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Voltie — she/her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/20 19:30:37 )


My job is already under staffed. We have 2 women on maternity leave (one week apart from each other xD ), one of them is highly unlikely to ever come back. The other one visits us often and communicates a lot so I know she's coming back, but not yet cause her husband also deployed rn.

So there's been 4 of us. Store manager, asst manager, me and this dude who just quit on the spot yesterday.
So now there's 3 of us. I'm not in a key holding position so that means one of the 2 managers needs to be there open and close. We all normally work open-close shifts anyways, myself included. Just normal practice cause we're on commission. But now there's more pressure cause we lose days off, and normally we would get 1 half-day shift and 1 short (but not half) shift every week, with 2 days off. Now we lose all short/half days D: and one week we lose days off too

Its not too terrible, 45 hour weeks (and a 50 hour one coming up, cause one of the managers is required to go on a business related trip for a week so we'll be down to 1 keyholder and me sdjhfgsdj)
BUT IT STILL SUCKS

LAWD GIVE ME STRENGTH until that maternity leave ends and we get another set of hands back in!
and big ass sales to put more funds in my pocket over this >:0
thats almost a given though

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Donator Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/20 19:36:24 )
    @Jolly: Won’t they hire someone new to take the pressure off??? ::O

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Voltie — she/her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/20 19:43:46 )


@sunny:
We've been trying to hire someone for months!!
There's a process where we'll interview a ton of people, pick out a handful to do a second audit-style interview with our regional manager. But then he would reject all of them. He's rejecting SO MANY people that we like and then he blames us because no one's been hired yet.
Our regional manager is a great guy but I think he might be setting the bar way too high for his standards... That, or it might be the drug policy getting in the way. Our company goes off of federal standards, where things like pot are still not legal on federal level. So employees cant use it at all or risk their job if ever given a drug test and fail. Many candidates get turned away by this cause its kinda stupid. People should be judged by performance... >>

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Donator Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/20 19:47:50 )
    @Jolly: yeah wow that sounds like a minefield. It’s a shame they can’t agree on someone. I hope you can fill the position soon, I hope your regional manager settles on someone lol.

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Voltie — she/her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/21 00:19:13 )


@Sunny:
I hope so too :'D
To make things harder we have a remodel going on simultaneously so we cant hear anything
I dont exactly blame the guy for quitting, just wish there was at least a week of notice

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Donator — She/Her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/21 01:06:15 )
I feel your pain with being chronically understaffed and not being able to do anything about it. We're in desperate need of servers for the dining room, and nobody applies, or if they do, they can't work with us because they have felonies (we do level 2 background checks because it's healthcare). I've never felt so stressed. Everyone has been pitching in for that department and we're all. So. Tired.
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Voltie — she/her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/21 01:11:01 )


@aisukohi:
Oh gosh, I'm sorry! I feel like this is just such an issue right now D:
We're in a similar place with having no one in our warehouse staff at all, so even though we're supposed to be commission-based sales associates who dont commonly leave the floor, we very often have to spend much of our shifts in the back warehouse to do trucks or inventory. Its a long process and we lose customer opportunities. ANd those of us who remain on the floor are overwhelmed with customers and phone calls. Its a mess!

Hope we both find some non-felon people to hire soon D:
We've turned away so many of those too, from domestic abusers, sexual abusers and child porn records... its sometimes disturbing to interview them

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Donator — She/Her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/21 01:19:42 )
@Jolly: It's just such a mess with the job market now. Even the higher paying jobs are hardly getting any nibbles where we are. You'd think with unemployment running out, people would be rushing back to work. But I think this child tax credit is keeping people home too (at least those who have several kids). I just...I'm tired of these handouts keeping people at home, but at the same time, everyone deserves a livable wage.

I'm rambling, but I hope you find help soon too! <3
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Donator — She/her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/21 02:00:17 )


@Jolly: oh wow that really sucks. Do they have to reduce hours at the store or hire someone else?

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Voltie — she/her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/21 16:41:33 )


@aisukohi:
Ugh yeah, dont even get me started! It drives me crazy that people are so comfortable not working at all. I can enjoy about a month of no work kinda, but after that I get so depressed if I'm not out doing productive work and making income o:
I dont get how people do it

@totalanimefan:
The company would probably never reduce the store hours, they'd rather us work every day before they consider that Lol
They can be a bit cutthroat sometimes!
We're trying hard to hire someone, but no one can pass the audit interviews so far because of felons or drugs

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Donator — She/Her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/22 01:13:16 )
@Jolly: Right?! I'm not the kind of person to sit at home all the time. Otherwise I too get depressed. Heck I was getting stir crazy when I was on maternity leave, which was only 6 weeks, but still! I just feel like there's a lot more to be earned, literally and figuratively, being away from home.
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Donator — She/her Posted 3 years ago ( 2021/09/22 12:07:23 )


@Jolly: ugh that’s really rough! I hope you can make it through.

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