Do what you feel is right, but just keep in mind when applying to new jobs that they often call former employees and ask questions like "would you hire them again?"

My friend's business has a policy that if you don't give 2 weeks you leave in bad standing and they won't rehire you, and they'll tell anywhere else you apply that you're in bad standing.

Just food for thought.

i am so sorry this is something you had to experience. the absolute disgust i feel towards him after reading that…

Wow what a prick.

Wow what a prick.

Exactly. Its the entitlement. Managers would have no store and no income were it not for the employees who staff it for them. In return, the employees get essentially, a cut of the revenue, as well as support from the manager in any work-related issues. Managers work for employees just as much as employees work for managers.

DMs can force transfers. They can just inform a SM of a new partner even if they availability doesn’t work or isn’t needed.

This specific issue I mentioned is usually a slow process. It’s usually something where you have a fairly tenured team of partners who have all slowly over time reduced their availability.

Yes, a lot of it does fall on management, but it can be difficult to balance. Because you’re either denying availability changes and making people upset or you’re allowing availability changes but then have to potentially reduce hours for those partners or hire new people.

Then the deal with the changing schedule usually comes down to people requesting time off. Ideally managers would just be able to copy schedules forward every week and never change anything, but then you have like 9 people that all decide they need the same weekend off and that’s like 25% of your team so you either have to deny time off and upset people or allow them all to have time off and then change up everyone else’s schedule to cover for that.

Yes, ideally managers would feel comfortable having tough conversations about denying availability changes or time off, but again, it’s a difficult thing to balance.

I’m not trying to make excuses for management. And I’m not saying that everyone’s situation with reduced hours has to do with availability. But, in my own personal experience, the partners that complain the most are the ones with limited availability who also frequently call out.

I can't even imagine being available to work 3:30am to 10pm every single day but one. That's not a healthy way to live.

Yo as a shift I get max 32 hours 😭

For anyone but ssv’s…
That sounds like there’s some kind of understanding that ssv’s get as many hours as the store can provide. That’s always how it has been at my previous stores. But that’s not the case at my current store.

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almost all jobs will say this. You can communicate about your schedule only, any communications outside of that could be considered working time and should be authorized in advance / and paid wages for completing.