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[–] Naloxone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m as pro-labor as they come - at my workplace, you have vacation time, personal time, sick time, and comp time banks, and some people choose to swap shifts in order to avoid using this time or in order to get time off after they’ve used all of their time off. There are reasons you might ask for coverage instead of offloading it to the manager!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not covering a shift. That's trading shifts.

[–] Naloxone 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, but you’re still asking someone to cover your shift in return for you covering theirs. In most of these cases it’s a more junior employee who works nights and/or weekends asking a more senior employee to cover those less desirable shifts.