Well this is the first time I'm posting something that partially pisses me off. My work is for the most part very rewarding. It does however have it's problems. However there is one that always seems to get on everyone's nerves and this would be scheduling at my job is terrible. Often people complain about not getting the shifts they want or enough hours. Usually this does effect me as well but I often just roll with the punches. It takes a lot of something to bother me or still going with the boxing analogy it takes cheap shots to make me mad. I often don't care what hours scheduling gives me and I take whatever and as many hours as I can get from the scheduling office however not this coming up week but next week two special things were coming up a friends birthday party and a special screening of the charity show that I was in. I submitted the proper paperwork asking scheduling to give me a preferred schedule of early shifts on those two days. Now I would have been fine with the scheduling office just being able to accommodate one of those days but tonight I went to check my schedule for that week and the workers in that office couldn't give me the early shifts and instead had my shifts start late. This makes it impossible for me to attend either event. I wasn't asking for anything special. I could have asked for those days off but I didn't; I simply asked for an early shift on those days and the scheduling office just either denied it or completely ignored my request. I do a good job when I am working. I have even recently helped out one of the schedulers with a problem they were having with switching a shift for themselves. What do I get when I simply ask for a preferred shift I get a big fat no and not only that they make the shifts so late that I can't even try and show up a little late to either event. Thanks a whole lot scheduling. >:( TTFN

-Tom23