Towards the end of each quarter, the management team will ask for availability information from each student Consultant to create the next quarter’s work schedule. Every consultant will work at least 4 shifts per quarter unless they acquire permission from the management team to work fewer or additional shifts. The schedule and available shifts can be found on Humanity in the Shift Planning < Schedule Overview tab.

Consultants may NOT work more than 6 shifts during any week. If you have 6 sub shifts in a week, you may not pick up any additional sub shifts. Doing so will have a negative impact on your performance record. The reason for this is that students are limited to working 20 hours a week on campus. Six shifts puts you at 18 hours and working any more sub shifts would be a violation of UCSC policy. 

Consultants may NOT work 6 or more continuous hours. This means when picking up sub shifts, you must be careful that you won’t be working more than 5.75 continuous hours, as well as ensuring you do not work over 20 hours in a week or more than 6 shifts in a week. This is because working over 5.75 continuous hours will require that you take a 30-minute unpaid break, during which the computer lab would be unstaffed, and the labs and libraries are not equipped for this.

Schedules are set for the entire quarter. Priority for creating a consultant’s schedule can be determined by performance. Those with good performance are more likely to get the shifts they request. If a consultant has performance issues (such as multiple late timesheets, late to shift, not following procedure etc.), the management can take shifts away.

On a related note, shift change requests based on lab location alone will not be considered unless your shift interferes with your commute to/from a class.