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Would you spend more time at work if it meant getting an extra day off?
- Thread starter Lightning hand5
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Dental assistant. Most dentists only work 4 days. Mine works 5 plus one Saturday a month. The second assistant works T, Th, F, and the one Saturday a month.
Three and a half 12's and a 6 with three and a half days off is honestly pretty great if you can handle those long haul shifts. (A lot of people just flat-out can't.)
No but only because it would make it really difficult or me to work out on work days. Also I have a job that requires me to sit all day and I'm already tortured sitting for 8 hours straight. Can just feel my body getting sluggish and lazy.
I worked 4 10s for like 3 months and holy shit was it beautiful, problem is for something like that to work the other companies I deal with would need to adapt similar schedules. Even though I had a day free I'd still get calls from work and be asked to check some files real quick.
I'd probably take 2 10s, 2 9s and home office for the last day.
I'd probably take 2 10s, 2 9s and home office for the last day.
Considering I commute about 3 hours a day this is already what I do but for all 5 days.
Are you a driver? I'm trying to think of something else that would require sitting.
12 Hr's is manageable if there's less days work. Used to do 4am to 4pm shift work which involved a lot of physical work and you just get used to it. 8 hrs feels really short as time flies. There's really not much to do on the work days. Eat, Shower, spend an hour gaming/watching a movie and a bit of house work. Waking up at 3am isn't really feel all that much different than 7am after a while and there's no traffic either so work takes around 10 minutes to get to instead of 30.
4-10 is the good good and I'll be sad the day I can't have it. The 5-8 life sucks pretty hard in comparison.
No. I wouldn't be as productive and it would be hard to maintain that kind of energy. I'm usually exhausted efter 6 hours.
But it depends on the kind of work I guess. Work in a factory? Hell no. Work in an office? Maybe.
But it depends on the kind of work I guess. Work in a factory? Hell no. Work in an office? Maybe.
When I was in military, standard schedule was 7 12s in a 2 week period. Problem was, military bullshit always ate one of your days off, and you often had PT at the end of those 12 hr shifts. You lived to work.
If I didn't have the added military BS it would have been great even on mids.
If I didn't have the added military BS it would have been great even on mids.
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I'd work an extra hour to get even a 2nd day off. When you start at the post office, you are 8-12 hours a day (depending on season/shift), 6 days a week, until you make regular, which could take anywhere from 3 months to 3 years depending on position and seniority. I'm currently 7 months in and 5th on seniority, so I "might" get moved up the next time they convert in the next month or so, either that or I wait till end of the year.
Well I went from working 55-60 hours a week to 32 hours and take home more.
I would definitely do that with my current job, yes. My old job had a "Summer hours" policy where you could do that during the summer months, and it was pretty kickass.
Yeah there's something to be said for this. My job isn't all that mentally demanding, so it would be good for me, but others aren't that lucky.
There's also something to be said for this. Not everyone has the same situation at home, and it might not make sense for some.
Yeah there's something to be said for this. My job isn't all that mentally demanding, so it would be good for me, but others aren't that lucky.
There's also something to be said for this. Not everyone has the same situation at home, and it might not make sense for some.
Are you city or rural? I worked as an RCA for three years, was 3rd on the seniority list for for subs and was looking at 15 years. They were so being very secretive about the civil service exam. Could ever get info on it. Would have been a city carrier but could never find out when they tested. The lady who took my spot just got a route last year. I quit in 2004.
I already do that. I structurally work 4 hours a week more than I'm getting paid for, but I get much more vacation days in return. Basically, I work 40 hours a week but get paid for 36, which means I get an additional 208 hours of vacation (4 * 52 weeks), which translates to 26 days/5.2 weeks of extra vacation.
There is no feasible way to get an extra day off and make a living wage, and I'm already working extra hours so this sounds pretty alien to me. Not to mention that 2 days off sounds like a waste of time, working is the only time I feel truly alive.
Love my 4-10 schedule. Having Fridays off and getting a 3 day weekend every week has been like having a mini vacation. I've taken almost no time off in the last year because of this.
While it's not for everyone, the hardest part for me is waking up to get to work, so the extra 2 hours really isn't that demanding and I get some of my best work done then as I don't have to answer phone calls or assist customers since we're closed to the public the last 2 hours of my shift.
While it's not for everyone, the hardest part for me is waking up to get to work, so the extra 2 hours really isn't that demanding and I get some of my best work done then as I don't have to answer phone calls or assist customers since we're closed to the public the last 2 hours of my shift.
I have been championing this forever. Saturdays (and Friday evenings, even) are worthless because I'm just recovering. Then I have to spend my Sundays working.
I'm an MHA at one of the plants. We're basically at the point right now where they've been talking about conversions for the last month and a half and we know they're going to do something since they're doing background checks, but how many people or when is something we can't get a straight answer for no matter who we ask. Things wouldn't be so bad if we could just get a consistent 8 hours a day, but every other day half a dozen regulars call in due to the weather being nice or one of the machines breaks down for an hour or more or management makes ass backward decisions like promoting several machine operators to supervisor roles and then not replacing them, which puts even more work on everyone who's left.
It wouldn't be so bad if MHAs were given the same rights as mail handlers in terms of leave. Call in as an MHA? Get a warning (although warnings mean nothing past your 90 days, there's multiple MHAs that have taken half a dozen days off or more and gotten nothing beyond a paper that says "don't do thing again"), where as MHs get little more than a slap on the wrist. Want to use your annual leave? Too bad, as an MHA your annual is nothing more than an extra paycheck once you get converted. The only vacation you get as an MHA is 5 days once you hit your year or if you get converted before it (you don't get to choose the days either, they are what they tell you they'll be).
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I was in a lucky position as I did get dual carrier status so when my regular was not pretending to injured and working I could go work for the city side when they were pretending to be injured. Ours was winter call offs. Ever time we got some frost or a but of ice 4 specific carriers got themselves "injured" and seemed to be off until warmer weather came around. Happened every winter during the 3.5 years I was at the USPS.
Man that would be nice. I usually do 10-11 a day with only having 1 day off, 2 if i'm lucky. I usually feel as if i dont have time for myself and my family.
I work 7x12 hour shifts over a 2 week rota. I work Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday in week 1; and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in week 2. So I only ever work 2 or 3 days in a row, then get 2 or 3 days off.
The best part is that I get 28 days paid holiday a year, so I can take my Saturday and Sunday shifts off once a month and still have some days left over. That means I only work 1 weekend per month, but also get 7 days off in a row every month.
Also, the fact I work some weekends qualifies me for a 17% pay increase for working "unsocial hours". It's a pretty sweet deal to be honest and I'm not looking forward to ever going back to office hours.
My shifts are 0700 – 1900 too so I never drive in rush hour traffic.
The best part is that I get 28 days paid holiday a year, so I can take my Saturday and Sunday shifts off once a month and still have some days left over. That means I only work 1 weekend per month, but also get 7 days off in a row every month.
Also, the fact I work some weekends qualifies me for a 17% pay increase for working "unsocial hours". It's a pretty sweet deal to be honest and I'm not looking forward to ever going back to office hours.
My shifts are 0700 – 1900 too so I never drive in rush hour traffic.