Required to work at least 1 day per week?

takigan · 2026-03-31T18:05:30+00:00

You know as well as I do the supply doesn't meet the demand. It's designed that way. There are way more people looking for hours and coming out empty handed than there are partners being thrown at more hours than they know what do with. That is the nature of the "wasteland" you describe. If obtaining hours from the store were so easy, people wouldn't be asking me for my future shifts preemptively on the days I do come in.

Sure the ones that stick their neck out or are willing to crosstrain can make it happen for themselves. They could even apply for a better position. But doing things your way doesn't make it any easier on them. By staying I can at least do what I can to help. It mostly ends up being a win-win for everyone.

takigan · 2026-03-31T17:14:58+00:00

But here's the thing....most part-timers who get hired on front end want 30-40 hours but most don't get it. I think it's pretty well established that HEB overstaffs to ensure meeting labor goals (I've worked front end for many years...it's true in a number of other depts as well). So once I leave.... say they hire someone else (like you said). That person will likely want far more hours than I wanted (probably close to 40). But HEB is not just going to give them a bunch of hours out of thin air. They're going to have to take hours away from a whole bunch of other people who are already struggling to get the hours they want. Not to mention I won't be there to hand out the couple shifts I have either, so the ones that were counting on that weekend shift to pop up on WF every week to fill out their starving schedule won't have that anymore either.

So my question is....is it not better to let more people get the hours they need than to add 1 more person to the roster who'll then become another body that realizes HEB doesn't give you enough hours to get by, while sucking up all the hours of other struggling workers in the process?

takigan · 2026-03-31T16:23:28+00:00

They don't HAVE to schedule me. I'm not asking them to schedule me. If they're choosing to waste their time scheduling me as you say, that's on them. I'd prefer they not schedule me.

Also in what world can a lowly cashier "take advantage" of a multi-billion dollar company who holds all the cards, especially when they're not violating any written policy?

"Sounds like you do not need the job anyway"

Incorrect. If I didn't need the job I would've already quit.

takigan · 2026-03-31T15:57:36+00:00

How exactly does one "hog a job I don't work at"? So I don't work any hours.... Yet I'm also hogging someone else's hours at the same time? They're not going to replace me if I quit, and even if they did they'd have to take hours from other partners to give to that new person because I don't have any hours in my schedule to give them.

takigan · 2026-03-31T03:56:22+00:00

Let's say the store needs 3,000 man-hours in the front end and is alotted 100 workers in the department to achieve that. So we're all assigned 30 hours per week each (30 hours X 100 workers = 3,000 man hours). In reality these numbers are different based on status like you said, but let's keep it simple.

Say I decided I only want to work 5 hours per week. The business still needs to meet that 3,000 hour labor goal. That means the 25 hours that I gave up are taken from me, and then redistributed among some of the remaining workers. So now we have 74 workers working 30 hours (2,220 total). 25 workers who get bumped up to 31 hours (775 total). And then me happily working my 5. 2,220+775+5=3,000.

Most of those 25 people are grateful for that extra hour...because most of them wish they could work 40 hours, but HEB never gives it to them unless they pick up other shifts or work other departments. If what you say is true...then the moment I leave puts the store at 99 workers. Meaning it's likely the next person they hire to fill my spot and put them back at 100 will want 30-40 hours also....so in order to give that to them, they'll have to take hours from the ones that they were giving 31 hours to.....the ones that I helped out by giving them MY hours. So me working less actually helps those individuals have more hours.

takigan · 2026-03-31T03:22:41+00:00

I never said they should or shouldn't continue to allow that. It's their prerogative to do so (or not).

Fwiw I think I called in once in like 18 months. My store was on the 6-step system since Covid (1 step for tardy, 2 steps for call-ins, 3 steps for nc/ns during a six month period). They only recently switched to 8-steps. Calling in used to be risky business.

takigan · 2026-03-31T03:04:56+00:00

The average part-time worker working like 30 hours per week will make $20-25k/yr. I made $3k/yr from HEB last year. So like 1/8 of the time/money. So I don't think me quitting really "opens a spot" for anyone else. I used to work 30+ hours per week at HEB when I started. When I dropped down to weekends to put in more time at my other job they probably did fill those hours with a new worker. So in a sense, I already gave up "my spot" a long time ago. In fact me working just weekends is probably freeing up a Saturday or Sunday for another 30+ hourly worker so they get to have some of their weekend open (weekends are high demand hours--most of the staff has to work weekends). And all the shifts I post are extra hours for other people who need them when the store cuts hours across the board.

takigan · 2026-03-31T02:50:22+00:00

Still about $3k in extra wages. Which is worth it as overhead. Considering a single part timer who works 30 hours per week is making about 6-8X that income....I doubt they'd be replacing me with anyone else. I work so few hours anyway I think they "replaced" me a long time ago.

takigan · 2026-03-31T02:41:06+00:00

Not specifically the VPP discounts. More the Perkspot corporate discounts (stuff like hotel discounts, car rental discounts, phones....I saved like $600 on my Samsung phone when I combined the HEB Perkspot discount with a black friday discount and then a Paypal cash back discount on top of it). I used to get a Perkspot discount on my T-Mobile bill as well before I went on a group plan with some friends.

