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I worked as a Tesco picker for home deliveries – there’s one aisle we always go to relieve our stress from the chaos
A FORMER Tesco worker reveals what it's really like getting your food delivery to you - from running around the aisles at 4am to finding solutions to decompress.
Teniola Ramos, a university student, dishes the dirt on what it was like working behind the scenes at Tesco.
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"I worked at Tesco for three months so that you don't have to," she said before delving into what helped her survive the job.
Tips to survive
Most retail jobs are stressful but Teniola reveals there are some easy ways to unleash your anger while on the job.
"When I was super stressed I would head to the rice aisle and get a crushable bags of microwave rice and I would just squeeze it like a stress ball," she explains.
Another tip for surviving the work day is to never wear your name tag while on duty.
She confesses: "I don't think any of the managers knew my name."
"Essentially, if they don't know your name and you keep your head down - they don't know who you are.
"So you can get away with the lot."
One thing she was surprised she never got written up for was using Air pods at work.
This meant she was able to catch up on all her favourite podcasts and albums - which she praises for keeping her sane through her stint at Tesco.
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Early hours
As a delivery picker, Teniola had to be at the store at 4am to get deliveries out on time, she reveals on YouTube.
"At almost any major Tesco there will be a bunch of sleep deprived uni students pushing trollies around at 4am," she reveals.
Teniola woke up at 3am every day to get to her shift on time and then push trollies for an eight-hour shift.
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Shop floor
During the pandemic, Teniola revealed there were no staff around to give newbies proper training.
She describes her first day, saying: "We literally had a woman show us around the store one time pushing a trolley then she left and we had to basically pick the stuff on our own."
"I kid you not on my first day I dropped a 1kg jar of pasta sauce on the floor, it went everywhere.
"I had no idea who to call, I had no idea who my manager was, so I kind of just picked up my trolley and pushed it in the other direction really fast."
She also stated that staff members refused to help newbies because 'they all hate you because you're new and don't know how things work around here.'
Perks of the job
But Teniola says it wasn't all bad working there and that there were some perks of the job.
For instance, she was able to smash her daily goal of walking 10,000 steps.
And although the early mornings were miserable to get up for, it did mean her day finished at 12pm.
The biggest highlight of working there was meeting the other temporary staff, who joined during the pandemic.
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She said: "They're a bunch of different people from a bunch of different backgrounds."
Teniola adds that she would never have met or spoken to them if they hadn't all started at Tesco at the same time and was grateful for the team of temporary staff she got to work with.
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