I was quoted 25hrs as 'normal' pt-fresh associate but worked more than that before they flooded the building with new hires and shifts dried up. We were told we could do more, though not disclosed how much, only that if we worked crazy hours like 80+ a week someone would talk to us but perhaps they don't bother and limit you, it isn't hard to do with scripts.

I actually could signup for more than 25hrs a week if I was willing to work overnight/evenings with no shift differential, no benefits, etc that everyone else who isn't a fresh gets but I won't.

My own experience is that there may be some tailoring into allowing certain or specific fresh employees to work shifts that others don't "see" or are delayed. It is pure speculation on my part but more than once, before the building was flooded with new hires, I'd log into the fresh shift site and within 5-10minutes new shifts would pop up I could snatch, some stuck around for days because I never claimed them. After those occurances ended there were shifts that sat unclaimed by the hundreds of new employees I could grab if I wanted, not just overnight/evenings either.

I'd suggest if you don't want to deal with limited hours, assuming you are not seeing extra hours to grab like me, you look for another job or transfer to a FT shift in another building unless you truly believe your FC, direct managers and the building managers you've likely never seen care about you. I've come to the conclusion that they don't care about me or the ones who do have no say in my employment status/shifts when the building keeps hiring more and more people for me to 'fight' for shifts.