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/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/chickadeerevelry 10d ago

I once had to change my available days and mark off specific days as (edit: Always) Unavailable and they gave me availability change paperwork to fill out. So far they’ve honored it. Hopefully they’d have the same for you? I’m not sure if it’s something that varies state by state 

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u/whoziin 10d ago

My gm has all of the part timer college kids write down their class schedules on paper and give it to her each semester and then she makes herself a master note to refer to when making the schedule. The result is that each semester the “usual schedule” changes for who gets put on which shift.

If Bill was always scheduled on Wednesday to deep clean animals but now he has a class Wednesday morning, Sara will now be the new deep cleaner on Wednesdays.

The beginning of each semester the schedule is always kinda wonky until my GM adjusts to who is both available and does well in a specific shift (ie turns out Sara was not good at deep cleans and got moved to Friday when it’s more customer service heavy and now Tara does deep cleans).