My store keeps scheduling people 6-8 days in a row before we get a day off. They won't change it either when we point it out. We are all so burnt out. Anyone else have this going on?
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It’s just insane that the directive comes from corporate.
Our store does not need excess dead weight on the weekends. We need bodies during the week, and hours to give those bodies. I don’t know what ridiculous metric they’re using, but it’s ki----g the stores, and morale.
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“HAVE to OVERSTAFF on weekends.”
Understaffed and anticipated “call outs” on weekends.
Oh my! Understand the "schedules" run Sun thru Sat.. One week You will find yourself working a 6-8 stretch at times. It happens. It particularly happens if you are lucky and get a long weekend off. Or have two days off in a row midweek. Meanwhile read the "Indeed" complaints about lack of hours being given in many stores.
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As for that "superstar" manager? There are ways to fix that issue too!
Also, your HR is full of it.
They can manipulate the schedule all day, every day.
My honest guess is that there would not be a disparity, simply because there are so few employees, and they HAVE to over staff on weekends. Which means practically every employee, due to the fact that the minimum weekend staff is about equal to the number of employees at any store 😂
It’s total insanity. Short staffing all week long to the point of actual injury, over staffing all weekend to the point of walk outs.
I’ve tried talking to HR and she said that was how the schedule prints out and there is nothing she can do. Morale is very low. People are miserable, working every weekend for months and the only thing getting discussed is how we can make our store manager a superstar. Sad.
My advice would be to first talk to the person(s) in charge of scheduling. If that fails, compare youre schedule to that of others in the same position and if you find a significant disparity, I would take that to HR.