I'm starting to get pissed off..I've had to call in 3 weeks in a row because they gave me hours I can't do...My availability is plain as day when I log into eschedule. I'm in college so my availability is not negotiable. *I guess i'll have to keep calling until they learn i'm not available 24/7 like I was over the summer.
If your availability is already set, your schedule writer is overriding shifts that violate those hours, and don't let them tell you otherwise.
Well they are just making it hard on themselves because they have to switch me with other people when I call and complain
Also, this week they gave me some hours that weren't listed on my availability, but I can still do them. Like I put my availability as 7 am to 11 am on Tuesday. They gave me 5 pm to 11 pm. My college class is 1230 to 150 and 200 to 330, so I can still be to work by 5pm..I put my availability for the morning so that I could do homework and stuff at night.
If your availability is already set, your schedule writer is overriding shifts that violate those hours, and don't let them tell you otherwise.
Well they are just making it hard on themselves because they have to switch me with other people when I call and complain
Sounds like your dept head is like mine, and also the co who is over FE right now. They'll knowingly schedule senior employees later/non-preferred shifts, or give school kids too many hours, or deny time off requests for no reason (we have 70+ FE employees, we can let a half dozen off on a weekday) knowing they're requesting off for things they WILL callouts for, etc. And then, as the acsm, I get stuck with the job of filling shifts or just being short that day, and trying to cover for my bosses' stupidity.
If your availability is already set, your schedule writer is overriding shifts that violate those hours, and don't let them tell you otherwise.
Well they are just making it hard on themselves because they have to switch me with other people when I call and complain
Also, this week they gave me some hours that weren't listed on my availability, but I can still do them. Like I put my availability as 7 am to 11 am on Tuesday. They gave me 5 pm to 11 pm. My college class is 1230 to 150 and 200 to 330, so I can still be to work by 5pm..I put my availability for the morning so that I could do homework and stuff at night.
I've had this happen before and the only way i could stop it was to go totally unavailable on those days.
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The system reads all availability, requests, vacations, etc., and spits out a preliminary schedule based on the department's total hours needed, total hours available, and seniority. The schedule writer then changes it all to whatever they want and POOF, availability violated.
Some writers are great and do this all correctly, others don't.
The system reads all availability, requests, vacations, etc., and spits out a preliminary schedule based on the department's total hours needed, total hours available, and seniority. The schedule writer then changes it all to whatever they want and POOF, availability violated.
Some writers are great and do this all correctly, others don't.
I wouldn't say "POOF, availability violated" but more like eschedule popped up an error that they were inputting a shift that violated availability and the schedule writer knowingly overrode it.
