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Good question! I know she makes out the schedule two weeks in advance. When I did the craft show a couple Saturdays ago with bff, I'd checked beforehand to see when I was scheduled to work that day. I saw the schedule hadn't been made up yet...the next morning, roughly 18 hours after I'd checked my schedule, I asked SM if I could have that day off and she told me no, she'd already made up the schedule and would "have to check with the regional manager about changing it*", which I took to mean "no, you can't have that day off".

* which I found odd since SM always brags about how it's HER store and she does what SHE wants, and as I mentioned in my original post, she told me this week that she and she alone is responsible for the schedule.

I learned from that experience...last week, when the store was empty, I told SM I had two schedule requests. First, I told her I was fine with working on November 5 but it had to be either the regular 5 hour morning shift or the 4 or 5 hour evening shift, not some weird 10:00-5:00 thing, because that is, of course, Election Day and Dad and I (and Mom, Dad and I when Mom was still alive) always go together to vote and then go for a meal afterwards. When I was at the bindery, it was vote after (my) work and then dinner; then at the factory after that job, when I worked second shift, it was early vote, then early lunch. I mentioned that I would prefer a morning shift...that week, I'm working three "odd" shifts (noon-7:15, which means no meal with Dad--on weekdays we ALWAYS sit down for a meal together, be it lunch or dinner). But I *am* working 9:00-3:00 on Election Day, so I will get home around 3:30, change, lounge around a bit and then go vote with Dad and go out to dinner somewhere.

Second, I told SM I needed December 6 off because that's another craft show bff and I will be selling at. She said that was fine--SM was in a remarkably good mood, so we must've had a profitable day--but I won't believe it until late November when the schedule for the first week of December is out.

Incidentally, when I came in to work after the first craft show, I was talking to the woman who'd worked the morning shift and she told me she would've gladly worked the entire day and I should've called her <facepalm> I didn't know that was a thing we could do...

I thought about that frequently during our stretch of 90+ degree days this summer and wondered how my fellow co-workers were faring. As for the free clothes...see my reply to Sparky for a wardrobe update <g>.

Thank you, my dear! I'm undecided if I think it would be totally annoying or kind of fun to work through the winter holidays. I'm guessing annoying since SM is usually more tense than a guitar string on a GOOD day, and I'm sure the stress of the holidays are going to ramp up her tension to about 1000.