So I just checked my hours for next week and would you believe how many I got? 9! Now I don't know how it is at other stores, but is there anything I can do about trying to get more hours? I know that I am only a minor and my hours are restricted, and when my manager explained this to me I slowly began to accept the fact that my hours are going to be short. However what I will not accept is the fact that minors that were hired after me get more than me. I just contacted my union rep and hopefully we can sort this out before tomorrow. I have also noticed that hours have been cut to other departments as we'll. is there some type of reason for this? I mean I already know departments can't give out but so many hours, but when someone only gets 9 hours opposed to the already measly 12 I usually get you start to observe others. Anyone's thoughts on this? Why are our hours getting cut?
That's e-schedule for you. If you're not available during the hours it wants to schedule you, then you're out of luck unless your schedule writer changes it. We have a girl in our department who can only work certain days and certain hours but she's a real good worker. E-schedule doesn't know that though. It assumes that everybody is a robot and all our jobs are interchangeable. So every week when this girl only gets 12 hours due to her availability, the schedule writer has to move things around so she gets more hours. There's one guy who can only work on Saturdays. I haven't seen him in several weeks because e-schedule won't schedule him. Wouldn't it make more sense to schedule him on a Saturday thereby letting someone else have the day off? I help bake and bring up the morning orders (frozen, fresh chickens) and it keeps trying to schedule me 12:30 PM to 9:00 PM. In the meantime it tries to schedule someone who doesn't know a thing about baking or putting away orders to work an early morning shift.
You're a minor - enjoy your pocket money. Save it for a car or college. tbh with how much school work I had fairly recently (graduated high school 2008) I would NOT want too many hours either - I still have back pain from the amount of books I had to carry home daily.
