Minor things that bother you

[JayhawkCO]

Also, those kids that were raised in a 'germ filled' daycare will very likely have much healthier adult immune systems than those who are raised in bubble-wrapped sterility.

Mike

All daycares are germ filled.

Sure, but not every kid goes to daycare.

[Rothman]

Also, those kids that were raised in a 'germ filled' daycare will very likely have much healthier adult immune systems than those who are raised in bubble-wrapped sterility.

Mike

All daycares are germ filled.

Sure, but not every kid goes to daycare.

Every day goes to every kid.

[kphoger]

All daycares are germ filled.

Can confirm.

not every kid goes to daycare.

Can confirm.

[kernals12]

Social media algorithms turning ordinary people into assholes.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I can't think of a single person I know well who doesn't have a set schedule, other than a few who own their own business.  I know people who work in public education, aircraft manufacturing, customer service, medical offices, avionics engineering, apartment maintenance, you name it—and they all have a set schedule, the large majority of which are daytime hours, and all of which are usually Monday–Friday unless overtime is in effect.

Then—and I fully admit this is going to sound ridiculous to you, but it's true—you either mostly know people who are more well off than average, or Wichita is an outlier among American cities. Having a consistent schedule is a luxury these days.

Scheduling at large corporate retail concerns and fast food places is normally done these days through the use of software (Kronos and its competitors) which generate the schedule using sales data to ensure an optimally-profitable staffing level. I am not sure what options are available to management when telling it to generate such a schedule, but I know the set commonly used in retail does not take "what employee's schedule was last week" into account when generating the schedule. A consistent schedule week to week is basically only done when a human sets the schedule by hand—and even that is no guarantee of a consistent schedule. At the last casino I worked at, the consistent schedules were all given out in order of seniority, and then the newest employee's schedule changed every week to cover for when other employees took vacation time.

And if work scheduled you when they weren't supposed to, they made it clear that it wasn't really their problem, and correcting their mistake was something they were not obligated to do if it wasn't convenient for them.

[Max Rockatansky]

I struggle to understand how the robo-scheduler programs are an improvement versus teaching a retail manager how do it correctly.  The retail industry in my observation has never been very good at management training and has only been getting worse this last decade. 

[Max Rockatansky]

Social media algorithms turning ordinary people into assholes.

People have always been that way.  Social media just tries to convince you otherwise.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Social media algorithms turning ordinary people into assholes.

People have always been that way.  Social media just tries to convince you otherwise.

I think it was on this board that someone posted this, but people never really leave HS. Workplaces all have bullies, cliques, and teacher's pets.

[Scott5114]

I struggle to understand how the robo-scheduler programs are an improvement versus teaching a retail manager how do it correctly. 

Time spent doing a schedule is time a manager can't spend watching YouTube videos.

[Max Rockatansky]

I struggle to understand how the robo-scheduler programs are an improvement versus teaching a retail manager how do it correctly.

Time spent doing a schedule is time a manager can't spend watching YouTube videos.

Amusingly I had to once justify why I used so little payroll on a Black Friday opening.  The retail people threw "sales figures" at me but I countered with apprehensions per hour at historic times of day.  Turned out the store was over controlled by staff and clogged with bodies during the early morning.  So much so, that the shoplifters would just wait until the late afternoon to hit.  I think we had the only apprehensions in that district that year for Black Friday.

[kphoger]

I just work in a world where having to figure out how to schedule people isn't even a thing, really.

The owner and the president of the company can work whenever they want to, of course, but they generally are there Monday to Friday, when everyone else is there.  Sometimes they travel for work or need to do something on the week-end, but it's generally a lot easier to do business when everyone's in the same place at the same time.

Same with the special projects managers:  if they're not out of state somewhere on a project, then they're at the office during the day Monday to Friday.

My boss works Monday to Friday, roughly 8am to 4pm depending on other things she needs to do outside work.

My immediate co-worker and I work Monday to Friday;  I start at 7:30, she starts at 8:00, and we're both off at 4:00 (I start earlier because I take a lunch break and she doesn't).  When I first started in my current job role, I was allowed to choose my own schedule.  Nowadays, because of changes to my job description, they'd probably require me to have something similar in order to be there during regular business hours.

The field techs run routes whatever days of the week the MSOs tell us to run routes, which doesn't change much from week to week;  all routes start with an 8-10am timeframe and end whenever they're done with their jobs for that day.  If manpower exceeds workload, then the worst-performing techs are given fewer days' worth of routes per week.  If workload exceeds manpower, then the best-performing techs are given routes on a typical day off.  But it still starts with 8-10 jobs and ends whenever the work is done.

Field supervisors work when their techs do.

None of this requires a computer program to figure out who needs to work when.  Even if the field techs' days change here and there, the manager just takes a few minutes with pencil and notebook paper to figure out the changes.

[vdeane]

The new icons in the Android clock app.  Especially the animations, particularly the timer one.  It's meant to look like an hourglass, and the old one had the sand all the time, so when you'd click it, it would flip over and the sand would move to the other half.  The new one omits the sand - except in the animation, so instead of an hourglass with sand trickling down, it looks like a vase that's being filled.