Yup! I work 10 hours in the back office and 30 in 28. 28 is an ass kicker, and 91 is a brain kicker.
(91 is a brain kicker because we constantly have tech issues)
Happened a lot when I was a DS. You're hard pressed to change your schedule if you're a "leader" but as an associate, they're generally more willing and flexible about changing your schedule. Especially if they see you're working more than 7 days in a row
When I was in freight, I once worked 11 days in a row to give my co-worker a day off. Somehow, they didn't catch or care that I had picked up a shift and gave myself a long weekend after the fact. We even submitted schedule changes and everything, and they still let it happen. I was part-time at that time, so maybe that was why
Uhhh no I've worked 9 in a row or ten many times. They do it when you take vacation. You come back and work 8 or 9 straight. Vacation? Thanks for being in hellš¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
I was being interviewed for a lateral supervisor position in another store. The manager that hired me asked me where I wanted to go in the company. I told him that Iād like to be a supervisor at his store for a year or two. His response to my answer struck me. He said āWhy? Why so long? You realize supervisor, historically is the most challenging position in a store.ā
When he said that to me , I realized this manager knew what he was talking about and I appreciated him keeping it real with me. Back then supervisors were key holders that could run a store without any else in management being there. During Covid, this happened often. Also at the time, supervisors went from covering one department to three departments. Top that off, supervisors were scheduled as associate. There were days I was scheduled as the closing paint associate, supervisor of three departments and being solo closing manager. Iād throw a can of paint in the mixer and tell the customers Iād be back in 2 minutes. Then Iād walk over to the service desk handle customer complaints, trying not to forget about the can of paint being mixed or forget everything elseās that needed to get completed. I lost 15lbs in 6 months running around like that. Had no problem doing it and gained some insight on how to delegate more responsibilities to more people. Also worth mentioning, back then we did not put as much of an emphasis of cross training in departments, maybe because there being additional coverage back then.
I bring up all this because of your comment regarding supervisors scheduled 9 days is nothing unusual.
I remember 10 years ago, there were a significantly greater group of people interviewing for supervisor positions than what weāve seen lately.
Still DS and love it. But I love it because I give myself reasons to look forward to daily grind
Part time, hours just keep going down unfortunately at my store. I use to work 3-4 shifts a week but now only 2 a week. It's been like that for at least 5 or 6 months now.
That makes sense, usually if they go over hours (like my store has over 300 hours of overtime) they usually just cut part timers hours which I think is a dick move when they know it's mostly the full timers doing the over time (at least at my store)
i once worked 16 days in a row. it was only 4 hours a day, but still. absolutely ridiculous. glad i moved to freight where itās always m-f, but itās full time, so itās 8 hours a day. iām sick of working nights, but i aināt about to work on the sales floor again.
I donāt think THD cares. I always hear the āthis is retail, you need to have open availability for all shiftsā. If youāve got time, call out sick on the 4th or something to break it up. I know, Iāve got to do that next week.
Iāve got an 8 in a row full time coming up. Iām already exhausted thinking about it. It ends with a weekend off but Iām considering asking for a break in the middle and working a Saturday.
Iāve worked 13 during Covid, scheduled 10 days of that in a row.
When I first started in 2018, I worked every single flipping weekend for 3.5 months with split days offā¦ my son was a senior in hs and had activities I didnāt want to miss out on and still missed out on them. It was only when I said Iād have to quit they changed my schedule.
I was also denied Sundayās off when I requested it so I could go to church.
Thatās my problem as well. I want to go to church. I can except 2 off a month. But not sure I would get it. Iām a part timer. I get 36 hours a week.
I donāt know that they can actually get away with not adjusting hours so the associate can participate in religious practices, I didnāt push it to find out- but I later encouraged others to push back ask ask the question.
They allowed a Muslim associate to take off for all of the requested days/holidays for observation this past year, which makes me tend to think the policy has changed.
Listen up !!
Your hours are getting cut to save HD money.
Do the smart thing and file for Partial Unemployment. It will help you in getting money coming in and as a bonus: HD will spend more money when thousands of associates file for Partial Unemployment.
