WHAT SHIFT U WORK

hmmm... I might go for the weekends. Seems lame, but four days off/week would be sweet.

Swings would clearly be the worst.

i dont think you're supposed to pic your "favorite" milo

graveyard shift can be fun in upside down secret world kinda way... but not seeing friends/sunlight gets to you pretty quick.

no, swings are obv the best

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7 p.m. to 4 a.m. - fuck a daylight

Swings would be okay if it started later and finished up at the same time or later-ish. 2:30 is just early enough to ruin your day.

i dont think you're supposed to pic your "favorite" milo

-- chaki, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:08 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

honestly i have no idea if this poll is asking what shift we currently work or which one we'd choose under the given conditions.

this is the first job i've ever had that was 9 to 5. i showed up my first day at 8 because it never occurred to me that work started at any other time.

the three 13 hours would rule. too bad it has to be weekends. I've lobbied long and hard (that;s right, baby) for 4/10 hour shifts at our office. 3/13 would be even cooler.

whatever you want, buddy, first come first serve! we gotta keep this joint covered 24/7/365 so if you don't get whatcha want now you might just end up with somethin ya can't stand!

I used to work with a pressman who basically worked 4:30 a.m. to noonish. That's the closest thing to hell I can imagine.

(probably go for the M-F day shift. off everyday at 2:30 ain't too shabby)

more or less m-f schwings, plus saturdays. shifts start anywhere from 2 to 5, depending on the day (11 a.m. on saturdays), but most often it's 2-9 or 3-10. i don't mind the shift. i get mornings with the kid, and still usually get home before my wife's asleep.

I love swing shifts! Get to sleep in 'till noon, run errands before work, and then stay up and play until 3 a.m. bcz...you only have to wake up at noon. My ideal thing.

graveyard/mids shift, 'cause co-workers suck.

lemme amend that -- mids shift co-workers rock!

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ALmost every place I've worked it's been Friday-Monday w/Tues & Weds. as days off, which I think is great! No one is ever around on those days. Drawback: I would flip out how many people there are in this wide wide world of sports if ever I did go to stores/entertainment on weekends.

The weekend thing sounds awesome. I find something extra-relaxing about having time off when everyone else is working (maybe because places to go are less crowded?) and four days straight would be saweet.

yeah and I seem to get an amazing amount of work done when I have to go in on the weekends. no distractions, etc.

my personal favorite work schedule ever was 0700-1900 12s on a two week cycle like so, capitals on, lowercase off:

SAT SUN MON tue wed THU FRI sat sun mon TUE WED thu fri

of course this was in the military where you get paid the same whether you work 36 or 136 hours per week

on paper:

7.5 hours/day, flex time

reality:

in by 9:30, specific tasks done by 10, then work until "done" (anywhere from 3ish to 7ish PM)

ah, the warm, comforting arms of academia

PM swing, and I hate the shit. 3-11. Home at 11:30. Brain doesn't settle til at least 2. Have to be up at 6 for a bus.

I show up when I feel like it, but am supposed to be in before 8:30....and then I have to stay at least 8 hours, but lately have been staying 9-10

Technically I haven't worked a regular hours job for a long time. A good 60% or so of my job has to get done between the hours of 8:30-4:30 (due to when courts are open) but I often only need 4-5 out of those eight hours. The rest can be done at home, and I'm kind of bad about scheduling that in a way that it doesn't sprawl into the rest of my life.

Before that I had the newspaper, where I was sorta supposed to come in every morning, but I also sorta had a lot of freedom because no one really knew whether I was "on the beat" or not ( or seemed to much care ). Of course I generally wound up working 12 or more hours on deadline day, but that was partly due to my own procrastination.

For the past 3 weeks, and for the foreseeable future: 11 to 12 hour days (6:30 am to 6 or maybe 8 pm), 7 days/week, a 3-hour flight from home (I did get to go home for Thanksgiving at the last minute however). The resume was polished up 2 weeks ago and started hitting in-boxes immediately thereafter. I'm longing for the 9 9s schedule I left for this job (9 hour days M-F week 1; 9 hour days M-W week 2, 8 hour day Thursday, then 3 day weekend).

used to work M-F swing, in fantasy land i would choose M-F graveyard.

I work a 9/80 schedule, which means that in a two-week, 80-hour pay period, I work nine of those days. Four nine-hour days followed by an eight-hour day the first week, then four nine-hour days and a day off the second day. Too bad I sleep in all day on my Fridays off.

...and a day off the second week.

yeah and I seem to get an amazing amount of work done when I have to go in on the weekends. no distractions, etc.

This reminds me... Big irritation: not weekend people, but people who work from home who say the same thing about getting through much more without distractions.

Distractions are work that some poor sod based in the office is dealing with in your absence.

some distractions are, sure. but a lot of them aren't, they're just the byproduct of lots of people doing lots of different things in a contained space. the thing i've always liked about weekends is the relative emptiness. it's just a much more relaxed environment, the vibe is different, the flow of the work is different. (same way i felt about my college campus during the summer. that was my favorite time to be there.)

on paper:

7.5 hours/day, flex time

reality:

in by 9:30, specific tasks done by 10, then work until "done" (anywhere from 3ish to 7ish PM)

-- dan m, 29 November 2007 04:15 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

close enough to this, but i finish between 4-6 pm instead. M-F, and i love having weekends off-it's still a novelty after 10 years of working through school/college.

