The Sainsbury's Thread

'..you’ll have plenty of variety, from preparing food and drink and setting up cabinet displays to serving on the till and clearing tables.'

Straight from the Sainsbury's website if that helps haha. You thinking of going for that now then?

Well i applied and havent got an online rejection but I really did love working on checkouts *sigh*

Also applied for another position a couple of days back for a general assistant job on fresh foods, and I am just trying to keep my options open since twice I have gotten through but because so many people got though, I didn't end up getting a job interview

Fresh foods, is that basically fruit and veg? and is it basically replenishing?

Fresh covers fruit and vegetables like you say and all foods that are chilled.. meats, ready meals, pizzas, yoghurts, etc. I've never worked on fresh apart from dressing shelves. my fingers always end up freezing when I'm doing that for a while haha.

i think the restaurant just sticks ready meals in the oven, so you shouldn't really give them food poisoning, unless you decide to rub a raw chicken in someones choco cake. didn't realise they had frozen ready meals until a few weeks ago when a lady brought out a frozen box for me to scan.

it looks a pretty cool job

lol, i didnt mean customers find something from the shopfloor and take it to the restuarant, that would be a crazy idea.

i think the restaurant have their own ready meal supply in their freezer and you just cook that.

Well i applied and havent got an online rejection but I really did love working on checkouts *sigh*

Also applied for another position a couple of days back for a general assistant job on fresh foods, and I am just trying to keep my options open since twice I have gotten through but because so many people got though, I didn't end up getting a job interview

Fresh foods, is that basically fruit and veg? and is it basically replenishing?

I hope the double sided printers are faster as they promise. We're getting in them in two weeks. The ones we currently have are ridiculous, if someone spends over about £60 you have to wait about 30 seconds before it starts printing and then it stops and has a quick rest half way through. I never understand why duplicate receipts take ages either it prints it out line by line. I could understand it if the original receipt printed out bit by bit as you scanned items but it doesn't so there is no reason why duplicate receipts should take so long.

I'll be going the same way... when I have a new job to go to. It's not a case of if, I WILL find something if it kills me. Such a ******* "miserable make you feel like *****" weekend there tbh.

I'm just real hacked off with Sainsbury's right now. I don't know why people subject themselves to a job where on teh whole customers just view you as dirt and whatever, the policies suck arse and so does the staff treatment in general full-stop. They don't even think to inform people about changes and stuff to policy, all of a sudden they just happen and then if you make those mistakes you get busted in for them.

I know this comes and goes in spells for me but uncertainty is only resolved upon termination of my career with Sainsbury's after securing something more prosperous elsewhere I know nothing better to assume than that.

I believe Sainsbury's base ('Band 2') pay is £4.54 (under 18) and £5.92 (over 18). It is due to increase at the end of the summer I believe.

I wouldn't say getting the job is incredibly difficult. However, I've seen perfect candidates rejected

I'd say it was difficult to get the job because there are so many people going for each position these days...

Yeh there certainly seems to be a communication problem in our store I only learned online shoppers can pick stuff with shorter dates now when I had my shopping delivered & read the leaflet that came with it. And I work in online shopping dept lmao!

So it was 06:59, I was standing in front of the clocking in machine waiting for it to change to 07:00 so i could clock out, and there was a security check, and the 'fresh foods team leader' was there. And he says to me "you shouldn't be standing around here waiting to clock out, you could've worked that extra minute! " and i was like 'ok...' and the security guard sort of smirked, and he looked at him and said 'what? ' and he was like 'nothing '

I found out last night from another colleague that our department manager is pregnant? lol seriously all female checkout staff seem to be getting pregnant in our store... what's going on?!

We'll be in a 'there's nobody left they're all having babies' situation soon... because there won't be anyone left except the under 18s and we can't run a store without them! If the checkout staff themselves dont happen to be pregnant, the guys will have to leave as well on paternity leave...

This is mad. lol