Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Turning back time or, Is it getting hot?
My pea brain | 11/09/2014 | outofsalt

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”.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: daylightlosingtime; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-32 last
To: Nuc 1.1; outofsalt

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!


21 posted on 11/09/2014 9:33:31 AM PST by Don W (To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: dainbramaged; dynoman

See my #21


22 posted on 11/09/2014 9:34:20 AM PST by Don W (To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Don W

Your post somehow turned me OFF..;)


23 posted on 11/09/2014 9:38:31 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: outofsalt

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.


24 posted on 11/09/2014 9:58:00 AM PST by Don W (To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Don W

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.


25 posted on 11/09/2014 10:07:48 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Don W

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.


26 posted on 11/09/2014 10:36:39 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: dainbramaged

Those were eight hour days right? We worked an eight hour, three shift per day schedule for a while before the current 12hr schedule.


27 posted on 11/09/2014 10:38:54 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: dynoman

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 >


28 posted on 11/09/2014 10:41:32 AM PST by Don W (To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: dynoman

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.


29 posted on 11/09/2014 11:16:28 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: outofsalt

bttt!


30 posted on 11/09/2014 12:45:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Thank you. Your tag line succinctly expresses my post.
I was aiming for a little of Alynski ridicule on top


31 posted on 11/09/2014 1:09:35 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Don W

Good rotating shift! I have noticed I tend to spend more if I have too much time off. ;D)


32 posted on 11/09/2014 3:35:48 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-32 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson