What It Means To Have To Work ‘Anytime Of The Day, Any Day Of The Week’
These irregular hours are particularly common in certain jobs and industries, often ones that look like Thornswood’s job at target. About 15 percent of people who hold sales jobs have changing schedules, and they’re also common in retail, where it impacts 27 percent of employees. One survey focused just on retail workers in New York City found that 40 percent didn’t have a set minimum of hours they worked week to week and a quarter was scheduled for on-call shifts.
It is also poor workers who suffer the most. “By income level, the lowest income workers face the most irregular work schedules,” the report notes. Those who make less than $22,500 a year are more likely to have erratic schedules than any of those in the income brackets above them.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, erratic and unpredictable scheduling leads to work/family conflict. Less than 11 percent of those who have regular schedules say they often experience work/family balance issues, but more than a quarter of those with irregular or on-call shifts and about 20 percent of people with rotating or split shifts do. On the other hand, more than a quarter of people with regular schedules say they’ve never experienced a conflict.
Thornswood’s previous schedule made it difficult for her just to get sleep, having to wake up 5 a.m. one morning and at noon the next. “I feel like because I was so exhausted, I just wasn’t functioning as well,” she said. “I wasn’t getting as much work done, I was confused, I would mess things up a lot.”
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/04/09/3644590/unpredictable-scheduling/
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How can you plan for child care if you don't have a work schedule? How do you make appointments, go to the grocery store, if you're constantly available for work?
Who are the shitholes who think of these things? Greedy, greedy fucks. 
