Avoid if you value honesty - Avis employé Area Manager ALDI

Management is toxic at every level, the only colleagues who enjoy their role do so because they’re self-centred and have no guilt when pushing people to breaking point. The business is so efficiency driven that it comes at the cost of employee welfare. The mindset is very much “achieve, no matter the cost”. Of course senior management can’t be seen to tolerate cheating or figure manipulation, so every so often they will take a Store Manager to disciplinary and sack them for doing what everyone else is doing. Area Managers happily turn a blind eye so long as their Store Managers are delivering results, the moment that changes they’re instructed by the directors to performance manage. Performance management at Aldi serves only as a process to make people so miserable they eventually leave, never to see actual performance improvement. Even annual performance reviews are not constructive, they’re just another tool the business uses to highlight your flaws without the support provision to genuinely see you improve. I cannot stress enough how much I do not recommend them as an employer; it’s celebrated that 50% of all Area Managers quit in the first 2 years. They take pride in this statistic.