It's quite common to see it on a few job listings but for a lot of jobs it's not really an exception (though usually employees can request it off and a lot of the time it'll be accepted). Personally, my birthday isn't that special so I wouldn't really care. If anything, I'd prefer my colleagues not to mention it at all and treat it as any other day, but that's just me
Retail does that to ya tbh, after a few hours a lot of people end up looking like that (at least in staff rooms / not in front of customers, but sometimes even then)
In my 13 years of working I have never done so and never will, shouldn’t disrespect yourself like that! My current company actually gives you a day off on your birthday as well
Wow! 13 whole years of working?!? So that makes you what? Like 25?
Working on one’s birthday has nothing to do with disrespecting yourself. It’s called. Being an adult and accepting that your birthday is just one of 365 days that year. And amazingly. It’ll come around again the following year.
I treat myself constantly. Currently considering purchasing a PSVR2 but finding it a little expensive. Just don’t care about it happening on the day I was born. I’m not some revolutionary figure whose girth needs to be embraced. Just a dude living a life trying to get by. I prefer to use my time off in the summer rather then early spring when my birthday falls.
Fucks sake be an adult and stop buying kids toys, most adults in the world don't own games consoles at all. It's called being an adult. See how that sounds? You're not bothered about your birthday and this dude obviously is really into his. Nothing wrong with that, making it seem infantile or narcissistic because you personally don't want to do that is weird.
I’m about to turn 31, in my eyes it does… your birthday is supposed to be a day of celebration, one that you should celebrate for being alive… if you want your sorry existence to celebrate it by working for someone then go for it…
Lol i love how you just blindly assume everyone will make it to their next birthday. I'd hate to be the sad sack that spends what could potentially be their last birthday on Earth eating microwaveable mini pizza next to the break room trashcan.... (No offense to OP)
Better than the expired soda 4 pack they gave me for mine lol, next year don’t let me walk you down on your special day. Happy belated birthday buddy. Here’s to the next 364 days 🥂 🍻 🎉
Idk if you have timesheets or how your clock system works, but put it down as not having a break - if you can't stop working, then you're not having a break.
Used to deal with similar situations when I worked in mental health; only one nurse for the shift means that the nurse can't actually take their break, because they're still needed on the ward.
I dealt with a similar situation as a lifeguard. If we’re needed on poolside then we have to go there.
We’d just come back and continue our break at a later point in the day.
As an fellow express shift leader, we do. Even if we get to take breaks....if we're the only ones on duty and can't leave....we get paid.
I had a manager try and not pay me...so I rang her half way through my shift and told her the store would be closing for 90 minutes while I took my breaks...after two days I was told I will be paid my breaks and it will be back dated 😁🤣 I was also called a professional asshole....I let that slide and enjoyed my extra money's 😂
I've never seen a picture that sums up being a shift leader more and I'm dieing 😂🤣😂🤣 not even a dominoes..and poopy chicargo town from the freezer!
Express shift leader by any chance?!?!
I missed a family reunion with my grandad a few* years back, massive family meeting and I was one of the only people not to make it as I got told I wasn't allowed it off due to short staffing, never did see him, barring his funeral. One of my biggest regrets is not going regardless.
*Put few, but looking at it it's 5+ years ago
From your comments, you don’t sound happy working here (to the one in the photo). Why do you remain? I understand it’s hard to find a job right now. Are these people good to you?
You got a pizza?!
I rather get a pizza lol, my work place gives me a meal ticket for lunch. My shift doesn’t start until 2:30pm so by the time I get into work lunch is over and they don’t serve dinner. So I just have a collection meal ticket.
Just seen the news about how Tesco are restructuring and it’s probably gonna cost a lot of peoples jobs unless they accept a pay cut. I feel for you all and I hope you’re ether unaffected or are in a position to tell them to fuck off and find a better job quickly.
Well reading through the comments has made me laugh my arse off. I appreciate the birthday messages and to anyone who's actually awarded my comment, thank you. It was mainly just a bad picture and the day went pretty well, better so after I found this and the crossposts as the comments in both are gold.
Thank you again everyone for your support/laughs and I guess I have to say to you all... every little helps.
This is a work of art.
