Let’s just say that we were all employed there. Briefly. Turnover was horrendous because of the on call not on call on call policy. We were hired with an expectation of 40-50hr work week and were paid base accordingly. Then once hired we found out that management ‘expected’ us to work 70hr+. Marriages and famlies take a hit with those hours. And the non on call bonus pay didn’t make it worth it. At all.
It became a choice of marriage or job. I chose the marriage. Had I known I would get paid non-call pay and work 70+hrs a week I’d have taken the job just across the street (Avenue of the Americas) that paid REAL on call money for on call time. As it was, ‘we’ decided when I was looking for work that ‘he’ would be the 70+hr guy and I would be the ‘stay at home regular job’ wife. We once went 6 whole weeks w/o seeing each other aside from a sleeping body. Yes, I know people do that all the time. We were newlyweds and were NOT expecting that however.
There was a Carol Burnett Tim Conway skit. They were a couple working alternate shifts. He gets home and she gets up and they move through an intricate choreographed bit with no dialog. Finally, she leaves and he settles down to sleep. He’s been laying down for a minute when the door opens, she pokes her nose in and says the first line of dialog. “Oh, by the way, I’m pregnant.” He considers this for a long beat and then says, “No way.” It was hysterical.