I recently went back to work with a place I had left before for poor management, specifically in scheduling and task management. I took a huge pay cut for 6 months to “prove” that I was back “for the right reasons” which is whatever. I agreed, and I proved myself enough that they gave me a raise and back pay two months earlier than expected.
So this week my entire household meaning my boyfriend, myself and our two kids got the stomach flu extremely bad and I had to miss Mon-Wed. On Thursday I come into work, and get told that one of my coworkers has been let go so now I am to take over her shift. Meaning I go from swing mon-fri to now working thurs-mon. I have no problem with this, even with the super last minute notice, and that’s presumably why they picked me to take it over.
My issue is, I had a huge Easter Day planned out from morning until night with my kids, because I had that day off up until two days ago. Now I am just expected to work it. It didn’t register for me until the next day(yesterday) that I was scheduled for Sunday and asked my supervisor if my manager would be available to text since she had left early that day to go travel to see family for the holiday weekend ().
I got told that it was “short notice”. Like????? I just found out on Thursday!And to top it off, when I texted my manager about it she never replied, but replied to a text my COWORKER sent about it and said “she can come in two hours late”.
I don’t know how to handle this. I feel like because I got my raise I am expected to just bite the bullet on anything they throw at me. And I want to clarify I am NOT trying to get special treatment because of my kids, but it sucks that I am the ONLY one in my department with small children but yet I am the one expected to miss out. There are people here who brag about not having anything to do on Easter, why not ask them?
Now I have hundreds of dollars worth of food I was supposed to make just sitting there, two extremely sad toddlers and a bad attitude. Ugh.