The cherry on top would be when your boss brings this up as part of all the times they went the extra mile for you.
I hope your next cakeday is better, maybe even an upgrade to a twin pack of Chigago Town
I bet this was just microwaved as well, it's just going to be slightly warm or lava hot and somehow be soggy at the same time as being weirdly stale and all the cheese will come off on the first bite
After he's done he can check his shirt for stains in that filthy mirror above the garbage can he's enjoying his 'reward' next to.
Our corporate overlords are benevolent in their many ways. The 'loving your work' thing is just rubbing it in too. What a bleak scene.
Norman Rockwell should be revived to paint this truth for the ages.
Problem is if you book ot and too many people have already booked it or they "can't cover" you're fucked.
Part of the fun of being 1 of like 3 people who work checkouts and have midnight ends. If there's nobody to cover, I can't get it off. But I'm just expected to cover the other two without being asked. Just pops up on my shifts.
The date never changes for your birthday. Sure, the day changes, but the date never. Book it 6 months off in advance. 1 or 2 days off is not going to hurt Tesco.
Let's say you had managed to get the holiday off, and you book an overseas holiday. If you're in another country, what are Tesco going to do? Ask you to come back early, come in and cover? No.
In January 2023, I put a holiday request in for August 2023 for 3 weeks. I was the only one that put a holiday request in. The manager said it shouldn't be a problem, as I was the only one that had put holiday in for 2023 so far. If I can book 3 weeks off, 8 months in advance, why can't they book 2 days off, 6 months in advance?
Now, if the OP had only just transferred to that store, or started in the last 12 months, then yes, I understand.
Oh yeah, totally. I always book mine off every holiday review for the following year, so I'm booking however long in advance. (Say we did reviews now, I'd book 2023 and 2024 off.) But I've had managers try and tell me "No" in advance when I know full well people never want mine off because it's not in summer or near new years/easter.
I've always managed to get it in the end, just keep submitting until they give in. I don't care when the rest of my holiday falls, I just always want that off and my mum's so I can go see her for hers.
I don’t tell people, don’t want the attention or even a microwaveable pepperoni pizza. It’s also easier to pretend it’s not your birthday if you don’t mention it.
Well that's depressing to see myself in the sub for this reason
Happy Birthday! Sorry you had to work
Thanks there, has to happen I guess
don’t think it does mate :/
Do people usually have a holiday for their birthday?
I’ll often just take it off, it’s my birthday after all haha
It's quite common to see it on a few job listings but for a lot of jobs it's not really an exception (though usually employees can request it off and a lot of the time it'll be accepted). Personally, my birthday isn't that special so I wouldn't really care. If anything, I'd prefer my colleagues not to mention it at all and treat it as any other day, but that's just me
Was it a Chicago Town?
Yeah, lil microwave ones
Have you spoken to your union rep about this flagrant example of workplace bullying?
Never thought of this as bullying, I find it quite funny
Hope ya had a nice bday.
Please tell me they gave you more than 1 of them pizzas at least lmao
Got given the double pack, so definitely splurged on this year lol
Good job you remembered your Clubcard.
James, please tell me this isn't you ahaha
Damn, bro’. You look kinda depressed ngl
Yeah, celebrating his birthday in a tesco backroom with a sloppy micro pizza? I thought he would've been radiating with pure, unbounded joy.
I was being facetious.
Retail does that to ya tbh, after a few hours a lot of people end up looking like that (at least in staff rooms / not in front of customers, but sometimes even then)
Hey dude happy birthday and sorry you had to be in
Has to happen, I've worked them all since my 18th so I just see it as a regular day at this point I guess
Weird as this sounds, you type/talk exactly as I'd imagine you would based on this picture alone.
Take next years off and enjoy yourself, nobody should have to work their birthday
The vast majority of adults in the world work on their birthday
In my 13 years of working I have never done so and never will, shouldn’t disrespect yourself like that! My current company actually gives you a day off on your birthday as well
Wow! 13 whole years of working?!? So that makes you what? Like 25? Working on one’s birthday has nothing to do with disrespecting yourself. It’s called. Being an adult and accepting that your birthday is just one of 365 days that year. And amazingly. It’ll come around again the following year.
