On December 9, 2007 at 20:28, smokinghot said...
It's a 12hr continental shift, meaning....: In a pay cycle
(2 weeks), I work a total of 7 days. So if you can follow
this (most have problems...lol):
The cycle starts with: Mon/Tues "on" or "working", Wed/Thurs
"off", Fri/Sat/Sun "on", It then flips for the following
week. Mon/Tues "off", Wed/Thurs "on", Fri/Sat/Sun "off".
Over the long weekend off it flips to nights and then
repeats the cycle. So on and so forth. It's not the best
schedule, but if you do the math I only work half the
year, and taking vacation days in the right spots gives
you excessive amounts of time away from the daily grind.
The trick is to get nap time in during the midnights
so your not completely changing your sleep cycle all the
time. I don't know how the production people do it.
There's many a way to implement a continuous shift pattern, but as coincidence would have it we have a department that works exactly the same 12 hour 2-3 pattern, only here it’s 06:00 – 18:00 and vice versa. One thing I noticed though, having worked through a few numbers (at one time there was talk of, my two weekend colleagues, A.N. Other and myself doing some sort of rolling pattern), is that although I work significantly more days in a year, the hours are actually fewer; i.e. –
(52 x 5) – 33 (annual holiday entitlement) = 227 days per year.
227 x 8 = 1816 hours per year.
Against
26 x 7 = 182 days per year
182 x 12 = 2184 hours per year
N.B. These figures do not include holiday entitlement because they’re worked a little differently to the norm. – I need my other computer to be exact. However, if I recollect correctly the annual hours are still a shade over 2000 for the year.
