Is it normal to be offered a serving job at 1 day a week?
I was offered a serving job for one night a week when I’m looking for full time. Should I be insulted? Do restaurant managers really want servers who are willing to only work one day a week? She knows I’m looking for full time, so she can’t possibly think she’s doing me a favor. I’m honestly insulted that she would even offer, am I wrong? She couldn’t get her collective staff to pick up one extra shift a week? What?
Is it normal to be scared of getting my first job?
I'm 19 and I'm scared of getting my first job, I want to get a part time job to earn my own money. I already know lots of places where I could work, but I don't know I'm still having this feeling of fear, because I consider myself shy, so It could be a problem, isn't it? Another question: If I want a Part Time that means I'm gonna work 20 hrs???? I mean 4 hours per day (monday through friday)?? I exactly don't understand this about part time, are they going to ask me how many hour could i work? or something????
Is it normal to lose weight working retail?
I transitioned from a call center job, to job in retail sales. So basically from sitting down, snacking all day... to walking around for 8+ hours a day. Over the last two months, I have started losing a considerable amount of weight. I can now fit clothes that I couldn't wear for a while. I'm just wondering if this is typical and if anyone else has experienced this.
In retail, what time do you normally go to work?
Lordy, lordy, lordy … I wish there was such a thing as “normal” in retail.The Home Depot, where I work, instituted set schedules for many of the line associates but department supervisors and above are subject to the needs of the business and cannot expect to have any sort of consistency regarding schedules. Even the associate’s set schedules are subject to change if upper, upper management decides a different model would work better.Neither the days I have off nor the time of day I start my shift is cast in stone. There are two days of the week that are, largely, held inviolate … Mondays and Wednesdays and I work 9a–5:30p and 2:30p-11p respectively. I say, “largely” because even on those days I might have a different schedule.There are days I look back on my cubicle oriented career with a certain amount of wistfulness … Mon - Fri except when a project needed to be completed … all 10 Federal holidays off …, but I wouldn’t give up the constant change and challenge of retail.
California labor law? for mall retail job?
The law seems to change every couple of years, so make sure you have the most current info from an official source. You might want to start here: http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/DLSE-FAQs.htm . The employer is also required to post this info with the current laws on a poster somewhere at the job site. Look for it, it is usually a giant poster with a bunch of small writing on it. To answer your specific questions, there are two types of breaks. One is a rest break and the other is a meal break. MEAL BREAK: In an 8 hour shift they are required to allow you to take one meal break of 30 minutes and you are not paid for it. They can't ask you to do any work or to stay at the job site during your meal break. If they violate this there are penalties that the labor board can assess. There are ways to work around this but the employer and employee must both agree and it usually does not benefit the employer so they won't agree to it. Just take the break and enjoy it. REST BREAKS: In an 8 hour shift they are required to allow you to take two rest breaks of 10 minutes each and they must be paid. The first one must be in the first 4 hours and the second one must be in the second 4 hours. They can't ask you to do any work but they can require that you stay at the job site. OVERTIME: Any work over 8 hours a day is overtime. Any work over 40 hours of worked time in a week is overtime (note that sick days or vacation days don't count toward those 40 hours). This part of the law has changed the most frequently, but that is the requirement right now.
My Hours Have been cut at work. Retail...Part Time?
After the Holiday season, retail employee hours are cut since the retail industry enters it's "Slow season". Those of us with extensive experience know this, and we prepare for the reduced work hours, by setting aside a bit of money throughout the year to see us through the slow period that we know will be coming, after inventory in January. Traditionally, the slow season in the U.S runs from mid-January until late March, when people start getting tax refunds and start thinking of spending again on home improvements and Spring fashions. This year, the down-turn in the economy does have something to do with retail stores even further reducing hours and cutting staff. The store I work at, started cutting hours the first Monday after Christmas. In the past, they didn't cut hours until late January after the "return/exchange" season and inventory was over. As for you, if the hours are "fixed", you might try to fit in another part-time job. But if you need to be flexible and available... If you really love the job, and can afford it... Try to hang on for a few weeks and see if they expect business to pick up and more hours to become available for you.
My boyfriend of 4 years called me a stalker because I want to know his work schedule. Am I unreasonable?
