Or someone wasn't paying attention to it and let it expire. Or they didn't want to approve it, but didn't have the guts to take responsibility and deny it, so they just let it auto-deny.
Every time you put in a request tell your ETL.
That way if it does get lost they have no excuse and if they are being passive aggressive dicks, you know that too.
Ask why. I cannot remember the last time I denied a request. If it is during a blackout period, I can understand, or if you are asking for every weekend, I might have a talk with you about it. If the reason is that there is no one else trained, available, etc. . . then your leaders are not doing their job. Part of their job is to have backups in place. With notice, most reasonable requests should be able to be accommodated.Mine are getting auto denied or not approved because my TL and ETL are mad at me.
The schedule for the first week of August is already posted. They'll start on the second week on Monday (or earlier). Ideally, you should have already put them in. You can do it months in advance. Earlier is better.Speaking of asking for time off, how long in advance do you guys recommend time off requests be submitted? I start grad school in August and will need some weekends off throughout the semester. I haven't even told my TL or HR that I'm going to grad school so lol I should probably tell them
Sometimes it does get legitimately "lost". You may have submitted the request correctly, but the request might not actually go to anyone. That happened at my store for a bit and really messed a few people up.
I had my request going to no one for a while. I'd submit a request, tell my ETL and HR, and they tell me they don't see it. Or they did find it but it wouldn't let them approve it. Had to have HR manually put in my vacations a few times.
We only have 3 dayside/closing br tm and I'm one of them.
I closed a 1-2 nights a week a few months ago and it was awesome! Blasted music from the radio, finished up the backstock, organized the tubs the way I like them, did 12 steps in the areas I felt like doing, and swept the floors in the main and receiving. Only had a handful of guest calls and SFS took care of any FFs. The only negative was trying to get the 3s pulled in time by myself.We have morning guys who could do it but nobody wants to close. My TL had to close because of a call out and he lost his shit after an hour. He was cussing and tossed his pda hard as hell on the floor all because of a few ff calls and guest calls. He vanished for a few hours and said he had to do everything possible to not quit on the spot. The amount of ff and calls he got were typical for is regulars lol.