Sainsbury's hours of work - can anyone explain....

TELLIT01

AskAsk said:

it could mean that you will be working 37 hours total a week and the shift could fall into those time periods, where it could start Thursday 9pm or Thursday 7am etc

that is to let the candidate know that they may be required to do Thursday evening shifts from 9pm or Thursday morning shifts from 7am etc????

as i don't think it is meant to be read literally as written because it makes no sense that way.

As you say, it makes no sense.  What would make even less sense is for a potential employer to leave people guessing about working hours.

Nifty_Purse

It is very badly written, but I suspect it might be to do with the applicant's availability? So it might be a 37 hour/week contract that has to include the shifts quoted and the other hours are negotiated. Unfortunately, too many people apply for food retail/supermarket jobs that don't want to work weekends or nights yet these are the shifts that are needed to be filled by retailers. 

General_Grant

Nifty_Purse said:

It is very badly written, but I suspect it might be to do with the applicant's availability? So it might be a 37 hour/week contract that has to include the shifts quoted and the other hours are negotiated. Unfortunately, too many people apply for food retail/supermarket jobs that don't want to work weekends or nights yet these are the shifts that are needed to be filled by retailers. 

Have you actually looked at the length of a shift?
That's almost a week long.

AskAsk

TELLIT01 said:

AskAsk said:

it could mean that you will be working 37 hours total a week and the shift could fall into those time periods, where it could start Thursday 9pm or Thursday 7am etc

that is to let the candidate know that they may be required to do Thursday evening shifts from 9pm or Thursday morning shifts from 7am etc????

as i don't think it is meant to be read literally as written because it makes no sense that way.

As you say, it makes no sense.  What would make even less sense is for a potential employer to leave people guessing about working hours.

it may be common description in the supermarket area so they may rely on the candidate having experience of this sector and will understand what it means.

i think the shifts will be agreed weekly rather than in your contract, and so this is the indicative shift start times to warn the candidate that they need to be flexible if they want to apply for this job.

[Deleted User]

TELLIT01 said:

Even if the ad should have read Fri 9pm - Sat 7am, etc it still makes no sense because the hours don't come anywhere close to 37 per week.  I suspect the advert has been edited at some point before being published and not proof read to ensure it is accurate.

This is the correct answer.  The position has the following hours:
Wednesday 22:00 to 07:00
Thursday 21:00 to 07:00
Friday 21:00 to 07:00
Saturday 21:00 to 07:00
with a 30 minute break each day, which equals 37 hours per week. The hours are listed as one long sentence so when copied onto the site I was originally looking at (which prompted my post) all the formatting got skewed.  Thanks for all the help guys!

General_Grant

Deleted_User said:

TELLIT01 said:

Even if the ad should have read Fri 9pm - Sat 7am, etc it still makes no sense because the hours don't come anywhere close to 37 per week.  I suspect the advert has been edited at some point before being published and not proof read to ensure it is accurate.

This is the correct answer.  The position has the following hours:
Wednesday 22:00 to 07:00
Thursday 21:00 to 07:00
Friday 21:00 to 07:00
Saturday 21:00 to 07:00
with a 30 minute break each day, which equals 37 hours per week. The hours are listed as one long sentence so when copied onto the site I was originally looking at (which prompted my post) all the formatting got skewed.  Thanks for all the help guys!

Amazing!
I've just visited the Sainsbury's jobs section of their website and the first job I looked at has 

Schedule

Thu 11:59pm - Thu 7:59am
Fri 11:59pm - Fri 7:59am
Total hours: 22.5

How do they suppose anyone is able to reach a sensible view of what they are actually offering?  How their formatting from one document to the website could be so mangled beats me.

Nifty_Purse

The point is they want people who are willing to work Thursday and Friday night shifts. You will be told exactly what your rota will be when you apply for the job or at interview.

Brie

I'm wondering if they missed off the Wed or Sun shift to make up the difference or if it's one of those "you'll be paid £18k per year for a 37 hour week" but missed the bit that actually it's less than that as you won't be working full time.

oh_really

Do you really want to work for an organisation that cant get a basic recruitment advert correct.

Imagine if their payroll is anything like this.

[Deleted User]

Nifty_Purse said:

The point is they want people who are willing to work Thursday and Friday night shifts. You will be told exactly what your rota will be when you apply for the job or at interview.

No. The job description in pdf format has the full hours listed. The issue is that this was not copied and pasted accurately to the website. Doesn't really inspire confidence as oh_really has already stated.