shift workers

[midden]

Here's a random one
What shift pattern and how has/does it effect social life?

[stevierst]

I do a 5 week Rota consisting of 3-5 shifts of earlies 0700-1500, lates 1400-2300, and nights 2200-0700.

I get 2 days off in between, and my social life is virtually none existent!

[mickvp]

dayshift here. 8-4.30 mon-thu, and 8-12:30 on a friday. weekends and working late are overtime.

Occasionally need to do a nightshift, but less than once every two months

[noggythenog]

Do you get annual leave though Stevie???, gotta say id hate that 3 shift pattern with only 2 days off as we all know the first day off doesnt count due to being a complete zombie.


I do 2 11 hour days - 0630 to 1730, after my second day i try to stay up as late as possible, usually til about midnight to 1am & then try to sleep in til lunch time next day because im then on 2 13 hour night shifts 1730 to 0630.then 4 days off, which really equates to 3 normal days off.


I do that shift pattern 5 times & then get 14 days off....running rota all year long ..no bank holidays or additional leave, no extra payments for working bank holidays or xmas etc.


Gotta say i like it....although i often go many weeks missing weekend social occasions & not really seeing the wife much....youv e gotta be able to operate alone & enjoy your own company & find my days off alone are far more productive than my weekends ever were as it doesnt feel socially acceptable to just been lazying around on a tuesday afternoon doing nothing......well unless your a commited dole bum.


Plenty time for    Outiings on some ace roads when they're quiet & theres less cameras/strategies kicking about 

[AdieR]

Nights 2200-0600, inc weekends, with 2 days off midweek; days off seem to be random. Social life, what social life??

[stevierst]

At least we get the chance to go out during midweek days to play on our bikes whilst the 'shiny Sunday riders' are at work and not cluttering up the bloody roads.

[Lazarus]

used to do :

06:30 - 15:00
10:00 -  17:00
14:00 - 23:00
23:00 - 07:00

rotating weekly. only got the weekends off. worst shift was backshift (14:00 - 23:00) cos you couldnt really get a night out. nightshift you couldnt get a swallow that night and early shift - you didnt really want to get up at 05:15 after a bevvy session.

[noggythenog]

used to do :

06:30 - 15:00
10:00 -  17:00
14:00 - 23:00
23:00 - 07:00

rotating weekly. only got the weekends off. worst shift was backshift (14:00 - 23:00) cos you couldnt really get a night out. nightshift you couldnt get a swallow that night and early shift - you didnt really want to get up at 05:15 after a bevvy session.

Now that's a proper shit shift lazarus, no wonder its a "used to work" shift, foc that!!!!

[mr self destruct]

For the last 8 years I've worked 2 wks of earlies, 2 wks lates, 2 more earlies, 2 more lates, 2 wks nights, then 2 wks 'flexible'.
Flexible being to cover sickness/holidays for the rest of the dept, so I rarely know in advance what shift I'll be working those weeks.



Earlies Mon - Thu 06.00 - 14.15, Fri 06.00 - 12.00
Lates Mon - Thu 13.30 - 21.45, Fri 11.15 - 17.15
Nights Mon - Thu 20.45 - 06.30


I get weekends off, but there's always so much overtime on that I've not actually had a day off since 15th September.


As for my social life, it's dead and buried. On earlies I'm usually in bed by 9.00 so nothing happening there, on lates I don't see anyone as all my friends are at work, and on nights I work, eat and sleep.


Midden, if you're asking because you may have a chance to work them, don't. Seriously. I hate the effect it's had on my social life, but not as much as the effect it's had on my health. I'm constantly knackered, I don't eat healthily or regularly, and I'm the least fit I've ever been. 

[Lazarus]

used to do :

06:30 - 15:00
10:00 -  17:00
14:00 - 23:00
23:00 - 07:00

rotating weekly. only got the weekends off. worst shift was backshift (14:00 - 23:00) cos you couldnt really get a night out. nightshift you couldnt get a swallow that night and early shift - you didnt really want to get up at 05:15 after a bevvy session.

Now that's a proper shit shift lazarus, no wonder its a "used to work" shift, foc that!!!!

Aye mate - especially when we were the ONLY group in the plant doing the nightshift. Only us, the cleaners and security on site during the night.




had a good few laughs along the way though.

[Mick-H]

I do 19 shifts over a 4 week period, 10 early's 08.00 till 15.30, 9 late's 15.00 till 22.15, includes weekends and bank holidays. Usually have 2 sleep in's as well during the 4 week.

