Posted on 12/03/2019 6:26:37 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I get a schedule on Thursday for the next week that starts Friday. At the top it says “Schedules are subject to change daily.” And hey do. this is one reason we are always short of people, and have a high turnover. Of course we old “retired” people can suck up the overtime. 56 hour weeks are not unusual. But to have the government mandate work rules? guess higher pay would be needed but then cost of goods and services would have to go up. And there is alwas the law of Unintended Consequences.
Vladimir Illyich would have loved this squaw. On the train through Germany to Russia, taking him to his new job as mega-mass-murderer, he personally wrote out bathroom schedules for all the people accompanying him.
Now this is a good example of the Peter Principle. Next thing she will manage school lunches.......................
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Maybe that’s why we keep hearing talk of President Moose.
Don’t underestimate the appeal that this will have with the very same voters the Dems want to turn out next Fall.
This has long been a pet peeve of low-wage, part-time workers (particularly women).
I worked for a retail chain that posted a computer generated schedule that ran Fri-Thurs. Your 3 biggest days as a retailer are obviously Fri-Sat-Sun. On Monday they’d run a recalc and if you did not hit your sales plan the odds were there was no way you could possibly make it between Mon-Thurs. So the program went back and automatically cut hours and posted a new schedule. Conversely if you blew the weekend away it added hours and posted a new schedule with additional shifts.
They put the onus on employees to check in on Monday to see if their schedule had changed. They all hated it because it made it absolutely impossible to plan the rest of your life around the schedule (or to count on a certain minimum number of work hours).
To the company it made perfect business sense, but the ill-will that it created is apparently coming home to roost.
Big box stores and computer generated part time work schedules make it literally impossible to seek supplemental employment. And since the fulltime market is squelched due to AHCA costing models, the end of these cost driven practices are not going away until the AHCA is repealed.
Warren has no intention of repealing the AHCA, meaning this proclamation is complete BS.
Tl;DR - How To Make More NPC’s Act
Trump economy creating lots of jobs will fix this problem imo. People unhappy with this problem will be able to find a better job.
Your post explains perfectly why online shopping and self-serve checkout lines are chasing more and more retail jobs out of existence.
sadly enough, I have to admit that I totally agree with Warren that this type of scheduling of temp employees is cruel, exploitative, and disruptive and destructive of family life, and legislation of some type is necessary to rein in the megalithic corporations that exploit people like this ...
i base my opinion on extensive conversations with many actual workers in these low level jobs at places that i shop at ...
naturally, warren’s “solution” is ridiculously punitive and unworkable, but that doesn’t mean that a reasonable solution is impossible ... for example, a more reasonable solution might be that any worker ordered in on any non-scheduled basis automatically gets time-and-a-half (or even double) time pay ... this benefits the disrupted employee and provides a major financial incentive for lazy, exploitative corporations to develop efficient scheduling systems, instead of simply screwing all of their low-level employees all of the time simply because they can ... it’s not that difficult to develop algorithms that factor in season, weather, time, holidays and many other factors that tell a corporation how many employees they need at a given time a few days in advance ...
if they companies can figure out in advance how much merchandise they need for any type of situation, then they damn well can figure out how many employees they need in advance as well ... well run companies like Costco already do this very effectively ...
No wonder Wall Street says they will not support Warren if she wins the primary. They claim she is just too anti-corporation, which is the mainstay of Wall Street.
What it sounds like is that's she is a big commie like Bernie. Micro-managing employee work schedules for corporations from the White House is the first clue.
How big will the bureaucracy have to grow to regulate this huge part of private sector America?
The democRATS just can't leave well enough alone. They have to find a way to screw things up even if they aren't broken.
I am in power plant repair and servicing.
Let me make sure that Warren schedules all of her power plant breaks and crashes and emergencies two weeks in advance.
But you see, “legitimate business reasons” provide excuses, so every business plans a two week schedule, then cancels it as soon as it is issued. Good for bureaucrats and school teachers though, right?
I worked in the retail industry for over a decade.
All of my former employers went bankrupt and are now out of business.
In my opinion this was NOT due to overscheduling a couple of minimum wage shifts per week. Rather it was due to deliberate choices made by senior management to rack-up unsustainable levels of debt in order to finance ill-advised expansions.
So we have discovered the loophole, everyone that calls on our rentals is NOT the first applicant, everybody is the second applicant. Enforce that, you morons.
And that would be time off WITH pay, I assume.
Thanks Robert A Cook PE.
Oh, thank goodness!!!!! That’s #1 on my list of national problems that need to be fixed immediately.
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All 16 employees want every Friday off and that’ll shut down small businesses quickly.
This is just Liawatha trying to buy votes by promising more shit to any fool that will believe her.
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