I'm a fairly new employee, been at Sam's club a few months. I write my schedule down when its posted but when i go back to check a few days or week later they have added and extra day. Im supposed to be part time and they keep giving me full time hours. I have mentioned it many times and sometimes they will fix the schedule. I have had this conversation with them too many times.to count and yet it still keeps happening. I was very clear when i was interviewed about my availability and was told it wouldn't be a problem yet i continue to have this happen. Is this typical for this company?
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This is also a problem at my club. Day to day my schedule changes. Never have I been communicated to or asked if I could. I have a family and I make my appointments and plans around my schedule. Its supposed to be 3 weeks out. This is so stressful! Please ask me if it is ok to change my schedule. I may already have other obligations. We use to have to sign off in red.
I see a lot of law suits coming with this new attendance policy. I will definitely be taking pics and timelines of my schedule for protection.
It's only right to take care of your associates and respect them enough to communicate schedule changes and red them so it is a agreement between you and them on the changes.
I believe if you've worked full time hours for more than 12 weeks, you need to get with a manager for insurance and all the other benefits that come with being a full time employee because you're now a full time employee. I don't think they've changed that rule.
Sometimes a schedule is changed and the supervisor has every good intention to tell the other person or persons about the change, but they forget to. I have been on both sides of the situation, I made a change and the totally forgot to follow up. I messed up, people mess up, we are humans and we make mistakes. I also know that there are supervisors who make chances and do not care much about what happens next. It’s a sad fact of corporate life, there are bad associates and there are bad supervisors. Either way, document your schedule and the times that a honest mistake is made, we move on. If there is a pattern of careless changes by a rogue manager, use the open door. If it is happening to you, chances are others are having issues and the next level of management can help.
I once had my schedule changed after I got to work. It’s ridiculous. I started taking screenshots of all three weeks every morning
If the Clubs do not have a schedule book, with schedule changes red lined and initialed, terminations for failure to work your schedule will be overturned in Unemployment Hearings. This usually results in reinstatement with the company and possibly back pay. Print, screen shot, somehow keep your schedules.
1-800-963-8442 Ethics Hotline.
Print out your your schedule or screenshot it on your phone as soon as it’s available to see. Then if someone changes your schedule without letting you know, show them the paper or screenshot. If it happens more than once, go to your supervisor and ask them to notify you in the future when they can your time. If it continues to be an issue, go to the next level of management and ask if three can be a solution to the issue going forward.
They probably didn't key your availability. Fill out a availability sheet and have your TL or manager work with you schedule wise until it hits the system in 3 weeks.
Very common! They hired a girl in my area. She went to school and needed part-time only. Instead they told me she was full-time and gave those hours. She had to go to them constantly to fix her schedule. Every single time they acted like it was a surprise that she couldn't work full-time. Once I was there when she told management about not being able to work some days they had for her. A couple weeks go by, and they still never changed the schedule. When she mentioned it again management acted like it's the first they'd heard of it. I finally spoke up, and told them it was brought to their attention immediately when the schedule was posted, and that I was there. Management did their typical act of playing dumb. Needless to say, the girl quit and went to a better place that really worked around her classes. She's better off now.
I hate having to close, getting out of there at 9:30pm or so, and then having to be back there at 7am.
There hasn't been a schedule book to red line in two years.
What’s the number to ethics as the open door policy don’t work at my club sick of the lies from management
If your schedule is changed after it is posted, you have to red line in the schedule book, otherwise they cannot hold you responsible for not working your schedule. If you are held responsible, you should open door this issue. Follow chain of command, even to Ethics.
Very typical at my club. More hours or changed shifts at last second. Or even shifts taken away. Sign says "check your schedule for changes ". But you are off 3 days, don't see the sign, and it's your fault.