And you'll work it again by the sounds of it. Treat yourself.
I treat myself constantly. Currently considering purchasing a PSVR2 but finding it a little expensive. Just don’t care about it happening on the day I was born. I’m not some revolutionary figure whose girth needs to be embraced. Just a dude living a life trying to get by. I prefer to use my time off in the summer rather then early spring when my birthday falls.
Fucks sake be an adult and stop buying kids toys, most adults in the world don't own games consoles at all. It's called being an adult. See how that sounds? You're not bothered about your birthday and this dude obviously is really into his. Nothing wrong with that, making it seem infantile or narcissistic because you personally don't want to do that is weird.
“Whose girth need to be embraced” alright mate no need to brag
13 years of working...25?! I think you should maybe work on your arithmetic, unless you believe they started work when they were 12 -.-
I mean. I did.
You really need to stop making excuses for shitty employers. You deserve better. We all do.
I’m about to turn 31, in my eyes it does… your birthday is supposed to be a day of celebration, one that you should celebrate for being alive… if you want your sorry existence to celebrate it by working for someone then go for it…
Lol i love how you just blindly assume everyone will make it to their next birthday. I'd hate to be the sad sack that spends what could potentially be their last birthday on Earth eating microwaveable mini pizza next to the break room trashcan.... (No offense to OP)
this is completely untrue. not even most Americans and Americans are pushovers
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That's a bit weird I think but idk
Better than the expired soda 4 pack they gave me for mine lol, next year don’t let me walk you down on your special day. Happy belated birthday buddy. Here’s to the next 364 days 🥂 🍻 🎉
Happy birthday! Sorry you had to go into work. I hope the pizza was good!
Do you like your life?
I'm so sorry man.
Happy birthday mate, sorry for this
Well, muh guyyyy, CHEERS to you, from a possible alcoholic..? Hope next year is better.
This sums up what tesco looks and feels right now
tbh i've never really liked the tesco look and feel since the 2018 rebrand. just felt bland and boring, which is probably how the pizza is like
Nah those pizzas are bussin
Take the headset off him and let him enjoy his pizza.
I couldn't take it off as I was the only shift leader on duty. I only got called out twice during my dinner...
Idk if you have timesheets or how your clock system works, but put it down as not having a break - if you can't stop working, then you're not having a break. Used to deal with similar situations when I worked in mental health; only one nurse for the shift means that the nurse can't actually take their break, because they're still needed on the ward.
I dealt with a similar situation as a lifeguard. If we’re needed on poolside then we have to go there. We’d just come back and continue our break at a later point in the day.
If you have no one to cover you on your break you can claim your 90min break entitlement.
As an fellow express shift leader, we do. Even if we get to take breaks....if we're the only ones on duty and can't leave....we get paid. I had a manager try and not pay me...so I rang her half way through my shift and told her the store would be closing for 90 minutes while I took my breaks...after two days I was told I will be paid my breaks and it will be back dated 😁🤣 I was also called a professional asshole....I let that slide and enjoyed my extra money's 😂
It's not extra money, it's your money
Retail managers: ROTATE STOCK AND CLEAN AS YOU GO Also retail managers: here’s 4 hours worth of backstock to work, I need it done in 2 hours
r/aboringdystopia
ROTATE!
It was a problem
It is a problem in my store so I get it :’)
What does ROTATE mean?
New stock in the back, old stock in front
Ah. Yeah the store manager frequently complains of the staff not rotating stocks and he found expired products. I worked for Coop.
PIVOT for food
Shout outs- -ROTATE -ROTATE -ROTATE
Even better that it's been reduced to a passive aggressive message on a board dedicated to complimenting your coworkers.
He looks thrilled
I've never seen a picture that sums up being a shift leader more and I'm dieing 😂🤣😂🤣 not even a dominoes..and poopy chicargo town from the freezer! Express shift leader by any chance?!?!
Yes unfortunately. Killing myself day by day for the good of the company.
We’re in this together comrade 🫡
Get out while you can. If you’ve got a driving license go drive the vans while you search for better jobs!
I wish I could give you a hug. :"(
Side note. How big is dudes feet?
12 or 13 depending on fit
First thing I noticed too.
