office space was a sweet movie
rewind to august: i'm getting ready to move to chicago for school, so i request a transfer to the chicago store so i can still be making some money. transfer went smoothly, couldn't have worked out better.
september: i had asked for no more than 20 hours a week, since it's my freshman year and i'm a full time student. the chicago store consistantly scheduled me 30 hours a week until i realized that i need more time to keep up with my school work. i asked not once, but twice to go a little easy with my availability, and finally i was down two 20 hours, but not until after about a month.
to provide for myself a little extra coushin to make sure this problem didn't get too out of control, i requested for saturdays to be removed from my availability. the manager said OK, but later on the SAME DAY he said i had agreed, when i transfered there, that saturdays and sundays had to be completely open on my availability. this was news to me, as i had never agreed on this, or even been informed of it. but whatever, i just went with it anyways in order to aviod making a big mess out of everything.
september-october: they tell me to try to work on not having so many scheduling conflicts. well, there wouldn't have been any conflict if they listened to me, and didn't make shit up.
november: i almost didn't get to come home for thanksgiving, because they didn't want to grant me the weekend off. but the captain approved it, even though he wasn't crazy about it himself.
i mentioned to a manager, the one who writes the schedule, that i would be out of town for my winter break, which runs from dec. 15- jan. 23. i was told i can't take all three holidays off (thanksgiving, christmas, and new years). according to them, i can get the rest of my break off if i come back and work the week between christmas and new years. at the end of this conversation, he said we would talk about it later because it wasn't a good time.
the next couple of weeks i was only scheduled one shift a week, which made me wonder if they were trying to tell me something. because of this, i was never in the store at the same time as the manager who writes the schedule, therefore i could not talk to him about it.
last week: i tell the captain that i want to transfer back to the royal oak store for my break. he was pissed at me because i waited this long to bring it up. however, he said he would approve the transfer provided i made all the calls and got everyone's approval by today (tuesday).
so i did. both stores approve the transfer, things are good at this point.
today: i get a call from the guy who writes the schedule at the chicago store, asking about what happened to our deal. apparently it's in his mind somewhere that i agreed to work that week between christmas and new years. i flat out told him no, i never agreed to that. my idea was to work back at home when i'm going to be home, and i thought everyone was fine with that. he then made a poor analogy, comparing me to a child who wants something, one of those situations where mom says no so you go ask dad. thanks big guy, now it's clear to me that i'm looked down upon by the management at work. he asks when i'm working next, i say friday. he tells me we'll talk about it then.
so apparently these people don't understand that i'm not in chicago to work for them, i'm in chicago to go to school. when school's over, i'm not in chicago. simple as that. and i guess they don't realize that going home for break is what college kids do. and i thought it was clearly understood when i was hired in, that i'm a college student. i find it completely unreasonable for them to expect me to travel back and forth just to work for one week over my goddamned winter break. with nowhere to park my car in chicago, it would cost me about $136 to get a round trip train ticket, because of the fares during the holidays. i probably wouldn't even make that much working in one week for them.
now what's going to happen is on friday, they're going to sit down with me in the back room and try to corner me into thinking that i would be screwing them over by not working for a single week over the holidays, and telling me that i agreed on a deal that was never even discussed, but simply mentioned by one of the managers. if they choose not to hear me out this time, then all i have to say about that is "later, fuckers". clearly i'm getting shafted from them, and if that's how it's going to be, then they can hire another sucker to fill my spot.
my middle finger goes out to trader joes, lincoln park.
conclusion: trader joe's royal oak > trader joe's lincoln park.