I’ve browsed some of this subreddit before, but I’m just making this post to ask for advice. I’m working part time at my first job while doing college, sadly, I work at a Walmart.
I have a pretty clear availability schedule that I’ve submitted in the past: four days a week, 5-6 hours a day, it’s about all I can manage.
This seems to be pretty unique however, because a lot of my coworkers who are also in school, whether it’s high school or college, work 8 hour days. I found this a bit weird and am just wondering what people from the outside might think.
My other issue that I wanted to ask about is whether or not it’s normal to pretty consistently be scheduled on days and hours I just can’t do. I understand that management doesn’t have to have my individual schedule memorized, but it’s on file and it seems like sometimes they just flagrantly disregard it. My schedule used to be a bit more open in truth, as long as it was 5-6 hours I didn’t care when i was scheduled for, but they started consistently scheduling me for 8 hours. I believe it’s being done by one person who is fairly infamous for this kind of thing, especially around holidays, which are busy, that I understand. Regardless, now I work a specific set of hours 4 days a week. However, I suppose the more pressing issue, the reason I’m making this post is that I was scheduled for Friday and today, two days that are on my schedule as days I cannot work. I talked to my people manager on Thursday about it and they wrote down the days I couldn’t do and I don’t know if I misspoke or what but it seems like they only took the me off for Friday, as today I got a text from my friend who also works there, asking why I hadn’t shown up. He’s technically the reason I got the job as well as one of my managers, he told me I should just call out, so I did because I didn’t know what else to do, I already have a couple of occurrences, so this kind of makes it seem like this is my fault. I’ve been told that I’m honestly lucky to have gotten this part time job where I can submit my own schedule
Despite not liking my job, for multiple reasons including the ones I’ve talked about, am I in a lucky position considering I’m part time? Should I have made it clearer that I couldn’t work today? And words of advice are appreciated.