Guest guest Posted September 2, 2009 Report Share Posted September 2, 2009 I would wait about a month and approach my boss about getting more hours if I were you but I wouldn't do it right away.Hopefully you will get more hours sooner than later. Will your husband be working less this winter? Jenp.s. I'm starting to get more hours but not enough yet....I have to be patient because it will pick up in the middle or 3rd week of Sept. > Carolyn, Don't put too much pressure on yourself your first > few days back working. Your body needs to adjust (as well s > your brain) How did you like it? a thanks paula and all of my other friends here for your comments about my job. i had another shift today and it went much better, things are starting to click and i quite enjoyed it. there is alot to know and remember!! i have two more killer shifts this week for training and then my hours get cut way back since im lowest in seniority. ::sigh:: i dont know how im supposed to remember everything when they have me scheduled for only 5 hours in a week... ugh! apparently i will get more hours if someone leaves the department, so im keeping my fingers crossed that will happen. we will really need the money this winter, but if they dont give me any hours then there isnt much i can do about it... what the heck is the point in going through an intensive interview process and 36 hours of training in a week, just to actually work one lousy 5 hour shift a week?!?! i dont get it. oh well, i will wait and see what happens. :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 carolyn who knows maybe somebody will get ill or just quit go on vacation or something and you can get some hours. i remember those days when i worked in a grocery store as well. it was all seniority but then when they needed somebody in another department i wound up getting more hours split between the two departments. it helped me get hours and i wasn't doing the same thing all the time(which is probably why my current job was getting on my nerves until the new changes). also at the time i was able to keep a little cheat sheet index card for some tips for register. i think my biggest issue was voiding stuff out b/c i always needed a manager and at the time i started debit cards were starting to be widely used so there was always some sort issue there. i hope it all works out though. maybe you will be needed somewhere else in the store and that might give you a few more hours. kassia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 UGh it was that way with waiting tables. You might ask if you could be cross trained in another department just to keep your your hours up until someone quits. Most stores have a very high turnover rate of the younger employees and a few " lifers " of the more " senior " employees. Also, you might check to see if there is a need for product demo people (the folks who hand out samples) often those folks are hired through a seperate contract, but they like people familiar with the store. And it keeps you in the store and visible to the manager and getting paid. a > > Carolyn, Don't put too much pressure on yourself your first > > few days back working. Your body needs to adjust (as well s > > your brain) How did you like it? a > > thanks paula and all of my other friends here for your comments > about my job. > i had another shift today and it went much better, things are > starting to click and i quite enjoyed it. > there is alot to know and remember!! i have two more killer > shifts this week for training and then my hours get cut way back > since im lowest in seniority. ::sigh:: i dont know how im > supposed to remember everything when they have me scheduled for > only 5 hours in a week... ugh! apparently i will get more > hours if someone leaves the department, so im keeping my fingers > crossed that will happen. we will really need the money this > winter, but if they dont give me any hours then there isnt much i > can do about it... what the heck is the point in going through > an intensive interview process and 36 hours of training in a > week, just to actually work one lousy 5 hour shift a week?!?! i > dont get it. oh well, i will wait and see what happens. > :*carolyn. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 hi everyone - just a short update on this thread... my work schedule for the first week after training got revised and now im down for 15 hours for each of the next 3 weeks... yay! i think that will work out great. still not much money but better than nothing i guess. yes to jen's question about my dh working less in the winter... actually he didnt work AT ALL last winter due to the economic recession. one reason why i have a part-time job this year. i have no idea what im supposed to do with the kids next summer when both dh and i are at work... it is months away but im already worrying about it! anyway, im an official employee now... i received my training pin to put on my name tag and a 'good job' from the trainer. LOL :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 hi everyone - just a short update on this thread... my work schedule for the first week after training got revised and now im down for 15 hours for each of the next 3 weeks... yay! i think that will work out great. still not much money but better than nothing i guess. yes to jen's question about my dh working less in the winter... actually he didnt work AT ALL last winter due to the economic recession. one reason why i have a part-time job this year. i have no idea what im supposed to do with the kids next summer when both dh and i are at work... it is months away but im already worrying about it! anyway, im an official employee now... i received my training pin to put on my name tag and a 'good job' from the trainer. LOL :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Awesome news Carolyn!! Try not to stress about next summer yet. Take each day at a time, that's really all you can do in situations like this.HUGS...DarcyOn Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Festival City Concrete Ltd / & Carolyn Visser <cvisser@...