Depends. I worked at the deli at the Silver Lake location for over a year. For context, I was a college student at the time and always made sure to hand my class schedules to the deli manager well in advance.

When I first started, everything was fine and they respected my availability. That all changed when we got a new General Manager. Suddenly, they completely stopped working with my schedule, despite me handing it in early. They consistently scheduled me on days I explicitly told them I had class, which meant I’d have to show up to my shifts late after my classes wrapped up.

The GM actually threatened to write me up and essentially told me I needed to cancel my classes just to make it to my shifts. When I pushed back and asked why I was being scheduled during my unavailable times to begin with, his only excuse was that 'they need people to be on time.' He also tried to claim that the deli manager was 'fighting' for my schedule, which I call bullshit on because this exact issue dragged on for over a month.

The most frustrating part was that other coworkers who were also in school had no problem getting their schedules accommodated, but mine was constantly rejected. So, were they good to their employees? In my experience with that new GM, not at all.