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Setting your availability should mean something, but apparently that’s optional depending on who’s making the schedule.

One college student clearly told her part-time job she couldn’t work Tuesdays or Thursdays, only to keep finding herself repeatedly scheduled on those exact days anyway.

Her boss kept promising to fix the issue, but after failing to follow through, she starts wondering how much longer she can tough it out.

With the job market rough enough that finding a position took months and hundreds of applications, quitting wasn’t exactly a simple option.

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Boss keeps scheduling me outwide of my availability.

I’m a college student who isn’t available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, yet my boss keeps fumbling and scheduling me on these days.

These constant mix-ups are starting to really mess with this student.

I’m part-time there and available every other day, which makes this even more confusing, as I will be scheduled 4-5 days off only to be exclusively scheduled on the days I can’t work, and then given 4-5 more days off.

Sometimes I’ll get a week with good scheduling where I’ll get 28-32 hours without being scheduled on the days I said I can’t work, but other times it’ll be like it is now.

She’s tried to tell her boss she simply isn’t available, but he never follows through with fixing the problem.

I’ve talked to my boss about it before, and he’s told me he’d fix it, which he does for a week or 2, but then it just happens again.

Twice now.

She’s starting to feel stuck in a bad situation.

Not sure what to do, to be honest. I can’t just quit and get a different job, the job market in my area is actually a disaster, and it took months just to end up landing this one amidst like 500 applications.

Sounds like this employee is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

What did Reddit have to say?

This user has a bold proposition.

It’s likely time for this employee to start managing up.

This commenter begins to suspect the worst.

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A user from HR chimes in with their take.

Fixing a scheduling problem for two weeks and then letting it slide right back isn’t really fixing anything; it’s just delaying the same exact conversation.

She’s already had this exact talk with her manager twice, which means the issue was never about miscommunication in the first place.

A tight job market can make walking away feel impossible, and that’s exactly the kind of leverage that lets sloppy management stick around longer than it should.

At some point, “I’ll fix it” needs to actually mean something.

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Benjamin Cottrell

Benjamin Cottrell | Assistant Editor, Internet Culture

Benjamin Cottrell is an Assistant Editor and contributing writer at TwistedSifter, specializing in internet culture, viral social dynamics, and the moral complexities of online communities. He brings a highly analytical, editorial voice to his reporting on workplace conflicts, malicious compliance, and interpersonal drama, with a specific focus on nuanced stories that lack an obvious villain.

As a published author of rhetorical criticism, Benjamin leverages his academic background in human communication to dissect and elevate viral social media threads. Instead of simply summarizing events, he provides readers with balanced, deep-dive commentary into why the internet reacts the way it does. In addition to his cultural reporting, he is an experienced fine art photography essayist and video game reviewer.

When he isn’t analyzing the latest viral debates, Benjamin is usually chipping away at his extensive video game backlog, hunting down the best new restaurants, or out exploring the city with a camera in hand.

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