2026-02-09
some scheduling conflict drama at the job
this is good. like a little place to vent ig. (though was complaining with a veteran co-worker just last night even. which is not recommended. but builds trust maybe. if it will. between me & her. that value senior employees provide. life-knowledge even).
but my boss now. (another) lady. or, one of my bosses anyway. (am just a very lowly on the totem pole ghost-like employee u shouldn't even be recognizing is there). but she does the scheduling. head of the department.
never see her.
she works days. we work nights.
every once-in-awhile, she does a late-afternoon shift & is there when we come-in. has been a good 3 maybe 4 months since that.
which is no problem. bc we got a tight, competent crew. small. we get shit done, no drama. we get-along well. we know what to do. get in, get out. do as much as we can. which is often plenty. is sometimes not enough—when we get burnt-out especially on-the-daily relentlessly doing above what's required of us.
we been short at least a person for well over 6 months now. (they're ordering enough work every day for a whole other person). they keep bringing somone in. or trying. hiring. and then firing. or they just don't work-out. lots of gen. z. but some older ingrates as well. in & out. drama. attendance. whatever.
whatever.
so the boss lady. is waiting for us one of the days early last week.
has her little impromptu meeting with us. we been doing fine. blah blah. some suggestions for the new guy. a few suggestions for us.
all good.
pulls me aside afterwards. (has her little day-shift manager witness with her. should have had mine, am now realizing).
am at 4 days of availability (of only 6 possible from the place) since a few months ago. and have been working those 4 days every week since.
she wants to know can I come-in more.
almost laughing, reply to her that there's no way. sorry. idk what to do. but am completely unavailable those other days. other inescapable commitments, sorry.
(wasn't quick-witted enough—was caught well off-guard by the request—& didn't even suggest...though she doesn't even have the authority...that only with a raise would it even entice me to come-in more, but that that likely wouldn't even influence me to).
so, the schedule comes-out later that week. and she got me scheduled only 3 days now.
come-back-in from my days-off then. first thing. news. they fired the new guy. (a guy that was finally competent—after a whole string of incompetents before him. had 2 no-call-no-shows though, not back-to-back but separately somewhen during that severe cold we just had...bc he walks to work...so, they let-him-go—before his probation-period ended ig. which we had no say in. they didn't ask us, our crew,—the only people even effected by this guy no-call-no-showing—hey this new guy is a call-off risk, but are u willing to accept the work he does on the days he might be here. or for now anyway. bc if we fire him, it's back to more work for y'all—every day. but none of that, they just flexxed their authority, fired him, & effectively gave all of us more work to do).
so, not only are we a person short again. but they got me working a day less now too. plus, another girl in the department. one of her day people. she's transferring somewhere else—some whole other town.
so, we got plenty of hours to give.
that vindictively bc of not complying with her request to make myself available more days. she scheduled me less.
but that she might be on her way out then tho. (or me ig. but that they must give me like at least 2 days of work per-week...probably by some state mandate, welfare or smthn. and am perfectly fine only working 2 days—or even one per-week). but she's making terrible decisions rn. or someone is.
bc am contemplating playing-my-hand then & going & talking to her boss. (which, had to when she last tried her scheduling games by scheduling me less than 8 hours per-day, where me & her boss shook-upon an agreement, that if u schedule me, it's for a full shift, or don't schedule me at-all, if u need to cut hours). before just bringing my case to corporate HR. my schedule-history enough to back me up. though did leave it open-ended for them to schedule me less days then if needed. which is fine, yeah. perfect for me even. got enough to do outside the place. but it's a very obvious vindictive abuse of power on her part.
or some suggestions or some guidance maybe. bc when the games start, it's usually just onto the next place for me—on my own accord, disgusted & unwilling to play. so, am not very well-versed in navigating them.
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