Each week when I make the work schedule at the marijuana dispensary, I have a difficult time feeling all of the spots that are available on Saturdays and Sundays.
A lot of the employees don’t want to work on these days.
For a long time, I was doing my best to move things around so each one of the employees could have the days off that they requested. Now it seems as if everyone wants the same days off and I have to have someone working in the dispensary. I had a company meeting on Monday morning before I handed out all of the paychecks. I asked for volunteers to start working every weekend and I even got approval from management to offer an extra dollar each hour to the employees that are offered to work every weekend. I wanted someone to offer to work on Saturday, but I didn’t see a single person raise their hand. It was disappointing not to see a single person offer to help out. When I made the next schedule, things were different. I put the schedule up yesterday and I randomly selected a couple of employees to work on Saturday, even though they requested the day off. I made sure to put a notation on the bottom of the schedule, letting everyone know that they must show up for every scheduled shift or face the consequences. I tried to be nice by looking for volunteers, but I will randomly select people each week until I start having more people volunteer to work at the dispensary on Fridays, Saturday’s, and Sundays.