I have worked a set schedual for some years now. I worked the 4;30 am shift exclsively for quite some time. I have worked every shift and earned my day shifts and at first was the only person who wanted to work that shift. I started getting it nibbled down to one day a week because others with more pull than I have realized it’s nice to get out of work by noon. What day did I get left with you may ask? Well Saturday of couse.
Anyway, I checked the schedule Sunday which I don’t usualy do, 'cause yeah, Set Schedule. Anyway, I see somehwo I am now working 19 am to 4 pm. The person in my place in the 4,30 spot why. I thought maybe he requested it so he could so something later. Nope apparently the assistant manager told him, “Things are changing and I need a stroger worker at that time” grrr
First; If she has a problem with my work ethic she should discuss it with me. What she souldn’t do is give my shift away and tell my co-worker in so many words that I’m a “weak worker”
Second; If her overnighter would do his job instead of playing with his phone half the night, I would have a lot less to catch up on.
Third: If my six o’clock would not hang in the back room for half an hour, chatting with the deli person and texting off and on all morning, I might just get more done. Also, this 6 am person does the paperwork, and takes 3 hours instead of the 1 to 1/
Im having trouble with the reply box. I’m going to just wind this up by saying this sort of crap has happened with this manager before. Our store manager has a family emergency keeping her away from the store for a while. When Store manager was gone for months with a broken ankle. Assistant decided to “fix” the stuff she feels are “wrong”. I am going to address this with this manager because I’m pretty sick of this crap. I always said when the store manager decides to retire (she’s 1 year older than I am) that I won’t stay tpp much longer.
I wrote a pointed and passive aggressive post on the store fb page. Won’t make things better, may make them worse. It made me feel sooo good.
She is not a manager, but someone who does paperwork. I really can’t remember her job title, but no one is going to kick her butt. Anyway, the assistant manager did call me today, and told me that they thought I would like that shift as I could be in the cooler the whole time (I really hate standing on register for a slew of reasons). I can stay in there pretty much the whole shift and I she said I could leave at noon for a few min. she also apologized to me for not calling/talking to me. I did not tell her about the “stronger” person on that shift. I did not because I’m pretty sure that would have been throwing my co-worker who told me about it under the bus. I like him, he’s a good kid. Anyway, on the whole, I’m OK with how it turned out. I guess I’ll count not having to get up at 4 AM anymore as a net gain. I was just really angry at the lack of communication and respect. My store manager’s husband is thankfully getting better. I suspect she may not return no matter how things pan out with his health. She’s a wonderful person and I hope she doesn’t lose him. As for me, we’ll see how things proceed as to whether I stay much longer or not. I’m trying to get my car paid off.
You are correct though, someone should kick those people’s butts. Not my circus not
Wellll, as for being in the cooler the whole time: ha! That didn’t and probably won’t happen. We are a stupid busy store and they keep trying to run the place with almost no one there. For no reason I can really comprehend we are the only gas station/party store that delivers. Do we have dedicated delivery drivers? Why no we don’t someone who is signed into a register, gathers the order and delivers it. Leaving the store with three people plus the deli worker. The shift I’m working is called “float”. I am supposed to do shift duties including cooler. That entire five our shift I probably did an hour in the cooler. I was glued to the register; I couldn’t even take a drink of my pop because we had 4 and 5 person lines all afternoon. Just what I wanted. If I could afford it I’d finally totally retire.
ETA: I, obviously, don’t write much anymore. I swear to work on punctuation and paragraphing.
Sounds like you should be looking for a new employer. If you’re gonna do it, don’t dally – unemployment is at historic lows, but it’s not likely to stay that way for much longer as the fed tries to rein in inflation.
I probably should, but because of life’s complications, I just don’t have the energy to look right now. I’ve been there 16 years and I guess inertia is a thing for me. I did fill out an application, but haven’t heard anything back so I gut it out a while longer or overcome my issues and find something else.