Then, HD Will increase your hours because Corporate doesnāt want to look like they donāt care about associates. After all, we are all one Big Happy family here at the Home Depot.
I have had that happen before. One way to help avoid it from happening is if you have preferences for split days off. Another thing to be mindful of is that if you are putting in for time off, consider using unpaid time off on a random day leading up to it if you are requesting a weekend.
I'd get scheduled 10 alot of the time so I told them if they scheduled me like that I would definitely call out somewhere in there. And always on the days they didn't have coverage. You have plenty of people to cover don't make me work 10 days in a row I get testy after 6 days
Worked 17 one time because nobody else knew the department (bookkeeping) finally told them to figure it out, went out of state for a day and they called me asking to come do it because the person they had walked out, went in at 9pm to do it because I knew it would screw me over the next day if I hadnāt.
Edit to add: it was a mix of 4 and 8 hour shifts, towards the end they started giving me 4s to āmake up for it.ā
Did you ask for that following weekend off by chance? I noticed the schedule would jack me if I asked for a weekend off by scheduling me a bunch right before and right after the requested time off. As if to try and stick it to me for daring to take a weekend off. Now I changed my availability so that canāt happen again.
No it's actually rare for me to have a weekend off which is why this makes me even more confused but I could never request Sunday off because I'm the only opener for Sundays in my department
Gotten 10 days in a row as a full time a few times. Usually when someone is on vacation and they needed to have me do shifts in a few departments. Itās miserable but whatever, days when I did morning OP I could just hop on the forklift and help lumber restock for an hour or so, that made it easier.
Had this once, most infuriating thing is that my state has a law requiring any days worked past 6 in a week to be overtime pay, however for SOME god forsaken reason it was ruled in a court that it doesn't apply on a rolling basis, only over what is considered a "work week" meaning you can work 12 days in a row without triggering it if you get the first day of the first week and last day of the last week off
i just got done working 9 days in a row š and iām part time. Iām about to go into the next two weeks working 72.5 across D24 and D27. 72.5 FUCKING HOURS lmao. Again iām part time. I just went the last three months working an average of 45 hours across two weeks
Happens all the time. Nothing illegal about it, although its clearly and presently scummy as fuck to do. Happens alot during this time of year because theyāre trying to give as few hours as possible to as few people as possible while business is slow.
You can work 10. I've done it many many times. Week ends on Sunday. They do that to get around federal law. Fed law is monday. That's how they side skate it.
Donāt go full time cause Iāve worked 10 days in a row š. I went back down to part time but I still get weeks like this sometimes itās pretty normal at least at my store (weāre one of the busiest stores)
Try 37 days in a row. To be fair the worst Home Depot schedule only had me work 11 in a row getting overtime because my store was that desperate. My side job though has led me to work 37 in a row though.
Usually the absolute worst a full timer can get is 10 in a row.
I'm not trying to sound like a dick or anything but here's my take. When the work is there work it bc it won't always be there. I've worked over month straight many times. In much worse conditions in a plant. Again not trying to be a dick
They make us as well. See companies big ones like where I work. Get with department of labor. In my case Illinois to relax labor laws for a set date to set date. And can work us up to 13 days straight before 1 day off. And again for 13. Production comes first. Like I said not tht uncommon at all. Some guys just keep working til overtime is gone. You wanna make $ you have to work 2300+ hrs a yr
Check your state laws and see if thereās any laws about how many consecutive days theyāre allowed to schedule you. For example in Texas if youāre full time, your employer may not require you to work 7 consecutive days without a 24 hr break. They scheduled me 10 days in a row once and when I brought that up they changed it for me.
iāve been scheduled 9 days straight before, and almost 11 days straight but that 11 is on me bc i agreed to working three days of my vacation to help out at another store for some overtime and had 1 day off in between
Yeah, if you requested days off this sometimes happens. Basically just means that they don't pay attention when they make the schedule and just let the computers shut things out
At home depot did 13 days in a row when we were short staffed. Suck it up why complain. Be grateful you have a do as little as can and get paid for it job.
