Chris Collins and a co-host explain why many employees actually want weekend shifts. Workers choose them to manage childcare, save money, or get weekdays free. The key is scheduling design: four-day tens or split shifts work better than consecutive days, and managers need to assess whether they have the capacity before expanding weekend hours.
So the, the bad side is that being open seven days a week or Sundays to. Can create a little bit of a scheduling issue with how many people you have for coverage. And one thing like that.
Most of the manager would say, nobody wants to work those days.
Right. What.
Which is Spanish for I don't want to work those days.
Yeah, they, It's. They always think it's them. Yeah. And. And what I would say is I don't know if I can talk about the good or not, but one of the things that I thought of immediately is when you're talking about families and maybe, you know, it's a split family or Brady Bunch family or something like that, where when it comes to workers, that might be the only couple of days a week that they could work. Let's say they want to work on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. It might be where that's the only time that they can actually come and work and make money and not have to pay for daycare where they're. They might be splitting something with a family member or something like that, so they get to keep more of their paycheck if they work through the weekend. So they're happy to do it. So just like sometimes it's easier for the customers to come to work during those times. There's people out there that it's easier for them to come to work during those times instead of the traditional Monday through Friday.
But overwhelmingly, when we talk about four tens or weekends or Sundays, there is a group of technicians and advisors that want to work those days that see it as a great opportunity. Opportunity that love having the other days off. And it really is in your presentation and you not poisoning the water by saying you don't want to do it, so you're gonna make it not work.
Yeah. And when you say you. And then you automatically go to nobody, not one person on the planet, just.
Like you can make Saturday not work by being 8 to 2 and having Larry, who couldn't ride his way out of a wet paper bag and two lube techs there. And you go, well, Saturdays aren't very profitable. Wow, you're. You're holding everything over until Monday is what you're doing.
And then you're not even trying during those times.
But we did have somebody at the last coaching meeting that one of the things they pointed out when they were talking about going to four tens is how many people wanted the split shift, the ship that they think nobody wants. They wanted it.
Yeah.
Because they wanted days off during the week.
Well, that. And then you never worked more than two days in a row on that shift, which I think is really smart. So like you're, you're working 10 hour days, but you only work, you work 20 on and then you're off for a day and then 20 more and then you're off for a couple days.
So I would contend if you're booked out three weeks, I would step back and I would look at what you're. Are you maximizing the capacity you have? So I personally, I probably wouldn't be open unless I was in a, you know, big city like this on Sundays before that I would maximize my capacity. What I could do Monday through Saturday. But there would be a point where I'd flip that. That. Yeah, if I'm booked out three weeks and those stalls are sitting there even, you know, you can get a lot of internals, PDF, there's a lot of stuff you can flip internal, you can do a lot of stuff.
Yeah. If you got 20 stalls and you, you book eight hours per stall, that's 160 hours in a day.
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