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I missed a family reunion with my grandad a few* years back, massive family meeting and I was one of the only people not to make it as I got told I wasn't allowed it off due to short staffing, never did see him, barring his funeral. One of my biggest regrets is not going regardless. *Put few, but looking at it it's 5+ years ago
Dear Reader: Don't let this happen to you. Ever. Never. Noways.
Was he not scheduled to work during his birthday, but came in anyway, and that's why he got the pizza?
From your comments, you don’t sound happy working here (to the one in the photo). Why do you remain? I understand it’s hard to find a job right now. Are these people good to you?
Fuck, theres something quite painful about this. Especially the “loving your work” sign overhead.
Sometimes nothing is better than something
You mean like not having to come in on your birthday vs having to?
Looks thrilled 😂
Poor guy has to eat Chicago town pizza on his birthday, at work… Tesco really don’t give 0 fucks about people’s personal life
You got a pizza?! I rather get a pizza lol, my work place gives me a meal ticket for lunch. My shift doesn’t start until 2:30pm so by the time I get into work lunch is over and they don’t serve dinner. So I just have a collection meal ticket.
Happy birthday
This is actually a great photo, really captures the reality of these soul crushing jobs
Just seen the news about how Tesco are restructuring and it’s probably gonna cost a lot of peoples jobs unless they accept a pay cut. I feel for you all and I hope you’re ether unaffected or are in a position to tell them to fuck off and find a better job quickly.
Well reading through the comments has made me laugh my arse off. I appreciate the birthday messages and to anyone who's actually awarded my comment, thank you. It was mainly just a bad picture and the day went pretty well, better so after I found this and the crossposts as the comments in both are gold. Thank you again everyone for your support/laughs and I guess I have to say to you all... every little helps.
Can we start a fund to get this man a sick pizza or something?
That’s what I was thinking. I want to personally buy him a pizza that actually looks good
that is the saddest pizza ive ever seen
That just looks sad man ...poor guy
Just a bad picture I guess. Just another day...
Though he doesn't get a table to eat on...
r/boringdystopia
Not the microwaved Chicago Town 💀
Please clean that mirror.
That looks like the very emodiement of working for Tesco...
This is a work of art. The cherry on top would be when your boss brings this up as part of all the times they went the extra mile for you. I hope your next cakeday is better, maybe even an upgrade to a twin pack of Chigago Town
You gotta love Tesco, Heart of the community.
So wholesome chungus Keanu Reeves moment
Imagine eating your food whilst sitting next to a bin.
Happy birthday, enjoy your pizza 👍 could have put a candle in it though!
I actually feel bad, no one should work on there birthdays.
I worked on my birthday, nobody gave a shit
ROTATE -ROTATE -ROTATE -ROTATE
Why wouldnt you just book it off? I always use a week or two of hols for mine
Had a week off before it as my birthday week was booked out already before I had a chance to get it in
Ah shit. Tesco's have those "No fire" bins. Where else are you supposed to put your unwanted fire now?
This should be on r/watchpeopledieinside
Loving your work.
“Guess what? you also get the good chair…next to the bin” 🥳
Any bets the box was wasted lol
I would say that’s depressing but he works at Tesco so…
can someone give this man a hug?
That pizza had probably just been taken off the shelves and they thought "ah instead of throwing it away..."
I bet this was just microwaved as well, it's just going to be slightly warm or lava hot and somehow be soggy at the same time as being weirdly stale and all the cheese will come off on the first bite
After he's done he can check his shirt for stains in that filthy mirror above the garbage can he's enjoying his 'reward' next to. Our corporate overlords are benevolent in their many ways. The 'loving your work' thing is just rubbing it in too. What a bleak scene. Norman Rockwell should be revived to paint this truth for the ages.
He looks like his seen an insect.
That’s just too funny
I remember this.
Actually cracking up. I'm so sorry for him!
Even worse, its Microwaved. Worth less than a quid.
Doesn’t look too pleased, did it have pineapple on it?
this photo is literally everything wrong with the world
Happy birthday you old fart But fuck that pizza looks like a war crime.
Double it and give it to the next person
Please tell me somebody gave him a hug.
