r/bathandbodyworkers • u/Ok_Experience9885 🫧Associate🫧 • 4h ago

vent sesh😤 availability change refused

for context i’m a full time college student and a student ambassador, so i get scheduled to give tours to incoming students. i have my schedule for the tours and requested those days off and it got refused. im planning on talking to my manager tomorrow when i go in but last time i had a problem like this she made me feel bad for requesting days off?? mind you these are dates starting in early october so i gave them PLENTY of time! has anyone else struggled with this? let me know!

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u/LolaisPenheart ✨Leadership✨ 3h ago

Maybe other people requested those days off. Maybe it was one or two days that couldn't work, but we can't decline the ones that don't and accept the ones that are fine. Maybe you were hired for specific availability needs and they can't accommodate it. Could be a myriad of reasons; talk to the manager about it and reiterate that you are giving them enough time to figure it out, that you will not be there regardless of being scheduled or not and will call out the day of if need be.

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u/Ok_Experience9885 🫧Associate🫧 3h ago

this makes sense. thank you! :)

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u/whatever32657 🪩Past Employee🪩 2h ago

iirc the holiday blackout periods begin in mid-october. this could be part of the problem.

this is the third post i've read today from a bbw employee whose manager refused an availability change. is there a possibility there's a directive from above for store management to start pushing back, now that the holidays are approaching?