NWI INDIANA GUN OWNERS. #24 Lets face it we all love to shoot and eat

[actaeon277]

Timkin

5 shifts 3-11
2 days off
5 shifts mids
2 days off
5 shifts days
1 day off

So, many people find it easier to shift from mids to 3-11s. But Timkin shifts forward, mids to days.

Also, every 3 weeks, you go back a day.
So, if you are working mon-fri..
after day shifts you get 1 day off, and now you work sun to thur
3 weeks later sat to wed.

 

[actaeon277]

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oops

 

[nonobaddog]

So is it 5 shifts like stated or 7 shifts like in the diagram?

 

[marvin02]

When talking schedules remember that "first shift" could be days turn or midnights. I saw it treated differently in different departments in the same mill.

You can "swing" in either direction.

Lots of variations to the basic schedule.

 

[actaeon277]

So is it 5 shifts like stated or 7 shifts like in the diagram?

5

I just quickly copied something I found, didn't notice it was 7.

 

[tv1217]

Looks like these guys covered it. We rotate it backwards (midnights>afternoons>day) and we have two doubles(16 hrs) thrown in there every week as well.

We WERE on the "Dupont " schedule which is a 12 hour schedule that goes 4 nights 3 off, 3 days 1 off, 3 night 3 off, 4 day 7off (except scheduled a few of those off days to cover being shorthanded) but our manlet boss took 8 weeks of leave because his wife had a baby and the guy covering for him during that time didn't want to have to deal with doing the scheduling.

 

[darkkevin]

I'll take my M-F 8-5 with an hour lunch any day. mill life just sounds horrible

 

[radar8756]

I'll take my M-F 8-5 with an hour lunch any day. mill life just sounds horrible

We are expected to do M-F 7-5 plus
On-Call ( M-F 5pm-7am + Sat & Sun ) every other month
+++ available 24/7 for Emergencies

 

[CTC B4Z]

I'll take my M-F 8-5 with an hour lunch any day. mill life just sounds horrible

Yup.

I've turned down several on the road jobs as well.

**** traveling, mobile mechanic. Nah..

I've worked maybe 5 Saturdays in 14 years

 

[CTC B4Z]

My guys are making $160k+ but don't have the time to enjoy anything.

Wouldn't trade my M-F 8-430 28 mile commute for anything.

 

[2A_Tom]

I am a 40 hr. week, day shift kind of guy. OT only if it was necessary, the same for Saturdays.

 

[jedi]

u lazy bums!!
Millions on welfare need your support.

 

[klausm]

Timkin

5 shifts 3-11
2 days off
5 shifts mids
2 days off
5 shifts days
1 day off

So, many people find it easier to shift from mids to 3-11s. But Timkin shifts forward, mids to days.

Also, every 3 weeks, you go back a day.
So, if you are working mon-fri..
after day shifts you get 1 day off, and now you work sun to thur
3 weeks later sat to wed.

always tired, jet lagged, not sure what day it is?

 

[marvin02]

Things I enjoyed about swing shift:

1. Few, if any, supervisors on the night shifts.

2. Days off during the week. How the heck do you get anything done only being off Sat & Sun?

3. Most folks don't like working mid-nights so it was always easy to trade if I needed to.

4. Where I worked crews tended to stay together for long periods. I was lucky to be on some good crews with good people over the years.

always tired, jet lagged, not sure what day it is?

Some folks more than others. I'm not a day person, working straight days would have been a nightmare for me.

I had too many scheduled activities to loose track of the day. I do that more often now that I only work a few days a month and with no kids to be active with.

I liked afternoons the best, but that doesn't work well with family activities.

Plenty of fathers who worked 9-5 missed most of their kids after school activities. I was able to make the majority for my kids.

 

[kaveman]

My entire career there was no such thing as overtime. Day, night, weekend, holiday,....all the same. If you worked more hrs than required you sometimes got paid for a few more hrs at your normal rate. If you were held out for a few extra days they were supposed to make those days up with off days but they never did. You just worked until you were done. The job was claimed as week on/week off, but the week on was 9 days long and the week off was 5. 90% of the time you were on the backside of the clock and ended up two or three time zones from where you started, sometimes as much as five or six. For twenty yrs I didn't know where I was or what I was doing or what day/time it was. I just didn't know I didn't know until I stopped doing it.

The only limit that mattered was 16hrs duty per day and that only applied domestically. If you were on an international flight there was no duty limitation, only a 12hr flight limit, and there were exceptions that allowed you to exceed that limit. My longest day,......36hrs in the cockpit, 12.9hrs of flight, all due to weather and delays. Eight hrs later we were 'legally' rested and had to undo it all.

 

[Max Volume]

I really enjoyed working 4-12's because of not being a morning person. Never have been and never will be. Plenty of overtime was
worked, 16's, 24's and even 32's. Pay was great and double time after 14 hours but as stated, no time to do anything except the bare necessities.

 

[melensdad]

What is this 'work' thing to which you guys refer

 

[Max Volume]

What is this 'work' thing to which you guys refer

A nasty four letter word that is no longer used by me.

 

[CTC B4Z]

What is this 'work' thing to which you guys refer

It happens mostly during the day.

And when it does, please do not be on the roads from 630am-730am or 4pm-530pm

 

[CTC B4Z]

Do not go to the deli counter with a kart full of products while others on 30 min lunches are waiting for their orders.