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I'm working a 2-10 Tuesday night and then coming back 6-2 Wednesday morning and you don't see me complaining about it, but my schedule writer was scheduled 2-10 Saturday night. The schedule writer says that if I do not trade her and work the 2-10 Saturday then she will schedule me to open (6am) Sunday morning, which I cannot do. I have an APPROVED AVAILABILITY of 9:30am - 1:30pm on Sundays. If she schedules me outside of that, is there anything I can do about it? Is there anything I can do at all with her basically trying to force a shift on me? I can't work her Saturday evening shift. I've traded shifts with her plenty of times, but this one time I actually cannot. I never ask her to trade, she's always dumping them off on me.



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If she's the schedule writer, she already picks what times she gets to work before even scheduling anyone else. It's her own fault if she screwed it up. She needs to be reported to management (depending on who your store manager is, that might or might not do any good).

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Don't do the trade. Bring up the availability issue (if you're not like me) or don't (if you are like me). Come in at 9:30 sun morn either way, as they can't punish you. Your schedule writer is overestimating her power.

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I'm new to Kroger, but I don't see how she would be allowed to make you come in during your unavailable time as set by your eschedule.  I had them do that to me on accident and they understood that I couldn't come in then.



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I'm new to Kroger, but I don't see how she would be allowed to make you come in during your unavailable time as set by your eschedule.  I had them do that to me on accident and they understood that I couldn't come in then.


 They can't. Just call and tell them they you were unable to get out of your responsibilities and will be unable to come in. Also were not available at the time and the schedule writer knew it.

 

Shift the blame. Don't agree.



-- Edited by BagBoy on Tuesday 20th of January 2015 01:54:30 PM

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techelite wrote:

Don't do the trade. Bring up the availability issue (if you're not like me) or don't (if you are like me). Come in at 9:30 sun morn either way, as they can't punish you. Your schedule writer is overestimating her power.


 Someone at kroger "abusing" their power who would have thought that could happen!biggrin



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I'm working a . . . 2200 Tuesday night and then coming back 0600 . . . Wednesday morning . . .

That's a violation of (for example) the Southwest Division, District 10 contract (Section 9.11) which requires ten hours between shifts.  It's also stupid scheduling. 



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kroagrr wrote:

I'm working a . . . 2200 Tuesday night and then coming back 0600 . . . Wednesday morning . . .

That's a violation of (for example) the Southwest Division, District 10 contract (Section 9.11) which requires ten hours between shifts.  It's also stupid scheduling. 


 That's what I thought. 8 hours is too small a gap. Commuting between shifts would probably take 40 minutes give or take, eating would be another 30, and bathing/grooming another 30. So there'd be about 6 hours and 20 minutes to sleep. And none of us magically fall asleep when we get in bed. So I'm picturing an employee getting 5 and a half hours of sleep and performing their job poorly.



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kroagrr wrote:

I'm working a . . . 2200 Tuesday night and then coming back 0600 . . . Wednesday morning . . .

That's a violation of (for example) the Southwest Division, District 10 contract (Section 9.11) which requires ten hours between shifts.  It's also stupid scheduling. 


 Some contracts have shorter short rest periods, some longer, some none at all.



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