Rather than "we're short staffed tonight," maybe try "Hey, want to pick up a shift tonight?" The passive aggressive tone kills me lol

Nothing wrong with asking someone if they want to work, but you've gotta be ok if they say no when they're not scheduled

You know what's going to be asked next, so here's the response:

"Sorry homie, I've been drinking"

At my wife's union job, if they are understaffed, they send a text blast needing more folks.

And here's where it gets awesome. They bid. Sometimes it's a flat extra $100-500. Other times, it's DOUBLE your hour wage.

Unions are pretty awesome.

At work, I don’t appreciate implications. It leads to mistakes and misunderstandings. Bad for business.

The … always gets me

It really bugs me that they spell good luck as a single word.

Youre a manager. manage to get your ass in there

✏️ downvoted by a manager apparently

Or you could just not reply.

"Holy cow, well, good thing you're a manager! Manage it."

The proper thought to have when an employer says they're short staffed is "Why didn't you hire enough people?" not "Gee, I should chip in!"

we're short staffed

Sucks to be you. (Unless I really like you.)

Lucky for me I'm too poor to have a phone number anymore!

I was a retail manager when my mom told me she had cancer I said “I don’t know what to say… except… you’re still coming in tho right “

This one time I quit my job as a dishwasher by writing a note saying a family member had been raped and I needed to sort my life out. I don't know why I did that, but my God do I wanna smack my past self. I was a weird fucker. Broken too. But then again, I was the psycho dishwasher. Miracle dishwasher, sure, I got everything caught up from earlier in the day by 6pm no matter what. I'm a hard fucking worker. I had to be to survive my father. Major complexes in my psyche. But y'know, I bust my ass when I do things, and I had been contacted by the CIA pretending to be God on an acid trip, so I was consumed by the need to complete my mission, and that is how I became the 48th and 50th president of the United States. Fuck low level jobs, fucking scabootle this societal pyramid shit, bro. Ascend.