March 2011 Chat Thread!
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From: SW Virginia
It's bedtime for me George.....midnights.
Good morning all!! Weather's been great here for a couple of days now but today we're supposed to have thunderstorms and it's going to be cold this weekend.....BLAH! Come on Summer!
Good morning all!! Weather's been great here for a couple of days now but today we're supposed to have thunderstorms and it's going to be cold this weekend.....BLAH! Come on Summer!
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Trouble with that snow is that my son is coming down for a visit. Told him not to bother if the weather is crappy. But, being a chip off the old blockhead.....Get a good day's sleep John. When I did a 11-7 shift I had a hard time adjusting.
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I know what you mean George. I've been on swing-shift for just over 23 years now and it's still just as hard as it was the first time I worked it. My shift is 7 PM to 7 AM for two weeks, then we swap back to 7 AM to 7 PM for two weeks. Twelve hour shifts don't make it any easier.
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I think going back and forth every other week is worse than staying on that shift continuously.
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It absolutely is Steve. We've tried unsuccessfully to get it changed for years. We've tried to get them to let us work a month at a time, two months, three.....no success. There are two of us supervisors that have seniority over the other two and we've talked to the brass about putting us on straight days and them on nights. That's come the closest so far to achieving any level of success but it still hasn't happened.
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There are George. There are a LOT of them. And, any doctor will tell you how rough it is on your system. Bad thing is that we get the standard responses such as "You picked the job, it didn't pick you" and "Someone has to do it" or "The only fair way to do it is for everyone to swing or be in 100% agreement about working semi-permanent or permanent shifts". Well, there's no way to get forty people to agree to permanent shifts or even semi-permanent for that matter. About 75% want straight dayshift which obviously won't work.
It's frustrating. I just keep telling myself I've only got fourteen more years until retirement.
It's frustrating. I just keep telling myself I've only got fourteen more years until retirement.
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23 years of s shift + dedication. I know several people who are going to "retire" after 20 years in law enforcement and then into something else. One got out because of night shift patrol - 2 deputies for 32,000 sq miles. He went to local police force on day shift.