[Dead Eye]

I hope to never go back to shift work or even the regularity of 9-5 in an office - I have possibly the most flexible work hours I could have and I shall mourn the day that changes

[stevierst]

I'm in envy of you Deadeye, if only I could work flexy it'd be awesome!

[jason1]

Ive done allsorts of shift patterns over the year , but im currently working nights at min 20.00 to 06.00. Prob back on days after xmas which will be 04.30 till finish , normally 17.00 or later. Plus commute to and from work 17+ hours a day .  Life mmm not really , as when not at work the zombie inside comes out 

[taylor]

I am normally on price work, do as much or as little as I want, how much do we need the money??? not a lot in the cold

[codgie]

mon to fri  06.30-17.30
          sat  06.30- 13.00


every week


its dark when i start


and dark when i leave


up every morning at 05.30

[Pat]

I'm back in the 9-5 grind again, but for the previous 10 years I worked nights and loved it!

In a 13 week period we did 10 weeks of week on - (7 nights working 20:30-07:00 starting on a Monday night)  followed by a week off.  Then 3 consecutive weeks of days, which is when we took holidays & did training, or basically any excuse we could find to stay out of the office during the daytime.

Social life did suffer a bit - I missed out on a good few gigs I'd have liked to have gone too, but that's the price you pay.
Oh yeah, the 50% shift uplift payment was nice too.... 

[Hedgetrimmer]

The only time I ever worked shifts was on a Puma helicopter squadron in the RAF. It worked out more earlys and lates rather than nights/days. On lates, we went in at 4pm and were in until the last aircraft came in and was put to bed. Usually, you'd be off by about 10pm, but you were effectively on call from then until the day shift came on at about 6/7am. You might be in for longer, or you might be in for less. In the winter, lates could work out really cushy because flying was generally limited in winter conditions. Sometimes we'd go in at 4, hang around the crewroom for 20 minutes while it was confirmed there'd be no flying that night, and get knocked off! The only downside was that you couldn't leave the base until the day shift went in. And as far as weekends went, you'd get listed for duty-crew once in a while, but it was only about every 3 or 4 weeks. Again, if no flying was scheduled, you'd just have to stay on camp, available. Days might have to go in as early as 4 or 5am if a lot was scheduled, or if nights had done a long one, but always finished at 4pm. The rota was 1 week days, 1 week nights.
Nowadays, it would take a very good wage to get me to do the shifts some of you guys are working though!
 
As to social life, we always found time to get pissed! 
 

[slappy]

used to be on a really good shift pattern that revolved round a three week cycle.
1st week:- monday,tuesday day shift. thursday friday night.
2nd week:- wednesday, thursday,friday days
3rd week :- monday,tuesday, wednesday night.
We are that busy now we have taken on a load of sub contractors and work a 4 week cycle.
1st week :- monday,tuesday days,friday saturday night.
2nd week :- sunday night, wednesday ,thursday days.
3rd week :- monday, tuesday night, friday, saturday days.
4th week :- sunday day, wednesday, thursday night.
All 12 hour shifts.

[Lazarus]

I am normally on price work, do as much or as little as I want, how much do we need the money??? not a lot in the cold

you a hooker ? 

[taylor]

yes tj.  lol.

[redthunder]

6 on 4 off, 10 hour shifts. Many different shifts. 7am-5pm, 12pm-10pm, 3pm-1am, 5pm-3am, 9pm-7am. Usually split up into 2 of one 4 of the other with some 2/2/2 weeks.


The 4 days off is nice but the 6 days on is a write off most of the time 

[chaz]

Many years ago I used to work shifts at a sugar factory,  7-3, 3-11, 11-7,   7 days a week  september to febuary, depending on the beet harvest, no days off worked Christmas and new year, it knocked the s**t out of you but you made some good money and could have the summer off if you didn't get kept on?

[midden]

I hope to never go back to shift work or even the regularity of 9-5 in an office - I have possibly the most flexible work hours I could have and I shall mourn the day that changes

You a cabbie then?

[midden]

Midden, if you're asking because you may have a chance to work them, don't. Seriously. I hate the effect it's had on my social life, but not as much as the effect it's had on my health. I'm constantly knackered, I don't eat healthily or regularly, and I'm the least fit I've ever been. 



No destruct.....midlife crisis, 20yrs shift  just seeing if it's just me and there actually is a social life to be had on shifts or if the only way is to go 9-5 and suffer the pay loss (which would be rather mahussive)