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In those cases they're supposed to hire the full staff and schedule them all. Scheduling only the bare minimum of people every day is a recent phenomenon.
Please read what I wrote.
Please elaborate
I literally explained it to you in the post you originally replied to.
A fully staffed property doesn't mean that they can cover unplanned absences without either someone else taking on extra hours or less work being done.
You don't hire people that you don't need, and I provided real world examples of why few people would ever want to be hired as a "just in case" staff member.
I didn't think it was that complicated. What needs to be further explained?
In the 1990s and 2000s, employers would just have more people show up than needed most days. We used to have "easy" days sometimes when there was more employees than work.
The whole calling people on their day off thing used to be rare, and it's absurd that saying no is now counted against you. What we consider fully staffed today has shifted considerably.
Yeah. Being stuck at work, nothing to do, just waiting for the time to clock out and go home.
It's fucking miserable. Those days suck. You get to think of all the shit you'd rather be doing than staring at walls or lazily scrubbing floors you already scrubbed twice already just to look busy. It's shitty for staff morale and it's even worse for budget efficiency. No one likes feeling unimportant or unneeded.
And besides, how the fuck you think a company is gonna survive if it's wasting money on unnecessary staff? Even with a redistribution of wealth from the worthless c-suite back down to people who work for a living, the company still has to be profitable in order to be able to pay those wages and salaries, in order to be able to increase those wages and salaries for cost of living and inflation and merit based raises.
You don't become profitable by wasting money.
They would have you do cleaning and stuff, and just do less cleaning on the busy days. Or they'd have you watch the mandatory annual safety videos.
It was their problem, not your problem.
I'm still bored at work occasionally to this day, but I'd rather that than have today's poor boundaries on my "days off". Your whole day can be shot de facto on call with no compensation.
Yeah I'm not saying that's better. I never defended that stupid shit. I'm pointing out there's a lot of Reddit bullshit flying around this post by people that have more than likely either never been in a proper management position or who were absolutely godawful at it when given the opportunity.
You think people are happy doing busywork? They're not. People fucking despise it.
Not necessarily busy work, it's just flexible when it needs to get done. I did read your post twice, and it is kinda normalizing godawful management practices.
I don't need to be fully engaged every moment I'm at work. I need to be paid for the time I'm asked to reserve for it.
You don't need to be fully engaged, but you also don't need to be staring at the clock bored out of your skull and thinking about how much better you could be using your time. Adding some redundant mopping or polishing to that boredom doesn't make it any better.
Like imagine we pay labor what it's actually worth rather than pennies on the dollar. Would you still want to sit on your ass to get your full 40 each week? Or would you rather only come in when there's actual work to be done?
Fuck's sake dude. You want to talk about promoting toxic management ideologies? The 40 hour work week is a fairly recent fabrication and there's oodles of evidence indicating that working more hours doesn't even necessarily lead to more production.