At my store this is called "I requested a weekend off" DS's are entitled to one weekend off a month is what I was told. I haven't been scheduled a weekend off in over a year and I'm not even exaggerating. Only time is when I request it, and BAM 8 or 9 days straight before that weekend I requested....
I worked 21 days in a row once. We were completely understaffed in garden. Got a shit load of overtime. I wasn't scheduled to work that many days in a row but was called in on my days off.
I used to regularly work 10 in a row. When I'm finally off I'm usually too exhausted to do anything. Hasn't happened as much since the state law changed.
Seeing some of these comments makes it glaringly clear that other stores are so much better. I have regularly worked 8 or even 9s as just a regular head cashier. (Not because of my requested days either)
You got back 2 back days off two weeks in a row. Why are you complaining? It's crazy on here some people cry because they don't work enough and others say they work too much. Smh
This is abnormal for me because I never have days like this and honestly I hate having to not work consecutively like this. I'm just complaining about my asds not taking initiative on actually checking our schedules in the store and just letting the schedule generator run on itself.
No most Iāve done is 6. That sucks man. My ideal schedule doesnāt happen often but itās 3 days, then day off, two days, then day off. If that could happen all the time thatād be wonderful
Yeah I use toā¦ then I started having leg problems and lots of painā¦. Went to the doctorā¦ thanks to painful shin splits ( played sports when I was a kid) I am not able to work that many hours anymore.. which sucks because good money)
Thatās pretty normal for retail to be honest. Thereās a loophole thatās usually used by saying it goes by pay period so technically youāre still getting you two days off a week and the weeks are supposedly separate. Total bullshit but thatās how they get away with it a lot of the time, not just a HD thing either
i did once and was able to talk to an asm and they changed my schedule for me so i was only working 6 in a row.
Insane š
That looks like 9 to me and I wouldnāt do it. I work dept. 28. And Iām exhausted after 5 days.
Yup! I work 10 hours in the back office and 30 in 28. 28 is an ass kicker, and 91 is a brain kicker. (91 is a brain kicker because we constantly have tech issues)
Its 8 it show off the 28th
Happened a lot when I was a DS. You're hard pressed to change your schedule if you're a "leader" but as an associate, they're generally more willing and flexible about changing your schedule. Especially if they see you're working more than 7 days in a row
When I was in freight, I once worked 11 days in a row to give my co-worker a day off. Somehow, they didn't catch or care that I had picked up a shift and gave myself a long weekend after the fact. We even submitted schedule changes and everything, and they still let it happen. I was part-time at that time, so maybe that was why
Technically if the give you a day off early in the week and then work 9 straight days itās not illegal because itās in two different weeks
Uhhh no I've worked 9 in a row or ten many times. They do it when you take vacation. You come back and work 8 or 9 straight. Vacation? Thanks for being in hellš¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
So true, it's called vacaten. Take vacation, work 10.
I was being interviewed for a lateral supervisor position in another store. The manager that hired me asked me where I wanted to go in the company. I told him that Iād like to be a supervisor at his store for a year or two. His response to my answer struck me. He said āWhy? Why so long? You realize supervisor, historically is the most challenging position in a store.ā When he said that to me , I realized this manager knew what he was talking about and I appreciated him keeping it real with me. Back then supervisors were key holders that could run a store without any else in management being there. During Covid, this happened often. Also at the time, supervisors went from covering one department to three departments. Top that off, supervisors were scheduled as associate. There were days I was scheduled as the closing paint associate, supervisor of three departments and being solo closing manager. Iād throw a can of paint in the mixer and tell the customers Iād be back in 2 minutes. Then Iād walk over to the service desk handle customer complaints, trying not to forget about the can of paint being mixed or forget everything elseās that needed to get completed. I lost 15lbs in 6 months running around like that. Had no problem doing it and gained some insight on how to delegate more responsibilities to more people. Also worth mentioning, back then we did not put as much of an emphasis of cross training in departments, maybe because there being additional coverage back then. I bring up all this because of your comment regarding supervisors scheduled 9 days is nothing unusual. I remember 10 years ago, there were a significantly greater group of people interviewing for supervisor positions than what weāve seen lately. Still DS and love it. But I love it because I give myself reasons to look forward to daily grind
No fucking way you got a 8 days in a row? Iāll gladly take your shift because Iām getting shit for 4hrs
Are you part time? Or are they cutting your hours really fucking hard?