> wrote:  hi everyone - just a short update on this thread... my work schedule for the first week after training got revised and now im down for 15 hours for each of the next 3 weeks... yay! i think that will work out great. still not much money but better than nothing i guess. yes to jen's question about my dh working less in the winter... actually he didnt work AT ALL last winter due to the economic recession. one reason why i have a part-time job this year. i have no idea what im supposed to do with the kids next summer when both dh and i are at work... it is months away but im already worrying about it! anyway, im an official employee now... i received my training pin to put on my name tag and a 'good job' from the trainer. LOL :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Awesome news Carolyn!! Try not to stress about next summer yet. Take each day at a time, that's really all you can do in situations like this.HUGS...DarcyOn Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Festival City Concrete Ltd / & Carolyn Visser <cvisser@...> wrote:  hi everyone - just a short update on this thread... my work schedule for the first week after training got revised and now im down for 15 hours for each of the next 3 weeks... yay! i think that will work out great. still not much money but better than nothing i guess. yes to jen's question about my dh working less in the winter... actually he didnt work AT ALL last winter due to the economic recession. one reason why i have a part-time job this year. i have no idea what im supposed to do with the kids next summer when both dh and i are at work... it is months away but im already worrying about it! anyway, im an official employee now... i received my training pin to put on my name tag and a 'good job' from the trainer. LOL :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 carolyn, i am sure you and dh will figure something out about the kids in the summer. are they willing to work out scheduling with you then so you can dh can do that easier? i hope so. i work 22 hours a week and IF i work a full week(you know those darn holidays and teacher work days etc) i can make over $160 or so a week. which isn't bad at all b/c i am more the third income in the family. is your dh's job picking up soon?i hope so, i was just reading that landscaping is still a hot job in our area along with grocery stores. surprised me on the landscaping deal and if you saw our roads you can see that while they say they are cutting state employees i don't see it possible with more then 6 roads either shut down or down to one lane roads. while they were tearing up a perfectly good road b/c of obama's stimulus for the roads a few of our bridges FAILED miserably. so all that money wasted on the road they just finished they need all the manpower they can get to get these bridges up to code. ah but i ramble on, i am not to happy with the state of things b/c hard working ppl aren't getting help things are just getting worse for them. i pray until my head hurts that things get better for us. kassia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Hi Carolyn, Congrats on completing training and becoming "official"! Try not to worry about the summer - although, I do always worry way in advance about everything as well. Are there any summer camps your kids can attend? That is what does during hte summer -they have the same hours generally as school so that has been helpful for me!Take care, Donna From: Festival City Concrete Ltd / & Carolyn Visser <cvisser@...>Subject: Re: OT: job Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 12:02 AM hi everyone - just a short update on this thread... my work schedule for the first week after training got revised and now im down for 15 hours for each of the next 3 weeks... yay! i think that will work out great. still not much money but better than nothing i guess.yes to jen's question about my dh working less in the winter... actually he didnt work AT ALL last winter due to the economic recession. one reason why i have a part-time job this year. i have no idea what im supposed to do with the kids next summer when both dh and i are at work... it is months away but im already worrying about it!anyway, im an official employee now... i received my training pin to put on my name tag and a 'good job' from the trainer. LOL:*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Hi Carolyn, Congrats on completing training and becoming "official"! Try not to worry about the summer - although, I do always worry way in advance about everything as well. Are there any summer camps your kids can attend? That is what does during hte summer -they have the same hours generally as school so that has been helpful for me!Take care, Donna From: Festival City Concrete Ltd / & Carolyn Visser <cvisser@...