I've got a problem.

When I was hired at the local grocery store to be a ceurtesy clerk, I told the owners that I had to have part of the 2nd week in June off. they told me, "Not a problem". About a month ago, I filled out a request form for Leave of absence, unpaid time for June 11-14 and turned it in. a couple days later I talked to them and asked if I could specify it as medical leave, because it was very important. again, "Not necessary because it was not a problem". Last Thursday, I went in and confirmed my time off. Again, "Not a problem".

Saturday evening I went in to view my schedule for this week, and to my surprise, they have me down to work friday and saturday! I talked to one of the managers and he wrote a note asking them to change my schedule and posted it on the owner's office door last night. But now, even at 11:30 this morning, my schedule has not been fixed and i'm supposed to leave day after tomorrow. I'm almost to the point of screaming out of frustration.

This bi-yearly doctor's appointment is down in Portland, Oregon on friday. My mom already has the time off, my appointment has been confirmed, and sleeping arrangments have already been taked care of. I can't easily cancel my appointment because to re-schedule has to be done several months up to a year in advance

THe thing with a ceurtesy clerk is that if you're supposed to be gone and you're scheduled to work anyway, you can't just leave because that shift HAS to be taken care of. It's not like an office job where you can just go.

Anyway, I went into town and finally got it fixed. So after I work tomorrow, I don't have to work for the rest of the week.

But what a hassle

for the future, get it in writting. You ask for the time off, put it on a piece of paper and when they say no problem, have the person initial the paper. Its just a basic CYA

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Andrew, When it comes to something as important as your health, the broccholi can wait!!!
If you have plans with your family, there are rooms booked and doctors expecting you......
They will find somebody else to fill in.  You come first,.. the ...."Spill in isle 11, can wait!" 

Dave  8)

Well, as an ex-manager myself I have to disagree with Ozzy's generalisation of managers. As with most things in life, there are good ones & bad ones - maybe more bad ones come to think of it. I like to think I was one of the better examples.

The point here is that the manager is paid to worry about staffing problems while you are not. Providing you followed company procedures & have permission to go, its his problem. As Loomex points out, always get written confirmation - for everything - then there's no argument. I admire your concientiousness (is that a word? ) but don't let these things stress you out.

Well Craig, there's managers & then there's managers. I don't know how the average store operates or how well-trained their management is. In my case, if a member of staff didn't turn up for whatever reason I was qualified & quite prepared to do their job myself. I was responsible for training them in the first place. The CEO (or whatever the Boss is called now) would do the same. In fact we could do their job better than they could.  8)

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That's a good idea, thanks. What i'll do is give them the request form, have them sign it and then make myself a copy