At the Fantastic General Store, we sometimes face cuts in the number of hours we are assigned to work. I understand in some cases. All stores go through slow periods. The evil warlord sometimes feels the need to invade another nation, and takes his troops with him. This means the stores at both his capital, and the capital of the invaded nation, face a shrinking number of customers. Sometimes Sleeping Beauty’s court needs to take a nap for a couple of days, as being asleep for years does a number on people’s circadian rhythm. So, the customers there are busy sleeping rather than shopping. But cutting hours also sometimes results in a lack of employees available to help customers. Workloads can also pile up, both for employees and management. Then there is the fact that if hours are cut too much, employees have to get a second job, or even quit entirely to work somewhere where they get more hours. In my opinion, hour cuts should only be used sparingly, not as a way to get budgets under control. If hours have to be continuously cut, the problem isn’t too many manpower hours, it’s something else.