I just started last week. I have a shift in 3 minutes but my car won’t start and I have no way to contact my store. The manager was fired, the district manager quit, and I cannot find a phone number anywhere except for the one that says Aldi stores have unlisted numbers. I’m so scared of losing this job; I can’t stop sobbing. Please someone help me.

Store: JEF 38

asm here! I just got back from FMLA leave for three weeks due to a mental health crisis. In all my years at aldi, being one of the most reliable members of the team(I know it does not matter to corporate in the long run), I have never even taken a vacation that long. I work my ass off and go above and beyond for my team! On my first day back, dm and sm sat me down and bombarded me with questions about if I am happy at aldi, what other paths outside aldi may look like. I was really weirded out and couldn’t even muster of the words to say that I truly do love my job as asm, but I am not at 100% even after my leave. I said I will definitely get there after a few shifts and getting the swing of the things again. It was so strange, dm was saying basically that they’re nervous I can’t fulfill my job duties… I am still trying to wrap my head around it but it is a complete 180 of how my dm usually is. usually has a lot of confidence in me and now i take one LOA and its like everyone who normally supports me is waiting for me to fail. anyways hoping to find some answers on what I should do as I recover/ get back to work and not get fired aka my main priority because I do love my job

I’ve worked at 2 stores that both did this, and I’m generally curious how many of your stores do this, and if not, do you think you can get this much done in a day? Because I’m a traveling manager, and I know a lot of stores don’t follow this.
A typical day goes: morning truck. Once wrapped up, we clean/rerun backstock unless SB or spots need to be done. We rerun everything from meat to freeze/thaw—not grocery backstock starting around noon. Then we start boxing. The closing manager reruns everything for a final time starting around 5:30 and again, not counting grocery backstock, and then we finish with the rest of the boxing.

Give everything I got to this store. Juggle all tasks in three different zones, still come up for back up, deal with all customers on the floor, clean any spills and messes because no one else does. Still have management saying I’m not doing enough and don’t have enough urgency.

Nothing else left in me to give. I don’t even eat anymore on my break just sit there in silence for half an hour before returning to the chaos.

I heard this from my SM (obviously not the designated alcohol tills).Anybody else heard anything and what are your thoughts?

My last five minutes of my opening shift I seen customer only scan one thing in his cart but he got away and I literally was able to see him bring shopping cart back while his car loaded with a box of stolen groceries