There are lots of reasons not to work at Morrisons supermarket.  The pay is bad, the working conditions are worse, and your fellow workers will be understandable miserable.

Is this letter to the manager of one store, some of the more ridiculous actions are made clear.  If your thinking of starting a job in the shop, make sure you give it a read! 

Dear General manager

As you probably know my final shift at Morrisons  department should have been on Tuesday, whereas in fact I left mid-shift on Monday. I have high standards of professional etiquette, I am neither an erratic, nor unreasonable individual.  Thus I feel the need to explain these uncharacteristic actions in the following narrative; which represents an honest account of the events as I perceive them:

On Monday the 19th of October at approximately eight fifteen pm I was carrying out my code checks as per normal, and had reached the promotion end one (the one closest to the cooked meats).  Whilst checking this area I found a set of loose papers.  On further inspection I realised that these papers contained confidential information on disciplinary action against myself and Liam (the FFPP supervisor) which had carelessly been left where any customers or staff could have picked them up. 

Clearly leaving confidential information about myself and another member of staff, in a fridge was a fairly horrifying breach of both the data protection act, and employee confidentiality.  No doubt it would adequately explain my lack of desire to attend work. 

Surprisingly then, it was more the reaction I got when I brought the issue up that I found so offensively ridiculous.  On bringing up the issue to the deputy manager he simply reprimanded me for ‘the way I spoke to him on the shop floor’, and for ‘having a chip on my shoulder’.  Given that I was in no way offensive or rude and the pretty unforgiveable breach of the law that had just occurred the former complaint seems absurd beyond belief.  The latter, given the mainly positive nature of my departure, seemed frankly bizarre.

I realise that deputy manager is not best skilled at communication, and I have a great degree of sympathy and tolerance for him.  However, in a situation where a simple, frank apology would have solved the problem for me completely, I feel he acted totally unreasonably, and that I had no choice but to leave.

I hope that this letter will be taken both as an explanation, and an apology to you personally for my absence.    I hold no personal grudges, nor any against Morrisons, I simply regret that my leaving was made so needlessly negative.

I still consider my experience at Morrisons to have been a broadly positive and informative one.  I simply left to pursue a job, which I felt more suited to. 

Yours Sincerely