#CorporateStupidity #OvertimeIssues #EmployeeRights
So, my hubby just found out that his company is now scheduling everyone for 35 hours instead of 40 to avoid overtime. 🤦♂️ Has anyone else dealt with this kind of nonsense from corporate before?
Here are a few suggestions that might help navigate this situation:
– Keep track of your hours each week to ensure you don’t go over 35 hours
– Offer to help customers after your scheduled leave time to make up for lost hours
– Consider talking to HR or management about finding a more reasonable solution
Let’s share our experiences and tips on how to handle this kind of corporate stupidity! 💼✨ #EmployeeExperience #WorkLifeBalance #CorporateCulture
Work only 35 hours and not one moment more. Let them fail. They’ve just told you they are so focused on the short term they can’t think of the long term.
I wouldn’t just quit, but I’d be using those ‘extra’ 5 hours to look for a new job. Don’t abandon the job until you have a better one. I’m sure there are better ones than this crazy shit.
You = hubby.
Malicious compliance time, oops, I had to stay over to help 10 customers. Oops, Steve called off, I’m working a few more hours. Oops, we don’t have the racks stocked, let me spend more time stocking. You get the idea, OP.
Sounds like typical Marcus Lemonis thinking. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is Camping World.
So they just effectively gave all their staff a 12.5% pay cut. Good luck retaining all your experienced workforce after a stunt like that.
Yes, constantly. I ignore my supervisor and work until the job is done. Basically have been doing that this entire year and I always get this lip service about working overtime. It’s just a joke to me. Usually amounts to 46 hrs per week. The account is important to the company and they’re inept so I think they’re struggling to replace me
Tell him to drop everything and leave exactly at the 35 hour mark. Let them suffer.
This isn’t uncommon. I worked at one place that would schedule us for 35 hours because cashing in/cashing out weren’t part of the official schedule.
Another employer would have people clock out at the end of their Friday morning break to offset any OT accrued during the week. Then you can sit around in the breakroom for 15, 20 or whatever minutes. They didn’t allow us to leave early because they didn’t want it to become an incentive to work unexpected overtime.
Spoiler alert: It’s not stupidity from corporate, if it’s a chain store, it’s 100% the store’s manager.
At my work every few years they trot out this idea where all the junior-tier employees get put on a 6 day 6 hour schedule. It never works out but they’re doing it again (fortunately it doesn’t apply to me this time, but I’ve been there in the past)
This time they’re also forcing them to take off-the-clock lunch breaks in a 6 hour day, which is only required by law in an OVER 6h work day. So now these folks get to drive to work 6 times a week and they’re down to a 33 hour paycheck!
Ahaaaa Bass Pro I presume?
Tell hubby to go elsewhere this company is crap. Source: handle disability insurance for them and they are so entitled they suck ass.
This has been the case in every retail job I’ve ever worked
The full-time employees need to do one or a combination of 4 things:
1. Demand a raise greater than or equal to the pay cut that they just arbitrarily took without their consent.
2. Extreme malicious compliance: walk out as soon as they hit 35 hours and start pushing back on doing anything that might be perceived as going the extra mile. Be insistent and vocal about it.
3. Resign en masse.
4. Organize. Time to start getting union authorization signatures.
Best Buy does the same thing. No OT allowed. Usually scheduled 35-38 if that.
This is what they do at my company in my current role. I’m lucky to get 30 hrs a week (Was supposed to be 4 10-hr days). I transfer to another department next month where I will be scheduled for 4 10-hr days, but knowing them there will be something they implement to screw me over there too. Like I can see them schedule me for exactly 10 hrs per shift so they can deduct 2 hrs for my 4 30-min meal breaks. Not ideal but better than how I have it now. Meanwhile I’ll keep figuring out ways to get the hours I need.
Sounds like a great opportunity to organize a union!
Wouldn’t he qualify for unemployment due to a loss of hours?
By right we should be working less hours a week.
But getting paid the same.
Sounds like they are doing a good job but somehow punished so the bosses can save the rich people more money.
