People-focus is dead in this company!
Verbesserungsvorschläge
You claim that "the heart of the company is your people". Start treating your values like actual guidelines to live by rather than empty buzzwords on LinkedIn.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Micromanagement, paired with unclear target expectations and intransparent feedback. (Which is partly due to the fact that executives tend to change their minds and rescind previously made decisions from one hour to the next.)
Higher-ups do everything to leave a good impression with executive management, leaving the blame for perceived shortcomings to fall on the regular employees. Due to the recent cost-saving measures, the atmosphere in the company is dominated by fear and uncertainty, and everyone is afraid for their job.
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I used to be proud to work at Aldi. Seeing what this company has come to genuinely makes me sad.
Work-Life-Balance
Overtime has been drastically cut as a cost-saving measure, the official statment from the exeutives being that "our goals are set in such a way that everyone can fulfil them in their regular working time". Right ...
At the same time, the new office presence rules (which are handled differently in each department as there has been no clear statement from top level on how they are to be interpreted) now have people struggling to consolidate their jobs and private lives. This hits parents particularly hard, especially if they need to drop off their kids at school or daycare, then crawl their way through traffic jams, only to arrive at a hopelessly overcrowded parking deck at five minutes after eight. What a relaxed start into the working day!
Karriere/Weiterbildung
New hires and promotions have been frozen to save costs. Budgets for professional development have been cut.
Gehalt/Benefits
The pay is above-average, but everyone will need to answer the question if it's worth it for themselves.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
There's ... water dispensers in some of the kitchens?
Other than that, forcing 4.000 employees to make pointless drives all through the area so that they can hold their Teams meetings from the office isn't exactly sustainable, is it?
Kollegenzusammenhalt
My team always stuck together and supported each other where possible. When it comes to Manager level and above, you can't trust anybody.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Hardly any to be found.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
My personal experience with leadership was shaped by dishonesty, intransparency and toxic behavior.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Faulty old laptops, tools and programmes take forever to load. Depressing, grey, open-plan offices and meeting rooms (with the exception of those spaces that have been dolled-up to serve as backdrop for cool LinkedIn shots.
Kommunikation
If you believe LinkedIn, ALDI DX is a top employer with inspiring, visionary leaders, inspiring tasks and great team spirit, a true pleasure to work at ... and then you step through the door.
Unpleasant information (such as the new office presence rules, overtime cuts, outsourcing measures) is not communicated openly, but "cascaded" down throughout the hierarchy, which means that messages become muddled and unclear, leading to even more fears and uncertainty. Feedback from employees is not heard (unless they start public "shitstorms" on Viva Engage). It feels like nobody dares ask critical questions.
Every day, you arrive at work wondering what the next bad news will be.
Gleichberechtigung
All employees are treated equally badly.
Interessante Aufgaben
Half of my working time was spent sitting in pointless meetings and filling out JIRA tickets and other documentation.