to the other store and every 10 mins until i arrived back…i had 10 missed calls by the time i got back to that store.the good old days of working for tesco are gone though.
Me too.Now i generally dont take RSU except i get it ordered everytime for a Particular Store
Don’t seem to get the option down here - RSU pickup is compulsory on the end of every drop, even if it means reloading rubbish on top of the rest of the groceries for elsewhere!
Can’t be healthy can it?
The only time you should be loading R.S.U is on an empty trailer, unless it’s an express store.
It’s similar to the ‘other’ supermarket ! They would never let you load the RSU as you guys call it with the stuff for the next delivery, then they went and bought the Netto stores and were delivering 2 stores per trailer with a 3rd of the trailer left empty, Then they decided to load 3 stores on 1 trailer, all well and good but the “Don’t load waste with the delivery stuff” got conveniently forgotten about !!!
It’s a pain in the arus when you do a frozen / chill load with 3 stores though :
Deliver chill store 1, deliver chill store 2, move store 3 chill out of way, move bulkhead and move store 1 frozen and unload store 2 frozen. Move store 3 frozen and load the recyling etc, put store 1 and 3’s frozen back, restore bulk head, put store 3 chill back, secure and move on to store 3. Deliver store 3 chill, move bulkhead, unload store 3 frozen. Move store 1 frozen out of the way and load store 3’s recyling. Secure and turn off compartment 2 on fridge (chill not now required). Return to store 1 and deliver frozen, load recycling and return to depot. It’s easy from the office !!!
If I were doing that; unless it is really hot outside, I would take the drop 3 frozen out at drop 2. It isn’t going to thaw in even a couple of hours.
Similar story to us, chill and frozen compartments on the vehicle with six drops (on an 18tonner - only about 3-5 cages each drop), but backhauling recycling to the depot. Got a fixed bulkhead down the middle of the truck to split it into a wide and narrow side. You get to the first drop and have to drop about six cages to the street to get one out of the freezer, then put them back up. At some point during the day you are going to have to drag everything out of the freezer and shove all the ■■■■■ and empties down the front end of the vehicle. In the summer it does wonders for the freezer when you chuck cages full of cardboard that are at twenty odd degrees in there.
It wouldn’t be a problem if the supermarkets got their “supply chain” in order. Should always be one trailer one drop. Have all the goods on one site. It’s stupid that harlow follow welham around all day to the same stores. Stick it all on one load ffs
OVLOV JAY:
It wouldn’t be a problem if the supermarkets got their “supply chain” in order. Should always be one trailer one drop. Have all the goods on one site. It’s stupid that harlow follow welham around all day to the same stores. Stick it all on one load ffs
The downside to this is you would run the risk of extra trunking runs and cross docking congesting the DCs and eliminating the benefits of having it all on one trailer. When I was at Tesco Hinckley we would be sending multiple trailers a day to most of our stores already so if you have a couple of trailers of ambient does it really matter if they come from Hinckley or Crick (as it was in the day)? And if you started putting the ambient stuff into the chill warehouses and did it everywhere you would need to have every trailer being a reefer, which would cost a lot more than having half of them be curtainsiders over an entire fleet.
OVLOV JAY:
It wouldn’t be a problem if the supermarkets got their “supply chain” in order. Should always be one trailer one drop. Have all the goods on one site. It’s stupid that harlow follow welham around all day to the same stores. Stick it all on one load ffs
Tell me about it, some of the runs are just rediculous, I got a run that consisted of Castle Douglas, Alloa and Dunfermline
because they are all around the corner from each other.
Tesco Inverurie - tesco north berwick - tesco pencuik
How the ■■■■ are you supposed to do that fanning about at 50mph?
Or tesco waterfront(dundee) to tesco oban
Who ever plans that has their heid up their arse
this was back in the day when tesco could do 56, i never gave a rats [zb] about fuel etc, i wasnt getting the bonuses etc but i could make more money by doing more store deliveries,
I passed 3 tesco trucks between kincardine bridge and kinross one day, one of the trucks i was passing was heading to the same store as me…except i got to the store, emptied my trailer, reloaded it and was just heading out the gate by the time he arrived.