What shitty people. I had a boss once, she was absolutely nuts, but she did give me 1 piece of good advice: always keep your resume up to date, and always be looking at the available options. Other than that, she was a manipulative psycho.
Walmart does this. Full time isn’t 40 hrs there.
Next it’ll be 32 hours and “oh you don’t qualify for health insurance anymore because we just made you part time”. BTDT
Husband would be wise to polish his resume. Large companies with many retail stores typically pay their rent bills quarterly; quarter ends in a few weeks and I suspect the company execs are anticipating cash flow problems. If they don’t have a solid summer of takings expect redundancies either end September or end December.
This gives me cabellas vibes
He can have 5 of mine, I’d love it be on 35 xd
Could OPs husband file for unemployment for those 5 hours?? Just curious
What did your husband’s union say about this?
Ooo sounds like the company is in trouble
It’s common practice in retail.
The common response by “full time” employees is to engage deeply and *very* proactively with customers at the beginning of the work week towards the end of each shift so that you run over your scheduled 7 hours by 30 to 60 min. Look for “attachment sales” and never fail to “sell the whole experience/project/adventure”.
By day five on the schedule you have a half day off built up. Eventually cutting coverage at the end of each week results in the “new” scheduling falling short on store/department coverage standards and they go back to the normal schedule.
There are ways to deal with not hitting overtime without cutting your employees hours. That’s ridiculous.
Tell him to point out to coworkers this could mean the company is in bad financial straits 😂😂. Let them suckle upon the results.
Ever heard of Furr’s grocery stores? They had 140 stores in Texas and New Mexico. My ex-girlfriend worked for Furr’s in 2000 and 2001. The store started getting really strict about the time clock. People had to clock in and out to the minute, and not a minute of overtime was supposed to be had.
Next thing my gf knew, she went into work and half the shelves were empty. The company had filed for bankruptcy, and as soon as they sold out of their stock, they were done.
If the corporation is being this stupid. Then he won’t get anywhere near 40 hours from helping someone right at his shift change before they get serious with him and start writing him up for it.
I’ve been that stupidity from corporate, but then, I’m working entirely with grant funding and literally can’t make extra money appear for overtime. Seems kinda dumb that a retail place would be in that boat. And for that matter, wouldn’t 39 hours do the job? Exactly how long after end of shift are people staying?
It seems to me like a very overkill solution to a very minor problem, but my guess is that someone drove them to that with a threat to go after them to the labor board because they worked 40.1 hours on Week 1 and got absolutely livid when it was suggested they just work 39.9 hours on Week 2.
The way I’d be out the door at exactly the second my shift ended regardless of what came up…
Malicious compliance is the way to sort that out.
It actually pisses me of that companys do that
It’s written in my contract, 40 hours guaranteed, if the company has no work this week they still have to pay me 40 hours. If I start 2 hours earlier than my shift and only work 4 hours total, they have to pay me 2 hours overtime and 2 hours normal. Anything outside my shift hours is overtime, they call me up to say I don’t need to work that overtime today, and I start in it in less than 6 hours I’m coming in to get my minimum of 4 hours overtime, if it’s over the 6 hours I stay home.
If I want to go home early, then I forfeit those hours remaining from my 40 hours. We have a toolbox(think meeting to discuss the day) before work it’s paid overtime.
Want me to come in for a meeting on Wednesday at 1pm, I work nights, so that’s Tuesday and Wednesday night paid days off, and they are paying me overtime for the meeting.
Im Factory worker in New Zealand. Not every company is shit but there are a lot of them.
Make sure the reduction in hours doesn’t affect his health insurance (assuming he has any).
Also, he can apply for unemployment due to the reduction.
Yeah retail in my area has everyone at like 34-36 and under.
Only assistant managers and managers could work OT.
You must be talking about Academy Sports and Outdoors.
Seems it’s time to start organizing a union. The employees need more control over how we sell our time and effort to the capitalists.
Unionize
Solidarity
Are these changes coming from higher up in the company? The local boses may just be echoing their wishes, without having a choice in the matter. Still it sucks missing 20 hours a month. Maybe they’ll lose a couple people and save money. Of course, now there’ll be nobody to do the work they used to do.