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Sometimes they change your schedule while you’re off and don’t even tell you about it...

That anxiety is what made me quit my Walmart job back in 2014. I told them "This job is not worth me having a panic attack and anxiety every day". I stocked in grocery and Sundays were the worst. Hated them.

Another big thing with retail is how even on your days off, work will call you and ask if you can come in. Even on your days off, you're still on call to them, and that stressed me out knowing my managers were almost guaranteed to call me on at least one of my days off.

I have a couple rules I live by. 1 I don't answer phone calls from work while I'm on my days off PERIOD... 2 If I get a schedual paper print out. I keep the copies as long as I can. If they try to say I didn't cone in when scheduled I have my pro t outs yo prove what I HAD BEEN SCHEDULED.. If they change it and not tell ME. That's on them. 3 I don't go in on days off PERIOD. I even try to avoid the place when I'm not on the clock.

Food service is a similar story when it comes to scheduling

To me, part of the reason that Chick-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby are so successful is because their employees have Sundays off. Even if it's only one day off, having one CONSISTENT day off per week does wonders for employee morale. I personally believe that if you have a scheduled day off and you get called in to work, you should be paid overtime wage at minimum. Also, working Friday nights, Saturday nights, and all day Sunday should carry a premium too; maybe not overtime wage, but at least 15% to 25% above normal wage.

It's been scientifically proven that people with consistent scheduling with two days off are happier and more productive. Why is it not considered a crime?

Gas stations are the worst, if someone doesn’t show up for the shift after yours you’re stuck with working a double. Nothing is worse in retail then expecting to go home after an eight hour shift then realizing the person who is supposed to show up when you leave doesn’t show up and you release you have to pull a sixteen hour shift.

I eventually made demands where I work that I was unwilling to open the day after closing and I needed one consistent day off every week. Some managers fought me over it and made it their personal mission to make me work in those conditions specifically because I didn't want to, but I ultimately won.

in germany, law do not allow you to start work next day without a 11 or 12 hour break from the day before when you finished.

People keep shopping at the places that do this, despite study after study after study coming out showing how detrimental these kinds of schedules are on the human body, mind, and emotional states. Fact is, we care more about getting our stuff than we do about other people's mental and physical health. Retail workers are misused, abused and discarded while the rest of us don't give a flying fuck. "Fuck human beings, fuck humanity" -Stephen Paul Taylor

I would crime for a M-F consistent schedule. I’m done with retail, I just can’t do it anymore. I managed a theater, now I’m selling TVs, and I just feel no control over my life, rolling in dirt with no sign of upward mobility in the slightest. Never having consistency is straight up emotional and mental cancer. I’m considering resigning before Black Friday just so I can actually have a holiday for once in X years, and maybe apply for like an entry office job or something.

This is so true it hurts. I always ask my manager to give me a set schedule and they never do and keep spreading my days off like Sunday and Thursday are my days off. As a full time employee. Giga rage.

Ah yes, the "Clopen" - The bane to everyone's existence.

This describes exactly how I felt at McDonald's. Helped me learn to never go for retail or fastfood ever again

Even in Japan, the scheduling can get nuts. I find it helpful to get short naps in when I can. So many people here are overworked, so it's not unusual to see people snoozing on the train.

My old job was 49 hours a week, 6 days a week. Was overnight so I'd get off Saturday morning and be back Sunday night. Sometimes they'd make us work that 7th day so we'd be working 13 days in a row, sometimes even 20.. also had a 6 point system, if you call in that's a point, if you're late that's half a point, 6 points you're fired. Perfect attendance for a month removed half a point. Was honestly one of the worse jobs ever and costed me my relationship.

Finally did it, January 21st is my last day working retail.

exactly. we call it "wait mode" where you know you have do something in a few hours, so your brain just kind of shuts down the ability to focus on anything, it just wants to wait so you can do the thing you have to do. that's what a night shift morning feels like. you want to do things, but simply cant, because you're mentally ready to go to work.