>Subject: Re: OT: job Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 12:02 AM hi everyone - just a short update on this thread... my work schedule for the first week after training got revised and now im down for 15 hours for each of the next 3 weeks... yay! i think that will work out great. still not much money but better than nothing i guess.yes to jen's question about my dh working less in the winter... actually he didnt work AT ALL last winter due to the economic recession. one reason why i have a part-time job this year. i have no idea what im supposed to do with the kids next summer when both dh and i are at work... it is months away but im already worrying about it!anyway, im an official employee now... i received my training pin to put on my name tag and a 'good job' from the trainer. LOL:*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 carolyn, i worry about the future too--it seems to come faster than i planned...anyway:) this year i had my neighbor's daughter, iris, over everyday during the summer--she is 10--too young to be at home all day by herself and a little old for a babysitter...do you have any friends who would take the boys for you during your working hours? stacey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 maybe with holidays coming there will be hours for you, better to be well trained and comfortable with all tasks than to be harried during crunch time.vennitta2009/9/3 Festival City Concrete Ltd / & Carolyn Visser <cvisser@...> Â thanks paula and all of my other friends here for your comments about my job. i had another shift today and it went much better, things are starting to click and i quite enjoyed it. there is alot to know and remember!! i have two more killer shifts this week for training and then my hours get cut way back since im lowest in seniority. ::sigh:: i dont know how im supposed to remember everything when they have me scheduled for only 5 hours in a week... ugh! apparently i will get more hours if someone leaves the department, so im keeping my fingers crossed that will happen. we will really need the money this winter, but if they dont give me any hours then there isnt much i can do about it... what the heck is the point in going through an intensive interview process and 36 hours of training in a week, just to actually work one lousy 5 hour shift a week?!?! i dont get it. oh well, i will wait and see what happens. :*carolyn. -- Get Fit! Weight loss will follow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 hi donna, and everyone! thankyou for your comments and suggestions. yeah, im a worrywart :/ but i always end up well planned out! LOL anyway i cant send the kids to camp, or any paid supervision, because that, along with gasoline, would use all of the money that i would make at work! however i cant count on anyone in our family to help (for free) on a regular basis, and we dont have any neighbours. argh! if i can get only a few summer daytime shifts then hopefully i will figure something out. i guess i will have to talk about it with my dept manager ::sigh:: but not until, like, june...LOL my dh, and school, have been covering my daytime shifts so far... hopefully dh will be able to do it all winter, but he also really needs to work too. dh told me that he left the kids on their own for 1.5 hour while he went to a job site the other day... that seemed to be ok, but any longer would make me nervous (the boys are ages 8.5 and 10). anyhoooo, work has been quite tiring, and while i enjoy working there, i already like my days off... LOL i still have all of my work at home to do (which is really backed up right now!!!) but at least i can do all of that at my own pace and not at a 'power walk pace' for 5 hours (one my last day of training i was running around the deli serving customers, doing prep and cleaning for 8 hours. i was dead for a few days after that! LOL) who was it who suggested i wear a pedometer at work? i have seriously been thinking of doing that. my legs are tired at the end of a shift. also running the slicer is like doing one armed rows all day, but only on the right side. and my face gets a workout because i have to smile, smile, smile all day long. i havent had time to do any workout videos -- sorry RIPPERS!!! i have walked chinook though and the weather has been really nice for days in a row, which i really appreciate. :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 16, 2009 Report Share Posted September 16, 2009 I think I might have said something about a pedometer. Sure sounds like me. In the least wearing one will give you permission mentally to ease back on yourself about your at home workouts. 4-8 hours on your feet is a good amount of exercise!!! When I waited tables, some days I would hit 13 miles just on my shift. Terry, whom for now is a security guard, averages 5. 8.5 and 10 is a good age, from my non-motherhood-state perspective, to start leaving them alone for little bits at a time. I'm sure I was a bit younger when my folks did that. I think thats part of the reason I'm fairly self-sufficient ;-) I still rarely answer the door for anyone not carrying pizza. a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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