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A manager called me and asked me if I wanted to come back to my job after I resigned. She was willing to work with me since the main problem was scheduling outside my availability. Then her replacement wasn’t.

So the store rotated managers until they could find a permanent. I did go back since no one was looking to hire for just a month. This manager helped me, let me have Tusedays and Thursdays off since I made it clear I had a class those days. The manager before her (he was from California, so is this sort of non-negotation normal for Californians?) who wouldn't work with me was the reason I quit first time. And he trained the permanent manager. The one willing to work left leaving me with the permanent one. The California manager kept scheduling me outside my availability. I felt like I had to keep reminding him, and I even wrote it down on a piece of paper for him. I could get it sorted out but I made it on me to find someone to switch shifts with (or what, miss my class?).…


So the store rotated managers until they could find a permanent. I did go back since no one was looking to hire for just a month. This manager helped me, let me have Tusedays and Thursdays off since I made it clear I had a class those days. The manager before her (he was from California, so is this sort of non-negotation normal for Californians?) who wouldn't work with me was the reason I quit first time. And he trained the permanent manager. The one willing to work left leaving me with the permanent one.

The California manager kept scheduling me outside my availability. I felt like I had to keep reminding him, and I even wrote it down on a piece of paper for him. I could get it sorted out but I made it on me to find someone to switch shifts with (or what, miss my class?). One day later I notice I was the permanent manager scheduled me on a Tuseday. But until then I had a schedule that seemed to repeate through the weeks. I had two weeks left but I the class was still going so I asked if I can switch from Tuseday to Wednesday. I guess she was aware I had class on Tuseday (it was the last class so I couldn't skip, but I didn't tell her that part) and even though she got it sorted out so I could, at first she acted like there was nothing she could do when I asked and said something like “For now it's a definitive no.”

And the next week even though the class was over, and it was my last week, she somehow still scheduled me for Tuseday and Thursday. Guess it was a lucky coincidence that the class ended before but she didn't know and what if it hadn't ended and I wasn't leaving? Would she keep scheduling me outside my availability like her predecessor and I kept having to dispute it?

What's the point of avaliablity if it constantly gets ignored?

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