Everything you said is absolutely true. You can't schedule doctor appointments, or rather, you can but knowing you might have to cancel or reschedule. Same for salon appointments, family time, etc. Regarding paychecks; I never know how much I'll get paid. I don't even know if my pay is accurate because we don't receive a pay stub. Another side effect is it messes with your ability to remember what day of the week it is, or what the date is. I have to look at a calendar every day to ground myself in reality.

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Where I work, my hours are very inconsistent. It can stay the same for a couple weeks but then it’ll keep changing every week. Especially when people leave and I have to work more or if they hire one person that we didn’t need and they change again. I can go from 25-30 hours to 10-15 or vice versa

That “Saturday feeling” you are talking about is exactly why the 5 day, Monday to Friday work week is the norm in the world and has been for a long time. I do not have the traditional Monday thru Friday work week and do not have two consecutive days off. I actually like having my days off spread out. It is either have that “weekend” with 2 consecutive days off or spread your 2 days off of work.

I've had to cover my co-workers shift three days in a row now. That was totally unexpected.

I think they do this on purpose, to make it difficult for employees to job hunt and schedule interviews.

@8:37 I could not agree more! I have a few 5 hour shifts where I work. It is the “whole” day because exactly like you said, it is just looming there in your head. Like I gotta be at work by this so I have to leave by then so the rest of the day revolves around the fact that you have to be at work.

That weekend feeling is true. Im a chef, not retail. I work 8-5 Thurs-Mon. It doesn't matter that its Tuesday and Wednesday off, it feels like a "weekend" regardless.

Manager: Are you fully flexible? Me: if i hear that word one more time i swear. At least in office work people have it easier while sitting down

This is so true. I didn’t even realize how much of an impact this had on me until I moved to another job with a weekend off schedule. I remember feeling like my weeks would just bleed into each other, never feeling like I could “turn off.”

It would be good if retail workers had stronger unions to push back on this behaviour.

Welcome to walmarts way of doing things. Having anxiety already

Oh thank God I'm not the only one! I thought something was wrong with me for not being able to deal with the split day off schedule!

It's a pain in the ass when they dont follow your schedule. Even if it's written down on an availability sheet but the auto scheduling fucks you and got to clarify with management over and over again.

I work in retail ( at Guess) and hate getting called in or told to not come in anymore

I think the best shift I ever had in retail was 6 am to noon. True this was during the back to school rush and we were doing freight but I got to do it with my favorite coworkers. We also didn't open until 9 am, so I just got to talk with my coworkers and relax for most of the time. It was great.

gotta get a sturdy schedule job, its key to having a sense of normalcy :P

I work at guitar center and it's felt like this for the past six months since I got promoted. While I am promised a consistent schedule, I can't have two days off in a row because the other managers aren't willing to change their schedules around, and our two most valuable employees are constantly going on vacation so while I have the same schedule, I come to work every day wondering who the hell I am closing with because the managers are moving everyone else around to cover their vacation time, which sometimes results in them screwing up the schedule and only scheduling two people to close. And they always wanna go on vacation when there is a big sale going on!

A few years ago I worked in a grocery store called Winn Dixie where I was working 39.5 hours a week on $9.00 pay and I wasn’t full time

Even when you follow company policy for a day off the manager always ends up scheduling you to work, even though you saw them sign off on it and approve it, and when you ask them about it their responce is not my problem! Most annoying!

I'm feeling all of this right now. I work 2 jobs, 50-60 hours a week, 7 days a week and never really have a full day off.

This is kind of scary actually, never actually thought of this and it makes sense.

Preach it Brother Fanta! The best thing that happened to me at Wal-Mart was getting a set schedule and having the same shift every day plus Wed-Thurs off every week

why doesn’t anyone else talk about this.. like in retail the company doesn’t give a shit about you at all

I work in a restaurant, I haven't had two days off back to back in almost a year but I'm used to it now. As of today though I haven't had a day off in 12 days and my next day off will be in 4 days. The money is good but there are things my wife and I want to do together that we just can't.