It does seem a little like a police state kind of request, but if you’ve been dating him for 4 years already then how do you not already know his schedule? I don’t know if he works in retail sales or something with constantly changing schedules from one week to the next, but I worked a service job and my wife used to demand the same thing. In my case, the problem was that I only had to be at work at a certain time, then I picked my jobs for the day and worked until they were completed. I might get home at 3 pm or 3 am but my workday always started at 7 am. So I could kind of understand her inquiry but I worked in construction and some sites I could work as late as I needed to, but at the end of the day, I was coming home covered in sawdust. So there was no reason to think I was hanging out somewhere after work like that. I was wearing my dirty work clothes with sawdust in my hair and on my arms and face matted down by my sweat. And we shared a bank account so she already knew how much I was earning from one week to the next and how much I was spending. I didn’t have lipstick on my neck or smell nice.She nagged me about it for five years as if I somehow had to prove I wasn’t lying. Come to find out she was cheating on me the whole time and was just worried that I was doing the same thing to her.
Life: Is life too short for a 9 to 5 job?
Absolutely!Here is how a typical routine will look like.6 AM to 8 AM: Wake up. Get ready. Kids. School. Breakfast.8 AM to 9 AM: Commute. Reach office.9 AM to 6 PM: Work.6 PM to 7 PM: Commute. Reach home.7 PM to 8 PM: Unwind. Kids. School. Dinner.8 PM to 10 PM: Me Time. 20 missed calls can wait.10 PM to 6 AM: Sleep.If you don’t have kids, you get couple of extra hours per day. If you live closer to work, you save time on commute. But, the ever increasing work load & agile deadlines can eat away time saved elsewhere.If you manage to restrict work to office hours, you do get 2 hours everyday for self. You get paid on time, pay your bills on time and save some money. That’s great. But, wait, there are too many things that can go wrong in this setup. And quite often they do.LayoffsReorgsCost cuttingAgeismPoliticsLocationCultureManagerClientSalaryWorkCo-workersTimingsHealthRelationshipsWhile a 9–5 setup does have some advantages (especially when you have no capital to run your own show), you end up firefighting a lot of issues listed above, in vain, which add no value in the long run.Instead of reskilling and solving bigger problems year after year, you end up politicking to save your job or to move up just an inch. I can’t see how that is the best use of one’s life.EDIT 1 - People ask: what are the alternatives?I have written 40 answers on Quora about work. I ended up organizing them under 4 different sub-sections (Teaching, Career Advice, Software R&D, Freelancing & Entrepreneurship) on my website. I can’t find a neater way of organizing my answers here on Quora.To summarize, if you are good, you will do way better doing your own thing rather than working for someone else. The freedom will enable you to upskill and produce results much faster.If you are not so good, you will struggle in any setup. So, your focus should be to figure out what you really like, reskill in that area and give it your 100%. You won’t go very far without passion.
Can an employer (retail) fire someone if the do not work on Black Friday?
An employer can require schedule changes when it is needed for business operation. That said, since you have been working weekends for 8 years without being required to work on weekdays, the employer has allowed this schedule and would need specific reasons to fire you over a change in your schedule now. My guess is that there is a new person in the office who actually makes up the physical schedule. He/she was told "put everyone on for black Friday" and he/she did without thinking. So, you may need to go to that person and explain that you are on 'weekends only'. You may also want to inform HR that you are 'weekends only' so that they can take the 'no call no show' off your record. Too many of those and you will be terminated for absenteeism. As for the chance of an employer terminating you for not following the schedule, yes it could happen. You could argue 'no notice', but in most retail businesses the posted schedule is considered sufficient notice to all employees. If you were terminated you may be able to file a discrimination complaint with the EEOC (www.eeoc.gov) against the store. You would need to allege that the termination was based on discrimination due to your age (pver 40) and/or sex. On your side you have your clean record, the fact that you have been allowed to work weekends only for years, and that you were not notified about the schedule change. In this economy there are no certainties in employment. One of the worst things that can happen to a long-term employee is to have a brand new young hot-shot boss who demands everyone does it his/her way. If you are in that spot now, expect more trouble. My concern is that you have a warning on your record (the no show). If they really want to get rid of you they will schedule you for weekdays around the holiday, you will not show up, there will be another warning in your file, and you will be terminated for absenteeism.