Bookkeepers refuse to continue working 18-hour-shifts, call out sick and ghost employer so there's no one to fill their role: '[They] refused to let me switch schedules after scheduling me to close at 11 PM and open at 5 AM'

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    The Scheduler and Management Refused to Let Me Switch Schedules After Scheduling Me to Close at 11 pm and Open at 5 am. Okay, I Will Call in, and The Other Bookkeeper Will Not Answer Her Phone!
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    Several years ago, I was a bookkeeper for a huge home improvement store. As a bookkeeper, I arrived at 5 am to prepare for the store opening and/or stayed until 11 pm for closing. There were two of us, but for some reason, the scheduler and management would have one of us close and
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    open the following day. (We had a part-timer who worked 4-6 nights a month because she was in school. She did not open) The other bookkeeper closed and opened without complaining. But for me, that was absurd! Leaving the store at 11 pm and returning
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    at 5 am is unreasonable. We spoke with the scheduler and management to no avail. So, whenever the schedule came out, we switched if one of us was scheduled to close and open. The scheduler and management noticed but kept quiet because someone was there to do the
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    work, although they continued scheduling us to close and open for years. Eventually we got a new scheduler and manager who wanted to flex their authority over all departments and demanded the other bookkeeper, and I work the
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    printed scheduled hours. We maliciously complied. The following schedule had me closing and opening. I closed and called in the next morning. They tried calling the other bookkeeper, but she did not answer (I asked her not to respond). The part-timer could
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    not work because she had school. No one else was trained in bookkeeping (not even management). This meant they needed to contact me for instructions on opening the store. I was paid a minimum of 15 minutes for each call they made. If the call exceeded 15 minutes, I was paid a minimum
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    of 30 minutes. You get the picture. By the end of the day, I was paid for a full day. After that day, neither the scheduler nor the management said a word about which bookkeeper was working, regardless of the schedule.
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    DarthJojo 12 hr. ago That's crazy to scheduled like that! In California it would be against the law- here you have to be given 8 hours between shifts.
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    Toots NYC 10 hr. ago • it's also just stupid. wouldn't you both have rather had a consistent schedule, one of you opening and the other closing? My dad worked at Home Depot and they
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    got a new scheduler who didn't make any attempt to tweak the computer algorithm, or didn't know how, and suddenly he couldn't know when he'd be working from one week to the next.
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    I always thought that was amazingly stupid, plus greatly unfair, to keep switching people's schedules around as the standard procedure. Of course people end up suddenly needing a different schedule this one week, but
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    those one-offs are easily handled. I can't imagine it was helpful to managers or to anybody to have people not even know when their schedule was.

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