Waitrose-rejected autistic volunteer receives job offer from Asda

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98n53dpzx6o

by dustofnations

11 comments

  1. This is just an advertisement for Asda. Pure virtue signalling. 

    They’ll have done the calculations and seen that this good PR will be more beneficial than the amount of money he’ll cost them as an employee.

  2. Asda always strikes me as a consumer as a pretty hard place to work with often middle aged staff having lots of self service tills to cover and very few manned tills available. Good luck to this guy, will have to see if he’s got the capability to survive the expectations.

  3. Collecting trollies in all weather’s, great opportunity.

  4. This is gonna sound mean, it’s not intended maliciously, but he can’t do any worse of a job than most of Asda’s current staff 🤷

  5. Waitrose did nothing wrong, Asda just jumping in to grab some easy PR.

  6. He volunteered at Waitrose for four years? To me it seems a bit like exploitation.

  7. Really don’t like that the family took this to the press at all.

  8. The workers in my asda all look they want to die, and the workers in my waitrose are very friendly and full of energy. I know which supermarket I’d rather work for. Poor guy

  9. Leave it to the users of this sub to shit all over a story with, what we should take as, a positive ending

  10. Can’t be any worse from the dribbling fucking idiots that work on the self checkout tills in my local Asda.

  11. I really don’t see the problem. PR IS a way of making money, it’s a business expense. If a multimillion pound corporation making money is so important, then they are still doing that this way. it’s just a disabled person is also happier. People don’t seem to realise with these placements, they aren’t just getting free labour they are usually also paid by the taxpayer whether directly or through charities for it. it’s actually his support worker, not the company’s, they would be supporting him do some other task anyway so why not instead support him to work and be part of something meaningful to him? There is a massive issue with disability discrimination in the UK, which we then weirdly turn to blaming disabled people for being on benefits and not working. Companies can and should be opening up work opportunities and their staff demographics reflecting the UK population. It would take the pressure off taxpayers.

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