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Hi all, so this is my first post here. Just found this site so sorry if I make any errors or say anything wrong, or anything. So, on with what I have to say...
I work softlines, on truck days, M-W-F. Very occasionally I'm scheduled to autofill push on weekends, but rarely. I recently got another part time job that required weekends so I decided to put in an availability change at Target to not work weekend since I barely did anyway. I wasn't sure how to do it because I've never submitted a punch change or an availability change so I told the logistics ETL that I would be changing my availability to no weekends. She immediately said she could in no way approve that, because it was against company policy to have someone who NEVER worked weekends and specifically had weekends off. She said I could not have weekends off because they were our busiest time and again, it was against policy to give someone weekends off permanently and told me I could submit an availability change but I had to leave weekends the way they were, with me being available. I was already extremely stressed from a bad day so I just went ahead and did it. But later on I realized lots of people at my store have weekends permanently off, and my team is not required to work every single weekend and I never signed any paper saying I HAD to work weekends, and that the application even asks you to put in your availability and you can leave Saturday and Sunday blank.
So, I'm pretty sure the ETL blatantly lied to my face because she knew I didn't know any better and would believe her and do it. So question is, do I resubmit my availability change with weekends off even though I already submitted a "working weekends" one? And if I do resubmit it, how do I explain to her I know it's not against policy? Can I take this to the higher ups, do I even have to? Or is this actually some policy that somehow applies to me that I don't know about? Sorry if this was wordy :\
I work softlines, on truck days, M-W-F. Very occasionally I'm scheduled to autofill push on weekends, but rarely. I recently got another part time job that required weekends so I decided to put in an availability change at Target to not work weekend since I barely did anyway. I wasn't sure how to do it because I've never submitted a punch change or an availability change so I told the logistics ETL that I would be changing my availability to no weekends. She immediately said she could in no way approve that, because it was against company policy to have someone who NEVER worked weekends and specifically had weekends off. She said I could not have weekends off because they were our busiest time and again, it was against policy to give someone weekends off permanently and told me I could submit an availability change but I had to leave weekends the way they were, with me being available. I was already extremely stressed from a bad day so I just went ahead and did it. But later on I realized lots of people at my store have weekends permanently off, and my team is not required to work every single weekend and I never signed any paper saying I HAD to work weekends, and that the application even asks you to put in your availability and you can leave Saturday and Sunday blank.
So, I'm pretty sure the ETL blatantly lied to my face because she knew I didn't know any better and would believe her and do it. So question is, do I resubmit my availability change with weekends off even though I already submitted a "working weekends" one? And if I do resubmit it, how do I explain to her I know it's not against policy? Can I take this to the higher ups, do I even have to? Or is this actually some policy that somehow applies to me that I don't know about? Sorry if this was wordy :\
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