I just remembered this. So back when I was working at this grocery store called “Save A Lot.” Would not recommend it btw. I wasn’t in the best mindset but I couldn’t find it in myself to quit. The customers made me miserable but the managers were chill as hell and cool, so I stayed mainly for them.
I remember there was a period where I kept getting scheduled to close on Sunday’s, and I absolutely was sick of it. Mainly because I didn’t want to miss spending time with my family. We always do lots of things on sundays like going out to eat, cookouts, gatherings, etc. I would have to miss them, or leave early because I had to work. Sucked.
So I wanted to take advantage of the flexible scheduling they offered. I wanted to change my availability to no sundays at all. I don’t care if it’s time and a half. I don’t want to work that day. I also put no holidays for the same reason, family.
It was granted by a really good and decent assistant manager who was running the store. We didn’t have a store manager at the time. Which in itself is a tale for the ages. Welp. Later on down the road, there’s a mandatory meeting for employees.
I think it was a monthly progress type thing. During the meeting, the district manager goes through the time off requests and starts criticizing the majority of them, and goes on an “this is unacceptable” type of rant.
Then she finds out about my no Sunday / holiday thing. I thought it wasn’t that big of a deal. She flipped out lmfao. She acted like it was the most disrespectful thing she had ever seen. Following it with telling everyone “you’ll work when we tell you to work.”
She even had a blank list on the table. Saying “if anyone here is not happy. Put your name on that list and it will be your resignation from Save A Lot.” She actually expected me to sign it, and I didn’t. Asking to not work one day isn’t that unreasonable. At least I don’t think it is. Why do companies brag about flexibility, but when you try to be flexible, they do a complete 180? Acting shocked and Jimmy rustled that you don’t wanna dedicate all your time to the almighty corporation of grocery!