Shiftwork

[fred.n]

I've been doing shift work for 14 years now and love it
Call me crazy

my hours are
day shift......7am to 2pm
Arvo shift.....2pm to 10pm
Night shift....10pm to 7am

We start Sunday night 10 pm and finish Friday night 10pm
We work a 5 day week and the shift roster is... Day Night Arvo

This gives me heaps of time off, but I get real pissy with Arvo shift in summer ( if there is a summer in Ballarat) :mad: :mad: when all the boys are having BBQ's and I'm at work:mad: :mad: ....just finished Arvo tonight
What do you guys/gals think of shift work??

[black1]

never tried it. just watches in the navy

[Ashore]

never tried it. just watches in the navy

Much easier on shift work , that 4 to 8 was a killer espically with 3 hours ot in the mornings :mad:

Rgds

[womble]

12 hour shifts suck, but we only do three a week at the prison. 3 night shifts in a row is a bit much though...

[ozwinner]

I did 9 months straight night shift, also in Ballarat.
What a pain in the bum, but it paid good money.
Hours where 11 pm to 7 am, I found it very hard to get any real sleep, until the weekends.

Al

[Iain]

12 hour shifts suck, but we only do three a week at the prison. 3 night shifts in a row is a bit much though...

Don't worry, parole is not far away

[doug the slug]

i used to love the shiftworki did in the army in canberra

2 evening shifts 4pm till midnight followed by 2 day shifts 8am to 4pm followed by 2 days off. the only downside was being back at work for the first dayshift only 8 hours after finishing second evening shift, guess what part of the shift cycle all the mistakes were made on?

on the upside, we crammed 4 working shifts into 3 x 24 hour periods then it was another 3 x 24 hour periods from finishing at 4pm on last days to being back at 4pm for first evenings. Even better, because we were working a six-day cycle as opposed to seven like everyone else, it equated to 31 extra days off a year!!!! but wait, theres more... because we were classified as shift workers we were given an extra 5 days annual leave to compensate us for working 31 days a year less than the dayworkers.

I loved it, but can you believe there were people who still thought they were being hard done by??

[DanP]

Shift work I can handle. Love night shift. HATE with a passion, quick change overs. Especially when on call and you get called out a couple of times and still expected to be at work 8 hours after your rostered knock off. Some nights you only get a couple of hours, some nights none.

Dan

[savage]

Did arvo shift for a couple of years and didn't like it, then got onto night shift and did that for 19 years and loved it, when things got busy we would sometimes work 6-7 weeks straight have a weekend off and then another 5-6 weeks. The day shift thought we where over paid, so I used to say to them they could swap anytime they liked, they never did.

[Auld Bassoon]

The only 'shift' work that I've ever done was the old standard 4 on, 4 off watch keeping routine when sailing. A bit of a buggah for the first couple of days, then it seems entirely normal.

[Harry72]

Been on shift since 94, the place I work doesnt stop for nothing(including xmas)we were 8hr day/arvo/night... totaly sucked always felt like you were at work every day, was hard to go anywhere or organise something.
The rosters off were rarely on weekends and only lasted 1.5-2 days(as in 48hrs)max!
In 1998 we changed to 4x12hr but not straight shifts(nooooooo that'll be to bloody simple wouldnt it )no we went 2X12hr days 24hrs off(claytons day) then 2x12hr nights and rosters are 3.5days off(the company call it 4 days "go figure")... the only advantage is its easy to work out when your working as it works on a 8 day cycle... if I start on moday this week next week I start on tuesday.

Im realy starting to get sick of it now getting very itchy feet... only the monthly pay day that keeps me there(other than the bank manager)

[Sir Stinkalot]

I don't mind my shift work ..... Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm with 1/2hr for lunch .... sure it wouldn't suit everybody.

[Dan]

I've been on the same 12hr 8day shift as Harry72 since '95 and quite like it. No problems sleeping during the day although it's easier when you're the only one in the house, and because you're only doing two nights you don't get too nocturnal. Works for me.

[Daddles]

Bloody shift work. Sheesh. I can remember shift work. In the warehouse it was. They wanted us to shift this here, then that there. Cripes, the shifting we did

Richard

[Mirboo]

I have worked a bit of shift work, not much though in the greater scheme of things.

The first time I was doing 8-hour shifts on a 21 shift pattern. The hours were 7am to 3pm, 3pm to 11 pm and 11pm to 7am. We started on day shift and worked 7 in a row. We knocked off at 3pm after the last day shift and had to be back in again 24 hours later for the first of 7 afternoon shifts. After knocking off at 11pm after the 7th afternoon shift, we had to come back in at 11pm 36 hours later for the first of 7 night shifts. We finished the last night shift at 7am and had the rest of that day off and then 5 more days off before we had to start all over again. The cycle repeated every 28 days.

I liked afternoon shifts the least. I was young and single back then and I found afternoon shift very anti-social. I was heading off for work before my mates were home from work, I got home after all my mates had gone to bed and I got out of bed after everyone had already left for work. During the 7 days of afternoon shift I didn't see much of all my friends who weren't working shift.

Night shift was the best shift I reckon. You just had to operate the equipment and that was it. You were left alone because all of the office bods (I was usually one myself) who organise meetings, training sessions, production trials and the like were home in bed where they couldn't annoy you. We also had a bit of fun on night shift, doing things that you wouldn't get away with on day shift.