Posted on 11/09/2014 6:55:30 AM PST by outofsalt
Having been buoyed by the election results this year, I did not suffer my usual depression of adjusting the clocks back to daylight standard time as deeply as usual. It seems some folks are very sensitive to this biannual experiment with time. Some suffer in the spring as we, “spring forward” and others, like me, have a hard time adjusting to the early darkness of, “falling back”.
I like the way my shifts work. It’s a nine week rotation of 12 hour shifts for 37.5 hours average per week that goes as follows:
D D D 7.5STAT OFF OFF OFF
OFF N N N OFF OFF OFF OFF
N N N N OFF OFF OFF
OFF D D D D OFF OFF
OFF OFF D D D STAT7.5 OFF
OFF OFF N N N N OFF
OFF OFF OFF N N N OFF
OFF OFF OFF D D D OFF
OFF OFF OFF D D D OFF
It works quite well, as your body gets a chance to adapt to the night shifts, and it seems you’re never there, though the time spent is the same as any poor office schlub who has to commute with the rest of the lemmings.
An additional bonus is that if you plan it right, you can get 11 consecutive days off and take only 3 shifts as vacation!
See my #21
Your post somehow turned me OFF..;)
Like I said, it’s almost like you’re never there.
Funny anecdote: The union I’m forced to be a member of (closed shop jurisdiction) didn’t like our schedule, and tried to force us to go to an 8 hour reverse rotation (days, nights, afternoons). We flat out refused, so they tried to force a 4 on-4 off rotation that had us work 2 days 2 nights every block of shifts. We gave that a fair trial (2 months) but it was killing us as you never got any real rest, and then we told the union where to get off, even trying for decertification. THAT got their attention, and they “allowed” us to return to our preferred schedule.
Twits.
Early on I worked at a Jewish institution in a black part of town. We worked three 12’s, 6 off, three 12’s.
We also had all the federal holiays, the Christian holidays, the Jewish holidays and Martin Luther King day off, well before any one else did, without using any vacation. They had to do that to get anyone to work there as it was located in a nameless pit. I lasted two years.
Are you covering 24/7/365? We have five shifts, our week hours are 32, 36, 48, 36, 48. One shift is always on days, one is always on nights. One shift is on “relief week”, which is the week with four eight hour days. If another shift was on vacation the relief shift would cover. Most take their relief week as vacation which means you can be off for 14 days straight with 32hrs vacation.
Those were eight hour days right? We worked an eight hour, three shift per day schedule for a while before the current 12hr schedule.
Yes, there are 5 of us on that rotation to give 100% supervision year ‘round. 2 or sometimes 3 days a week there are 2 duty engineers so one or the other can go around the campus checking, inspecting or repairing mechanical spaces and equipment. The senior guy usually gets to “escape” the plant. < BG >
Eight hour shifts, yes - the plant ran 24/7/365 and holidays worked were double time and a half. Anything over 8 hours the employer was required to provide a meal (roach coach). United Steelworkers Union, IIRC. It was good money at the time, 11 or 12 bucks an hour.
bttt!
Thank you. Your tag line succinctly expresses my post.
I was aiming for a little of Alynski ridicule on top
Good rotating shift! I have noticed I tend to spend more if I have too much time off. ;D)
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