Mostly 9-5, for over 10 years now. Did one or two night shifts as a one off, which I surprisingly enjoyed.

tried 6am -2pm once but failed to wake up and this was for a busy transport planning office, doh!, they never put me on that shift again.

The worst I did for a year was 12-8pm. Such a day killer.

I need a 'plod in at 11.30 and then look on internets for 7 hours' option

^^^freelancers are scum

right now it's 11-9 mon-thu for me, which is not too awesome in any regards except that it seems the only work schedule right now that fits with what my winter sleep cycle has become, and having my Friday come a day early is pretty excellent stuff (even though as someone else mentioned yeah I just sleep through most of it)

i am basically on the day shift schedule, though i typically get in around 6 and may check out anywhere from 2 to 3, and i leave at like noon on friday.

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i would kill for 11-7 or 12-8. getting to work by 9 KILLS me. it's too early, the subways are too crowded, i'm cranky all day and i don't get any work done til after 10:30ish anyways cos i'm not properly awake. which is why i get to work on time exactly never. and NEVER leave by 5. i can't even remember the last time i've left at 5. it's almost always 6 or 7.

i'm supposed to take an hour for lunch but i almost never do.

getting to work by 9 KILLS me. it's too early, the subways are too crowded, i'm cranky all day and i don't get any work done til after 10:30ish anyways

i'm pretty much incapable of talking with people in a real fashion until like 10:30 or so. i just feel stupid until right about now.

i pretty much love the 9 to 5 shift, though maybe 'cos i've adjusted myself to it pretty well. 40 hrs/week sucks though. i would kill for a 9-4 M-F job.

at any meeting taking place before 11 i am pretty much guaranteed to get that "eyes closing involuntarily, nothing you can POSSIBLY DO to stop this" problem. which sucks because i have WEEKLY meetings at 9 and 10 on every FRIDAY with the CFO and then my boss.

meetings should be no longer than 20-45 minutes.

rogue 0 and 5 in that post

for a meeting today i claimed my department was "real busy right now" so managed to get my issues out of the way in 2-3 minutes, got handed a printout with a project plan on it and an explanation of it in about 1 minute, and i vamoosed

the rest of them are probably still in there

i usually work normal hours, but every five or six weeks i'm on call from 6pm-9am, from home, for a week

I work from around 9.15am to 6.30pm, though I'm prepared to come in earlier if it's really necessary.

My colleague has joined a team where everyone starts at 8am and has given in to peer pressure to do the same. I'd have resisted it myself.

I haven't got a clue any more. Nominaly 9-9:30 to 17:30 ish but I have hardly been in the office for weeks. Travelling on business, when does work end?

when I travelled I was definitely working nearly all 18 hours available to me outside of lunch, dinner and sleep. I can see how it would get to you but really to me that was the most invigorating experience I've had in probably ever. Hence the suspicion that I may be in the wrong line of work.

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9 to 5 is awesome

evenings to yourself

weekends gettin wrecked

what's the difference between that and any other shift?

I'm also back to 8x5, myself, noon to eight. It's pretty fucking sweet if I say so myself.

i'd hate to work weekends cuz i go out drinking

i like to know i'm home every night, no hours all over the place, and a steady wage.

that's my schedule tom, and it's awesome.

?!?!?!!!?!?!!?

though don't fall into the trap i do of wasting my mornings in bed.

it's okay as long as you stay up until 3am

the confusion btw is directed to pc user

I'm pretty happy with my closed-down town.
All the stools upside down, nobody around.
I start my day in the afternoon,
So I had to learn to like my last-call gloom.

a year ago it was 9-5
today: all sundays son

so far today it has been "all shifts"

Have I somehow not fucked w/ this thread at all?

After 7ish years in the insurance industry I am INCREDIBLY relieved to have somehow finagled a 9-3/4pmish kitchen job. IE someone pinch me.

u move 2 fransay

chop fowlguts?

Basically I managed to find a well paying kitchen job where the extent of my responsibility is basically to make sure A) we don'at run out of thawed shrimp and B) we have a vaguely tasty soup on a daily basis. HOORAY FOR RESPONSIBILITY.

FOWLGUTS = FLAVOR

shiftless

we know dude. we kinda figured that out. you looking out for an SES/GS in the meantime?

(btw sorry that sucks)

we kinda figured that out. you looking out for an SES/GS in the meantime?

i kinda told. i'm looking for lots of things, that included.

we kinda figured it out BEFORE you told suckaaaaa
good luck anyway, arrogant son of a bitch!

i kinda told BEFORE it happened doe

(thx)

sorry, gab!

no prob, tehresa. back to work!

btw i vote "Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul"

I work a split shift, M-F. Early shift is 6:50am-9:30am. Afternoon shift is 2:25pm-4:30pm. This is a sub-25 hr. work week. Pay is $12.50/hr. Do the math.

I was going to do the math until you threw those :50's and :25's in there.

I work either 8:30-12:30, 12:30-6 or 7, or both. I prefer the "both" days because they result in more money. Also, I am starting a second job soon, and that will be 9-5:15 or 9-2. Hoping to start a third job that will be 9:30-4:30 the remaining two days of the week....

Always been secretly jealous of those factory shifts of four days on, three days off.

yeah, my supervisors both have those (not factory shifts though), they work four ten hour days and then get three day weekend. i would love that schedule.

that's what a few of our mids guys do. They used to let a couple of us roll like that on days but then everybody wants that schedule and it becomes an unsustainable clusterfuck because we're still in an office environment where most of the support staff and management are bankers' hours/9-5 types.