Coming to this 3 year old video after nearly hitting my 1 year anniversary for my current retail job, and... yeah, it's fucking hell. In the last month we've had two people quit (three in two months, too) leaving the amount of people to cover the floor at all times to basically just four people - one of which is a minor, so with school starting back up, realistically only 3 people. We're all basically pulling 10-11 hour shifts every day, some of us working a closing shift and then an opening shift back into a closing shift for the whole week, which basically just turns you into a fucking zombie. It's miserable. (it's not a big corporation store, it's a small town game/candy shop fyi.)

I used to work at Sears... the schedule was different EVERY WEEK. it was erratic... close one night, open the next morning... worked EVERY WEEKEND - that was the only consistent part. On top of that... the schedule was never finalized until less than a week prior. Working every weekend sucked because I worked commission and every employee in my department was scheduled to work. I made very little on the weekends.

Hey Fanta, have you made a video on wannabe managers? At every job there are two or more people who act like managers or try to exude some control even though they are regular employees. What’s funny is most are never promoted to manager because they’re unfit for the job. But man they love their imaginary power.

I work at chick fil a, it’s nice having Sunday guaranteed off but Friday’s and Saturday’s are the worst days of the week because they’re the busiest, and then Sunday like you said you spend the whole day dreading Monday. It’s draining

I technically still work retail, but I go in to different supermarkets and work their resets. 7-2:30 Monday-Friday. I fucking love it :)

I spent 6 1/2 years in retail and, while I am finally in my career, I am trying to rebuild myself mentally and emotionally after all the pure BS I put up with for all that time

I never worked retail, but I worked at Dominos for 7 years. I had friends/coworkers that would work a 'clopening' shift where they would close one night (work until 2-3 in the morning) and then have to open the store the next day (at like 9:30 or 10 in the morning).

This was a great video. I got PTSD watching it.

The worst thing is salary does not compensate the sacrifice you make while working on retail + they keep hiring people and giving all of them few hours and few days 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is so accurate. I think half the social divisions come from lifestyle influenced by scheduling instead of just money.

I’m so glad I switched from full time to part time. Now my schedule will always be Friday- Sunday. Maybe different times in the morning 6am,7am, 8am..but at least the days remain the same every week. Happier with extra days off too and I surprisingly save more than when I worked a lot more hours 😊

Having both sat & sun off is such a blessing these days

Imagine getting two days off at all, let alone side by side.

Speaking of a certain retailer you favorite on this series how about store managers that go into the system override your availability and schedule you outside of that. Then the joys of fighting to get your attendance points back because the system clocks you as late because you’re scheduled outside your availability.....

I once worked at a job the constantly changed schedules then i got moved and have consistent hours now. Life gets better when i can accurately predict when i will be busy next week.

I work Cap 2, so my hours are set but I definitely feel you on the split days thing.

I just got out of retail hell a month ago and I constantly not only had to work 10 hour days in the pharmacy, I had to work the sales floor and "cloper" (Do a closing shift to an open shift) and along with that I either worked 7 days straight with 1 day off in between (and not 40 hours in the pay periods mind you) or during the holidays, I'd work 14 days without a day off then 1 day off...Now since I left and transitioned to hospital pharmacy, I have a set schedule and I'm not burned out..it's night and day

Ive worked in grocery retail for over 16 years. I told them im not working a new shift everyday and i need 2 straight days off. My days off are Thursdays and Fridays and its great.

Recently moved from Kroger to Target. Much easier work, much better pay, much better atmosphere... But I did lose out on a consistent schedule. Target has me bouncing all over the place day-to-day and every point you made in this video landed with me.

America needs to shorten work weeks. Even japan has a shorter average work week than the US does

I have never worked at Walmart but I did work several retail jobs in my younger days. This video is opening wounds I had forgotten about. I am glad you found your way to something with a reasonable schedule.

What's worse is when you have a day off, then work a day, then another day off. Getting two days off in a row is a luxury. Also, working in retail makes weekends pointless.

Literally just got terminated not to long ago right after I just got back from vacation. I obtained way too many occurrences because of late attendance mixed with an ever changing schedule that I didn’t know about. It absolutely sucked ass. I wasn’t used to retail scheduling and it caught me off guard. My TL and manager wasn’t at all understanding of my scheduling so they cut me loose. I won’t be working for them ever again.