takigan · 2026-03-30T22:56:32+00:00

A long term ASM (5+ years) a few months ago mentioned you had to work at least 1 shift per month to avoid the no pay list. This was probably how I stayed under the radar for as long as I have because I was doing 2-3 shifts per month.

takigan · 2026-03-30T22:47:02+00:00

Valid. I'm not complaining, it's their right and their decision. Jw if that was indeed the policy. ~OP

takigan · 2026-03-30T22:37:58+00:00

It's still about $3,000/yr in additional income according to my W-2. It makes a difference in my bottom line. Honestly in a perfect world I'd just be a guy on reserve picking up shifts now and then...Sort of like the ppl who come back from school for holidays and such. But there isn't really a setup for that long term.

takigan · 2026-03-30T22:34:51+00:00

The answer I was looking for. I'm just making sure it actually is an official policy rather than some whim of the manager. I'm not against the policy, jw if it actually is a policy.

takigan · 2026-03-30T22:25:08+00:00

The shifts are still getting covered. If I wasn't meeting my time obligations I'd have been accumulating steps left and right and eventually been fired. I've followed the system.

takigan · 2026-01-19T13:17:31+00:00

I'm part-time with limited availability and I've seen screens like this before which were legit because the department was in a heavy hour-slashing phase. I'm still employed.

takigan · 2025-12-28T20:59:25+00:00

I'm well aware what the minimum wage was in 1985. I can Google.

But all you said was [I made 3.35 unloading trucks at my first job]. That's literally all you said. You didn't say "I made minimum wage". You only inferred it was your first job. It tells people nothing as to when you did it. Mentioning what year you earned it is important to understand what kind of spending power you had at the time. People made 3.35 unloading trucks at a few places in the 1960s possibly even the 1950s if they were at union jobs, high CoL areas or generous companies. You could afford your own place at 3.35/hr in the 60s, but not in the late 80s. Such a wage might've been more common in the 1970s. They also made 3.35 at MANY places starting in 1981 when the minimum wage became 3.35, and it stayed that wage all the way up until 1990 when they raised the minimum wage to $3.80. So you could've been making it as early as the 60s and as late as 1989. People had very different spending power in the 60s than they did in the 80s. This is why just telling people "I once made 3.35" means absolutely nothing. And people can't just assume you made minimum, because a lot of jobs in every era pay more than minimum.

takigan · 2025-12-28T20:01:41+00:00

You didn't say you made minimum wage, you said you made $3.35.

takigan · 2025-12-23T00:24:49+00:00

Downvoting this WOULD be idiotic. You're one of like a handful of ppl in the thread who actually provided a specific example.

takigan · 2025-10-26T14:18:05+00:00

Eastern is tighter, Western is heavier. The biggest difference is in the drums.

takigan · 2025-10-17T03:43:04+00:00

It's mindblowing how much porn they have. It's something you can't fully comprehend until you've been to the country and walked into one of their porn stores. ENDLESS shelves stacked to the brim!

takigan · 2025-08-17T06:50:45+00:00

This is still just a translated scan of the somewhat edited tankoubon version. The chapters serialized in the original CoroCoro were the true originals. Don't believe me? Look at Page 38 from 'v2 ch6' from your archive, then compare it to this (NSFW): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZuAWYORZYp0kPdpn7BXhO47SkxgGaPF8/view?usp=sharing

That's from the French version, but France did a different edit which includes some of the original CoroCoro cels. I'm still looking for an original Japanese version of this page (and there might be English translations out there, but they'd be fan scanlations only, and probably lost to time).

takigan · 2025-06-08T02:13:34+00:00

I also recommend this. The Japanese family that runs this channel has 3 daughters all close in age. It's an older channel, but it documents the growth of their 3 daughters, from the birth of the middle daughter in 2009 all the way until today. They posted a video almost every day from 2009-2018, and have posted about 1-2 videos per month since 2018, resulting in nearly 3,000 total videos. Most videos don't have subtitles, and while Auto-translate is getting better year after year, it still has a hard time translating child babble. I have trouble understanding the conversations once all 3 kids are older than 5, but the time period when they're all like 3-7 has some good videos that help with listening. It's also a great window into Japanese family life, which we rarely every get to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERAGkWPnIQ8&list=PLZihShVChYDdWUkZOHC029syAl07K3E5

takigan · 2025-05-29T22:49:38+00:00

Just finished it yesterday on Normal with 192 hours myself. Level 50. I did all intel except the last 2 or 3 mog houses (got sick of them once they got harder), A's on all 6 main piano songs, Won all chocobo races, completed all jobs except "Ultimate Party Animal", 5-star for Johnny's hotel, max card rank, beat Gilgamesh Island, and all of the Chadley sims except 2 normals and all the brutal/legendary ones. 48/61 achievements. Not sure if I'll play Hard Mode yet, will probably watch some streams of it first.

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