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My place of employment isn't scheduling me to work. Instead they are calling me in the day of that they would like me to work. This causes me a lot of anxiety.

Do you think I should say something, or is this something I just have to deal with until I can find a different job?

This reminds me of that time I used to work in Universal Studios Hollywood. You have to call in the morning for the day to see if they could use you. Had to bear with it a few months till I got another job scheduling nurses to work in hospitals. Very frustrating.

If there is a good reason for their irregular method, then you are stuck with it until you can find another job. If there is no good reason, just custom for this method of scheduling their employees, then do talk to them about it. Just tell them it is very unsettling to not know from one day to the next if you will have to come in or not, so could they please put you on some kind of a schedule.

I can see that if the work load varies from one day to the next, they won't want to have people there on slow days, so they won't have to pay the employees for those days. But it may make more sense, in that case to have shorter work days across the board to spread the work out more evenly, so you can all have a more stable work schedule. Just in case the work should start to pile up towards the end of the week, the bosses could have a policy that Fridays, and maybe Thursdays you would all have to be available to work a full day, to keep too much work from being held over the weekend.

Hope things work out for you.

Without knowing your field of employment there's not much I can say.

Some jobs do have on-call components and that is just an accepted part of the job field.

Can we know your field of employment?

I work in a convenience store as a cashier. Not something I enjoy but I've been doing this for 4 years now and I am fast on the register.

When I was hired, they told me if I wanted to go back to school they would work around my school schedule. I got the impression that they were encouraging me to go back.

So I was hired, and then a week later I enrolled at a school. I've been taking night classes because this way I will only have to travel to the school once a week for each class. So that's 3 times a week. If I were to take day classes, I would be there 4 days a week/all day.

They're claiming that they can't work around my class schedule because there are 5 other employees who are also in school.

So the real problem is being able to fit me in, but they have also told me that "my speed of service is slow" ...which is a total lie. I am faster than the computer when it comes to the register. I will admit though, I am slow with some other tasks due to the inability to find things I need because I am only there once or twice a week and they are constantly moving things to different locations.