She's out to get us, really.

We have a new scheduler at work now. She's apparently a bitter, mean woman at heart.

You tell her what you'd like for a schedule - and she takes your preferences, and smiles and nods. Then, she schedules you for the exact opposite.

For example, after she apologized to me for scheduling me for so many opening shifts, I told her to not worry about it, I like the opening shift. So, what do I get for the last two weeks?

Close, close, off, midshift, open, open, off, open, open, close, midshift, open, off, off. It's like, the yo-yo schedule of doom.

Apparently, I'm not the only one she's doing this to, either. One person reports that she told her she didn't care whether people liked there schedules, and she didn't care what their preferences are. This makes me wonder if the poor woman is already a burn-out case after being on the job for only what, two months? Regardless, she's made quite a few people unhappy.

On the plus side, my DH comes back from vacation this week, and suddenly I have a steady schedule again. I open, form Monday through Friday, with the weekend off. I find this very weird, actually; I'm not used to having the weekends off, so it kind of wigs me out.

Still, if my DH coming back form vacation is what gives me a steady work schedule, she might not be allowed to spend two weeks in Hawaii anymore!

....

She'd better come back with a tan.