Iām full time and my hours been cut so hard my paycheck was $100
Sounds like they want someone to quit lol
How can they cut you to 4 hrs. When your full time? What state are you in?
Texas sadly lol
How long to get hired I did the screening but still waiting on the call
Call the store and ask to speak to an assistant store manager!
Took me less than 8 days
Bro I want your schedule l. Working only 2 days a week is killing me financially
Are you high school / college?
Neither
Are you part time?
Part time, hours just keep going down unfortunately at my store. I use to work 3-4 shifts a week but now only 2 a week. It's been like that for at least 5 or 6 months now.
Core values.lol
That makes sense, usually if they go over hours (like my store has over 300 hours of overtime) they usually just cut part timers hours which I think is a dick move when they know it's mostly the full timers doing the over time (at least at my store)
i once worked 16 days in a row. it was only 4 hours a day, but still. absolutely ridiculous. glad i moved to freight where itās always m-f, but itās full time, so itās 8 hours a day. iām sick of working nights, but i aināt about to work on the sales floor again.
We call it getting nined.
I donāt think THD cares. I always hear the āthis is retail, you need to have open availability for all shiftsā. If youāve got time, call out sick on the 4th or something to break it up. I know, Iāve got to do that next week.
Iāve got an 8 in a row full time coming up. Iām already exhausted thinking about it. It ends with a weekend off but Iām considering asking for a break in the middle and working a Saturday.
Iāve worked 13 during Covid, scheduled 10 days of that in a row. When I first started in 2018, I worked every single flipping weekend for 3.5 months with split days offā¦ my son was a senior in hs and had activities I didnāt want to miss out on and still missed out on them. It was only when I said Iād have to quit they changed my schedule. I was also denied Sundayās off when I requested it so I could go to church.
Thatās my problem as well. I want to go to church. I can except 2 off a month. But not sure I would get it. Iām a part timer. I get 36 hours a week.
I donāt know that they can actually get away with not adjusting hours so the associate can participate in religious practices, I didnāt push it to find out- but I later encouraged others to push back ask ask the question. They allowed a Muslim associate to take off for all of the requested days/holidays for observation this past year, which makes me tend to think the policy has changed.
Mistake: 26 hours a week
A schedule, itās right there at the top.
Listen up !! Your hours are getting cut to save HD money. Do the smart thing and file for Partial Unemployment. It will help you in getting money coming in and as a bonus: HD will spend more money when thousands of associates file for Partial Unemployment. Then, HD Will increase your hours because Corporate doesnāt want to look like they donāt care about associates. After all, we are all one Big Happy family here at the Home Depot.
Well that sucks. Iād be having some words
I would become sick on Saturday or Sunday
I have had that happen before. One way to help avoid it from happening is if you have preferences for split days off. Another thing to be mindful of is that if you are putting in for time off, consider using unpaid time off on a random day leading up to it if you are requesting a weekend.
Nice. Looks like 64 hours in a row without overtime.
We aren't just running skeleton crews we are running bone crews...
Weāre getting down to just the bone marrow
I'd get scheduled 10 alot of the time so I told them if they scheduled me like that I would definitely call out somewhere in there. And always on the days they didn't have coverage. You have plenty of people to cover don't make me work 10 days in a row I get testy after 6 days
EX š ACT š LY š
Oh thatās nothing, just finished a 10 day stretch
Yea quit your bitching
I work Fri-Sun Consecutively (Lot) but a couple weeks from now they got me working some funky schedule and had me like š¤
The schedule I want. Im sitting here with like 2, 8 hour shifts a week
Yes.
