After scheduling me for three consecutive night shifts without asking me during the 4th of July weekend, I told them not to schedule me overnight shifts any longer because I hate them and it f***s up my sleep schedule. So they schedule me again for an overnight shift without asking me for f***ing inventory prep. Seriously so livid I might just quit over this, because this is ridiculous. At the very least, I'm going to tell them I'm not working it because I told them not to schedule me for an overnight shift again. Terrible.
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the best way to avoid having people walk all over you like that is to make them fear you. My last job pissed me off constantly and was a constant deluge of bulls*** but I'd always start drinking 1-2 hours before the end of a shift and most people knew about it but let it happen because those hours were our busiest and I was actually more functional while drinking because I was able to have fun and be calm and relaxed instead of pissed off, volatile and ready to snap.
so yeah I would tell them you can't work that shift because you have made other plans for that time, which you did because you had already informed them you were unable to work that shift and had no reason to keep your schedule free on account of informing them you were unable to work that shift (and phrase it like that as well. Being reiterative for the sake of hammering a point across comes off as bizarre. Bizarre might be a symptom of crazy. Crazy is often not-to-be-f***ed-with. Lead them down that logic-trail and they will know that certain boundaries must not be crossed and as long as you are a hard, efficient worker who does not show signs of taking too much advantage over the fact that they won't f*** with you, you're good)
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That advice is... interesting, I dunno if being feared is the best advice in all situations. Also your example is just that you would drink, ha did this make people fear you? I'm lost in this advice I gotta admit.
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It's funny, because the managers apparently talk about me and say "Oh, I don't know why he has an attitude now. He used to be so willing to do anything to help out."
Oh yeah, I loved to help out. And then you put a bunch of people in my department who don't do anything, meaning I have to clean up after them. And then when people constantly quit my department, you refused to get anyone to cover those hours, leaving me alone in a department that needs two people in it at all times rather consistently. And then you do s*** like schedule me for overnight shifts without telling me, write me up for a "pattern of lateness" by calling off once when I was sick, and then coming in seven minutes late twice after driving an hour away directly to my place of work from my college when I could have taken my time and done things like get a decent meal instead (which was a three weeks apart, happened twice pattern). Among other s*** things, why would I develop an attitude on them?
And I sincerely doubt that anyone is going to swap shifts with me, I may try that though. I'm mostly debating whether I tell them I'm just not working it because I told them not to schedule me for that shift before, or to make up an excuse. Because I am not going to spend eight hours in the store fluffing all of the aisles to make sure it's all good for the next day.
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I would like to say that they might have just messed up, but they are kind of jerks about scheduling a lot of times. And I work at Home Depot.
And I was at my breaking point before when I was still in Lumber/Building Materials, but then I told them I would quit unless they transferred me because I'd be able to make enough substitute teaching. (The reason I'm not now is another story-- but consider the system of PA's teacher certification pretty awful.) I've been in Hardware now, and it's been pretty alright for the most part. But it's just s*** like this scheduling thing that gets my blood boiling all over again. I probably won't quit, but I'm not going to work that shift.
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Psycho_Kenshin posted... That advice is... interesting, I dunno if being feared is the best advice in all situations. Also your example is just that you would drink, ha did this make people fear you? I'm lost in this advice I gotta admit.
nah they didn't fear me because I drank. They feared me because they assumed they could control all employees through fear tactics and negative reinforcement. I did not respond to fear tactics. While the negative reinforcement got other employees to be submissive and non-confrontational, I would be unpredictable. Maybe I'd just argue and get defensive. Maybe I'd say something highly disturbing. Maybe I'd start punching things. Maybe I'd be silent for hours. They wanted to control people. They learned that I would be controlled by me and me alone. One time a manager started yelling at me and 2 other employees at a time when we were beyond excessively busy (on a scale of 0-10, with 0 being slow, 5 being "non-stop, barely able to keep up" and 10 being so busy that even with everyone working non-stop we could not keep up and even if we had twice the employees on shift, things would not be better because there would not be enough phones to handle the number of calls, enough space for the food to be made or enough ovens to cook it all (it was a pizza place), that night was a 7). She yelled and said we were too far behind. I said something to the effect of "It's that busy, what do you expect?" She had a habit of holding people to ridiculous standards (she had once said that I should be able to work 70-80 hours a week just because I'm in my 20s as opposed to older. I told her I'd be able to do that but would be binge drinking so much that I would die within a month). She yelled that she didn't care how busy it was... I don't remember the second part of the sentence because I immediately stormed out back, punched the door open with both fists and slammed it behind me hard enough to shake the whole building. I broke a few planks on a fence behind the place and when I went back in she basically kicked me out and said I had to go home (there was an hour left) because I was too pissed off to keep working. I had no objections and walked right back out. Drank more on the 2 mile walk home, had the next day off. Showed up for my next shift with her and acted as if nothing happened. Literally did not say a word about the incident (most co-workers thought I had quit), didn't act hostile toward her, joked around like I always did and gave no indications that I even remembered the incident. She too acted like nothing happened. We never ended up discussing it and continued to work together like nothing had happened.
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From: ImTheMacheteGuy | #002 the best way to avoid having people walk all over you like that is to make them fear you. My last job pissed me off constantly and was a constant deluge of bulls*** but I'd always start drinking 1-2 hours before the end of a shift and most people knew about it but let it happen because those hours were our busiest and I was actually more functional while drinking because I was able to have fun and be calm and relaxed instead of pissed off, volatile and ready to snap.
so yeah I would tell them you can't work that shift because you have made other plans for that time, which you did because you had already informed them you were unable to work that shift and had no reason to keep your schedule free on account of informing them you were unable to work that shift (and phrase it like that as well. Being reiterative for the sake of hammering a point across comes off as bizarre. Bizarre might be a symptom of crazy. Crazy is often not-to-be-f***ed-with. Lead them down that logic-trail and they will know that certain boundaries must not be crossed and as long as you are a hard, efficient worker who does not show signs of taking too much advantage over the fact that they won't f*** with you, you're good)
Your username is so fitting here.
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