Should I Start Looking For A New Job?

[abbeylee90]

Basically my hours have been cut in selco to 24 hours for 4 weeks as I am not grasping the products with it becoming summer it is getting busy and they can't have another cashier with me so if I don't grasp within 4 weeks won't be able to have me as a cashier. I am very upset as I enjoy it.

[abbeylee90]

Nope nothing at all

[newmodarmy]

Maybe the physic (sic) recognised you from answerbank.

[abbeylee90]

How would they there's no pics

[jourdain2]

abbey, maybe the psychic was right - but s/he was working on your current thinking of studying and working hard to succeed in this job.  So you need to continue - you can't bank on  good things happening, unless you it work at it.

Children are another issue and not to be dealt with here.  Keeping a full-time job is the important bit at the moment.

[Karamia]

Are you doing 1 day a week for 4 weeks? Or 3 days a week for 4 weeks? 

[newmodarmy]

Sorry abbey,  I was just being flippant.... but if I worked in Cardiff and you came to see me I reckon I'd have a pretty good idea it was you from your outfits and your age/general appearance (alll you've done is smudged out your face on some pics).

But the thread should just be about your hours/work not about psychics or having children

[abbeylee90]

I'm doing 3 days 

[renegadefm]

Where I work, they are not allowed to cut your hours, until a 3 month run down starts, it's in the productivity agreement. 

 

So basically if they announced an alteration in working hours which would start on March 1st. Your actual loss in money would not take affect until June 1st.

 

It very rarely happens because it's just hassle for the company because by the quite period starts, it can suddenly become busy again, so because of the 3 month run down it's not worth messing about with. 

 

[newmodarmy]

If abbey's on a week's notice they should have given one week minimum; if she's on 4 weeks notice then she should have been given 4 weeks notice of the change to her hours

[abbeylee90]

I haven't signed my contract 

[newmodarmy]

You've been working to it so it applies whether you signed it or not

[Maydup]

I think Abbey is within her probation period and as far as I understand, has been given 4 weeks to prove herself otherwise hours will be dropped and given to a more competent cashier.

[abbeylee90]

4 weeks to know the top 100 products. I'm not sure I'm confident 

[Hazlinny]

Abbey, you have to be confident to succeed ... it's not a case of not being sure.

[THECORBYLOON]

That's twenty-five a week, five a day and go over the twenty-five at the weekend.

Get images of the products and whatever info you need to know and practise repeating those details through the working day, when you have the time.

You need to have it sorted so forget about going out over the coming weeks.

[wolf63]

Do you have to remember what the products do?  Which product is best for a task?

If you apply for a job in a hardware store I would think that a basic knowledge of DIY would be needed at the very least.

Maybe a supermarket would suit you more.

 

[abbeylee90]

I already got pre booked stuff for this week.

Don't have to know all of them just best sellers.

Never worked in a place before where there's products not coded.

[Neveracrossword]

Abbey, you knew about the codes thing months ago, and you must have been aware of it every day while you were working. You've still got a couple of weeks to get yourself up to the necessary standard - getting to keep the job (as it is, not part-time cleaning) should surely be enough of an incentive? 

[newmodarmy]

And you can practise using a tape measure at home- ask your family to help you measure things and convert between cm and mm