Fine Crew-
Unfortunately, the requests-off have become out of control. Way too many of you take-off too much, especially on Saturdays. Changes must be made for the betterment of our business. I have no good answer when Jeff and Lu ask me, “how come you allowed 25% of the staff to have off on a Saturday night?!”.
So… Moving forward:
-Requets must be 3 weeks in advance now, any requests sooner than that are automatically denied.
-Always submit your requests with notes/comments on why, or it will be automatically denied.
-Multiple request-offs and excessive vacationing will result in the decrease of permanent shifts.
-If you are on the permanent schedule on Saturdays (98% of you), only 2 requests off on Saturday nights PER YEAR will be granted, or you risk losing your permanent shifts, or even termination.
-In order to prevent groups taking off together, from now on If you are the 3rd person of a certain position (bartender, server, etc) to request off on a certain night, it will most likely be declined.
My advice is to vacation with your coworkers on your off-days, no one works more than 5 days a week on the regular. If you have a vacation or a wedding, get the request in super early. Weekends are WORKends, folks…