Imagine having two jobs. One is a full time day job, and the other is a part time job where you’re mainly scheduled for nights and weekends. What would you do if you were suddenly scheduled for a daytime shift at your part time job?

In this story, one employee is in this situation, and she asks her supervisor to give her a different shift instead.

Let’s see how that confrontation goes.

supervisor causes worker to quit due to bad logic

My first job after I graduated high school was working at a grocery store. Part time, minimum wage, no benefits, bad schedule.

This story happened before I started college in the fall, so I had only time to work and make money. This story is 7 years old.

While I was there, there was a period of some people quitting and they struggled to get more employees to fill the gap.

I wanted more hours and I went from 16 hours to 28-32 a week.

OP started working 2 jobs.

My schedule was clear and I had nothing to do besides work and I definitely wanted drinking money for when I got to college later.

At that wage, it still wasn’t enough so I figured I’d look for a second job.

I soon landed a job that was full time (coca cola distributor) and told my supervisor that I got a second job and I could only work certain hours/days since I would be working elsewhere (typical weekdays w/ OT occasionally).

There was a scheduling conflict.

There was plenty of shift times to accommodate the change and I was mostly working night shifts/weekends at the grocery store.

This was fine for the first week, until there was a schedule conflict on one of the shifts and I told my supervisor I was unable to work a shift due to my other job and I needed them to switch the shift with someone else.

Supervisor countered my request stating that they refused to work around another job’s schedule and was concerned I would be working “too much at a young age” so they told me I could not work both jobs.

It seemed like there was only one logical solution.

I quit on the spot with no notice given because I was already working two jobs and unable to work at both, according to her.

Her reaction was that I could absolutely NOT just quit and that I HAD to give two weeks notice.

My response: you told me I could not work both jobs and I have to work there next Tuesday when you scheduled me, so no, I do not think I will.

Obviously, OP would keep the full time job. The supervisor’s threat was ridiculous.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

Yup, this is exactly what happened!

Another person explains that 2 weeks notice is not required.

Getting it in writing is always a good idea.

It really is a double standard.

When you can’t be in two places at once, choose the better option.

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