Who is the mental midget that thought up this scheduling plan?? For both weeks so far we have a mix of ten hour, nine and a half, nine and yes four hour shifts. No full timer would drive in a half an hour to work only four hours, so needless to say there will be overtime. So much for the performance that comes with proper work/ life balance.
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Guys and gals they don't give a flying f--- about your personal life. They only care about customers. Find another job. This will not be a career. All it's going to do is make you bitter
It seems to me that the computer is just giving people random days off. There is no rhyme or reason to it. Management of course is too lazy to fix the issues with the schedule to make it effective.
The dumb system often schedules everyone off on the same day in a department. It has sales specialists working all the non peak sales hours and then the ASM's and sales floor supervisors are mad because they have to take care of the customers. It is not set up to help customers but to try to make the lowes life a living hell for associates so they will quit. All they want are part timers. Funny thing is they are having a hard time finding part timers so now they are taking people with criminal records. No wonder our inventory was way off. Someone was stealing stuff to pay for his d--g habit. So much for d--g tests. Seriously a disaster.
Using sick time for the 4 hour days....
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I won't mind the long shifts if I just had two days off in a row
ideally a four/ ten hour week is the best from both a performance and life balance standpoint. As for the coverage issue, that requires more staffing not the same low level staffing spread out in different ways. It's just another example of trying to be great on the cheap...IT NEVER HAPPENS THAT WAY.
You could justify the new system IF it actually improved coverage in the departments. But it doesn’t. During the first two weeks of using this stupid system, it actually took more time to write the schedules because the senior managers had to waste hours fixing it. And it’s not like it’s getting any better. The next one looks like it will be more of the same. Some people work for four or five hours one day and then ten or eleven the next. But there are huge gaps in coverage. So what’s the point? Or should I say, what’s the advantage of this new system? People are p-ss-d and looking for an exit. I think this will just drive up turnover and people will start calling out on the weekends they want. And for what?
You think this company is going to get to 90 on the likely to recommend part of the survey as long time associates start bailing out and get replaced with part time college students? Sometimes I wonder just how stupid the people in NC really are.
Yes, its so terrible to get all your hours and and get a half day.
Id rather have one day where I have 5 hours of off time and only work an extra hour or two the other days.