mokie | Friday, 6 November 2009

Friday, 6 November 2009

Guerilla caricaturist. Asphalt gardener. Busherder. Supermarket hunter-gatherer.

Despite being upfront with my employer at hiring about my limited schedule, it's become increasingly obvious that they don't give a damn--whatever they said in interviews, there is no such thing as 'unavailable to work.'

I tried talking to them about it: I pointed out that they'd flipped my schedule around so that I was suddenly working until 8am on a day when I wasn't supposed to be working at all. Their response was that since I started at 11:30 the night before, technically I was working that day, and I wasn't really working on the unavailable day.

Is that quantum or something?

But they did indeed have me working on my unavailable day--both until 8am, and coming back later in the evening for another shift. So, yeah, working twice on a day when, by agreement, I wasn't supposed to be working at all.

I believe there was more quantum scheduling invoked, and possibly something about me agreeing to adjust my hours if needed. I say 'possibly' because, what with going three days out of every week without sleep due to this snafu, it's all a bit of a blur. Nevertheless, 'adjusting my hours' isn't the same thing as 'working here when I'm already supposed to be working somewhere else.'

Eventually they compromised--I didn't have to come back in later in the evening. Happy?

Not really--I was still working this day I wasn't supposed to be working, and though I was now down to two days without sleep, that was still two days without sleep. Push the compromise a little further? Let me off a little earlier? Something?

And an hour was shaved off of my shift, so I could get an hour more sleep, except I still wasn't getting any sleep, because I still had other shit I had to do that day, which is the reason I wasn't available to work it in the first place.

But they dug in--nobody else could work that day. Nevermind that I, I, couldn't work that day either--the schedule could not be changed! Except for the guy who originally had that shift, and asked to have it changed, sticking me with that day. Oh, and the person who replaced him, who got to turn down the troublesome shift (...this was an option at some point?) and who I'm told is still trying to flip back around that second shift on the day I can't work.

I've been accommodating, I've been patient, I've been a team player. All I've got to show for it is a big "Welcome" stamp on my forehead. What's the trouble? Here is one day out of the week--'day' by the standard dictionary sense of the word, midnight to midnight, not the convoluated corporate quantum math--that I cannot work. Any other time of the week, I'm your girl, but not this one single fucking 24-hour period, and, bonus, it's not even the busiest day of the week. Upfront, from the start, here's my one single worker bee limitation, and they seem to want to deliberately stomp it away.

So I put in my notice. I was barely making it work for these past few months, but I can't keep it up. They need to hire someone who's able to work the hours they need filled; I need to work for someone who's able to schedule me for hours I'm actually available. Better to run now, before the holidays...

[Yep, edited and reposted. Didn't make all that much sense before. No sleep.]

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