So, tonight I was called by my store manager because I apparently didn't show up for a shift I was supposed to work. Tonight is Saturday night. Today (Saturday) I was scheduled to work from 8am to 2pm, and according to my e-schedule I was scheduled 10pm to 6am on Sunday. Basically the story behind this is I am helping on the grocery crew for a week (and a couple random days during other weeks) due to issues with the department. The thing that confuses me is my schedule says 10p-6am, and it says this for Sunday NOT Saturday. However, I'm told tonight (Saturday night) that the schedule looks like that, but actually means 10pm SATURDAY to 6am Sunday. That makes no sense considering this last monday I was scheduled to work from 10pm on Monday til 6am on Tuesday, and the schedule listed me as a grocery clerk, and the 10pm - 6am shift showed up to be on monday (not on Tuesday as my store manager's logic would suggest).
So what I want to know is who is right? Personally I think my store manager just read something wrong and confused himself, or it could be that my schedule was changed without me being notified ahead of time, or there could be the least likely possibility of him being right. But given what I know, logic states that my store manager either messed up with something, or the schedule got changed without me being aware of it as well as not showing up on the GreatPeople.me site.
Can anyone who knows the scheduling system clear this up?
Always go by what the start time says. The only confusion is when your start time is at midnight. Midnight is the start of a new day. So if your schedule says Sunday 12:00 AM- 8:30AM you go in late Saturday night and punch in at midnight.
Nah. Mine said 8a - 2p for Saturday (10/26) and then my e-schedule says 10p-6a for Sunday (10/27). I don't have a paper copy of the schedule starting on Sunday, but I have the paper schedule ending on the Saturday which is the scheduled 8a-2p day.
I'll do that if I get in any trouble. So far my store manager just told me he was going to "go over my schedule in detail" when I come in for my next shift. I'm not going to let him put a noshow in my records though.
Ask the grocery manager you are working for to explain the schedule. Most day people have no clue how to read the night nightshift schedule. Payroll people hate the night shift schedule.
Very unusual for you to be scheduled from 10pm until 6am. Many stores are going from 12 midnight until 830am because that is when eschedule wants the night crew there.
Only way I can explain it is the first day of the new schedule is saturday night into sunday morning. Follow the pattern from there.
My Eschedule has Sunday as the first day of the week. I am scheduled SUN, 12am-830am. I show up on Saturday night at 1155pm in order to close the store at midnight. Start working 1201am Sunday morning.
I understand if it is 12am to 8am on Sunday that you go in on Saturday night, but the truth of the matter is it is officially Sunday when the clock strikes midnight and you click in.
So I found out what happened. As it turns out, both the e-schedule on the GreatPeople site as well as the schedule that my Drug/GM department head printed out posted me as working 5 8 hour shifts on Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. As it turns out, the shift that both schedules showed for Saturday was the shift I was supposed to work. But here's the kicker. Grocery weeks start on Saturday, while every other department's weeks start on Sunday. So the schedules I saw placed my Saturday October 26 night shift on the Saturday of November 2nd. I thought I was supposed to work overnight on this upcoming Saturday, but instead it was actually this last Saturday.
And of course nobody ever tells the person who has never worked more than one or two days per week to help out (in grocery), and who is working his first full week in grocery about the way the schedule appears. This is just like yet another person in grocery who is a new hire. He had no clue he needed to show up because he was never told that he was being scheduled.
Such bull****. These managers need to tell me this stuff, and by tell me, I don't mean call me and tell me how the schedule works an hour after I don't show up for a shift I had no clue I had to work. I mean they need to tell us this **** a day or two beforehand so I understand how the schedule works in advance. Then I wouldn't have missed that shift.
very confusing schedule for night crew.... had me working by myself a few days... until I pointed it out to them.. says on sat one comes in at 12 am and another comes in at 10pm so they think that's two but really its only one for a shift..
