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what the heck
Feb. 26th, 2016 11:11 amIs there something in the water? Because holycrapmuffins are the schedules at work all kinds of messed up. A new one went up yesterday and I peeked to see what my days were. At first it looked fine, as I was off the two days I asked for, then on for two, then my 'normal' two, and... one more that I didn't realize at the time.
A few hours later, D asks if I've seen the new schedule. I say sorta, I saw there was one but I didn't look at anyone else's hours. She gleefully tells me she's working one day, new girl isn't on the schedule at all, and basically NO ONE is scheduled for most of the week overnight.
I don't know why I didn't believe her. I really don't. So I went to look and... yup. New girl isn't on the schedule. D has one day. I look closer at mine and realize they left me off Wednesday and we all know that's not right. So D makes sure the boss lady knows and that new girl knows.
To be fair, if it were just mine being funky, I would assume that because they borked my schedule this week, they were just choosing to offset it next week because they'd even out. But... that's not how it went.
I'm not sure if someone said something to the assistant manager or if he just happened to realize something was seriously wrong, but he mentioned that I wouldn't *need* to use my days as PTO if I didn't want to. I agreed and then double checked that it wouldn't change my days off next week. He said it wouldn't. I checked the schedule at the end of my shift and it's an entirely different schedule.
I point out, as nicely as I can, that while I'm fine with them either using or not using my PTO (it'd make more sense to not use it on this week's schedule), if the schedule remains sort of constant (ha!), the next schedule to go up wouldn't give me a day off until like, Sunday, at the absolute earliest and likely not til Monday. And I would go insane working that many days in a row and I would hurt someone. I'm pretty sure people think I'm joking when I break out my, "If I have to work ten days in a row, I will stab someone with a pen by day eight" comment. I'm not. The whole reason night shift had a set in stone schedule is because prior to that happening, they treated nightshift like dayshift, and you'd wind up working nine days in a row, getting a day off, and then going again. Which you shouldn't do to anyone, really, but you really can't do to overnight because it means my ass is at work literally (and I do mean literally) every day and that's just soul crushing. Not even the store manager is in every single day for at least two hours. It's just not something I'm interested in revisiting.
It's why I didn't rock the boat at any point on schedules over the years because while my days off weren't ideal, they were good and I liked them. I do not like not having ANY part of a weekend off and it pisses me off that D, who started ten years after me, gets Sundays off just cuz she said so, but that worked for the first year (and thus didn't bother me) because K and F worked the days D and I didn't. Then F got fired by an overnight shift lead who left for dayshift immediately after getting F fired (then what was the point, dammit?) and K ran two days by herself and it worked just fine. Maybe not ideal, but since those two days weren't/aren't all that busy, it worked.
And then J started working overnight and everything went to hell and hasn't been fixed since, even though she no longer works overnight. Jesus, just... it's not hard. As far as I can tell, new girl doesn't care about having her days off together and doesn't have any specific days she can't work. So just figure out if you're adhering to the whole 2 people every night, 3 on Saturdays/Truck days thing, and if you aren't (there's no need for three of us on any Saturday except the last one of the month) then basically reinstate the old schedule that worked perfectly well. Tweak it if you need to for the one day that won't be a problem because new girl is actually flexible, and call it good. Seriously, the schedule will write itself every time if you'd let it.
Every. Time. It was the easiest schedule ever because it only changed if someone wanted off and even then, you just plugged the other person into a later time if you needed to, or had someone come in earlier the next day. Most of the time they'd complain about coming in early but dance out of the store early so they did it fairly happily.
But how do you make a schedule wherein no one's scheduled for an entire shift? How does that make it past the "and if I put this person here and that one there, how do things look? Oh, bad. Things look bad. Try again" stage? Neither of the people who are now responsible for the schedules are new to it. They've both done it with various success over the years and while they aren't as good as the woman who basically started the scheduling riots in November, they're still... not new at this.
A few hours later, D asks if I've seen the new schedule. I say sorta, I saw there was one but I didn't look at anyone else's hours. She gleefully tells me she's working one day, new girl isn't on the schedule at all, and basically NO ONE is scheduled for most of the week overnight.
I don't know why I didn't believe her. I really don't. So I went to look and... yup. New girl isn't on the schedule. D has one day. I look closer at mine and realize they left me off Wednesday and we all know that's not right. So D makes sure the boss lady knows and that new girl knows.
To be fair, if it were just mine being funky, I would assume that because they borked my schedule this week, they were just choosing to offset it next week because they'd even out. But... that's not how it went.
I'm not sure if someone said something to the assistant manager or if he just happened to realize something was seriously wrong, but he mentioned that I wouldn't *need* to use my days as PTO if I didn't want to. I agreed and then double checked that it wouldn't change my days off next week. He said it wouldn't. I checked the schedule at the end of my shift and it's an entirely different schedule.
I point out, as nicely as I can, that while I'm fine with them either using or not using my PTO (it'd make more sense to not use it on this week's schedule), if the schedule remains sort of constant (ha!), the next schedule to go up wouldn't give me a day off until like, Sunday, at the absolute earliest and likely not til Monday. And I would go insane working that many days in a row and I would hurt someone. I'm pretty sure people think I'm joking when I break out my, "If I have to work ten days in a row, I will stab someone with a pen by day eight" comment. I'm not. The whole reason night shift had a set in stone schedule is because prior to that happening, they treated nightshift like dayshift, and you'd wind up working nine days in a row, getting a day off, and then going again. Which you shouldn't do to anyone, really, but you really can't do to overnight because it means my ass is at work literally (and I do mean literally) every day and that's just soul crushing. Not even the store manager is in every single day for at least two hours. It's just not something I'm interested in revisiting.
It's why I didn't rock the boat at any point on schedules over the years because while my days off weren't ideal, they were good and I liked them. I do not like not having ANY part of a weekend off and it pisses me off that D, who started ten years after me, gets Sundays off just cuz she said so, but that worked for the first year (and thus didn't bother me) because K and F worked the days D and I didn't. Then F got fired by an overnight shift lead who left for dayshift immediately after getting F fired (then what was the point, dammit?) and K ran two days by herself and it worked just fine. Maybe not ideal, but since those two days weren't/aren't all that busy, it worked.
And then J started working overnight and everything went to hell and hasn't been fixed since, even though she no longer works overnight. Jesus, just... it's not hard. As far as I can tell, new girl doesn't care about having her days off together and doesn't have any specific days she can't work. So just figure out if you're adhering to the whole 2 people every night, 3 on Saturdays/Truck days thing, and if you aren't (there's no need for three of us on any Saturday except the last one of the month) then basically reinstate the old schedule that worked perfectly well. Tweak it if you need to for the one day that won't be a problem because new girl is actually flexible, and call it good. Seriously, the schedule will write itself every time if you'd let it.
Every. Time. It was the easiest schedule ever because it only changed if someone wanted off and even then, you just plugged the other person into a later time if you needed to, or had someone come in earlier the next day. Most of the time they'd complain about coming in early but dance out of the store early so they did it fairly happily.
But how do you make a schedule wherein no one's scheduled for an entire shift? How does that make it past the "and if I put this person here and that one there, how do things look? Oh, bad. Things look bad. Try again" stage? Neither of the people who are now responsible for the schedules are new to it. They've both done it with various success over the years and while they aren't as good as the woman who basically started the scheduling riots in November, they're still... not new at this.