Okay this is gonna be long so please bare with me. TLDR at bottom.
So I’m a 23 year old female. I’ve been working at a smoke/vape shop for 2 years now.
I worked work closing shifts (so like 4-11:15pm) for the first year or so to sorta “earn” opening shifts. So after about a year of working 6-7 days a week doing closing shifts- they started slowly scattering in some opening shifts (meaning I worked clopens on the regular)
Eventually I finally got pretty much all day shifts- and I admit I kinda fucked up the day shifts for myself and I slowly started getting bad about being tardy. Usually it was just 5 minutes or so late, and I still got there in plenty of time to open the store. But there was a few times in a certain period I showed up a bit later and had to open the store a couple minutes past our opening time of 9AM. It was never an actual problem as we are slow in the mornings. But I do understand even just occasionally by a few minutes is unacceptable.
Not to make excuses myself but for context for the first year and some change I worked there I was also taking care of my mom who had cancer. And most of not all of the tardiness problem occurred in the months after she died. I know it’s not an excuse but its worth noting just for context. It’s mainly because I had issues sleeping after my mom died and went through a bad depression. I get that is irrelevant to the company though.
Well 6 months ago without ever even talking to me about it – and our last conversation having been about having me work “a couple night shifts here and there” and we discussed my preference being days- but about a month after that conversation they moved me back to closing shifts, and I’ve been back to closing shifts ever since.
Recently after being too sheepish to say too much because I’ve been beating myself up so much for being tardy and doing this to myself – I finally brought myself to talk to them about it since it’s been 6 months now.
They recently have a new girl opening. And when I finally brought it up to my manager I was barely able to get out a sentence about it, because he’s the type of manager that cuts you off and dominates the conversation. But I know I was still able to get the point across that I want day shifts back. They gave me a key to a different store and even though I didn’t want to change stores I was willing to compromise and they said they’d give me day shifts back, that they wouldn’t be able to give me all day shifts but they’d look out for me.
I got my schedule today. They gave me all closing shifts except for 3 days. They didn’t even move me to the store they said they would move me to. So I’m still doing all closing shifts except for 3 days…
I like my job and I think my company and management is better than most, but the bar is also very low and they’ve been disappointing me a lot lately. They also emailed me a few months ago about an interview for a promotion- and then they never even contacted me to come interview.
Am I in the wrong for feeling upset that they’re not accommodating my preferred schedule- after being a hard worker for them for 2 years? I know my tardiness was a problem. But should I never get a second chance now because I fucked up after my mom died? Despite my tardiness I always showed up and was a good worker.
I feel like they’re taking advantage of me because I do so well training and writing evaluations and handling the financial stuff that comes with closing and they struggle finding people willing to close.
I’m thinking of quitting I guess I just need opinions and insight. I don’t want to quit. I just want day shifts back. My mom is the person I would have gone to for an opinion on this and without her I feel lost.
TLDR: My smoke shop job moved me to night shifts after I had a period of being slightly tardy after my mom died over 6 months ago. They now are beating around the bush at moving me back to dayshifts and I’m not happy closing but I don’t want to lose my job. Do I have a right to be angry they won’t give me a second chance at opening? It’s not like there aren’t many people who exclusively work dayshifts. They replaced me on the opening shift with someone who is late everyday- and a new girl. This doesn’t seem fair.