Asklemmy

44184 readers

2065 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

400

Wife's boss is on a power trip. Is this legal? (lemmy.studio)

submitted 1 year ago by neocamel@lemmy.studio to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

149 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My wife works in a restaurant, and the power-tripping manager has instituted a new policy where all shift changes must be approved by management. I think that is reasonable enough, but they're also asking the originally-scheduled employee why they are switching shifts, then approving or denying based on the answer.

For example, her coworker (Tom) wanted Monday afternoon off, and Harry agreed to cover the shift. The manager asked Tom why he wanted Harry to work for him, and Tom said, "I have a softball game." Manager denied the shift change because it was "unnecessary".

Is this legal? I feel like if you're able to find someone to cover your shift, you don't owe management any explanation why you need the time off. How should my wife approach this situation? Colorado, USA BTW.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] dicksinabag@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Exactly. I'm a manager and literally never ask the reason unless it's longer than a week. They like to tell me anyway even though I've told them I don't care.

[–] fleabomber@lemm.ee 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they just really feel like they can open up to you, Dicksinabag.

[–] Established_Trial@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like I could open up to Discksinabag pretty easily

[–] Risk@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd actually prefer it if they opened up to me.

[–] Established_Trial@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t know, that feels like a risk

[–] i_cant_sports@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, are we all talking about docking now?

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought we were talking about hamburgers and got hungry. I love dicksinabag

[–] dicksinabag@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

❤️🍆🎒

[–] Bdaman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Isn’t that called sounding?

[–] dicksinabag@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Open on up, bro. (But seriously, I believe in authenticity as a manager. I don't hide anything from them unless I'm told explicitly not to share with them.)

[–] JDubbleu@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine having a manager like in this post. I had to get a few hours coverage for my on call shift to pick my partner up from the hospital for an outpatient surgery. Manager didn't ask why I needed coverage but it just happened to come up. They immediately offered to get my entire shift moved without me even asking.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Seriously don't understand managers like this. Also a manager, qnd I'll even find the coverage if someone needs a day off. I know how nerve wracking it is as an employee calling around asking someone to cover your shift, its a lot easier for me to send a mass text. Incidentally, the staff seem much more willing to pick up shifts this way.