It's retail, work weekends!
I've mentioned in a previous post about colleagues not working weekends. Well I overheard a colleague say that someone else has said that they can't work Sundays anymore! He only works Saturdays and Sundays anyway! That means that his Sundays will need to be absorbed by the remaining staff so we'll all end up doing even more weekends. The manager really needs to sort this out and have a meeting saying that as it's a retail environment and ALL staff are expected to work the busiest days of the week which are Saturdays and Sundays and when they took the job they knew this was the deal. They don't have to do every week but at least 1 weekend a month to allow other colleagues to have time off.
But also on a Saturday and Sunday it's non-stop customers after customers, questions after questions but on a weekday, although it can still be busy, it's not in the same league, yet they're still paid the same per hour as the people run ragged on a weekend! Pay the weekend staff more and lets see how many of the people who refuse to weekends change their minds and can all of a sudden work them.
One of the woman who doesn't work Sundays comes into the store almost every week to buy something anyway! There's only one woman who I don't mind not working weekends because she's been there that long that her contract wouldn't have had weekend work in it, when she joined back in the 80's shops didn't even open on Sundays, so I don't have a problem with that. But most people have joined there within the last few years so know they have to work weekends.
But also on a Saturday and Sunday it's non-stop customers after customers, questions after questions but on a weekday, although it can still be busy, it's not in the same league, yet they're still paid the same per hour as the people run ragged on a weekend! Pay the weekend staff more and lets see how many of the people who refuse to weekends change their minds and can all of a sudden work them.
One of the woman who doesn't work Sundays comes into the store almost every week to buy something anyway! There's only one woman who I don't mind not working weekends because she's been there that long that her contract wouldn't have had weekend work in it, when she joined back in the 80's shops didn't even open on Sundays, so I don't have a problem with that. But most people have joined there within the last few years so know they have to work weekends.