I have a sneaky suspicion they quietly cut hours or gave the order to not hand out OT this year. Cause while our hours overall went up, it was not the balls out all hands on deck of past years. I am talking from 28hrs to 32hrs increase yes but not the 40hr weeks of the past with "can you stay and finish this and that?" Which added another 4hrs of OT to my check.
Which I understand at least for my store sales last year were off from previous years and this year they may not be much better. Saying what those reasons are will out my store cause they are unique reasons.