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This was years ago when I just left college. I applied for a supermarket job (UK) stocking shelves on Nightshift. It was advertised as 36 hours a week at £7.00 per hour (this is way before minimum wage). I go to interview at a huge national store (sounds like hesco) 4 of us there, we are all given a questionnaire and told openly that it's just a personal choice thing to see how we would mesh in the job and there is no wrong answers. First 3 go in one at a time all leaving with a face showing anger. I go in interviewer goes through the questionnaire marking certain responses as “wrong answer” then tells me I have to join the union as they run a closed shop and that the job is afternoon shift and only 16 hours at £5. I refuse to sign the contract offer and…


This was years ago when I just left college. I applied for a supermarket job (UK) stocking shelves on Nightshift. It was advertised as 36 hours a week at £7.00 per hour (this is way before minimum wage).

I go to interview at a huge national store (sounds like hesco)
4 of us there, we are all given a questionnaire and told openly that it's just a personal choice thing to see how we would mesh in the job and there is no wrong answers.

First 3 go in one at a time all leaving with a face showing anger.

I go in interviewer goes through the questionnaire marking certain responses as “wrong answer” then tells me I have to join the union as they run a closed shop and that the job is afternoon shift and only 16 hours at £5.

I refuse to sign the contract offer and report this to the job centre to be told “closed shop or forced union membership is illegal and they misrepresented the job clearly”.

I took s job 2days later as a night Watchman for £9.59 per hour.

These days I'm medically disabled, but thought I'd share this old tale from my past

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