Yo, healthcare worker here. In my profession, a full time hospital job is 3 twelve hour shifts. I have been in contact with a prospective employer since June, saying they are shorthanded and really want me to work for them, but the job is in a different state so I needed that state's licensure.
Well as the universe would have it, the job I was working at got eliminated and the prospective employer wanted to hire me ASAP. I had been talking it over my expectations with them since August for two months, told them what I was looking for, schedule and salary expected. The hiring manager agreed and said they could make it work. The company initially low balled my salary, but after one negotiation, they met my asking price.
It was to be three days in a row, just like my previous job, so I can enjoy 4 days off each week and still able to work an extra, optional shift without it being too exhausting. 90% of the department has a schedule like this. Come to find out, just today, they have now changed my schedule and have spread my workdays throughout the week. In addition, I have another job with a different company and my side business.
Now that my would-be full time schedule is more spaced out, I will be working almost every other day indefinitely because of my other jobs. But it doesn't have to be this way. It can be how it was originally discussed but there is a co-worker that works her three set days every week and made up her mind she wants over-time with bonus pay starting next week. Which is fine, everyone is elgible for this. My problem is that my would be full-time schedule is broken up because my working days and another coworker's are SCHEDULED AROUND HER OVERTIME. If everybody gets to work their 3 day in a row set schedule, there will still be open shifts elgible for bonus and overtime, she just refuses to work those other days.
I brought this up to the manager and they dodged it at first and then made up some excuse for her. Relunctantly I agreed to the new broken up schedule, but the more I thought about it, the more angry I got. This is not we talked about the several times before I was hired. I came up with a solution to cut back on my other one day a week job or quit it altogether. Now I have rearranged my schedule so I could get my 3 in a row and and not interfere with this other person's schedule. But as I was still thinking about it, what if they change my schedule again? Then I would have quit this other company for nothing. I haven't even met this other person that refuses to work certain days that is messing with my 3 in a row, it's my first week…but I already have animosity towards her.
I will say that this new job is not off to a good start and I have lost trust and faith in this manager whom I thought was good person. My fear is that now I have rearranged my schedule with my other employer, they will go back on my 3 in a row deal. I guess I could always go above them to the director, even tho I would not like doing that. Such a let down!