LogFAQs > #929645061

We're still short staffed, so we've been having to work long/odd hours. He only works 3rd shift, simply because it's his preferred shift. There's no reason he's on a set schedule outside of it just being a courtesy to him.

Meanwhile my shift swings around between 3rd on his days off, and both first and second shifts the other days, my shifts last 12-16 hours because I'm splitting the day with the only other employee here. Just this past weekend I had to pull a 12 hour overnight shift, was off 8, came back in for 12 hour 2nd shift, off 8, then was back in for a first shift the next day. I live 40 minutes away, those 8 hours between shifts were very short and it was rough to deal with. I've also been getting called in early, and made to stay late... That's how things have been since I started a month ago, getting loads of overtime just to have all the shifts covered while he just works his regular shift.

So, this week's schedule rolls out, and it has him working a single second shift following him getting 2 days off(3 actually since he leaves at 7am Thursday and doesn't come back till 3pm Sunday). As soon as he saw it he started throwing a tantrum "this shit ain't gonna fly" and "it's unfair to have to me work then because I won't get enough rest" then "just why the hell am I expected to work this this?" He immediately started pressuring me to switch with him so he'd get his 3rd shift back and once again put me only getting 8 hours off between my shifts(which is really only 6 since I live so far). I told him I'd think about it, so he went to my manager and told her that I wanted to switch with him. She asked me yesterday, and I told her no that I didn't. I explain the situation and she gets upset because she only swapped our shifts as a favor to me so I wouldn't have to be right back to work with just 8 hours between, and said that its his schedule and I don't have to switch if I don't want to.

So then he comes in last night and turns out he made plans to go out of town with his friend Sunday and won't be back until too late to be at work on second so I "have" to switch with him. Today is my day off, but I have to go back in for a mandatory meeting anyway and he said he's gonna tell her he's not available to work that shift since he made plans.

The more I think about it the angrier I get, not because of the schedule exactly, but because if the principle of it, and that he thinks he deserves special treatment, and how he made plans knowing he was scheduled to work just to try and weasel out of it.
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