Seems about right. Cant give the bottom a living wage because each of the C-level employees need a 40% raise every year
The state of someone getting £3.9m a year and also having a £15k car allowance a year.
75% tax rate for over £250k would be a start.
It’s impossible to understand why everything is getting more expensive. I hear it’s supply chain issues, and lazy people refusing to work. Record profits and massive executive pay rates can’t have anything to do with it, so I’m told.
Completely unsurprised, Billionaire Lord sainsbury has a history of funding projects that suppress wages. Keep the rich well fed and f••k the plebs eh
I wish they’d have used his name, Simon Roberts, in the headline so that everyone would remember that it’s Simon Roberts who’s taking a “pay packet is 183 times larger than that of the median worker at the supermarket.”
And that Simon Roberts’ big pay jump “represented a like-for-like increase of 31% over the year. That compared with 5.3% pay increases for the staff it directly employs in stores, well below the 9% rate of inflation that is causing a cost of living crisis.”
I’d go as far as to say that Simon Robert is a bit of a piece of shit. There’s no way I’d be able to sleep at night taking that pay rise and that level of pay when I’ve got staff who are, because of inflation, taking a pay cut.
Rather than standing on the shoulder of giants, he’s stomping on the heads of the underpaid. Dick.
All for me and none for thee. Gotcha
Disgusting. That should have been shared out between all staff.
I don’t get why people think this can be fixed by shaming random CEOs. You need systemic change.
Pay raises for those who refuse to raise pay … it’s a royal screwing and workers aren’t even getting kissed.
These people have no shame. It’s just astonishing.
So much greed 🙁 it’s so sad.
I got a 12% pay rise as a van driver for Sainsbury’s.
I was pretty happy about that, ngl.
My grandad got took out of work for redeeming an extra coupon:( and his work is Sainsbury’s
Just one of the many reasons I hate Saintsbury’s and am glad I don’t work there anymore.
They stiffed me out of 6 years of Sunday premium. They’re completely clueless and out of touch. And they pay a shit wage. Douchebags.
TrIcKlE dOwN eCoNoMiCs
Disgusting.
Why should he get that?
Sainsburys share price is down 18% ytd he doesn’t deserve an award for failure?
Why do people actually shop at Sainsbury’s? The prices are absolutely ridiculous, and you’re definitely not paying for quality lmao
Thing is, as valid as the “it wouldn’t make a different if he gave this all to the workers” comments may be… there’s a difference between… like…
Up here, at the moral high ground, there’s “I’m paying all my staff a living wage, aren’t I great?”. This is probably unachievable, granted.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Down here, right at the bottom, with all the scummy sewerage, there’s “I’m tripling my own million pound salary during a cost of living crisis”.
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There’s a vast expanse in the middle, represented by all those dots, where you don’t come off as a saint but cripple the company OR come off as an absolutely evil cunt.
Just because you can’t be literally Jesus does not mean you have to be literally Satan instead.
At the profit margins they currently have (more expensive average shop compared to Tesco with clubcard, Lidl and aldi) they can more than afford to pay a better wage.
With crap value for money and crap wages for workers what exactly are they bringing to the table?
When the poor have nothing left to eat they will eat the rich ..
This is nothing new when it comes to this firm. I used to work for Salisbury’s at one of their offices during the 90s. Working for them felt extremely rewarding in the early years. Then David Sainsbury took over, and things changed, and not for the better. Instead of the standard (position-dependent) pay raise, they implemented a merit system. The horrid part of this system was that it was really based on the floor manager’s opinion about who the person was rather than the work they produced, and that would determine if you received a 5% raise (I think) down to only a 1% pay raise and yes the board and other senior staff received above inflation raises. For most, if not all, it went from feeling rewarded and appreciated to… well…not. Also, you went from being treated and trusted as an adult to having to raise your hand to ask to go to the toilet like a child. There were a number of changes to the work practices, and none were morale boosters. My department’s morale got so bad during a big meeting about redundancies. We were told our jobs were safe… the disappointment that spread across the room.😂😂😂 Literally, we were all praying our names were on the chopping board because the payout was pretty decent. One staff member actually asked, “If a person doesn’t want to take up the redundancy, can one of us volunteer?”🤭🤭
In any measurable way does his performance actually justify that?
Welcome to having a fuckton of bargaining power
The ones who make the rules are the ones making the money. It’s evident everywhere.
Lidl it is then.
The CEO has done his job….optimised profits at the expense of the little man…well played! /s
The higher your work level during the pandemic, the less use you actually were.
I worked at 6 months end of last year, their hr system kronos which manages payroll and booking holidays was down just before Christmas and was offline for months. Absolute nightmare as people that worked ot in the run up to Christmas didnt have the correct pay and days off were almost impossible to book.
Also remember in the news sainsbos reported that all staff got boxing day off? That was a lie. Floor staff were required to work if you didnt book it off in advance, when i realised this at the start of December i got laughed at by my manager for trying to book it off.