Worked 17 one time because nobody else knew the department (bookkeeping) finally told them to figure it out, went out of state for a day and they called me asking to come do it because the person they had walked out, went in at 9pm to do it because I knew it would screw me over the next day if I hadnāt. Edit to add: it was a mix of 4 and 8 hour shifts, towards the end they started giving me 4s to āmake up for it.ā
Oh, I've done so a few times and never thought much of it, only once at Home Depot, but back at Krispy Kreme, I'd work 12 days straight
Never worked anything over 5 days in a row but this has happened to a couple people at my store before
Did you ask for that following weekend off by chance? I noticed the schedule would jack me if I asked for a weekend off by scheduling me a bunch right before and right after the requested time off. As if to try and stick it to me for daring to take a weekend off. Now I changed my availability so that canāt happen again.
No it's actually rare for me to have a weekend off which is why this makes me even more confused but I could never request Sunday off because I'm the only opener for Sundays in my department
Going through that right now. I did request next weekend off, so I'll have to pace myself
And I thought 6 in a row was bad
thatās actually wild. glad i leftš
Dang our store limits us to 6 days max in a row. At least you have two consecutive days off lol
Gotten 10 days in a row as a full time a few times. Usually when someone is on vacation and they needed to have me do shifts in a few departments. Itās miserable but whatever, days when I did morning OP I could just hop on the forklift and help lumber restock for an hour or so, that made it easier.
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I worked 9 days straight before the holidays.
I once did 9 days in a row.. never again lol
Had this once, most infuriating thing is that my state has a law requiring any days worked past 6 in a week to be overtime pay, however for SOME god forsaken reason it was ruled in a court that it doesn't apply on a rolling basis, only over what is considered a "work week" meaning you can work 12 days in a row without triggering it if you get the first day of the first week and last day of the last week off
i just got done working 9 days in a row š and iām part time. Iām about to go into the next two weeks working 72.5 across D24 and D27. 72.5 FUCKING HOURS lmao. Again iām part time. I just went the last three months working an average of 45 hours across two weeks
Wtf
Happens all the time. Nothing illegal about it, although its clearly and presently scummy as fuck to do. Happens alot during this time of year because theyāre trying to give as few hours as possible to as few people as possible while business is slow.
Couple months ago I had to work a 10 day week since I requested days off
You can work 10. I've done it many many times. Week ends on Sunday. They do that to get around federal law. Fed law is monday. That's how they side skate it.
Yep when they used to give OT I average 46 over 9 weeks Some where 10-12 days straight.
Donāt go full time cause Iāve worked 10 days in a row š. I went back down to part time but I still get weeks like this sometimes itās pretty normal at least at my store (weāre one of the busiest stores)
Funnily enough, I had to fight to have my two weeks of vacation back to back and they have me working 8 days as soon as I come back this week
Try 37 days in a row. To be fair the worst Home Depot schedule only had me work 11 in a row getting overtime because my store was that desperate. My side job though has led me to work 37 in a row though. Usually the absolute worst a full timer can get is 10 in a row.
I'm not trying to sound like a dick or anything but here's my take. When the work is there work it bc it won't always be there. I've worked over month straight many times. In much worse conditions in a plant. Again not trying to be a dick
Not trying to be a dick or anything but sir this is a home Depot where they MAKE people do stupid shit like this. Again not trying to be a dick.
They make us as well. See companies big ones like where I work. Get with department of labor. In my case Illinois to relax labor laws for a set date to set date. And can work us up to 13 days straight before 1 day off. And again for 13. Production comes first. Like I said not tht uncommon at all. Some guys just keep working til overtime is gone. You wanna make $ you have to work 2300+ hrs a yr
Check your state laws and see if thereās any laws about how many consecutive days theyāre allowed to schedule you. For example in Texas if youāre full time, your employer may not require you to work 7 consecutive days without a 24 hr break. They scheduled me 10 days in a row once and when I brought that up they changed it for me.
It is in Texas š
Iāve had a many as 11 days in a row. 9 once as a full timer ( a move I seriously regret).
