Asking about hours.

[Emrys]

I think you have to work a certain consecutive number of weeks at full-time hours before you are considered to be a full-time employee. When I worked at WalMart, they would constantly work me at full-time hours, then drop me back down to part-time hours just before they hit the deadline.
blotsfan, sorry, but I have to say it. WalMart is hell and their managers are all personally trained by Satan. They will squeeze as much out of you as you can possibly give, then throw you under the rollers to try to get that last bit.
Talk to your co-workers and see if there's anyone who wants to pick up some of your shifts.

 

[Chibibar]

As for the hours, if you really need the job, then you might just "shut up" (which you said you would do) and do the hours and quit after the summer is over. Since it is a seasonal job, you would have to just bear it OR a chance to lose the job. They will just hire someone else who is willing to work 40 hrs a week.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Oh, walmart, that makes sense now. I used to work there, and was flat out told they didn't hire full time. They want you to work the hours without any of the benefits.

If the boss isn't giving you the hours you agreed upon, it's probably because he forgot, because he's dead inside.

 

[Mathias]

When I worked at Kmart they were always telling me I sucked until I put in my two weeks notice. then they kept praising me. That was the worst job I ever had. It was completely demoralizing.

I worked at KMart one summer in the sporting goods section.

I gotta ask, did you take your job seriously enough to stress over it? If a manager gave me crap, I'd play dumb and nod my head - and roll my eyes when they left.

I did nothing the whole summer there that amounted to productive work and got paid like 9.50 an hour. It was sweet. One day I hid up in the storage loft where there was an old spy-glass mirror that used to house the security equipment. Yeah, anytime a hot chick was in the store, I ran up there and checked her ass out with binoculars. Most of my days I spent organizing the shelves, which consisted of playing with the stuff of the shelves. Ha! Now I remember stealing a copy of Diablo II from the warehouse display case. I had that game like two weeks before it was released. Oh and the rednecks getting their hunting and fishing licenses! They were a riot. State law mandated that they had to write down their Social Security number on the form. Oh the arguments I got into with that one! It was literally like scenes out of Clerks. I'd also sneak out of the store to go hang out with my friends while on the clock.

Best part. The managers never really gave me any major shit, until I gave in my two weeks notice. Apparently they thought I was going to work there permanently or something...

God, I miss those summer jobs. They were awesome. No responsibility and you get paid for it!
Added at: 19:09

I think you have to work a certain consecutive number of weeks at full-time hours before you are considered to be a full-time employee. When I worked at WalMart, they would constantly work me at full-time hours, then drop me back down to part-time hours just before they hit the deadline.
blotsfan, sorry, but I have to say it. WalMart is hell and their managers are all personally trained by Satan. They will squeeze as much out of you as you can possibly give, then throw you under the rollers to try to get that last bit.
Talk to your co-workers and see if there's anyone who wants to pick up some of your shifts.

That's why he should scrap by with the bare minimum. In a job like that, the less you do and more you get away with, the more it balances out all the ways your manager tries use you like a slave.

 

[makare]

I worked there my senior year in high school and i got paid minimum wage. I did my job because if I lost it my mom would have been furious. The first day, five different managers explained to me that I am always being watched in the store and that if I stole something they would press charges. The people I worked with were either doped up losers who never did their jobs, second job taking super moms, managerial staff that wouldnt care if the store burned down with us in it and three girls I knew from school who hated me because my main ambition in life wasn't to flirt with older guys for beer. (On a side note those three girls were also the ones who dragged me to their church where they sang, danced, and cried for Christ for an hour and afterwards went and shoplifted from walmart).

I did my job and eked by in that filthy soul-sucking hellhole until I finally got to leave.

I'm generally not a goof off at work kind of person. Except for my preschool job where that was basically the job.

 

[Chad Sexington]

(On a side note those three girls were also the ones who dragged me to their church where they sang, danced, and cried for Christ for an hour and afterwards went and shoplifted from walmart).

I want to make a TV show about everyone you have ever worked with. The common denominator appears to be you. Do you attract crazypants?

 

[makare]

Well, I guess I do.

Damn it.

 

[Mathias]

I worked there my senior year in high school and i got paid minimum wage. I did my job because if I lost it my mom would have been furious. The first day, five different managers explained to me that I am always being watched in the store and that if I stole something they would press charges. The people I worked with were either doped up losers who never did their jobs, second job taking super moms, managerial staff that wouldnt care if the store burned down with us in it and three girls I knew from school who hated me because my main ambition in life wasn't to flirt with older guys for beer. (On a side note those three girls were also the ones who dragged me to their church where they sang, danced, and cried for Christ for an hour and afterwards went and shoplifted from walmart).

I did my job and eked by in that filthy soul-sucking hellhole until I finally got to leave.

I'm generally not a goof off at work kind of person. Except for my preschool job where that was basically the job.

See if you just scraped by, you'd look amazing compared to the losers that you worked with, and you'd have a chance to goof off.

I dunno, I never put much thought into being not fired from a McJob. I never really gave two shits if I was. Summer of 2001 I worked at an oil change place. The day I was going to turn in my two-weeks notice because school was starting up, it just so happened a customer complained that I didn't change his oil filter. I didn't change half the oil filters that whole summer. One of my supervisors gently broke the news to me, as if I was going to go on suicide watch upon hearing the news that I was fired. I handed him my two-week notice, did a big smokey burnout on my way out of the parking lot, and flipped everyone off as I fishtailed my Camaro into the sunset.

Best part of that job was if a customer gave me shit, I'd trick them into buying stuff they didn't need like a new air filter, transmission flush, or differential fluid "replace" for a car without a differential. I am a horrible retail employee.
Awww yeah.

 

[Hailey Knight]

You are helping the world make sense for me.

I never did retail, and I'm always extremely polite to clerks and staff. I don't understand getting pissed with them; usually what goes on isn't in their control.

I know people who do; they're ready to blow at the first moment a retail employee does a thing that isn't serving them. And I say "Why do you act like that? You've worked retail; you know how it sucks dealing with a shitty customer."

Now I understand. It's because when they deal with that employee "not doing it right", they see themselves.

 

[blotsfan]

Well I got my next schedule and I'm working 28 hours and got the day off i requested. I be content.