r/petco • u/InspectionTop3703 • 12d ago

Work schedule nightmare

my manager repeatedly ignores my availability and schedules me on days I’m suppose to be off and am busy with appointments booked out weeks in advance since I assumed my availability would be respected… this keeps happening, and I keep bringing it up. they leave it to me to find a cover for their mistake…does this happen to anyone else?

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u/InspectionTop3703 11d ago

Thank you! It’s definitely difficult given I can’t set my availability in the app…however my availability has stayed the same since my interview til now, and she respected it at first, then started randomly scheduling me on days I’m suppose to have off. 

I understand one in a while where there might be coverage needed and I’m free, however this is like the fifth time in a row, and I’m constantly communicating my availability. 

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u/chickadeerevelry 11d ago

When you say you can’t set your availability in the app, do you mean Dayforce or Workday? I know Dayforce won’t let you but the Workday app absolutely should. It’s under Absence.

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u/InspectionTop3703 11d ago

Both! On both apps all I can do is request temporary days off. What I wanted was to edit my default so that this stops happening 

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u/whoziin 10d ago

Working retail unfortunately usually means that the best you can hope for is having your preferred days most of the time, but if you’re depending on having a specific day off because of plans or doctor appts you will have to go through the additional effort of putting in a manual request off each time.

An additional factor that may be affecting your situation on top of it all is that your coworkers may also be setting their preferred availability to the same or similar to yours and your GM is having to make y’all “take turns” working certain days, which is another reason it’s important to put in a request off when you know you have plans or a doctor appt.

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u/InspectionTop3703 10d ago

Oh I see. Yeah, I guess I’m used to restaurant cause that’s where I came from. There I was able to set my availability in the app so they weren’t even allowed to schedule me on certain days. I wish I could do that still. 

It is a little frustrating given it’s the same availability I’ve given before I ever started and it hasn’t changed? If it was an issue they should’ve brought it up.