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I worked retail my senior year of HS and swore I'd never do it again. Thankfully I haven't!

I worked for Albertsons and I always had split days off all over the clock open close mid always different each week weekends off? Forget that! At least I always got 35-40 hours a week And yes I also worked at Walmart and I don't even have to say anymore

Hey fanta talk about working through a shift while sick, not sure if you've covered it.

WOWW this segment at 8:40 perfectly describes my evening shift from 3-9 like u cant even do anything before work because the whole day you're watching the clock and for some reason cant physically bring urself to do anything

Exactly Fanta I agree with you 1000 percent on everything you say about retail. I work at Big lots and it is one of the worst jobs I have ever worked in and this week is my 2nd year anniversary working there. This is the one of many things I hate at the store. Extremely inconsistent schedules

Now they have a teaming schedule at Walmart where you have a set schedule. You can do 4-1, 9-6, or 1-10. When I was an assistant manager at subway in college that’s how it was as I never knew when the store manager would schedule me, I never had set days. I’m currently at Walmart for now and I work 9-6 Tuesday - Saturday. That’s so true you never recover and you’re never relaxed when you don’t have a set schedule. No way I could do that now, I was in my early 20s when I managed the subway. I never knew if closers would show up too as I would stay late and I’ve pulled open to closes before when I worked there as did the store manager. At least I got over time. I think Walmart is different now as you are guaranteed 40 hours at Walmart now with a teaming schedule, but that’s how they make you work the hours that they want. They are stingy with who they let become a full time associate though. We get 21 days of PTO if you’ve worked there from 0-2 years which goes up the more you’ve worked there. Btw my degree is in education, which first year teachers, and honestly every job on the market at this point, now pays the same as Walmart. I know many ex teachers who say they’d rather work at Walmart as the pay is basically the same. It’s not the worst job I’ve ever had. Also, I don’t know if this policy was set in place when you worked there, but their is a policy that states employees must not work more than 6 days in a row, unless the employee consents, so if they do that to you you can request a day off from personnel and they have to do it. When I first started working at subway before I was a manager, the old manager would schedule people almost two weeks in a row without any over time as it was in different work weeks. When you’re young you don’t even question anything, you just do it I guess.

Sometimes you may mixed up schedules, that'the worse feeling in the world. It worked out well when I was in college.

Dude I love your videos. I love to hear you rant and complain about what we ALL are thinking lol, it's so relatable. I'm not getting any hours at my job rn (1 or 2 shifts a week) because it's the slow season until black Friday picks up, but I'm a full time college student so that's okay. I used to work as a sales associate at Under Armour (it was fine but the customer service aspect could be a pain) but now I'm working at PetSmart and I honestly love it so much because I'm a pet care specialist so I don't deal with customers very much unless I'm on register. Even when I'm on register, 95% of customers are chill and super friendly, which is amazing. I also work at Under Armour again but this time as a stock associate meaning I come in early in the morning before the store even opens and don't deal with customers at all. 😂

Ah yes. The days of working for a small restaurant and getting called into work when the bosses nephew gets into a car wreck.

I work an office job part-time and retail part-time. I have a consistent schedule for my office job--a solid eight hours on the same two days each week. My retail job ruins everything, though. I'm lucky to get the same amount of hours each week, but I work all different shifts--opening, mid-, and closing--and I almost never have two consecutive days off. It drives me mad. I agree completely with what you said about closing shifts. My mornings are wasted when I have a closing shift--all that I can think about is getting ready for work. I don't think it's unusual to feel that way. I wonder, too, if maybe you can discuss sometime what it was like trying to find a job after you graduated from college. I'm a recent grad, and I managed to get the part-time office job that I mentioned before, but I've been applying for full-time positions since February of this year and have had no luck at all. It hasn't even been very long since I graduated, but it seems that I'll be stuck in Retail Hell forever at this point. It's so discouraging. Always enjoy your content. Cheers.