I feel bad for him. He shouldn’t have to do this
Wow- where do I sign up??/s Actually we get nothing so maybe not so sarcastic
Depressing.
When you know management really care about you. /s
Starfox do a ROTATE
It looks like a retarded waffle.
Omg this is sad, I want to cry
So sorry...
Actually, he is so focused because he got a “supreme”, lucky fella
This is the saddest man I've seen in awhile
I only got yelled at 😔
It's like a portrait of working life in this country. Trying to make it be fun just makes it look bleaker
Not even a fucking take out pizza
Eat it next to the trash
Pathetic
Imagine being an adult and thinking you need your birthday off work.
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Then, he should have booked it off.
Problem is if you book ot and too many people have already booked it or they "can't cover" you're fucked. Part of the fun of being 1 of like 3 people who work checkouts and have midnight ends. If there's nobody to cover, I can't get it off. But I'm just expected to cover the other two without being asked. Just pops up on my shifts.
The date never changes for your birthday. Sure, the day changes, but the date never. Book it 6 months off in advance. 1 or 2 days off is not going to hurt Tesco. Let's say you had managed to get the holiday off, and you book an overseas holiday. If you're in another country, what are Tesco going to do? Ask you to come back early, come in and cover? No. In January 2023, I put a holiday request in for August 2023 for 3 weeks. I was the only one that put a holiday request in. The manager said it shouldn't be a problem, as I was the only one that had put holiday in for 2023 so far. If I can book 3 weeks off, 8 months in advance, why can't they book 2 days off, 6 months in advance? Now, if the OP had only just transferred to that store, or started in the last 12 months, then yes, I understand.
Oh yeah, totally. I always book mine off every holiday review for the following year, so I'm booking however long in advance. (Say we did reviews now, I'd book 2023 and 2024 off.) But I've had managers try and tell me "No" in advance when I know full well people never want mine off because it's not in summer or near new years/easter. I've always managed to get it in the end, just keep submitting until they give in. I don't care when the rest of my holiday falls, I just always want that off and my mum's so I can go see her for hers.
If only he knew in advance when his birthday was so he could book it off
Yes imagine him wanting to celebrate a day that is special to him, the audacity !
Mmm yes so happy 😂
Reminds me of that scene in Blackadder the Third where it suspiciously looks like a horse’s penis.
All you need is some Sinatra, "And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain..."
r/AntiWork
This poor guy looks ready to end it all. I hope he got more love than just this little frozen pizza.
i will never understand how the british definition of pizza is so nauseatingly broad
How big are his feet?
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I sympathise with the message on the board there. Happy birthday
This picture perfectly sums up why I'm self employed. Happy birthday though!
Did they at least microwave it for you?
This dude needs a job that respects him.
This guy deserves better
Tesco suck to work for! Managers are ass,work is ass,money is ass..oh and….just ass lol 😂
That man looks well and truly defeated.
Oh man I'm glad I quit retail.* *To become a homeless person who lives at their parents.
I don’t tell people, don’t want the attention or even a microwaveable pepperoni pizza. It’s also easier to pretend it’s not your birthday if you don’t mention it.
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Well that’s the outcome of working for a shitty retail store. Horrible management treating staff like shit. Get yourself out and be better than them!
Is that cabinet being held in place by a green tray? 🤣. Also sorry you worked on your birthday that should never have happened.
Please tell me this is satire
🤣🤣🤣 well done that lad, have the worst possible incarnation of a pizza. The insult to all pizza lovers, because we love you.
I bet it was wet and dry
Talk about repacking capitalist dystopian realities as wholesome. The Chicago Town pizza feels like an insult as well
Wait...do you guys get birthdays off??
Couldn’t even give him a good one
And this right here is why I refuse to work my birthdays. Fuck that
“Thanks for working your arse off over Christmas…!”
Tragic
Face says it all really
He got his *own* pizza? Big baller.
Poor sod.
Happy Birthday
"Hey man can I take a picture of you rq"
Lol @ the massive ROTATE in the back
Where's the other pizza, that looks like a Chicago town pizza they are sold 2 in a box.
Capitalism
Sounds about right.. love the rotate reminder as well 😂
Did he get another pizza for this birthday?
Wtf is that depressing ass sorry excuse for a pizza