I had a bit of a blow-out with one of my associate managers today. I've had to revise the November schedule three times now, twice to make sure managers were scheduled correctly and once so that the upcoming holiday labor needs could be met. I've been trying to make it to where we all, myself included, can have at least two Sundays off each month plus some other weekend times.
I've done it this way so that I can once again go to church, and others can do so as well, if they so desire. I'm still taking the lion's share of the "poop shifts", though. Well, my associate manager today declared she can't work some of the closing shifts. Now, I've spent long hours into the night to get the schedule done so what she said just scalded me, and I went off on her. After all, changing for her means I close the store 17 days out of 30, and I'm not even supposed to be doing that!
Maybe I'm just tired, I don't know, but later on she apologized then sat down with me to explain some things and offered to switch some of the closing shifts I had with some of her mid-shifts. ::sigh:: We both apologized to each other then and got back on good, solid footing with each other. I think she's beginning to understand how difficult it can be for me, when I'm making these kinds of decisions and trying to be fair to everyone including myself.
Now to get one of the other managers to understand these same things and agree to be more flexible with her schedule!
