@Samuel Lison If you stay "in shift" on your days off you can adapt to it, and I speak as someone who used to enjoy having the world all to myself on the graveyard shift. The White Shirts aren't around.
yeah, only thing is for my line of work, it’s 7 night shifts in a row from Sunday to Saturday. Last shift finished Sunday morning, then go back to either morning or afternoon on Monday and Tuesday, 6 days of rest days, and back to regular shifts for 3 weeks (random mornings and afternoons)… Back to nights and repeat currently. Body just can’t adjust.
@Samuel Lison I feel that. That's exactly why I avoided working swing shift...which is what that was called where I worked. All I can say now is lots of luck and lots of coffee.
mmmmmmmm ☕. I can’t avoid it in my current work unfortunately (the swing shifts). But it will get better when we get more staff numbers back up. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel, somewhere.
@Samuel Lison Oh no doubt. When I was working, the policy was that new hires got assigned to swing shift unless the hire had an overriding schedule conflict at home (usually kid issues during the time when schools were out where the spouse was working too) and this was chalked up as part of the training on how all the business ops worked. Seniority got you bumped up to graveyard, and it's the day shift that was the gravy shift (supposedly). The main cause of changing shift assignment was seniority. But I don't know how things work at your place of employment, but I suspect this may be the case in your case too.
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in reply to Samuel Lison • •I feel that. That's exactly why I avoided working swing shift...which is what that was called where I worked. All I can say now is lots of luck and lots of coffee.
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in reply to Samuel Lison • •Oh no doubt. When I was working, the policy was that new hires got assigned to swing shift unless the hire had an overriding schedule conflict at home (usually kid issues during the time when schools were out where the spouse was working too) and this was chalked up as part of the training on how all the business ops worked. Seniority got you bumped up to graveyard, and it's the day shift that was the gravy shift (supposedly). The main cause of changing shift assignment was seniority.
But I don't know how things work at your place of employment, but I suspect this may be the case in your case too.