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askye at 10:17am on 09/08/2020
askye at 10:17am on 09/08/2020 One more week until vacation! Actually a little less because I have Saturday off so I'll have 8 days in a row. I'm working 7 days right now (well in the middle of it) will have Thurs off, work Friday and then off
And Friday will be a shorter day since all our days are shorter because our hours got trimmed again. A big problem is people ARE NOT taking their PTO (we will use all accrued PTO on Oct 31) and they are saving it I guess. Or waiting u ntil Oct. Except not everyone is getting off in Oct there's no way to do that.
Our company is pretty generous with PTO and Personal Days and then there are people who have been working here for 15 or more years so there are some people who have carried over PTO as an exception (they don't carry over any more) AND they end up with like 6 weeks a year AND they really haven't taken any.
I digress, so people aren't taking PTO so we aren't getting hours to compensate for their lost hours and the hours we get is more than we typically get scheduled. The store gets 40 hours for each person taking PTO but has been scheduling us 35. Except now we are down to 29.5
We were at 30 and they were scheduling hour lunch breaks even when we were working 6 hour shifts. EXCEPT people were only taking a half hour when we have been repeatedly told we have to take our full hour. So now it doesn't just look like we need more hours to schedule but we've been going OVER our scheduled hours. Plus some people weren't even taking their lunch break at all . And even though we are all adults and should be able to go on our breaks on time a bunch of people can't for whatever reason.
So new solution - we are getting shorter shifts and no breaks. Because what I really want to do is work from 9:45 to 3:45 or 1:15 to 7:15 without a break. and people will bitch because that's what they do. I guess they could try scheduling half hour breaks but considering all the problems we are having now it's too much of a hassle.
There are some people who clock in and out on time but then they don't actually get to the salesfloor in a timely manner. There is one associate (and I admit we don't get along) but she consistently shows up 15 mins or more late to the sales floor many days and then our lunches have kind of crossed where I've seen her go to (I assume) to her break late and then I go at the top of the hour, get done with my break and then she's still on hers and meandering back to the sales floor about 10 or 15 mins after I've come back. But I think she will clock herself back in and then just .. not go back immediately.
It's sales tax holiday this weekend so no sales tax on school supplies and clothes and we are busy but not as busy as we would normally be. Which is good because we are running low on key things because we are getting product in more regularly but we aren't getting as much in each time and some brands haven't sent us anything new since before we shut down (or during the shutdown). I dont' think our private label brands are being produced , at least it doesn't seem like it. Or maybe brands are focusing on key demographics, I know we have a lot of Adidas for kids but we haven't gotten any mens stuff in since.. before March. But we have tons of Champion.
Our kitchen section is getting bare. And we aren't having a lot of mark downs right now, partly because our prices are so low but also because I think we don't have anything to replace it with.
And Friday will be a shorter day since all our days are shorter because our hours got trimmed again. A big problem is people ARE NOT taking their PTO (we will use all accrued PTO on Oct 31) and they are saving it I guess. Or waiting u ntil Oct. Except not everyone is getting off in Oct there's no way to do that.
Our company is pretty generous with PTO and Personal Days and then there are people who have been working here for 15 or more years so there are some people who have carried over PTO as an exception (they don't carry over any more) AND they end up with like 6 weeks a year AND they really haven't taken any.
I digress, so people aren't taking PTO so we aren't getting hours to compensate for their lost hours and the hours we get is more than we typically get scheduled. The store gets 40 hours for each person taking PTO but has been scheduling us 35. Except now we are down to 29.5
We were at 30 and they were scheduling hour lunch breaks even when we were working 6 hour shifts. EXCEPT people were only taking a half hour when we have been repeatedly told we have to take our full hour. So now it doesn't just look like we need more hours to schedule but we've been going OVER our scheduled hours. Plus some people weren't even taking their lunch break at all . And even though we are all adults and should be able to go on our breaks on time a bunch of people can't for whatever reason.
So new solution - we are getting shorter shifts and no breaks. Because what I really want to do is work from 9:45 to 3:45 or 1:15 to 7:15 without a break. and people will bitch because that's what they do. I guess they could try scheduling half hour breaks but considering all the problems we are having now it's too much of a hassle.
There are some people who clock in and out on time but then they don't actually get to the salesfloor in a timely manner. There is one associate (and I admit we don't get along) but she consistently shows up 15 mins or more late to the sales floor many days and then our lunches have kind of crossed where I've seen her go to (I assume) to her break late and then I go at the top of the hour, get done with my break and then she's still on hers and meandering back to the sales floor about 10 or 15 mins after I've come back. But I think she will clock herself back in and then just .. not go back immediately.
It's sales tax holiday this weekend so no sales tax on school supplies and clothes and we are busy but not as busy as we would normally be. Which is good because we are running low on key things because we are getting product in more regularly but we aren't getting as much in each time and some brands haven't sent us anything new since before we shut down (or during the shutdown). I dont' think our private label brands are being produced , at least it doesn't seem like it. Or maybe brands are focusing on key demographics, I know we have a lot of Adidas for kids but we haven't gotten any mens stuff in since.. before March. But we have tons of Champion.
Our kitchen section is getting bare. And we aren't having a lot of mark downs right now, partly because our prices are so low but also because I think we don't have anything to replace it with.
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