[RL] My understanding of how redundancy works is that, as with a lot of things, it's based on our last 12 weeks of work at the shop.

I've had a couple of long weeks recently, but boss has been out of town. And they would have just squeaked in. But over 12 weeks, it wouldn't have averaged out to that much more.

For the record, I'm on a 16 hour a week contract. Which means that's all they really have to give me.

Schedules for December just went up.

Y'all. I'm going to be so fucking exhausted. Like, more than normal at Christmas.

My two easy weeks are 28 hours.

The others are hovering around 33-34 hours.

Which is a lot for me.

The good news is that, while I'm working three Saturdays (currently), none of them are full days so I get a bit of a break.

Ah. Fuck. Explanation has been found.

Oof

So. Good news is that the company is already advertising for a shop assistant for the other shop. Since they're losing both store leader and a shop assistant, I would have been surprised if they went a month and a half with only 3 people.

Which means it will be harder to make one of us move over there.

Okay. realized at supper that I hadn't explained what the explanation was.

Anyway. I'd texted main coworker to say that the 'keep costs down for the company' was obviously bullshit.

Eventual reply is, "Has Store Leader talked to you?"

I'm like, "No." Then she's like, "Has he texted you?"

Me immediately going to the worst case scenario and was like, "No. Have they finally told him what's going on? Do I have to go to the shop?"

Which is about the time that I get the text message from him. Saying that he'd turned in his resignation because he'd been offered a better job elsewhere. Not great for us, no, but happy for him.

And the other store is already losing another member of staff to retirement.

So I was immediately like, "Shit. They're going to try to fuck the two of us over on redundancy" because if they offer us a job and we say no without a good reason, they can deny us the redundancy.

(Husband is not sure that's actually legal, but I'm going to ask for a copy of my contract to see what it says there.)

But. Coworker texted me while we were out to supper. The text was a screenshot of a job posting on Indeed for a shop assistant job at the other store.

Which makes it FAR more unlikely that they'll try to force one of us over there, because that shop does need a store leader and that will need to be posted as well, more than likely.