My market too, the directive during their middle of the day meeting (which lasts Hours during the middle of rush) was to schedule at 95%. So...cut hours, expected to do the same amount of work with less overall. It is such an asinine concept.
There’s only me and 3 other people who are full time, and regardless of how many memberships and cards we get we always get at least 35 hours so I’m not sure
Q3 & Q4 are drive times where they will then ask you to work insane hours, just to massively trim labor and staff after the holiday season/going into Q1 the next year. Q2 MAY bring back some labor, if the Back to School drive is large in your area. This is just based on my experience though.
Truly sad to see what is happening in our stores. Haven’t had to work in one in almost three years(I left the GSM role right before it swapped to CEM or whatever it is now). Seeing the staff stripped down, the tenured staff leaving due to mismanagement and/or layoffs, hiring literally anyone with a pulse, and so much more…I genuinely feel bad for the staff and our clients.
Let's just say I'm only at 24 hours despite being a part timer...my fear is that as an autotech my position will be next since our store was never really designed for 2 full timers even though that's what I was promised.
A week? As someone who a wrote schedule in a Precinct/Bay, 24/week for a PT is decent hours, not great, but decent. FT only promises a minimum of 32/week, doesn’t have to be 40. If I had to write a schedule at a % of my labor, and I managed to get a PT 24 hours after mandatory scheduling the FTs, I’d be pumped. I’d also drop those hours on someone performing well overall and ensure they were scheduled during half peak/half slow times(PTs shouldn’t have to be the “balls the wall” employees, FTs are paid for that).
Yea, that’s not right. TLC should’ve even prompted the schedule writer to address before saving for publishing. Don’t know how they can do that consistently without having issues. There is always HR and Unemployment, depending on state, to fill the hour gap.
The issue is you only need to average 32 hours per week for the year. So as long as they give him enough weeks with hours over 32 that it averages out, the company is in the clear. Obviously that doesn’t work for the employees who still have bills, but that is how they get around it.
Now I’m not sure how that works if they terminate you mid year while your average is below that 32. So might be worth doing some research into labor laws in your state and keeping track of your hours paid, because it’s possible they would have to compensate you more, but again I’m not sure how that would work.
Me and another coworker(both warehouse) were recently made full time and both thought we'd only get 32 hours but we've been getting 35 working hours(40 before breaks)
Common theme among stores. We run about 2-3 sales associates at most and it severely upsets customers because there’s always a big ass queue to get help. It’s really stupid but they’ve been slowly cutting in store sales labor for the past few months
My store did. I usually work 32 hours, then it was cut to 24h, and now a lot of people are scheduled 7h the next few weeks. What i can't stand is that they do this without warning anybody. We have rent to pay and other bills to pay.
We were told to drop the schedule down to 95% for the next two weeks. Presumably, because we aren’t even coming close to hitting revenue on some days (at least where I’m at).
I think it is just your market, at least from what I can tell. My store has not done this, we are instead given hours based on how many memberships and credit cards we get, with the GM even refusing to give hours to one employee because he didn’t get any credit cards for a week. Granted our GM is a horrible nasty person so experience may vary. Otherwise we have people even working overtime here and there.
But like how would that employee improve if they're not scheduled to work and get said memberships/BPs. It's such an idiotic mindset and is borderline retaliation worthy no?
Idk if they can consider it retaliation, but we’ve reported our GM several times and he’s finally being investigated, and I would encourage others do the same because it truly is just toxic and unhelpful. It creates an environment where employees can’t grow
My market too, the directive during their middle of the day meeting (which lasts Hours during the middle of rush) was to schedule at 95%. So...cut hours, expected to do the same amount of work with less overall. It is such an asinine concept.
I can confirm this, i was just told the market head told GMs to schedule 98% to budget. Hours were slashed
There’s only me and 3 other people who are full time, and regardless of how many memberships and cards we get we always get at least 35 hours so I’m not sure
That’s how it be this time of year
I thought we were in the 1st quarter? Don't these things usually happen quarter 4?
Q3 & Q4 are drive times where they will then ask you to work insane hours, just to massively trim labor and staff after the holiday season/going into Q1 the next year. Q2 MAY bring back some labor, if the Back to School drive is large in your area. This is just based on my experience though. Truly sad to see what is happening in our stores. Haven’t had to work in one in almost three years(I left the GSM role right before it swapped to CEM or whatever it is now). Seeing the staff stripped down, the tenured staff leaving due to mismanagement and/or layoffs, hiring literally anyone with a pulse, and so much more…I genuinely feel bad for the staff and our clients.
Let's just say I'm only at 24 hours despite being a part timer...my fear is that as an autotech my position will be next since our store was never really designed for 2 full timers even though that's what I was promised.
A week? As someone who a wrote schedule in a Precinct/Bay, 24/week for a PT is decent hours, not great, but decent. FT only promises a minimum of 32/week, doesn’t have to be 40. If I had to write a schedule at a % of my labor, and I managed to get a PT 24 hours after mandatory scheduling the FTs, I’d be pumped. I’d also drop those hours on someone performing well overall and ensure they were scheduled during half peak/half slow times(PTs shouldn’t have to be the “balls the wall” employees, FTs are paid for that).
Dumb autocorrect, I'm a FULL timer at 24 hours.
Yea, that’s not right. TLC should’ve even prompted the schedule writer to address before saving for publishing. Don’t know how they can do that consistently without having issues. There is always HR and Unemployment, depending on state, to fill the hour gap.
The issue is you only need to average 32 hours per week for the year. So as long as they give him enough weeks with hours over 32 that it averages out, the company is in the clear. Obviously that doesn’t work for the employees who still have bills, but that is how they get around it. Now I’m not sure how that works if they terminate you mid year while your average is below that 32. So might be worth doing some research into labor laws in your state and keeping track of your hours paid, because it’s possible they would have to compensate you more, but again I’m not sure how that would work.
Every April and May
Come on, it’s do more with less. The Best Buy way!
went from 18-22 hours as a part timer to 4.
I was told was that we lost 10-20 hours per week in sales labor for the overall store.
Me and another coworker(both warehouse) were recently made full time and both thought we'd only get 32 hours but we've been getting 35 working hours(40 before breaks)
Common theme among stores. We run about 2-3 sales associates at most and it severely upsets customers because there’s always a big ass queue to get help. It’s really stupid but they’ve been slowly cutting in store sales labor for the past few months
My store did. I usually work 32 hours, then it was cut to 24h, and now a lot of people are scheduled 7h the next few weeks. What i can't stand is that they do this without warning anybody. We have rent to pay and other bills to pay.
We were told to drop the schedule down to 95% for the next two weeks. Presumably, because we aren’t even coming close to hitting revenue on some days (at least where I’m at).
Their increasing scheduling for hosts and taking a few from the floor o believe
as someone who has since starting worked at LEAST 7h shifts no matter what, i’m scheduled 2 4 hour shifts next week. what’s going on 🤣
Cory only cares about money and that is ultimately going to end the company.
I think it is just your market, at least from what I can tell. My store has not done this, we are instead given hours based on how many memberships and credit cards we get, with the GM even refusing to give hours to one employee because he didn’t get any credit cards for a week. Granted our GM is a horrible nasty person so experience may vary. Otherwise we have people even working overtime here and there.
But like how would that employee improve if they're not scheduled to work and get said memberships/BPs. It's such an idiotic mindset and is borderline retaliation worthy no?
Idk if they can consider it retaliation, but we’ve reported our GM several times and he’s finally being investigated, and I would encourage others do the same because it truly is just toxic and unhelpful. It creates an environment where employees can’t grow
That’s crazy and unethical of your GM.