The team members of the stores are awesome and make Reflex very worthwhile! In store experiences were refreshing, fun, and rewarding.
The onboardng process was lovely (after I fought to have my application considered - I essentially received a rejection more or less during the creation of the profile, but kept the wheel squeaky and kept manifesting/talking to them because I needed the job. So that worked out.) On the day I finally got offered an emergency Flex (I guess you only get access to Flexes if they are in dire need at first - and I was informed that in order to SEE available Flexes (shifts) you need to have DONE some already.... This is flawed from the beginning. Still, once I finally got assignedy first shift they were throrough and supportive!
Fast-forward to the S.O.P. of "confirming your shift." This structure of this is very redundant, and laid out Ina way that forces you to fail if you have signed up for shifts early in the morning. I essentially got penalized for not confirming a shift 2 hours in advance from my scheduled time and I feel it's completely unreasonable. The system forced me to forfeit not one, not two, but about TEN future shifts that were assigned to me.
The process involves signed up for shifts days in advance if you see them, which I had done for ample shifts through the next few weeks for stability. Next, it has you confirm through a link or Reflex the night before. I later learned how particular it would become when the morning of the shift, I was "removed from my flex for lack of response/confirmation 2 hours prior to the shift."
I understand wanting to ensure for the store's sake and also the this app team that the worker is going to show up, but asking for a redundant amount of confirmations is unreasonable. The fact that they took 2 of these instances and used it as an invitation to then remove maybe ten or more shifts that I still had scheduled really shocked me. I expected better from the company's end, which didn't inform me of that protocol.
this app, please consider altering your expectations for shift confirmations as well as the negative remarks that your policy has left on myself as a Reflexer. My effort to show up to shifts and perform an outstanding job should be what counts towards my stats that allow me to view more shifts and/or KEEP the shifts assigned to me - not the near impossible system in place that offers no trust or efficiency.
Thank you.