Show up for the boring shifts. That’s usually how people earn a say in the good ones.

Trust at work gets handed out for the hours nobody wants, because that is where it can be measured. Anybody looks reliable on a busy Saturday with the crew they like. A dead Tuesday morning with a wrecked stockroom tells a manager what you do when nobody is checking, and that is the information the good schedules are built from.

Take one shift this month you would normally dodge, and do the whole job, including the part nobody inspects. Learn one thing on it that the others skip. When the next schedule goes up, you will be asking from a different position.