Thread:Crowsoul50/@comment-33229352-20200116030855/@comment-33229352-20200125072535

My work finally contacted me about working half a shift (4 hours) after cutting off all communication with me for almost a month. I went from making $150/week to literally nothing, with no context or explanation. They send out schedules every week, just not to the people scheduled. Which, personally, I think is bad. One, I want to see it so I can have a rough comparison to other people's schedules/hours so I know if I'm getting a fair amount of it or not. Two, there's going to be a time where the manager forgets to add us back in to get it sent to us when we actually are scheduled. And with the way the schedule works, If I work on a Saturday I literally won't know if I work the next day until the schedule gets sent out. I don't have a lot of plans typically, but this severely limits the ones I do have, and in general just isn't a good management practice. He should be scheduling us at least two weeks in advance, minimum. We should be using some kind of system or program to clock in/clock out and log hours. Even better, start scheduling in there, too. I'm aware it's a new business, but I am so close to raising hell about this-- We were never told that he just doesn't send emails to people not scheduled, so for weeks I got no explanation as to why I did not receive a schedule and had no idea as to if I was working or not. I worked every weekend for like two months and then they gave me the cold shoulder. It's almost enough to make me want to quit. I've never dealt with a situation like that before and the acute, long-term stress I had from worrying if I was supposed to be actually working or not was awful.. So I was at an impasse as to what to do because my manager ghosted me for weeks when I tried to clarify. It's disrespectful, rude, and inconsiderate. And he's still a kid. He's barely three years older than me. I don't know how good of a job I would do overall in a position such as his at his age, but I feel like I'd do a little better than not answering for two weeks and then finally responding with "oh your availability has been weird the past month and we hired more people recently who also have better availability so you may be getting less hours". Like?? I'm one of the best trained people on staff. You hired a bunch of newbies during peak weeks in your business, when there's easily twice as many dogs than usual. Granted I was on vacation during those peak weeks, but that was a month ago. Let me train them. I'm good at that. I know the dogs and I can read the room faster than most. I stop scuffles before they happen. I actually know how to clean, and I'm confident in my abilities as a handler and an employee. I know I sound really egotistical right now, but legitimately I'm not sure how some of these people got hired. Someone who was with me during employee training entered the big dog room that I was managing and immediately flattened himself against the wall/door when the dogs swarmed. They get super exited when someone new comes in, and there's always potential that someone can get a little too overwhelmed and flip out a little. You walk straight from the door to the open area of the room and only acknowledge the dogs when they calm. He cornered himself and spoke excitedly in an already elevated environment, and I ended up having to go over there myself and stop the dogs from escalating. It's frustrating. They're animals. In an enclosed space. They do not know each other well. They come from different backgrounds and experiences. You have to be the common denominator. There will always be an element of unpredictability and things you cannot control. You control the things you can to mitigate the ones you can't. You cannot have that kind of behavior in a room with 10 dogs because it will have an exponentially worse outcome when you repeat that behavior in a room at capacity. You need to be firm. Dogs like structure. If they won't respect you when the room is calm, they won't respect you when you're wading knee-deep in a multi-group scuffle. And for the love of Pete, clean your darn room when you're done. That's how animals and humans get sick. Stop cutting corners. Stop leaving poop on the floor for 10 minutes because you'll "get it later". There's freaking web cams in the room. Always assume someone's watching. I wouldn't want to see my dog in a place where you ignore poop because you're busy playing with your favorite dog. Your behavior is being seen just as much as the dogs. So many people just end up rooting to the ground and swiveling to watch the dogs. I move, I talk, I touch each dog I pass, because that's how you build the relationship. I cannot expect a dog to tolerate me crating it or having to check it for injuries if I don't have that. Too many of them just expect the dog to fall in love immediately. That's not how it works.

Any way I'm done ranting