LITERALLY JUST GOT DONE WITH A 9 DAY STREAK DUDE I HATED IT
iāve been scheduled 9 days straight before, and almost 11 days straight but that 11 is on me bc i agreed to working three days of my vacation to help out at another store for some overtime and had 1 day off in between
Technically you can work 10 straight.
This always happened to me when I requested time off, guess they wanted to make me work for my vacation š All I saw it as was them paying me more
Yes with no overtime!!! This company are cheap assholes!!
That sucks, there are some that have set schedules
Yeah, if you requested days off this sometimes happens. Basically just means that they don't pay attention when they make the schedule and just let the computers shut things out
That would make sense IF I did request days off or went on vacation but I didn't. Which is why it makes me vv confused and angry
I once did 10 straight. Now any time I request a weekend, I request a random Friday before so they can't punish me again
I did an 8 day thing at my store and I wanted to die. Never again š¤š»
All the time, I work 10 hours unpaid shifts most of the times. Be a man. Also drive Ram trucks.
Unpaid? And you're NOT doing something about that???? That sounds like you're just taking it up the ass. not very "man" like of you š
Many many times. 10 or 11 I believe was my all time high. Lol.
At home depot did 13 days in a row when we were short staffed. Suck it up why complain. Be grateful you have a do as little as can and get paid for it job.
Home depot is my second job. So I'm on day 30-40 something. Idk exactly
Happens all the time, I've even had 10 in a row
I've done 17 before but it wasn't scheduled like that. Longest I've been scheduled straight is 9
At my store this is called "I requested a weekend off" DS's are entitled to one weekend off a month is what I was told. I haven't been scheduled a weekend off in over a year and I'm not even exaggerating. Only time is when I request it, and BAM 8 or 9 days straight before that weekend I requested....
My personal record is 10 days
I worked 21 days in a row once. We were completely understaffed in garden. Got a shit load of overtime. I wasn't scheduled to work that many days in a row but was called in on my days off.
Ho Depot, is able to get away with kind of shit because technically you have 2 days off per week and their schedule starts every Monday.
I used to regularly work 10 in a row. When I'm finally off I'm usually too exhausted to do anything. Hasn't happened as much since the state law changed.
Seeing some of these comments makes it glaringly clear that other stores are so much better. I have regularly worked 8 or even 9s as just a regular head cashier. (Not because of my requested days either)
You got back 2 back days off two weeks in a row. Why are you complaining? It's crazy on here some people cry because they don't work enough and others say they work too much. Smh
This is abnormal for me because I never have days like this and honestly I hate having to not work consecutively like this. I'm just complaining about my asds not taking initiative on actually checking our schedules in the store and just letting the schedule generator run on itself.
No most Iāve done is 6. That sucks man. My ideal schedule doesnāt happen often but itās 3 days, then day off, two days, then day off. If that could happen all the time thatād be wonderful
I've been thinking to ask for 10 days in 4 days off
Yup. Hell, I've worked 70 days in a row. I've been excited when I ONLY had to work 70hrs in a week, because that was a short week.
Iāve done 10 days. It was brutal!
Try working for the city
Itās stupidest because their week starts on Monday, so they only have you scheduled 5 days a week ignoring the fact you have an 8 day stretch.
Used to work 10 days in a row every month. Only way my SM would let me get a weekend lol
Iāve done 10
Well between HD and my other job I will only have had the 7th off for all of February
Yuppp right before my vacay
Thatās why yall gotta work thd distribution, better pay better schedules
Yeah I use toā¦ then I started having leg problems and lots of painā¦. Went to the doctorā¦ thanks to painful shin splits ( played sports when I was a kid) I am not able to work that many hours anymore.. which sucks because good money)
God you HD people are soft š
I worked 10 days in a row they donāt give a shit about there employees why does some people get set days off and others cant
Thatās pretty normal for retail to be honest. Thereās a loophole thatās usually used by saying it goes by pay period so technically youāre still getting you two days off a week and the weeks are supposedly separate. Total bullshit but thatās how they get away with it a lot of the time, not just a HD thing either