Hey guys! I've been working for Ralphs for about 1.5 months or so now... and before I was hired they said something like "I can guarantee you 16hrs a week at least." So I accepted the job, thinking I'd get 16-20ish hours a week. Well I started working, and my schedule? 16... 16... 16... I got 18 for christmas, but it's been a flat 16hrs ever since. :( ...needless to say, I can't go on like this.
So, to you people on there in the same position, how are you making this work? Should I look for a second job? I've been toying with the idea but MGMT has said... We will not work with another job's schedule!! So explaining my availability is a bit of a headache.
...never thought that finally getting a job would leave me so broke.
Technically, the promise of at least 16 hours a week is being fulfilled.
Now, I see that what you really want is more hours. In that case, talk to your manager about it. If your department really has no more hours to offer you, you can become a "floater". Those people often get 40 hours even as part-time.
Basically, you'll be scheduled in between different departments from the front end all the way to deli. I believe meat and seafood, as well as pharmacy is excluded from that range since they're special departments with "special" people.
But yeah, talk to your manager about being scheduled across different departments.
When they told you, you'd be getting 16-20 hours, it meant you'd be getting hours within that margin. They gave you 16. Maybe ask about a promotion or try and pick up loose hours?
I agree with the comment above. If people endure the early stages, eventually the hours will increase. But, the original poster made a great observation = open availability.
It seems to me that the brass don't want to commit (full-time status) until the employee has suffered for awhile. The kicker is that instead of committing to an employee who want to be full-time, they hire more part-time people.
I've read on this website about people training future bosses. At least the trainee will eventually be a boss. I think it is worse to train someone who will work the hours that you/I could have worked!!
Even worse, listening to the trainee complain that he wasn't scheduled enough hours and that this is only a temporary job for him until something "better" comes along.
hours were never the minimum the contract specified even the first week.
unlike the poster a few above, i'm also full time on the front end and i hate it.
they're trying to squeeze blood from a turnip and cut hours so much and turn over is so bad that everybody sees what it's like to move up for the same pay under our contract so they don't want to do it as a result we're badly shorthanded at self-checkout and guest care both. let's not even talk about finding a new floor supervisor.
they all see the stress isn't worth it and i agree wholeheartedly. at my store now, it's not a job worth having full time. i've started cutting every minute of approved OT just to get out earlier some days. do i want $6 extra or to escape the madness 30 minutes early? sorry, that's a no brainer now. my mental health means more than the money i leave on the table.
i used to love coming to work, now i hate it. i hate looking at new schedule because it's out of control. it's plain, simple, madness. they need new management and a dept head who knows what she's doing.
