Internet commentators backed up a woman who refuses to follow her work schedule, despite the insistence of her newly appointed supervisor.
publish in RedditThe popular r/antiwork Redditor forum u/decayingdreamless (also known as the original poster or OP) said that he worked the same work schedule for six months without conflict, until an unknown authority came along and broke it up.
Entitled, “When I was hired I told my boss there was a day I couldn’t work. It was never a problem until we got a new boss,” the mail It has received nearly 23,000 upvotes and 1,000 comments in the last day.
Explaining that there is only one day a week that he can see his family without scheduling conflicts, the original poster said that he closely adhered to it. regular working hours and he appreciated his weekly day off.
“I planned my life around that time [and] had plans for that day this week,” OP wrote.[But] when I checked my schedule, the new boss had changed everything.”
“I explained to him that when I was hired I said I needed that day off and it had never been a problem before,” OP continued. “He told me that I needed to be more flexible and that my schedule would change…according to his needs.”
Adding that she earns minimum wage with no benefits, and now has no ability to plan her time away from work, the original poster said that after some thought, she decided to stick to the hours she worked for the past half year.
“I am not [canceling] my plans,” OP wrote. “I told him I can’t work that day, but he expects me to show up.
“I’m just not going to call, I’m not going to show up that day and I’m going to laugh,” OP assured. “Good luck figuring out who’s going to cover the nights I’m keeping that place alone.”
Sudden time changes are inconvenient, hard to accommodate and perfectly legal.
“Unless an employment contract or collective agreement provides otherwise, an employer may change an employee’s duties, hours or workplace without the employee’s consent,” reports the Society for Human Resource Management.
Although Oregon and a handful of major American cities, including New York City, San Francisco and Seattle, have passed predictive scheduling laws that require employers to notify employees of schedule changes two weeks in advance, The same can be said for other regions of the country.
Several states, including Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee, have passed laws that prevent local governments from implementing predictive programming regulations, according to HR Dive.
However, whether or not notice of an impending schedule change is required can quickly become moot if employees are unwilling to comply. inconsiderate management practices.
In her viral Reddit post, the original author expressed her disappointment in the decision to change her work schedule and made it clear that she is not compensated well enough to accommodate her new boss’s poor communication style.
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Throughout the comments section of the post, Redditors praised the strength of the original poster and sharply criticized his new supervisor for requiring employees to change their schedule whenever he deems it necessary.
“It’s a shitty power play by shitty bosses,” Redditor u/Whole_Mechanic_8143 wrote in the top comment of the post, which received nearly 10,000 upvotes. “Stand your ground and start looking for a new job.
“He’s showing you that it’s a little power trip [a**hole]”, they added.
“He doesn’t care,” chimed in Redditor u/MangaJosh, receiving over 1,600 upvotes. “All he cares about is how much shooting power he can do.”
Redditor u/CapnKrieg, whose comment received over 1,500 upvotes, echoed that sentiment.
“Good for you,” they congratulated him. “Minimum wage jobs await your soul and [to] be [grateful] you have the job, we have to stop giving it to them.
“It’s true,” added Redditor u/missoularedhead. “The jobs that pay the least are the jobs that are micromanaged.”
In a separate comment, which received nearly 2,000 upvotes, Redditor u/Keslen offered an opposing perspective on the original lineup’s scheduling dispute.
“You are not going to call, you are not going to appear,” they assured. “You told him you weren’t available.
“If they can’t find coverage, that’s their problem, not yours,” they added.
news week contacted au/decayingdreamless for comment.