I'll Never Understand This.

[Super Crazy]

After christmas, at work, the hours get cut back, and in my position, we are only needed at night , not during the day, and the hours all because of the low budget, but the thing I don't understand, they've changed my hours every week after christmas, giving me day shifts except for 1 or 2 shifts, and fairly lengthy ones at that, and I just don't understand where the money comes from for them to change the hours and why the money isn't there the whole time.

Anyone on here a big business guru and can explain this to me?

 

[Super Crazy]

No takers?

 

[SSJPhenom]

Where do you work at?

 

[Super Crazy]

Zellers, a retail store, it's like Canada's Walmart you could say.

 

[SSJPhenom]

That's why your hours are cut back.

You are never going to be as busy, all year around, as you are going to be from Thanksgiving to Christmas and trust me, I used to work in retail aswell from high school till just about a year ago.

 

[Cena's Little Helper]

If they're still giving you full-time hours and you have irregular schedules, it's because they're putting you where the need you, or where they're budgeted to put you at. If it's not just you that's getting weird hours, then I don't know what to tell you; but, if it's just you and other people have steadier schedules, then they probably rank higher in seniority.

 

[Super Crazy]

Actually I'm getting stteadier schedules then the full time people all because they keep switching my hours to more benefit my availability.

 

[Cena's Little Helper]

Then what's the question here? If you're getting an irregular schedule, it seems to be the case that your boss is taking your lifestyle into account.

 

[Super Crazy]

My question is where does the money come from for the budget to increase to give more hours if it's the slow time of the year.

 

[Cena's Little Helper]

Did they cut all their seasonal employees? If they kept more people on, then it might be the case that their business forecast for January 2010 was more optimistic than their forecast for January of last year.

 

[Super Crazy]

Nope, if anything I'd say the business forecast was less optimistic, as they had to cut more people then they normally would and had to move a bunch of people to different positions just to give them hours, oh well. It doesn't matter, it was just randomly on my mind last night.