Reply With QuoteHey, does anyone know if induction and training is paid at the same rate as your normal rate of pay? I did 10 hours all up and got paid slightly less than my wage rate. No biggie but just wondering how it works.
yeah, Woolies can be absolutley fantastic if u get the right people. Like i work in like one of only two metro's in the state, and because we're so small, u get to know all the customers and all the staff, which makes for a good time working
Hey, does anyone know if induction and training is paid at the same rate as your normal rate of pay? I did 10 hours all up and got paid slightly less than my wage rate. No biggie but just wondering how it works.
Got offer for service cashier today. =)
Induction tomorrow and Monday, first shift Wednesday.
(Do you get free alcohol for being a liquor assistant?)
maybe training is paid at the probation rate? induction certainly isOriginally Posted by Sarah168
haha, i wish!!Got offer for service cashier today. =)
Induction tomorrow and Monday, first shift Wednesday.
(Do you get free alcohol for being a liquor assistant?
They only differ by about 60c/hr but the money I was paid for induction varied by more than $3/hr from my wage rate.
I might make sure I'm being paid the right wage for my age when I start working next week. Thanks anyway Townie.
Yeh when you are training you generally have to fit in with their times.
Are you a casual or part time? You need to either figure out your contract (if part time) or availability (the store doesnt get or care about whatever you filled out online) if casual, once you finish your three training shifts, and you do this with your service manager.
In your probation period I wouldnt recommend you take alot of time off.. you have a report written about you at 4 weeks, 7 weeks and 11 weeks.. then they can choose to keep or fire you. At our store we are close to letting go a couple of really unreliable newbies.. but our problem is not having enough staff for Christmas so we might have to keep them depending on if we can get new staff or not.
Bachelor of Education (Primary) @ ACU National
Certificate in Languages (Croatian) @ Macquarie University (Completed in 2006)
Crap, I'm taking off a whole midweek (5 days) and one other day for exams. They don't seem to mind...yet. Hopefully, my 100% flexibility after exams might help. Gahh!
how long does it usually take for them to contact u after your online application?
It depends on availability and timing.
I applied tonnes after my HSC and first year uni but I applied AFTER my exams so it was mid Nov and they already finished hiring around my area. So, no calls and no job at all.
But this year, I decided to be a little more astute and applied early when positions started appearing on the Wowcareers site (around mid to end Oct) and got a call the day after apps closed. Went for a group interview the next day. Got a call for a store interview the day after and got the job 2 hours after the store interview.
Soyeah, depends if positions are available and your timing. Try to apply for a specific position on the site rather than a general application.
Hey it isnt like maths with algebra and stuff like that right? cause i cant do that efficiently
Totally correct. I had my details on their database for a year and a half, but when i applied for a specific position, i had an interview within 2 days of submitting an application.
i've now been there just under 3 months
The induction videos are sooooo BORING. They're just so general and aren't relevant at all for those on checkouts. I mean, if you were in deli or nightfill then maybe they wouldnt be so boring, but there wasn't one bit of useful information (that wasn't just common sense) for checkout staff.I kept yawning during the videos.
Algebra in Woolies :rofl:Hey it isnt like maths with algebra and stuff like that right? cause i cant do that efficiently
No, you just gotta be able to add and subtract properly to avoid issues at the register.
I'm just starting and haven't dealt with a register and money/change for 3 years so I screwed up a few times with denominations for change haha.
gah! that should be easy...checkouts are awesome, although i like packing more cause they bother you less and stuff like that
As if you even need that.
I agree on the boring bit. I had my first induction today, I was just.... really really bored.But I survived, with a lot of coffee.
Well, counting out change, probably not but I hate it when people give you a huge pile of change and you barely have room on your hands to count it out and make sure you're getting it right while everyone else starts getting pissed off an impatient :mad1:
Wow...
Day 8 of working at Safeway, on the three months probation and I get given a permanent part-time position (employed a casual)...Interesting.
9 hours on cup day...woooo...lol
is this the same for bigw?
Well, it isn't for Safeway...which is why I mentioned it.
I remember being told explicitly that everyone is employed as a casual during probation, and people don't usually get given a contract until after it.
oh i mean the whole employment process (ref post 1)
I'd say it's pretty similar in structure....just slightly different activities in the interview process - and even this is pretty similar.
Although, as I've mentioned before, there is no more phone interview stage as far as I know and the group assessment skill check (well, it's actually some form of psychological test :S) include other things too. I'll leave you to find out when you get there.
www.wowcareers.com.au
Apply there, you'll be invited to a group assessment if they like your online app, then you'll get a store interview, an offer and then induction/training.
Good luck!
Last edited by Excalibur_; 4 Nov 2006 at 10:31 PM.
haha yeah beats being a jobless fucker lol
thanks dude
Haha...I wouldn't on checkouts much though! I still have recurring dreams of serving customers at 3am, which I subsequently wake up from.
They can't discriminate you because they higher alot students either school or uni so they have to accept it. If not you could always tell the union and get the union to whinge at them
Hmm..Plumpton..Well at Big W one that I work at it is sometimes okay but we always seem to get the weirdest or rudest customers there. I'm still a bit pissed when I put my unavailability for my hsc exams six weeks before the exams I got called up the week before the exams and the beginning of the exam weeks to work. I would have understood if someone mixed up once but the same lady twice in a row called me up if I could work even though I told her my exams start soon..grr...
There are also seems to be cases of favouritism there at the store too because one of the girls I have befriended there has asked for about a year to get moved out of another area to checkouts and some other girl got put in the area she requested even though she hasn't been working as long...Oh and once I got asked to work in layby but I couldn't as I was going to tafe that day and when I told a manager that he was like 'oh..can't you miss it or something' and because I said no I was never asked since.
I got blamed once for letting someone steal something because apparently this customer came up to me with about 3 pots with 3 hidden fluffy detergents inside and I only scanned one of each. I apolgised, got warned that if it happens to many times I could lose my job and all that. But the day or two after that problem I actually remembered scanning one of each but I timsed the amount by 3...It was too late then.
Oh and at Blacktown Big W this manager that doesn't like my friend or some other people fired my friend without letting her know because she apparently did not work for 30 shifts she was put down on the roster for. But the thing was she put an unavaliability sheet in during that time because she was studying for hsc and the store lost it and to top it off she wasn't called when she missed the shifts.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Bookmarks