Well, back to the ads.

[gridlore]

I have been scheduled for exactly one five hour shift next week. I'm not the only one.

Time to start looking again.

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're the last one to leave, you might get the time from other people's shifts. OTOH, management should have let you know that this was coming.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

We knew that things would get slow after Christmas, but even Trissene was shocked at *how* slow it was.

Hopefully it will pick up again, but I'm going to start the poking around. At least this time it isn't the "I have tio get a job as we are starving" state I was in last time.

And the managers know to call me if anyone calls in sick.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to the wonderful world of retail, Doug," she says ironically. Dale (a grocery clerk for the last twenty-fucking-four-and-a-goddam-half years) likewise sends sympathy.

WTF????

[jarlsberg71.livejournal.com]

I understand that it gets slower after the holidays but Jeez, if they needed to lay off 2-3 more people so the rest could have 25 hours, then they should do it! What the sense of bringing everyone down to 5 hours???

Anyway, I'm sending massive waves of writing waves while you've got some time off...

Re: WTF????

[kengr]

At a guess, they expect the business to pick up more in a month or so, and then they'd need them all.

Then again, given the preference to *avoid* full time workers so as to cut down on the expense of providing benefits, who knows what they are thinking.