Hourly employees can no longer schedule 2 week-end days as "unavailable" as of Sept. Prior policy was of the 3 unavailable days you get a month (excluding nov & dec), you were able to use 2 days for sat or sun. Not anymore, you can only use 1 unavailable day per month for a sat or sun! Info was verified with HR. What happened to scheduling flexibility. This change in policy is definitely
not a morale booster.
Sept 2024 - has 4/Sat and 5/Sun - you can only use "1" unavailable for a sat-sun. If you want additional week-end day off, you'll have to use your pto.
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I surprised that you could take a sat and sun back to back unavailable in the first place. Im sure they will say you have flex holidays and pto
Why are there 15 openers and 4 closers?
If you don't want to work nights and weekends, why are you working in retail? When do you think everyone who's not in retail goes shopping. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and reflect on the fact that you made poor life decisions and now work retail at the hourly level (yikes) for a living.
It's not a great job, it's never going to be a great job, and if you want better, get off your lazy backside and make it happen. Otherwise, have some consideration for the other people you work with and show up for your scheduled shift or simply wait for a manager like me to have
find this manager and get them fired ....
this Pos is whats wrong with macys
Keep advertising your weekends (In Macy’s speak, it includes Friday) and holidays for no one to pick them up.
I feel like they’re doing this to weed out either low performers or long term employees that liked being able to plan days off. (Me being one of them). I still will work the weekends but not sure how this is going to go over with some of our long term employees.
You won’t make it at Macy’s long term if you can’t give up your nights, weekends, and holidays.
IE: "Stop feeling sorry for yourself and reflect on the fact that you made poor life decisions and now work retail at the hourly level (yikes) for a living."
The statement above👆🏽is an example of how some managers at Macy's look down on the hourly workers and show no appreciation for the workers...The Manager that posted this should be fired! I'm a part-time hourly worker at Macy's and former retired retail store manager. I have over 25 years of retail experience ranging from a sales associate and moved my way up in a company to manage their highest volume store and finally working at their corporate office handling inventory for all stores.. now retired after raising 3 kids. I worked at Macy's because it was an enjoyable company to work for and kept me busy and active while making extra money. NOTHING TO DO WITH POOR LIFE DECISIONS! thank you very much. A poor life decision is the statement that you posted about hourly employees that work under you which deserve as much respect as any other employee at a higher level. A poor life decision is your wrong assumption and judgement about Macy's hourly employees and what's even worst is that you are a Manager at Macy's ..this is discrimination at its finest!! Tony Springer should be proud of the how well you follow the acceptance and equality standards that Macy's sets.
I don't know what you are talking about,but everyone at our store doesn't work nights..weekends yes, but not every weekend. We have people that only work mornings and one of our managers doesn't work on Sundays and one captain hardly never works weekends.
If you don't want to work nights and weekends, why are you working in retail? When do you think everyone who's not in retail goes shopping. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and reflect on the fact that you made poor life decisions and now work retail at the hourly level (yikes) for a living.
It's not a great job, it's never going to be a great job, and if you want better, get off your lazy backside and make it happen. Otherwise, have some consideration for the other people you work with and show up for your scheduled shift or simply wait for a manager like me to have a couple of conversations with you and then term you for reliability issues.
I know of one employee that puts in 3 unavailable days for Saturdays and then a Half time PTO for Sundays. They did this for 9 of the 12 months
That was put in to place because of greedy, selfish employees who used the system to their advantage . That should gave been handled by Management. Allowing someone to take almost every Saturday and Sunday off while sc--wing everyone over screams of lazy Management. Instead everyone gets punished.
When you start seeing things like this happen at any company, not just Macys, run (don’t walk) the other way, they are trying to push as many people out as possible, it’s a sign that the company is in trouble, get out as fast as you can.
I applied at Macy’s store thinking it was a M-F 9-5 job.
Well..With my store, we lose our unavailable days after August 3rd, so whatever!!
@1lgx+1tmFpv0N Big smile?? That’s a joke. You want a big smile from an employee, especially on weekends, treat them better(better pay,incentives,bonuses and appreciation!) Does that make any sense to you?
Good luck with more weekend call outs. Where are the incentives?? Employees are not dum. If Macy’s only cares about Macy’s and not the employees, Do you really think employees are gonna care about their job and performance?
It is retail, working on weekends when the customer is shopping is key. This is the same for many other jobs such as nurses, bus drivers etc. I think employees need to understand that life is about choices. If the job is not working for you just move on. If not my expectations is that when Im shopping on weekends you will be there ringing me up, with a big smile.
Those of you calling names obviously haven’t worked for the company very long. Flexibility and unavailable days used to be the biggest reason the company could keep long time employees. There’s no benefits to work there anymore.
The store's need every colleague on the weekends, when we have traffic. If you don't like retail hours move on.
This will actually make the call outs even worse. If the jokers who make these decisions even TRIED to understand what goes on on the in-store level, they would know the implications of this decision will be disastrous.
Yes, in theory, this will weed out unreliable employees because it will force them to burn through their PTO/flex holidays/sick time quicker, but given how some managers fudge the reliability system for the sake of not losing jobs in the store, I don’t see that happening.
The obvious solution will always be “hire more staff” but they never will, so…
They need 100% HUR on weekends dummy