I started working at the front desk of a Hampton Inn in late August. I am taking a year off from school and this is literally just my money maker and a way for me to not lose my mind while I'm stuck in my tiny-ass hometown for a year. The first or second week there, like before I even finished training, I had submitted a time off request for this past week Wed-Sun because I knew I would be gone for Thanksgiving. It was approved, and all was well, or so I thought.
As the date came closer, I noticed on the schedule that I had been scheduled for the seven days leading up to my time off, even though I'm part-time and I informed them when I started that 4 days a week was the maximum I was willing to work (every other week or so they'll schedule me for 5 days but that's a whole other issue). During those seven days of hell, (my shifts are 7am-3pm) I kept getting comments from one of my managers about how many days I was taking off, and every time she was around and someone else asked the days I would be gone for, I would say “Wednesday to Sunday,” to which she proceeded to list every day of the week in that time frame as if to dramatize it. When I worked again on Monday, everyone was like “welcome back,” like I had pulled a Rip van Winkle instead of going to Ohio to see my family for five days.
I've already had to set boundaries with them regarding their scheduling me on Thursdays even though I told them in my first interview that I wasn't available on those days, and I'm going to have to address their scheduling me as if I'm full time when I clearly stated I wasn't. It's just so exhausting to keep having to do this; I am paid fairly well ($5 more an hour than my previous job) but it feels like they don't take me seriously because I'm young, 22, a woman, and generally flexible and accommodating. I'm willing to lay down the law with them for my own mental and physical health, but I don't want to sacrifice my privacy to do so (i.e. explain my past work history and how I was taken advantage of by a previous employer because of my work ethic, as well as the situation with my gap year). I don't want it to come to me saying that I've created reasonable and appropriate boundaries and that if they don't accept them they won't have an employee anymore, but I'm not committed to this job or any job enough to sacrifice my own wellbeing anymore. Job rant over, thanks anyone for listening.