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My boss is forcing us to work a skeleton crew while having more than enough hours to provide us.

I work at a store and recently got promoted from cashier to manager. Cashiers usually get between 5-12 hours a week while managers get around 20 hours. Obviously we’ve all asked “why are we not getting any hours” and my store managers response is always “corporate.” Well, now that I’m a manager, I have access to store emails. It seems like I’m the only one that looks at them, because the first email I opened revealed my store manager is only scheduling us 40% of the hours available to us. I’m assuming she gets some type of bonus for cutting our hours, but all she does is complain about “not having enough time in the day” and “nothing ever getting done.” She only schedules two people a shift (6 people a day) to unload and stock thousands of boxes a week, clean, cashier, mark downs, go back, etc. I don’t…


I work at a store and recently got promoted from cashier to manager. Cashiers usually get between 5-12 hours a week while managers get around 20 hours. Obviously we’ve all asked “why are we not getting any hours” and my store managers response is always “corporate.” Well, now that I’m a manager, I have access to store emails. It seems like I’m the only one that looks at them, because the first email I opened revealed my store manager is only scheduling us 40% of the hours available to us. I’m assuming she gets some type of bonus for cutting our hours, but all she does is complain about “not having enough time in the day” and “nothing ever getting done.” She only schedules two people a shift (6 people a day) to unload and stock thousands of boxes a week, clean, cashier, mark downs, go back, etc. I don’t think I can do anything about it. I wish I could unionize but I work with a bunch of bootlickers.

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