I hate having displaced weekends.

[chid]

I work two jobs, the evening shift work is a 5 week rotation. Weeks 1,2, and 5 I get 2 random days off (which really sucks) and then weeks 3 and 4 I get weekends. Makes it tough on my hockey watching schedule.

[Jayems]

Ah, good ol shift work.

I used to rock out 5 on, 2 off, 3 on 4 off.
or, 5 off, 2 on, 3 off, 4 on.

All 12s. 6-6.

2 weeks days, two weeks nights.

[flylock shox]

Originally Posted by Kybosh

I'd say that someone has a case of the mondays but it might not be applicable here.

Snide. I like it.

ATR, you've just got to up your enjoyment by annoying people who work the regular weekdays. Get up early on your days off, go to a cafe, read the paper or a novel for an hour while people commute by you on your way to work. Smile at them. Call your friends who are in the office just to chat while you're on the john, reading the paper. Tell them what's in the news today. Go to your local university and hit on broads. There's lots of things to like about a schedule like yours. Mostly: calling in sick on Tuesday morning.

[Dion]

I spent a great number of years in retail and loathed the random schedule and rotating days off. Morning shifts to afternoon shifts and the dreaded graveyard shift. Not to mention the constant disruption of sleep cycles and how i believe has taken years off my life.

Getting a long weekend off or a weekend for that matter was a non no. The business dictated that saturday and sunday were your busiest days where staff is needed the most. Many a family event was missed as well camping trips with friends. Garveyard...well...it was hell on a persons social life. Sleeping when friends were out having a good time during the evening or chances to spend time with family.. Never getting a good sleep due to all the noise going on in the neighbourhood.

I stayed for as long as i did as it was a unionised job with good pay, benefits and a pension.

I'm out of that job for health reasons and wished i did it a lot sooner. If i could go back in time i would have done things a lot different.

Doing what you enjoy as opposed to what a job pays should be your priority and sadly it wasn't mine.

[alltherage]

Originally Posted by flylock shox

Mostly: calling in sick on Tuesday morning.

Haha, that's what I was thinking. Nah, I need to get out of this crap job. I hate it anyway. I'll be looking for the perfect 9-5er.

[Ford Prefect]

I own my own small business and therefore put in a lot of hours and get time off only when it's available. I don't mind it, but if I wasn't working for myself I'd resent it. On the other hand my wife is a nurse who has worked a part-time schedule for most of the last 20 years, but despite her part-time schedule (roughly half-time) she has worked half of all weekends for most of that time ... and it sucks. Bottom line, unless you're doing the time for yourself, I don't think sacrificing your social life for your employer is reasonable or desirable.

[LouCypher]

I know the feeling, lucky some weeks and totally screwed others. Thats retail for ya, other then finding another job only solution I have is working my way up the ladder which now has me at store manager in training after just over a year with my company starting from the bottom. Once I get management of my own store I get control of the schedule and only have to screw myself over half the time on weekends so long as I hire people who want weekends.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

Bottom line, unless you're doing the time for yourself, I don't think sacrificing your social life for your employer is reasonable or desirable.

Where were you when i was headed for that job interview with Safeway? I could have used someone back then to knock some common sense into me

[missdpuck]

Unfortunately it's uncommon sense...but you already know that

[kevman]

Originally Posted by blankall

At least you dont have "split shifts". When I worked in restaurants i used to work 12:00pm-2:30pm and then 6-10, 6 days a week...Now that was awful.

"Splits" arn't all bad... When I was working in Whistler last summer they used to do 9-8 with 3 hour splits at the shop I worked at. Nothings better than working for a few hours and than going to ride your bike over you lunch before coming back to work. Perhaps not ideal in every day life but when living as a "ski-bum" it's pretty freakin awesome!

That said I've been in the retail random weekend situation and it defiantly sucks. Worst off was missing out on biking/skiing trips because you had to work. I finally graduated to Sun/Mon's which all things considered are pretty awesome! That said I'll take my current "9-5" job over retail hours any day. Oh man the joy of finally getting paid stat holidays off...the odd flex day sure doesn't hurt either

[MrMastodonFarm]

I did Mon-Fri, 9-5 office thing for a while. I hate it compared to my 6on 6off 12 hour days.

[Resolute 14]

Never worked a rotating shift, but when I was younger, I did a 4pm-2AM shift Mon-Thu. That shift was ridiculously awesome. No traffic worries, get errands done when everyone else is at work, and long weekend, every weekeend. The best part is that we'd call up a local bar at 1:45 and order about 6 drinks each, which would be waiting for us when we got there just after 2. Screw last call laws.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by blankall

At least you dont have "split shifts". When I worked in restaurants i used to work 12:00pm-2:30pm and then 6-10, 6 days a week...Now that was awful.

yeah, I did something similar. 7am - 12pm, 2 - 5. Sucked big time. Had another Mon-Fri job, boss decided she was going to open Saturdays. Schedule came out, I was of course scheduled to work the first Saturday. Told her I wasn't going to be there.

Her: "Oh, you're busy that day? I'll schedule you for next Saturday."
Me: "Can't make it."
Her: "Ok, the next one then."
Me: "Your customers are going to be very disappointed."
Her:"How come?"
Me: "Because the doors will be locked and I won't be there."
Her: "Why?"
Me: "Because I don't work weekends"

She finally got the hint.

[stang]

I do 7 on 7 off... 12 hours days... 6-6...

One week start at 6am then the next week 6pm.

LOVE IT!

[Wookie]

I used to work Mon - Wed 3:00pm - 12:00am then Sat/Sun 5:30am - 12:00am.

My friday would be wednesday when I finished work at midnight or later. My Saturday would be thursday, and my sunday was friday. It was awful! I pretty much had no friends. The thursday would have been fine had any of my friends still been in school. But everyone I knew worked MF 9 - 5. Now I do and I love having a set schedule.

[BlAcKNoVa]

I couldn't do the random shifts. If I don't hit that 2 or 3-hr window when I usually go to sleep I'm screwed for that night I work lol...random shifts would own me sleep-wise.

I used to work at a restaurant where on weekdays I'd start at 3 or 4 pm. On the weekends I'd have to be up by 8 am and at work shortly after, ugh, never again.

I have a smooth schedule right now. Mon-fri 9pm-6am. I get saturday and sundays off which suits me fine.

[Boblobla]

Mon-Thurs 7-4:30
Fri 7-12

LOVE IT.

[Galakanokis]

Originally Posted by alltherage

Haha, that's what I was thinking. Nah, I need to get out of this crap job. I hate it anyway. I'll be looking for the perfect 9-5er.

Straight 9-5 sucks! You never get out at 5! usually when you do shift work there is someone coming in to relieve you and you can bugger off. Chances are that at 9-5 the work is all yours.

I turned down a promotion to manager because I didn't like the hours, 9-5. I used to do 3 weeks of 7am-3 and one week of 4pm-12 and I loved it. I was able to get home and get dinner ready and not be rushed to get the kid to whatever sporting even he had that day. Now we don't eat until 8:30 at night because I got suckered into the 9-5 thing. Damn work. Interfers with all our fun.

[troutman]

Don't a lot of bars have "industry night" for service industry folks?

http://www.clubvibes.com/events/view.asp?id=12596

[HOOT]

Not trying to sound rude but bitching about it on a message board will not solve your problem. You have today off, how many resumes have you dropped off?