I really don’t think it’s that hard to give people a mostly set schedule where their days off aren’t constantly changing, especially if you have enough employees to cover every day of the week. Hours might fluctuate but that doesn’t mean the days have to.
I really never understood why having two days off in a row is apparently such a pain to organize. I mean, you have the same amount of hours to distribute either way…
I never liked having two days off in a row. I preferred one at a time so I could work 2 days, have one off, then 3 and have one off. But 5 working days in a row always wore me out.
When I was a gas station attendant, the only for sure things I could count on each week were 2 graveyards in a row, then at least 1.5 days off (company policy required anyone doing graveyards to have an adjustment day between graveyard and day shifts), and probably not working the day before my graveyard happened. At other jobs I usually had Sundays off because I also worked at a church and most places were cool not scheduling me unless I wanted to do a half shift.
Granted, I did work in a place that absolutely refused to adjust my usual shifts after I started taking on more responsibilities at the church (taking over as the groundskeeper, but it was only a 10hr/week commitment). The response I got was “we gave you Sunday off permanently, what more do you want?”
I really don’t think it’s that hard to give people a mostly set schedule where their days off aren’t constantly changing, especially if you have enough employees to cover every day of the week. Hours might fluctuate but that doesn’t mean the days have to.
You have never worked in retail.
Things that make sense anywhere else are looked upon with suspicion and confusion in the world of retail.
I really never understood why having two days off in a row is apparently such a pain to organize. I mean, you have the same amount of hours to distribute either way…
I never liked having two days off in a row. I preferred one at a time so I could work 2 days, have one off, then 3 and have one off. But 5 working days in a row always wore me out.
I used to sometimes work 10 days in a row.
When I was a gas station attendant, the only for sure things I could count on each week were 2 graveyards in a row, then at least 1.5 days off (company policy required anyone doing graveyards to have an adjustment day between graveyard and day shifts), and probably not working the day before my graveyard happened. At other jobs I usually had Sundays off because I also worked at a church and most places were cool not scheduling me unless I wanted to do a half shift.
Granted, I did work in a place that absolutely refused to adjust my usual shifts after I started taking on more responsibilities at the church (taking over as the groundskeeper, but it was only a 10hr/week commitment). The response I got was “we gave you Sunday off permanently, what more do you want?”