Can I bring my pillow and blankie?

[Retail Associate]

Today our schedule was posted for next week (hell week) and they had me scheduled to work until 10PM Thanksgiving night then back again at 4:30AM on Black Friday. (6½ hours between shifts) If I'm not mistaken, that's not even legal.

I put up with a lot of crap with their scheduling but I wasn't going to let this go. The boss was so frazzled with the mess that she had to "go someplace quiet so she could think this thing through." She changed it but had to reschedule several people to do it. She jokingly asked me if I wanted to just stay the night.

I really hate this time of year.

[bean]

Legality depends on the state. Texas is not an employee friendly state at all, no required breaks whatsoever and no specified period between shifts. I do get a hearty laugh at some of my coworkers who swear up and down that TX requires at least a 30 minute lunch (PAID, no less) during an 8 hour shift. My employer gives a 30 min paid lunch, but only because they actually give 2 shits about their staff. I don't live under a rock. Out of the 15+ companies I've worked for in the past 12 years, they're the only one that ever gave a paid lunch break. And one of 3 that gave you ANY kind of break at all, paid or unpaid.

That said, if it's a remotely large company and/or a company that looks at employees as a number instead of an expense, they WILL have policies about that.

I'm no stranger to clopens, in fact when I was an asst manager at papa john's I spent at least one night a week sleeping in a sleeping bag under the office desk. I lived nearly 45 minutes away and wouldn't walk out the door until 3am on weekends, and had to be back at 9am. Safer and easier to just curl up under the desk and bypass the motion sensors on the alarm for the duration.

[lordlundar]

She jokingly asked me if I wanted to just stay the night.

And on that note I would have jokingly asked if she would mind losing her job over the lawsuit I would have filed.

[Eric the Grey]

I know it's not legal in Colorado. It's required to give a minimum of 8 hours downtime between (full?) shifts, but as bean says, it depends on the state.

Sounds like your manager was just frazzled and having a hard time getting things together, and nothing personal.



Eric the Grey