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"I just found out about the new hours today and I have to say I am a little peeved! When I was first getting informed I heard something about more money. Then all I heard was that our studio is going to be down by half of our normal hours. Which also means I will not be getting my normal hours either. I have to let one person go, and the other one who is my best employee by far will get one day and maybe some discresionary hours? Yeah I am pretty sure that she will no longer have the same availability being as that she will need another job to pay the bills. There is no way she will be waiting around week after week to see if maybe she lucked out and got some hours. To top it off I am very sure that all of our customers and potential customers will be taking their buisness elsewhere. Somewhere that is open maybe? Closing at 2 and coming back to close? Are you fricken kidding me? What nut jobs are running this shindig? I for one am a very underpaid manager and now you tell me your going to cut my hours and I will be working by myself? What about my vacation? What if I am sick? Maybe if you give me one hell of a raise to run a show all alone but other than that I can start my own buisness and deal with the same thing. I feel we are going down and fast and I also believe that buying Picture Me studios only hurt us badly. Things were not like this a few years back. I should probably be looking for another job just in case. I will not be working in another studio thats not my own though thats for sure!"
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I have been working with this situation for over 3 months now . . while it was hard to begin with it has actually worked out great . . we are steady and there is no time for people to just sit on their asses anymore. I have myself plus two part time who are dedicated to the job.
We have 6 employees. They want us tog et rid of 2 of those. The problem is... sometimes (most of the time), our Saturday mornings require 5 ppl and our nights require 3. Its hard enough making 1person stay open to close.
Not to mention, i only get 27Hrs a week as an asst. manager right now... im scared of what they will be after the hrs change.
We STILL havent been told what our new, set in stone, hours will be. We just know they will start in May.
Welcome to Hell.
I have been working this schedule as well but the thing is that most of the time I get an appointment for the slot right before lunch that makes you work right through your lunch anyway so it hasn't affected my hours that much, but it did make two of our part time employees quit for lack of hours and that freed up more hours so now I just work with less people and tick off customers because we don't have enough help.. That makes since..NOT!
The new hours SUCK! I for one had a ton of customers bitch. How can they use their SSC when we are closed on Tuesdays and close by 3 on Wednesdays and Thursdays? Mondays are no good and I want a late appt. Or you get all the walk-ins at the same time, when you are on single coverage, you have appts booked every hour and they bitch some more because they were told they didnt have to have an appt. I've had people go to Penneys because they always have at least 2 people working to accomadate customers. And when you are told to let your entire staff go because they aren't running a $120 prs and you can't get ANYONE to show up for interviews, let alone hire someone. Heaven forbid you get sick or have a family emergency. You're still expected to be in the studio. The expectations are completely unrealistic for the shit that CPI pays it employees. Job security is a thing of the apst with this company since those ass holes came over from Radio Shack. The job is no longer enjoyable and they are losing managers that they CAN'T afford to lose, which means the business will go with it!
We just learned our new hours.....
we close Sat, Tues, Wed, and Thurs at 6pm.
my 2 open to close days are Tues and Wed. There goes at LEAST 8hrs a paycheck, Uggggggg
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