Last week management informed us that we would be off Easter Sunday which would decrease the amount of hours I would be working this week. After getting home I clicked on my employer’s scheduling app to see my hours for this week. Upon opening the app I found an opening that would start shortly after my shift for today would end. In order to make up for one lost day I clicked on this shift to claim it.
Fast forward to today. I had a grueling shift involving over planned trucks and boxes too heavy for one man to move. I was look forward to my upcoming shift. After clocking out and running to the locker room I picked up my phone and noticed that my employer had rescheduled my start time leaving me with four and one half hours between the time I clocked out and the beginning of my second shift for today. I forgot that my employer frequently changes start times.
The reason why this is a problem is that I live two hours away on a bicycle and cannot just go home and call Uber. Uber costs $33 one way. Also due to poor upbringing and poor choices in life I cannot just drive back and forth. Here I am on Reddit wandering the streets of the city of Walnut, California waiting for my new shift to start. There is also no option to call off so I am stuck in Walnut with nothing to do until my shift starts.
I have learned my lesson and will not do this again.
TL;DR: Claimed a new shift at work to make up for lost hours. Forgot that employer tends to change the start times leaving me with nothing to do for over four hours.
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2 hours away on a bike. Jeez you don’t have any jobs closer to you.
At least you can tell your kids you actually biked 2 hours to work everyday UPHILL IN THE SNOW.
Yeah, I understand that feeling. At my old restaurant job the end time for lunch was about 4pm, the start time for the dinner shift was 5pm, I lived 30 minutesd away, even by car, so the days I worked split shifts were awful, until I started brining a pillow and blanket and would go to the back of the seating area and just take a nap for 45 minutes.
That may be illegal
If you’re in the US I’m almost positive that’s illegal. Former manager here. Shifts have to be 8 hours apart unless you work in certain fields like medical.
We are all part-time employees here. Apparently many people claim extra shifts.
Not the same issue, but where I worked as a paramedic, they’d have open details you could pick up if you wanted a few extra hours. Since we often ran into Overtime hours, the pay to pick up a 3-4 hour stand by was pretty good. We’d request a duty a few weeks out, but the boss wouldn’t assign anyone until the day before, but if you signed up you couldn’t make any other plans for that day or time until it was assigned. Screwed up several family events for me, while this manager held off assigning someone else. Annoyed me so much, that was the main reason I quit working there!