Horrible Manager Posts Schedule 40 Minutes Before Employees Scheduled Shifts

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Emmy Pratt • Writer and Editor
Apr 17, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

It's been so long since I've had a job with a different weekly schedule. I was lucky that even when I did part-time work, the schedule would be the exact same every single week. It makes planning your life outside of work much easier and even lightens the workload for bosses and managers. Still, if a workplace does have different schedules every week, it doesn't necessarily equal disaster. As long as the schedule comes out a week before workers have to work it, they have plenty of time to fix it if there's a conflict or issue. A schedule coming out three days before is pushing it, but it at least gives workers a hot second to get their affairs in order. Recently, one company did the most irresponsible thing I've heard of in a long time: they sent out the new schedule 40 minutes before their employees would come in. 

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    Font - r/antiwork u/xenowave 22h. i.redd.it 18 NSFW Managers didn't post schedule until 40 minutes before our scheduled shifts.
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    Font - April 16 Is the schedule going to be posted soon? 9:07 AM I'm sorry but I can't come in today the schedule was posted just now and I have already got my day going 1 9:32 AM Guys I understand the schedule was just posted but it's the same schedule for most of you who work sundays. Please make sure to check and make it into work. Thank you 9:34 AM
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    Font - Black and pink are staff members. Red is one of our managers. They did not release the schedule for this week (Today - Saturday) until 9:25am this morning and expected everyone to be okay with it and show up for their shifts. Our schedule is always changing, so the fact that they want people to ASSUME they're working is wild. less
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    Font - Tallguy71 21h "Your poor planning doesn't mean that I'm gonna change my schedule" ... Reply 7k
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    Font - jaws7811 18h ● I work as administrative support for a major international law firm. We like to say "your lack of planning is not our emergency" whenever they claim something is urgent. 2.5k
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    Font - TheSquishyPaleDuke 14h ● The original military phrase is "Piss poor prior planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." The alliteration sells it. ... 4882
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    Font - SeamairCreations • 19h Not sure where you live. But it's law in Canada to have the schedule posted 24hours before your shift, if not posted by that time you are not entitled to work. ... Reply 1.4k
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    Font - Suspicious_Story_464. 15h 24 hrs? I put out our schedule 3 weeks in advance at the latest. I give a deadline for requested days off and then let them know when the schedule will be posted. 542
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    Font - Monkee-D. 22h I hate whatever ass kisser hearted your bosses comment. Like why? He fucked up. No need to suck up to him. ... Reply 2.4k
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    Rectangle - xenowave It was another manager Imfao OP. 22h 42.7k ↓
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    Font - NeveruseTren • 20h Shocker ... 4575
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    Font - chefrachhh. 16h I lost a restaurant job a few years back because after my shift ended Sunday (I had Monday off) somebody had quit and the GM changed the paper schedule without thinking to call me and let me know it had been updated. I was supposed to be off Monday & Tuesday. Tuesday when I wake up I have several missed calls and angry voicemails asking why I wasn't at work. I sent a pic I took of the schedule stating I had those days off. He said "Well so-and-so quit so I had to change th
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    Font - Suspicious_Story_464. 15h I worked in a nursing home years ago and they always did the schedule in pencil so they could switch it around whenever they saw fit. I called bullshit and quit when they then started putting colored stickers by our name. If someone called off, we were the designated person to stay and work their shift. Not happening. 4222
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    Font - HellooNewmann. 10h I lost a job like this in college. I gave them my school schedule the day I registered for classes and said I could not work those days but was available any time not listed on my class schedule. Halfway through the semester I get scheduled during a class. It's a week before midterms. I tell the manager I can't come in that day because of school and they had my schedule for months. They said if I didn't show up I would be fired on the spot, so I quit on the phone. I now
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    Font - FayeQueen 11h I had the opposite happen. Boss changed the schedule after it was posted and went off the old schedule. I was working the original, but my sister had sent me a copy of the new one before she left. I was now off. He wakes me at am asking why I'm not there and yelling that I need to show up or I'm fired. I told him I was off and I heard papers shuffle and he went, "Oh, I guess you are" then just hangs up G 470 70
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    Font - terrelyx • 17h if you're supposed to assume that you're working at all times, you need to get paid like you're working at all times. ... Reply 304
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    Rectangle - SuckerForNoir Robots 19h Stoned Freelancer Legal or not, that's unacceptable. I wouldn't be coming in either. ... Reply 871 871
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    Font - GordieGord. 20h Well Mr. Manager, you will have lots of time to ponder the reasons why schedules should be posted well in advance while you work the Sunday shift that you failed to responsibly allocate staff for. ... Reply 145
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    Font - SuitableNegotiation5 20h . The proper answer is this: "Since the employee schedule was not posted in time (insert law for required schedule notice period for your state), I am not available for my scheduled time today."
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    Font - No need to explain what you are doing, that's none of their fucking business. They slacked, they should pay the price. Don't enable them by going in on such ridiculously short notice. ... Reply 788
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    Font - Mschaefer932 19h ● Unfortunately, only one state has such protection, and five states have cities that passed local ordinances about i https://fitsmallbusiness.com/predictive- scheduling-laws/ ... 315 315
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    Organism - SuitableNegotiation5. 19h Wow. I thought it was more than that. That's terrible. It's beyond shameful the way workers are treated in this country. It absolutely disgusts me. ... 279
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    Font - Bellaavery266 - 16h Just be sure to give them 40 minutes notice before your next sick day ... Reply 62
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    Rectangle - pchlster • 13h at work *resignation ... 417
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