Work a retail commission job. PTO is basically worthless as our salary is less than 1/4 of what we can make with commission. And then the 2 hour rule, which this one drives me absolutely batshit insane.
The two our rule states, that PTO cannot be submitted in less than 2 hour increments. Therefore, if an employee works 38.25-39.9 hours, then no PTO can be submitted and we are “paid” as if we worked 40 hours.
If one of the retail outlets is open on Sundays, it is usually limited hours. In my particular case, our store is open from noon to 5 on Sundays. Managers are required to schedule reps at minimum of 40 hours. Makes sense, right? Wrong.
This week I worked Sunday, filled in for another employee and basically worked the whole day on Tuesday, leaving me at 39 hours. I left a little early on Thursday because the previous week, I worked 50 hours (Black Friday weekend kept us busy). You’d think 10 extra hours away from my wife and kid would make up for the extra hour that I left early. Nope. I’m still going to be on the “naughty list” according to my Manager.
When my manager told me this I straight up said, “well I worked 50 hours last week and I always make sure I’m at or above 40 hours, figured this one time wouldn’t be such a big deal, and honestly, checking my hours wasn’t top of mind when YOU told me I could leave a little early for covering for someone else earlier in the week.” I was wrong. Apparently it’s a very big deal to ownership. My boss did say to me that it’s not a big deal to him and he’s got my back, but I told him that it still doesn’t make me happy that it’s even being brought up to me. I ended the conversation with, “next time I’m that close on hours, I’m just going to leave 2 hours earlier so you can just submit PTO for me instead of having a worthless argument about hours.”