Who else is being forced to work the night before inventory till 12 or 12:30 then be back in at 5 or 6 am? Isn't there a law on this in the labor act? In between shifts 8 hours? And it's ok to change our block scheduling to benefit this company?🤔
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Look up the laws for a right to work state. It explains everything. Employers have the right to schedule you any amount of hours with little down time unless company policy states otherwise. Also sams is not union so that should explain everything
Welcome to retail! I have done inventory every year. They can not make you work it they have to ask you to work. Up to you if you want to!
It’s been like that for as long as I can remember for certain people. It’s usually the people they trust the most to be able to help during variance that also get called to help the most the night before. So look at it that way.
Its once a year. You dont like your job then quit! No one is twisting your arm to work there.
If you live in a right to work state they can schedule you for anything. The law that only applies nationwide is a 30 min lunchbreak unless they pay you for that. Companies in right to work are not even required to give breaks.
Why stress out over inventory? They fix the numbers to be whatever they want them to be.
I could have sworn the SOP says DO NOT change team lead schedules for Inventory.
Meat Leads are having their 3 day weekends taken away by the same "managers" who will swear they aren't allowed to change schedules any other day of the month. How about they earn that extra $10k raise they got and do Fresh inventory on their own.
Lol! It's not technically the law but it used to he Sam's own policy. Reach out to HR....opps there is no HR anymore. Call ethics hotline and find out what company policy is. They probably changed it to further continue to gauge more money from our associates. Probably a CM & MM writing checks their egos can't cash.
It’s one night a year. The results impact your club profits and shrink for the entire year. If you have any stake in the inventory process you are so stressed out that night that you aren’t going home and sleeping anyways.
they can change—to benefit them. but not to benefit the associate.
Call off and don't come back in for the second shift
This is a normal thing for inventory.
Law says 8 hours between shifts. But remember Sam’s gets sued for this kind of cr-a p all the time. If you are in a car wreck because of this... be sure to sue only the managers of that club, who were responsible for your hours, not Walmart or Sam’s, because Sam’s won’t hire lawyers to defend those individuals. And those managers will pay you forevermore.
2am. Not 2:30am
My schedule is 6pm to 2:30am. Off 2 hours and then back 4am to 12:30pm.
This is nothing new it happens every year.
I guess... your first inventory right ?
Each state has different laws when it comes to scheduling. And yes the policy allows for block schedules to be adjusted for business need purposes which Inventory would most definitely be.