omg 12 hour shift work sucks

[JohnCU]

how do you do it? i'm doing it for a month and a half for a refuel outage, i can't imagine doing it year round.

 

[PrinceofWands]

I worked 3 12's for a while. Absolutely LOVED it. Had three days with basically nothing but work, but then 4 days off. And thanks to differential I made the same as a 40hour employee.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
I worked 3 12's for a while. Absolutely LOVED it. Had three days with basically nothing but work, but then 4 days off. And thanks to differential I made the same as a 40hour employee.

i'm working 5 12's, 1 off, repeat

 

[rasczak]

i used to work 5 16's for 2 1/2 years straight

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
I worked 3 12's for a while. Absolutely LOVED it. Had three days with basically nothing but work, but then 4 days off. And thanks to differential I made the same as a 40hour employee.

i'm working 5 12's, 1 off, repeat

Ahhhh, gotcha. Yeah, that gets long. I worked 16 1/2 hour shifts every day (as in no days off) for five weeks when I started working security at the hospital. That was fun. 8-(

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: rasczak
i used to work 5 16's for 2 1/2 years straight

:shocked: how?

 

[MartyMcFly3]

I do it all the time. No big deal for me.

2 Week Cycle as follows...
Long Week: M/T/F/Sat/Sun = 60 hours
Short Week: W/Th = 24 hours

Total: 84 hours. We can use those 4 hours to take off early or come in late. Usually they are banked so people can take off an entire shift.

 

[BrownTown]

Yeah, the logistics are mind boggling there, if you assume you need 8 hours of sleep to function then your already at a sleep defecit during the week even if all you do is drive stright home and go to sleep. I litterally could not phyically function after 5 days of like 6 hours sleep, I need at least 8 to maintain my sanity.

EDIT: also, they SAY your doing it for a month and a half but then they will get 15 days behind and it will be 2 months instead .

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
Yeah, the logistics are mind boggling there, if you assume you need 8 hours of sleep to function then your already at a sleep defecit during the week even if all you do is drive stright home and go to sleep. I litterally could not phyically function after 5 days of like 6 hours sleep, I need at least 8 to maintain my sanity.

I'm getting more like that as I age, but I still only average 5-6 hours a night. More than full time school, multiple jobs, etc. I spent 3 years average 3-5 5 days a week, and then sleeping 10+ hours on the weekends.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I'd probably try a three day, 13.33 hour shift week, if I had the option. Not sure if I'd like it, but it seems like having 4 days off each week would be nice. Of course, it would also suck working from 8am to 10:20pm (with lunch).

 

[Schfifty Five]

I've been working 12 hr shifts for over 1.5 years now. Started on days 7am - 7pm for either 3 or 4 days of the week and I got either 3 or 4 days off, alternated.

About 1.5 months ago I was put on night shift 7pm-7am. IT BLOWS. The only good thing is I get an immediate 20% more pay for shift differential, but still...my days/sleeping/eating are all messed up now.

 

[SirPorl]

I used to work a 12 hour swing schedule. Was nice in that I only worked 14 days a month and got 7 days off in a row a month. That saying, my body couldn't handle the short turn around of "hell" week.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I've never done 3 12s, but have done 4 10s and loved it. 3 day weekend EVERY weekend, 4 day weekends when there was a holiday. I almost cried when we went back to traditional 8 hour days 5 days a week. I'd sign up for 3 12s or 3 13s in a heartbeat. Having 4 days off every week would rock.

 

[Mo0o]

medical residencies use to have 120 work weeks. Now its back down to 80 even a lot of programs subtley insist on you staying for more

 

[Parasitic]

I'm a graduate student, I pretty much work that kind of shift, sometimes more.

 

[Chaotic42]

My friend's husband is a cop and he works 5am-5pm for two weeks, then 5pm-5am for two weeks, then he switches back. She says he loves it, I say he fscking nuts.

 

[blurredvision]

The best schedule I ever worked was when I did tech support for HP. 8am-6:30pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, off on Wednesday and the entire weekend. I always had a day off right around the corner. But that was just 40 hours a week.

At my last job back in 2006, there was a period of 3 weeks where I put in an average of 70 hours a week, but that's as tough as I've ever had it in my short life.

 

[fstime]

I know someone who works from 2:45 AM - 4:30 PM (that includes a 2:30 hour commute) with Sat and Tue off for 2 years straight.

 

[BoomerD]

I used to work 7-12's for months on end in refinery shutdowns...gets old pretty quick, but the money sure builds up...

The last job I had, (maritime construction) our normal shift was 10 hour days, but 12's and 14's were pretty common.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
I worked 3 12's for a while. Absolutely LOVED it. Had three days with basically nothing but work, but then 4 days off. And thanks to differential I made the same as a 40hour employee.

i'm working 5 12's, 1 off, repeat

You operate on a 6 day week?

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: JohnCU

Originally posted by: rasczak
i used to work 5 16's for 2 1/2 years straight

:shocked: how?

This is a bit misleading sorry,

start of day,

got to work as computer support tech/lab tech for school m-f 7am-330pm

from 4-1230am work as helpdesk analyst for huge navy/marine network.

That sucked ass hardcore. I also lost a lot of valuable quality time with my daughter who was 1 month old when I started that crap.

I actually also worked weird shifts as a processor on a trawler up in alaska. 18 hours on 6 off, 7 days a week. I did that for 3 seasons. hated that too but the experience of being up in alaska more than made up for it.

 

[PolymerTim]

Originally posted by: Parasitic
I'm a graduate student, I pretty much work that kind of shift, sometimes more.

I'm right there with ya. It was fine for the first few years only doing about 5*10 plus an occasional weekend. Now, in my last 6 months, it has escalated to 6*12. The funny thing is, these aren't hours I'm told to work, but rather the hours I "choose" to work to try to get most of my work done.

 

[Eeezee]

I did 10AM-midnight today.

 

[imported_Devine]

6 12's and only 6hrs on sunday if we were lucky for 4 months. Did that again but actually got a full day off the second time. Normally worked more than 12 though

 

[JJChicken]

I'm coasting on 9-7s weekdays only.