Just a heads up, I started Swing shift again today so my posting may be coming at odd hours.
It’s a fucked up deal. They split up us 3 guys on Dayshift because the off shift supervisors have been whining for over a year about not having anyone from maintenance on their shifts. So now there is one guy on each shift.
Everything that was getting done on Dayshift because we could gang fuck it is not going to get done.
We shall see how long it takes for them to figure out that they need to hire more Millwrights.
In the mean time, this is going to work for me.
I worked Swing for almost 10 years before I started at this place. I fucking HATE getting up at 5:30 in the morning. I ain’t a morning person. So now I go in at 1:00 PM so I can sleep in and get 0ff at 9:30., home by 10.
Bonus, by 5:00, 85% of the work force is gone, including all the bosses.
So hopefully this will be a quiet deal for me.
There is an hour and a half overlap so if there is something that takes 2 guys, I can help out my Dayshift buddy.
The Graveyard guy got real fucked. He starts at 3:00 AM and works until 11:30.
I never heard of such a fucked up shift.
This is going to be interesting.
He starts at 3:00 AM and works until 11:30.
that’s some fuked up shit
Heh… our plant runs 24/7 and we do rotating shifts. Day shift kinda sucks with all the chiefs, afternoon shift is awesome for sleeping in and getting errands run, midnights suck just for the transition.
Depending on the production schedule and the area of the plant, we run 5 different 24/7 schedules.
Well sh!t
I hated night shift. I was the night shift supervisor and I would be required to go to the 8 am meetings after working 6 pm to 6 am.
I honestly couldn’t tell you how many times my hours have gotten changed up over the years . I did almost every one ,but They offered me a screwed up shift starting at 3:00AM to 11:30 and I respectfully declined . I’m doing second shift maintenance now working 4 ten hour days and I can come in on Fridays if I want to. That is not so bad, the suits all split around five and things calm down a bit .
When I worked 24×7 we would rotate 3 months on days then 3 months on swings and 3 months on nights. The days were 7A to 4P (1 hr lunch), Swings 3P to 12M (1 hr lunch), Nights 11P to 8A (1 hr lunch). This was back in the 80s and for a 10 year period before I was moved to another part of the company.
We worked a rotating night shift until I volunteered to take it for myself. I loved it!
The trick is don’t go to bed as soon as you get off. You don’t do that when working day shift, so why when on another shift? Working a mid shift makes it even easier.
As for the hours you’ll post, I usually get here mid-late morning. That won’t change. You do you and we’ll catch up when we can.
The Graveyard guy got real fucked. He starts at 3:00 AM and works until 11:30.
The infamous “blended coverage” position.
And you’re right, he got fucked.
Good onya brother Phil, hope you enjoy that shit.
Video was some funny shit right thar.
Hoo boy. Yeah, three shifts is a bear for one of them and sometimes 2 of 3.
I did 6PM to 2 AM for a three month stretch as a production/assembly technician back in the early 70’s, let me tall you, the quality of that shift never matched that of the day shift. Then again, it’s a young man’s game, no way in hell I would try that today.
Hope this works out for you and that “the managment” wakes up and hires a few more before it destroys their entire millwright workforce.
I had a law enforcement support job where the hours changed every three months. 7a-3p, 3p-11p, and 11p -7p and days off changed once a month. It was rough changing time every three months and rougher changing days. . I liked 3-11 best. The 11-7 shift got pretty wild on full moons and Navy Air Station payday.
I had another job with the Federal Government that was 4P-0230A Tuesday-Friday. That was the best shift I ever worked.
I started with F5 and immediately got assigned the 5A – 2P morning shift. After 5 years of that I asked the bossman for a more reasonable one, so got the 7A-4P shift until I retired after 11 years.
Now, my job was not as physically hard as y’all had, but you had to be mentally sharp when you came online at 5 AM. It’s pretty difficult at first, because I caught all the crap that Europe put off so they could push it on the North American guys. Me. Untill the 7A shift trickled in.
Not physically demanding, but mentally tough because *I* was the SME (Subject Matter Expert) for our products. VERY demanding. I was glad to retire…
When I worked in the oilfield forty-odd years ago, there were no shifts. Guys working the rigs generally had 7 days on and 7 days off but the rest of us had no such luxury. For us it was balls to the walls 24/7, we never close, 24-hours, 36-hours, 48-hours straight, however many hours you could stand, no days off unless you had a funeral of a very close family member to go to, dead cousins didn’t hardly count. You had to quit to get a day off. It was insane.
Then that particular oil boom quit, like somebody somewhere flipped a switch, and it was zero hours 24/7 we never open. Gone but not fergot.
Texas Monthly magazine had a cover with Jett Rink standing in front of the mansion in the movie Giant, all dilapidated and falling down, with the caption “so long, it was nice while it lasted.” I have it framed and hanging on the wall as a reminder of all those crazy days.