Pharmacy continually schedules worker for 11-8 and Saturday shifts despite them only being available weekday mornings: 'You need to nip this in the bud'

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• I said I'm only available mornings, but my pharmacy keeps scheduling me late shifts and Saturdays.

  

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• Commenters gave their advice and stories from their experience.

  

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• Every job is different, and some jobs require a lot of sacrifice. You know, when you apply that, sometimes the job will have to come before your personal life. But it is a narrow subsection of jobs that require this. Most jobs should always take a backseat to your regular life if you can afford it. Scheduling is a huge part of this kind of sacrifice. In certain industries, you'll be expected to work nights and weekends, but you usually know this going in. You've decided that you're willing to do that, and you've made peace with your schedule. You've reoriented your life around those days and times, and that's that. But it's a whole other thing to have that sprung on you when you aren't expecting it. That's a lot harder to justify to yourself. Maybe it upends your sleep schedule, which throws everything off balance. Anyway you slice it, it's always better to know what to expect. Most jobs can give you this. You can have some idea of when you're expected to work, and though it may vary from week to week, you hopefully have a manager who is going to keep you abreast of those changes. But that's not what happened here. 

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• Most problems can be solved through communication. If you could sit down as adults and talk through something, there is a lot that could be avoided. But communication is difficult, especially in a work setting. You don't want to step on anyone's toes, and you want to respect everyone's authority. But this isn't always how it goes. Sometimes you find yourself having been disrespected, and then you wonder if you can continue to work somewhere. That's the spot this employee found themselves in when starting a new job. They weren't sure if what they were experiencing was normal or if they should stand up for their boundaries.

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