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Scheduled on the one day I said I could not work on due to religious reasons

So I recently began training at a new server job. I was very clear at the interview, on my application, and on my official availability that I could never under any circumstances work Saturdays. I’m at church all day and my parents are very religious. They believe that working that day is an insult to god, and since I still live with them I choose respect it. Well, I just received my schedule and saw that one of my four days is on Saturday. Apparently the availability I put in two weeks ago hasn’t even been reviewed yet. I’m so tired of this happening at every single job I’ve had. They all try to schedule me and see if I’ll be pushed into working that ONE day. I’m also young (19F) and all the jobs I’ve had have tried to push me around with scheduling, because I’m young and can…


So I recently began training at a new server job. I was very clear at the interview, on my application, and on my official availability that I could never under any circumstances work Saturdays. I’m at church all day and my parents are very religious. They believe that working that day is an insult to god, and since I still live with them I choose respect it. Well, I just received my schedule and saw that one of my four days is on Saturday. Apparently the availability I put in two weeks ago hasn’t even been reviewed yet. I’m so tired of this happening at every single job I’ve had. They all try to schedule me and see if I’ll be pushed into working that ONE day. I’m also young (19F) and all the jobs I’ve had have tried to push me around with scheduling, because I’m young and can be seen as easily persuaded for some reason?

Well, I’m over it. I’m going up to whatever manager is there and stating, professionally, that if they keep up this crap of scheduling me on the ONE day I cannot work, we will have a problem. We’ll see how it goes. I’ll update this for whoever cares haha.

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