I have vacation this week, and when I went to check my schedule, it said I worked on Monday a 6:30 to 11:00, but I am on vac that week. Could I be written up if I just don't show that day? I'm considering just not showing up. I made a coy of my schedule in case they give me grief.
I'd let them know (in writing, with a dated copy for my records) I wasn't going to be there because it was my vacation week. Adding " and I'm going to be out of town" is an excellent idea, as long as you make certain you're not seen IN town by anyone you work with on that day.
I have vacation this week, and when I went to check my schedule, it said I worked on Monday a 6:30 to 11:00, but I am on vac that week. Could I be written up if I just don't show that day? I'm considering just not showing up. I made a coy of my schedule in case they give me grief.
Is this the infamous Eschedule? Surely, a sane store manager will correct this asap.
It is E-Schedue. We had one girl work until 9 last night, and then was scheduled to come in 4 1/2 hours later when you are supposed to get 10 hours in between shifts to allow for rest time. Plus it goes into OT.
It is E-Schedue. We had one girl work until 9 last night, and then was scheduled to come in 4 1/2 hours later when you are supposed to get 10 hours in between shifts to allow for rest time. Plus it goes into OT.
Ahhh, the (not so) glorious e-schedule
Our contract gives us 8 hours rest between shifts or it is doubletime. She should have come back in for the next shift!!
*Waits for defenders of eschedule to come on here to defend it because they're selfish jerks*
Yep, just another mark against the e-schedule. Things like this should be right the first time, so, to be blunt, screw you guys defending it. You're the reason are unions are weak and employee moral is down. You LET Kroger run all over us. Shame on you all.
in my dept we most always get the sunday following our vacation off as a regular day off (Sun thru saturday + the sunday after). Well good ol e-schedule ****ed me on that one. I was thinking I had another day left until a coworker texted and said "hey you work 10-630 tomorrow" Thinking he was joking I went and look .....sure enough he was right. Never got the phone call about when my next shift was (per contract!!). Of course if I brought it up they'd say "well did you see your eschedule?" I know this is new, but the contract still states that they must call you...
Anyway I got screwed, you bet your ass the next 2 guys that went on vac. in my dept didn't get screwed. So I ask you guys this (especially those who make the schedules), my dept head said that he "had me off that day" but that eschedule must have put me in there. Is that possible?
From what I experienced, management puts in the schedule. Then e schedule does the rest based on store needs. One time management put me in for a Monday off and e schedule kept switching it back to a 11-8 each time. Eventually management just said to take it off.
I have had this happen to me as well. Had a vacation and eschedule had me work on a Wednesday. I didn't know until the day had already passed. I didn't say anything about it, no one called me, no one spoke to me about not being there when i got back.
But, yeah, just tell them you'll be out of town and had it planned for a long time.
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What's wrong with simply saying I'm not working that day; I'm on vacation." E-schedule isn't perfect, but there are parameters that are built in to the system that your schedule writers get alerted to (like minimum time between shifts, scheduling people on requested days off or vacation days, etc). Your schedule writers may not be paying attention to these alerts and just overriding them, so I would ask you if they really understand how to use e-schedule or are they just hacking their way through it.
