Our department is notorious for being short staffed. We keep going +1 -2 staff and are now only 2 active people + lead. I am so sick of our lead trying to pencil in shifts (which is not allowed). I am sick of being told that work isn't getting done (due to being short staffed) well hire some damn help. I recently had to file a union grievance for our lead trying to take away approved pto on vacations I had scheduled on the books for the past 6 months. I told our leader I am only sticking to esced schedule. If it is not approved shift on esced I will not work it. If you want us to work full time hours then schedule us full time hours. I am not getting in trouble because you want us to go against esced and work more than we're allowanced. We constantly push heavy items around the store for stocking. I am limiting my self to no more than 2 heavy items and no more than 4-5 items on my cart. It is not worth injury or long term health issues. Once I realized staffing wasn't my issue I became a lot easier. I fine tuned my availablity so they could not schedule me more than 5 days in a row and take off 4 days a week off once a mo. I am so sick of this bs.