How Long Can My Company Keep Me Doing The Manager Job Without Makeing Me The Manager

Can an employer take you off the schedule without saying anything?

I walked into work (Harvest Fresh Market) to get my paycheck Friday. I checked the schedule and my name was whited out with a line through it. I asked my manager Debbie and she said "I was given orders to take you off the schedule". I asked her by who. She said "Vince (Head Manager) and that she did not know why".

I picked up my last pay check a week later. Went upstairs to talk to Vince and he said he did not know anything about it and he will look into it. Its been two weeks since then.
I know i need to demand an answer, but everyone has told me to leave it alone. I have worked for H.F.M. for almost 8 months. Legally I am not fired. I was never asked for my uniform and still have my time clock card.

What can i do other than look for another job. I want to make it clear to H.F.M. that the way i have been treated is WRONG! And i deserve an explanation of why I was let go.

Why do my managers keep scheduling me outside of my availability?

Call or talk face-to-face with the manager and scheduler (if those are different people) IMMEDIATELY when you see you are overscheduled. Say something like, "I can't work on Tuesday. As we've discussed several times, I am only available for two shifts a week."

This is pretty common in retail. The problem is that the company needs to cover their shifts will the staff they have. Sometimes they are just careless about scheduling. Sometimes they don't have enough staff to accommodate a scheduling request. If your boss really can't get it together or afford to give you want you need, you will have to find another job.

Is it professional to email a hiring manager when posting for a new position internally?

I work at a large company in the gaming field. I have long wanted to make a move into a new position. My current manager knows my desire but says he can't really help unless I get called for an interview. My question is, upon viewing the job posting there is a name of the recruiter. Is it professional and helpful to email this person on my internal computer to ask what the manager and himself are looking for? Any thoughts?

My employer is keeping me past schedule?

As long as they are still paying you (the same way they pay you for your normal shifts) for the extra hours, then its ok for them to ask you to stay longer than you are scheduled. You can say no, but you wouldn't be helping your image as an employee and if others are also asked to stay beyond their scheduled shift, then you might just leave a bad impression on them too. If you say no enough times, they may just let you go and hire somebody else instead. Employment in many states is "at will"

Hourly employees are paid for every hour they are asked to work. Overtime rules vary by state and federally, overtime pay does not apply until the hour after you have worked 40 hours in what the employer considers as a work week. California is the only state that I am aware of that also counts the daily overtime thing, which is any hour worked past the 8 hours is OT.

Do I have to give my boss 2 months notice if I find a new job?

Boss probably got worried that I am considering leaving because we had a few (good) employees resign last summer (one in July, one in Aug, and one in Sept). I know at-will means they can fire me and I can leave at anytime, but I always managed to give 2 weeks for past jobs, with no complaints from any old bosses. One day out of the blue he requested that I give him 2 months of notice if I accept another job. In my field, new employers typically want you to start as soon as possible so I doubt any new job would wait 2 months for me.

My boss probably thought that he could lock me in my current job if I actually complied and gave him 2 months, but can he do anything if I do not? I did not sign any agreement about giving such a long period of notice, and even my HR department thinks 2 months is ridiculous.