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Ieva Pečiulytė

“Close At 11 PM, Open At 5 AM”: Management Refuses To Let Employee Switch Schedules, Regrets It

As we’ve seen during the pandemic, retail workers are essential. According to NCSL, 1 out of 10 domestic workers in the US works in the retail industry. So it should be a given that retail employees get adequate pay and have generally decent working conditions. A schedule that makes sense can be one example of those conditions.

The OP of this story came into a job in which the situation was the opposite. The management wanted their bookkeepers to be unhappy and overworked for some reason. Well aware of their rights, the user Honest_Star7348 took this as an opportunity to teach the entitled management a lesson. They shared their malicious compliance story with the Internet in an attempt to encourage other retail workers to stand up for their rights.

Work schedulers and management are responsible for employees’ schedules to make sense

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