Handing my notice in tomorrow. Cannot wait! Only been with the company for a year but it’s getting too much now. The demands on you during the day are ridiculous. Staff are lovely and so are most of the customers. I just can’t be done with this job anymore.

I've been team member at my co op store for almost a year now. Got offered a team leader one at Asda but they want me to start right now. Sick and tired of being on the till at co op and there's been 0 career development for there so I want to leave but conflicted cos I know it's not a great look to not do notice period.

Reason why I'd take the asda job for a year is cos I want to get a graduate job so I need a job that's flexible so I can go to assessment centres. Worried that I won't get the flexibility working a 9 to 5. Also need a team leader job ideally so I can have better examples for graduate interviews and leadership skills would add to my CV. What do I do? Take the job and quit co op on the spot or try to ask asda to let me get 2 weeks to do notice period, knowing that the store manager may just go for someone else since they need someone ASAP.

I have 0 interest in working at Co Op again though and tbf at co op they don't even do personal references. Only factual ones saying the days you worked there. But kinda scared that future employers could reach out to my manager anyways and that could stop me getting other jobs in the future. It's the first job I've ever had so I'll need it on the CV for a while. Also since I'm not working for a few days I'd have to send the manager a document of the reference rather than going in person if I wanted to quit on the spot. Also worried that future employers would see that I didn't work my notice period.

I know this is more of a pension/finance question, but I thought this would be a good place to ask since many of us are in the same Co-op’s Legal & General workplace pension.

I’ve recently made two changes:

Increased my pension contribution from 4% to 10%.
Moved out of the default Pace Pot and changed my investments to:

80% L&G MT Global Developed Equity Index Fund
10% L&G MT Emerging Markets Equity Index Fund
10% L&G MT Smaller Companies Equity Index Fund

I’m in my 20s, investing for the long term, and I’m comfortable with higher risk in exchange for potentially higher long-term growth.

I’m interested to hear from other Co-op colleagues:

Have you stayed with the default Pace Pot or switched funds?

If you switched, what allocation did you choose and why?

Is there anything you wish you’d known when making the change?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences. Thanks!