I work as a utility clerk and my manager is scheduling outside my availability due to school being out on that day. Does the Union protect me from this? Is there anything I can do or do I just have to accept that my availability is laughable to my manager?
If school weren't in session, would you be available to work that day? If the answer is yes, then they can schedule you to work that day. If the reason you're off a particular day is because of school and school isn't in session, then you no longer have a reason to be off.
Yeah, if your availability is because your have school on certain days and you're off (due to a holiday such as Veteran's day or whatever) i don't see how you can use that as an excuse.
I work as a utility clerk and my manager is scheduling outside my availability due to school being out on that day. Does the Union protect me from this? Is there anything I can do or do I just have to accept that my availability is laughable to my manager?
Give the manager a note from your parents excusing you from work. Call in with a tummy ache. Tell them your dog ate your nametag.
Nope, they should not be scheduling you. Honestly, it doesn't matter what the reason is for your unavailability - if you say you're unavailable, then you're unavailable. I have a day where I'm unavailable and it drives my department head nuts, she always keeps asking me "why can't you work that day!" I just repeat that I am unavailable that day without answering. If they schedule me, then I tell a manager I won't be able to come in that day - in my store they can't penalize you if they schedule you during a time when you're unavailable and you don't come in.
It's really no one's business but your own, you're choosing not to be paid that day. I would complain to the union if I were you.
Nope, they should not be scheduling you. Honestly, it doesn't matter what the reason is for your unavailability - if you say you're unavailable, then you're unavailable. I have a day where I'm unavailable and it drives my department head nuts, she always keeps asking me "why can't you work that day!" I just repeat that I am unavailable that day without answering. If they schedule me, then I tell a manager I won't be able to come in that day - in my store they can't penalize you if they schedule you during a time when you're unavailable and you don't come in.
It's really no one's business but your own; you're choosing not to be paid that day. I would complain to the union if I were you.
Nope, they should not be scheduling you. Honestly, it doesn't matter what the reason is for your unavailability - if you say you're unavailable, then you're unavailable. I have a day where I'm unavailable and it drives my department head nuts, she always keeps asking me "why can't you work that day!" I just repeat that I am unavailable that day without answering. If they schedule me, then I tell a manager I won't be able to come in that day - in my store they can't penalize you if they schedule you during a time when you're unavailable and you don't come in.
It's really no one's business but your own, you're choosing not to be paid that day. I would complain to the union if I were you.
It'd drive me nuts too. If you can't tell them the reason why you need it off - or at least make up something if it's too embarrassing/awkward/private, to want to tell them the reason why. But to just insist you need it off for no reason seems kind of crappy to me. idk, just my opinion.
Yeah this is wrong. It does not matter why you are unavailable, and your manager has no business asking you that. You can't be scheduled during a time where you are unavailable, and if you're scheduled during those hours you're not responsible for finding someone to cover them out. End of story.
It's not crappy to have a life and needs outside of Kroger. I feel like the lifers at Kroger just don't get it. Believe it or not, some of us have things to do that don't involve the Kroger family of grocery stores.
Nope, they should not be scheduling you. Honestly, it doesn't matter what the reason is for your unavailability - if you say you're unavailable, then you're unavailable. I have a day where I'm unavailable and it drives my department head nuts, she always keeps asking me "why can't you work that day!" I just repeat that I am unavailable that day without answering. If they schedule me, then I tell a manager I won't be able to come in that day - in my store they can't penalize you if they schedule you during a time when you're unavailable and you don't come in.
It's really no one's business but your own, you're choosing not to be paid that day. I would complain to the union if I were you.
It'd drive me nuts too. If you can't tell them the reason why you need it off - or at least make up something if it's too embarrassing/awkward/private, to want to tell them the reason why. But to just insist you need it off for no reason seems kind of crappy to me. idk, just my opinion.
It's crappy of them to ask. It's none of their business - again, you're choosing not the be paid that day. If it's approved that you're unavailable to work that day, then that's the beginning and end of the matter.
I agree with snailshell, there's nothing wrong with having a life outside of Kroger and there's nothing wrong with not sharing every detail of that life with your manager.