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Seems about right. Cant give the bottom a living wage because each of the C-level employees need a 40% raise every year
The state of someone getting £3.9m a year and also having a £15k car allowance a year.
75% tax rate for over £250k would be a start.
It’s impossible to understand why everything is getting more expensive. I hear it’s supply chain issues, and lazy people refusing to work. Record profits and massive executive pay rates can’t have anything to do with it, so I’m told.
Completely unsurprised, Billionaire Lord sainsbury has a history of funding projects that suppress wages. Keep the rich well fed and f••k the plebs eh
I wish they’d have used his name, Simon Roberts, in the headline so that everyone would remember that it’s Simon Roberts who’s taking a “pay packet is 183 times larger than that of the median worker at the supermarket.”
And that Simon Roberts’ big pay jump “represented a like-for-like increase of 31% over the year. That compared with 5.3% pay increases for the staff it directly employs in stores, well below the 9% rate of inflation that is causing a cost of living crisis.”
Simon Roberts is a name that should proudly sit next to [Fred Goodwin from RBS fame](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Goodwin#Size_of_pension).
I’d go as far as to say that Simon Robert is a bit of a piece of shit. There’s no way I’d be able to sleep at night taking that pay rise and that level of pay when I’ve got staff who are, because of inflation, taking a pay cut.
Rather than standing on the shoulder of giants, he’s stomping on the heads of the underpaid. Dick.
All for me and none for thee. Gotcha
Disgusting. That should have been shared out between all staff.
I don’t get why people think this can be fixed by shaming random CEOs. You need systemic change.
Pay raises for those who refuse to raise pay … it’s a royal screwing and workers aren’t even getting kissed.
These people have no shame. It’s just astonishing.
So much greed 🙁 it’s so sad.
I got a 12% pay rise as a van driver for Sainsbury’s.
I was pretty happy about that, ngl.
My grandad got took out of work for redeeming an extra coupon:( and his work is Sainsbury’s
Just one of the many reasons I hate Saintsbury’s and am glad I don’t work there anymore.
They stiffed me out of 6 years of Sunday premium. They’re completely clueless and out of touch. And they pay a shit wage. Douchebags.
TrIcKlE dOwN eCoNoMiCs
Disgusting.
Why should he get that?
Sainsburys share price is down 18% ytd he doesn’t deserve an award for failure?
Why do people actually shop at Sainsbury’s? The prices are absolutely ridiculous, and you’re definitely not paying for quality lmao
Thing is, as valid as the “it wouldn’t make a different if he gave this all to the workers” comments may be… there’s a difference between… like…
Up here, at the moral high ground, there’s “I’m paying all my staff a living wage, aren’t I great?”. This is probably unachievable, granted.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Down here, right at the bottom, with all the scummy sewerage, there’s “I’m tripling my own million pound salary during a cost of living crisis”.
​
There’s a vast expanse in the middle, represented by all those dots, where you don’t come off as a saint but cripple the company OR come off as an absolutely evil cunt.
Just because you can’t be literally Jesus does not mean you have to be literally Satan instead.
At the profit margins they currently have (more expensive average shop compared to Tesco with clubcard, Lidl and aldi) they can more than afford to pay a better wage.
With crap value for money and crap wages for workers what exactly are they bringing to the table?
When the poor have nothing left to eat they will eat the rich ..
This is nothing new when it comes to this firm. I used to work for Salisbury’s at one of their offices during the 90s. Working for them felt extremely rewarding in the early years. Then David Sainsbury took over, and things changed, and not for the better. Instead of the standard (position-dependent) pay raise, they implemented a merit system. The horrid part of this system was that it was really based on the floor manager’s opinion about who the person was rather than the work they produced, and that would determine if you received a 5% raise (I think) down to only a 1% pay raise and yes the board and other senior staff received above inflation raises. For most, if not all, it went from feeling rewarded and appreciated to… well…not. Also, you went from being treated and trusted as an adult to having to raise your hand to ask to go to the toilet like a child. There were a number of changes to the work practices, and none were morale boosters. My department’s morale got so bad during a big meeting about redundancies. We were told our jobs were safe… the disappointment that spread across the room.😂😂😂 Literally, we were all praying our names were on the chopping board because the payout was pretty decent. One staff member actually asked, “If a person doesn’t want to take up the redundancy, can one of us volunteer?”🤭🤭
In any measurable way does his performance actually justify that?
Welcome to having a fuckton of bargaining power
The ones who make the rules are the ones making the money. It’s evident everywhere.
Lidl it is then.
The CEO has done his job….optimised profits at the expense of the little man…well played! /s
The higher your work level during the pandemic, the less use you actually were.
I worked at 6 months end of last year, their hr system kronos which manages payroll and booking holidays was down just before Christmas and was offline for months. Absolute nightmare as people that worked ot in the run up to Christmas didnt have the correct pay and days off were almost impossible to book.
Also remember in the news sainsbos reported that all staff got boxing day off? That was a lie. Floor staff were required to work if you didnt book it off in advance, when i realised this at the start of December i got laughed at by my manager for trying to book it off.