This was the primary reason i quit a job at pizza hut. Scheduled from 5pm to 1:30am, but closing always stayed another hour or more. Followed by needing to show up for 10am

I got very lucky with my job, half of it is just sitting around. The shifts are about 7 hours and I only work weekends. Its a part time deal. I also take home a lot of money in tips so thats cool too.

Thank you for covering this 💖🤟

Finally a topic that's pretty much my issue I work in the ER as a C.T. tech and went to college to get this job and One week I work 8 to 430 next 230 to 11 or 1030 pm to 7am and weekends so it's hard to plan things unless I take a vacation

1:30 I lost all of my friends due to the demands of work. It's left me fairly alone for years

Walmart can't go bankrupt fast enough

I am grateful that my fast food and retail days are back in my teenage years where they belong. I made a commitment to myself: Death before retail/fast food in my early 20’s and its a mantra I will always live by. Toxic work environment, dead end, future draining, all in all the juice ain't worth the squeeze. I've got tremendous empathy for people who feel stuck in these jobs. But ya gotta find a way to stay positive and make the most of the situation in front of you, otherwise you'll always be trapped in the prison of your mind.

I actually prefer split days off because it gives me a little more control of what I’m walking into when I come in after I’ve had a day off, if I have two days off in a row, my area has completely 180ed and I have to pick up the slack from what people didn’t do while I was gone. Biggest issue I’ve had with Walmart so far is that they’ve given me a dm position temporarily until they do interviews, and instead of giving me a temporary pay raise- they put it as my secondary job code. Hopefully they do some interviews soon because I’m not trying to work holidays with DM responsibilities without getting paid for it.

I'm basically a part time bartender. Theres two shifts every week, and only a few people working, but I never know if I'm going to work until the day of because the owner never makes a schedule. None of us can make weekend plans because if we can't come in or call out for a weekend shift she gets real upset. Its the absolute worst

If I have a close shift I usually just set an alarm on my phone like an hour before I had to leave my house so I didn't have to think about it and I could still do somewhat of fun stuff

This is what am going right now and it killing me slowly am unsure how long I will last in my current retail job, only time will tell 😮‍💨

I work a job with open availability. I typically get 2 days off a week. what 2 days those are are a dice roll every week. could be back to back. Could be on the opposite end of the week.

I work in the backroom at a retail store so its pretty constant for scheduling for the most part however you never know how late the next weeks will come up annoying . But the people working on the floor wow it constantly changes and they never know what day or times they will work .

Thank you for helping me understand how grateful I should be with my guaranteed full time hours, even if I get weak off days.

Yeah it’s really nice to have set schedule. Always changing schedules is rough.

I'm convinced that these places do this shit on purpose. I remember that for the four years I worked at O'Reilly, I had just one month that I had a consistent schedule, monday through friday, at the same times, and how an asshole coworker fucked me out of it because my manager wouldn't give him my days off. Mostly, it was up to 6 day weeks (with split days off if I somehow was working only 5, but a lot of times I'd lose at least one) where I would regularly work 16 plus day stretches because other coworkers would call out on my one day off that week, so I'd lose my day off and not get it back.

I work retail and have to work pretty much every weekend, but I do get to control my schedule so my "weekend" is a couple of days off consecutively in the middle of the week. Not ideal but it at least allows a couple of off days in a row to unwind.

I used to love the opening shift at Burger King, music on no worries as I just did my open jobs, maybe a KZfaq video or two as I did my cash floats and stuff, a closing on the other hand was awful because it’s just constant customers

I used to work the overnight shift and I remember that once in a while they would schedule me off on Monday and Tuesday and then work Wednesday to Sunday for the current week. But then the next week they have me working Monday-Friday while getting Saturday and Sunday off.

This was why I demanded a schedule change. My off days were erratic while the vast majority of the night crew were off Friday and Saturday. I didn’t get either until 3 months in. They claimed some bs of making sure we had most of the crew. That was obnoxious

I only get one day off, Thursday. And my father is getting up my ass on it, wanting me to do things when I literally have no time or energy to do it. Like, I'm getting up at 8 AM some days, or coming home at 10 PM, its excruciating! I'm falling apart!