Kiwi-truckwit
Senior Member
Long night tonight. 0230hrs and no lifts yet. Looking doubtful that there will be one at all. The forums are keeping me occupied.
Safety is always number 2 to production, and number 3 to cost.
That sounds absolutely terrible! Hard on the body too, for sure.Ought to try my last gig's hours. Worked a six section rotating shift 12/8 hour mixed schedule.
Week one: 5 days 8 hour 7-3 eligible for +4hr overtime to 72 total or an 8 hour double two times, Second Week: MTW 12 hour Days 6:50-7p, 48 hours off, in FSSM 12 hour nights 6:50=7a, Week three: had SM from last shift then five scheduled days off, Week four: MTWT 8 hour days eligible OT +4hr OT prior to or after shift, can pull two doubles either end, in the week all previous off days eligible for any shift then six days off after and same conditions, Week five: TFSS 12 hour days, a 48 hour turn around and Week Six: WTF 12 hour nights with basically a Friday morning off until Monday to start all over. Night shifts start 7pm day before the shown scheduled day.
Refueling outages we worked 4 12s straight days or nights beginning to end the longest 67 days on schedule.
Some weeks I could swear I passed myself going to or coming back from work. Sleep, is that really a necessity?? Did that schedule and a rolling 8 hour five section early in my career.
Under the management I worked and rules of Nuclear power not Allowed to nap, not even for a moment. That as while walking by the Resident NRC inspectors office he had his feet on his desk 'DEEP' into a daytime nap that he explained away as just a momentary lapse NOT sleeping. Hmmm, double standard jackaxx. And he ONLY worked 8 hour days M-F.
I know that pre-dawn wall really well, hard to overcome most days.
I was the master of setting in my desk with my feet up. It became automatic when I was on the phone. When my boss said it didn't look good I told him. "Look at the size of my feet. I need them up to get some blood flowing to my head so I can think". Actually it helped keep the nerve pain down the last number of years.