bleahhh....hh
Sep. 8th, 2005 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Guh. Today was so stupid. I should've gone with my first instinct and just called in. Stupid, stupid.
And now they're going to redo the schedule by having thirteen possible schedules and letting us bid on them, and in order of seniority and preference they'll assign them to us. Coolest part: my seniority number is 13. So that's awesome. Now, mind you, there are a number of people senior to me who are part-time, and thus who won't be getting these schedules. But how that's supposed to work, I don't know. There are also now five people junior to me. There are a total of 20 bartenders. Competing for 13 schedules. Yes. Awesome.
I do know that the schedule I've been working for the last month or so is on there, and is likely to be snapped up by someone senior to me. I do also see that they're changing some of the schedules very subtly, and aren't explaining the difference: how are we supposed to decide what schedule we really want if they don't explain? (Example: M-F 11:00-7:30 is one schedule; another is M-F 10:45-7:15. Now for the last couple of years there have just been two people who worked M-F 11:00-7:00, and which of them went where was decided by seniority. So what's the difference between those two schedules? Good goddamn luck finding out, before you bid and commit yourself to it.)
And I don't know what this leaves for the part-timers.
You can bet your ass I won't have as good a schedule as I do now. I'm starting to consider quitting. I'd go to another bar, but won't get health insurance. Meanwhile, are there any other jobs I could even do other than bartending? I don't know where to start looking. But dammit, I should; this is moronic, this hanging on tenterhooks and waiting to see whether I'll get screwed. Also, my foot hurts, and I miss having a job where a minor injury didn't incapacitate me. If I have to take time off to get my foot seen to, that may well put me back in the red financially. My job doesn't come with sick days.
But you can bet your ass that if the results of the bid schedules leave me without enough hours to maintain my health insurance, then I am quitting and they can take their proper notice and shove it up their asses.
And now they're going to redo the schedule by having thirteen possible schedules and letting us bid on them, and in order of seniority and preference they'll assign them to us. Coolest part: my seniority number is 13. So that's awesome. Now, mind you, there are a number of people senior to me who are part-time, and thus who won't be getting these schedules. But how that's supposed to work, I don't know. There are also now five people junior to me. There are a total of 20 bartenders. Competing for 13 schedules. Yes. Awesome.
I do know that the schedule I've been working for the last month or so is on there, and is likely to be snapped up by someone senior to me. I do also see that they're changing some of the schedules very subtly, and aren't explaining the difference: how are we supposed to decide what schedule we really want if they don't explain? (Example: M-F 11:00-7:30 is one schedule; another is M-F 10:45-7:15. Now for the last couple of years there have just been two people who worked M-F 11:00-7:00, and which of them went where was decided by seniority. So what's the difference between those two schedules? Good goddamn luck finding out, before you bid and commit yourself to it.)
And I don't know what this leaves for the part-timers.
You can bet your ass I won't have as good a schedule as I do now. I'm starting to consider quitting. I'd go to another bar, but won't get health insurance. Meanwhile, are there any other jobs I could even do other than bartending? I don't know where to start looking. But dammit, I should; this is moronic, this hanging on tenterhooks and waiting to see whether I'll get screwed. Also, my foot hurts, and I miss having a job where a minor injury didn't incapacitate me. If I have to take time off to get my foot seen to, that may well put me back in the red financially. My job doesn't come with sick days.
But you can bet your ass that if the results of the bid schedules leave me without enough hours to maintain my health insurance, then I am quitting and they can take their proper notice and shove it up their asses.
