u/Vaporeon_Jolteon

Part Time MET vacation confusion

so I’m still fairly new to MET, I used to work full time in paint. when I moved to MET right before my 5 year anniversary date, I went to part time, got part time vacation hours (as expecte). Supervisor has basically been giving me full time hours, and I’m fine with that. But what I‘m confused about is that when I requested vacation time, I only asked for 4 hours off for vacation days (like I would as a part time sales associate) and still got scheduled for 4 hour shifts those days. I was told afterwards that I have to request the entire shift, but how am I supposed to know what hours I’d be working those days before they’re posted. I’ve only got 60 hours to work with, and I’d like to make the most of it.

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u/Vaporeon_Jolteon — 3 months ago

Just moved to part time MET. I was the full time paint closer for 2 years. In those 2 years, I’ve seen 4 different supervisors. The most recent is never in her f***ing departments, and still manages to accumulate 3 hours of overtime, only ever saw her for 5 minutes every time she was working. I consistently closed by myself every night, always have to scrounge around to find someone willing to cover my lunches and breaks. The 1 part timer we have was only scheduled on my days off, never with me. yet I’m still expected to maintain the aisles, handle customers, and all closing procedures like it’s no issue. Opener only does the checklist, and deals with customers, he’s been with the company a very long time and doesn’t like changing what he does. Mid shift didn’t even like the paint department, wanted to move to garden (everyone has their preferences) she got told “we’ll see what we can do” every time she asked. She was never the best with customers, paint isn’t her cup of tea, but she was forced to drink it, so many customer misunderstandings ended up getting her fired. She front faced and kinda maintained the aisles, but never to the effort or standards that I would hold myself up to. I’ve only worked in this new position for 2 days now and a lot of people I consider friends at work have literally said that I have a glow, I genuinely look happy. I can choose if I want to help a customer or send them off to find someone else, I haven’t done much other than general service, but I can already tell that I made the right decision to move departments. For anyone who made it this far down my rant, you are not trapped, seize every opportunity, you may feel like you’re drowning sometimes but there is a surface to break through. Do what makes you happy.

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u/Vaporeon_Jolteon — 5 months ago