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Poll
#2850168
07/12/19 07:20 PM
07/12/19 07:20 PM
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Reloader79
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Bitch Peas, I'm a Kitty Whisperer
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Would you rather work 5, 8 hr days or DuPont shift where you have a 7 off every month and only work half the year?
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
Bluetick serpentines around green fields and rock spit a lease
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Re: Poll
[Re: Reloader79]
#2850179
07/12/19 07:35 PM
07/12/19 07:35 PM
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Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 16,876 Banana Republic
jb20
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Really depends on personal life, different scenarios for different circumstances...id choose whatever let me be with family more, but I have a wife with all my kids here, if i were divorced I'd pick whatever suited my kids and suck it up...i like the 4-10 idea
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin
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Re: Poll
[Re: Reloader79]
#2850185
07/12/19 07:42 PM
07/12/19 07:42 PM
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Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 5,243 Behind your shadow
Reloader79
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4-10’s isn’t the question. Although that would be ideal, just not possible.
Last edited by Reloader79; 07/12/19 07:43 PM.
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
Bluetick serpentines around green fields and rock spit a lease
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Re: Poll
[Re: Reloader79]
#2850224
07/12/19 08:32 PM
07/12/19 08:32 PM
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Joined: May 2015
Posts: 6,363 On the X
TickaTicka
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12 point
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Chit, I'm lucky if I work 5 12's. 4 10's sounds like vacation.
Public Land Owner
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Re: Poll
[Re: Reloader79]
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07/12/19 08:36 PM
07/12/19 08:36 PM
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Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 10,646 Past Ol’ man Finley’s plac...
Southwood7
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I’ve been working a variation of the DuPont schedule for almost 6 years. It’s great during hunting season but I do get tired of working shift work. I work 4 days a week, 2 twelve hour shifts and 2 eight hour shifts and 6 days off in a row once a month. I like being off 3 days a week. Honestly I’m ready to work straight days but I’ll miss the off days.
Last edited by Southwood7; 07/12/19 08:38 PM.
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4
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Re: Poll
[Re: Reloader79]
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07/12/19 08:46 PM
07/12/19 08:46 PM
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Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
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My hats off to you swing shift guys. Seriously that’s gotta take a huge toll on the body and mind. I don’t know if could handle it mentally.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Poll
[Re: Reloader79]
#2850303
07/12/19 09:30 PM
07/12/19 09:30 PM
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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 30,910 Clanton, AL
Out back
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Grumpy Old Man
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I prefer my current schedule. Go to bed when I want, wake up when I want, do what I want, go where I want and drink on the job.
My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.
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Re: Poll
[Re: Reloader79]
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07/12/19 09:44 PM
07/12/19 09:44 PM
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Posts: 3,799 Scottsboro Al
TravisBatey
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I’ve been on what I guess would be considered 5-8s for the past decade as a service tech. Most of the time there was longer than 8 hr days and plenty of weekends worked being on call or being called out at night.
I’m now working in a large data center on 5-8s until operations start. At that point with it being a critically cooled environment it’s 24/7 operation/monitoring. We’ll be working a 4on 4off shift rotating from nights to days every other month For the first several months or so until we get who’s going to be our night shift guys in the rotation. Then it’ll be just days of 4on 4off.
I’m interested in how it all goes. Definitely a change from what I’ve been use to.
I have a feeling once in the swing of things I’d vote for the more days off. Especially during hunting season.
Last edited by TravisBatey; 07/12/19 09:47 PM.
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Re: Poll
[Re: Out back]
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07/12/19 09:47 PM
07/12/19 09:47 PM
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Posts: 3,316 Autuaga County
nomercy
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10 point
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I prefer my current schedule. Go to bed when I want, wake up when I want, do what I want, go where I want and drink on the job. Seriously we need to hang out soon. We are not far from each other. You are my new Mentor. Don’t have an old one but you are my new one. I work mostly 4-10s. That’s a lacks schedule most of the time but it ramps up and shifts a lot sometimes. If I had a “normal” job. I Would probably like 14 on 14 off. Maybe not. I still vote for retire and work for myself!!just need to find a nitch.
Don't blame me for your bad decision-
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Re: Poll
[Re: nomercy]
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07/12/19 09:49 PM
07/12/19 09:49 PM
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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 30,910 Clanton, AL
Out back
Grumpy Old Man
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Grumpy Old Man
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I prefer my current schedule. Go to bed when I want, wake up when I want, do what I want, go where I want and drink on the job. Seriously we need to hang out soon. We are not far from each other. You are my new Mentor. Don’t have an old one but you are my new one. I work mostly 4-10s. That’s a lacks schedule most of the time but it ramps up and shifts a lot sometimes. If I had a “normal” job. I Would probably like 14 on 14 off. Maybe not. I still vote for retire and work for myself!!just need to find a nitch. I went through Deatsville last Saturday. I got some hunting land near Lake Jordan.
My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.
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Re: Poll
[Re: 257wbymag]
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07/12/19 10:51 PM
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Southwood7
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My hats off to you swing shift guys. Seriously that’s gotta take a huge toll on the body and mind. I don’t know if could handle it mentally. It’s not good for you long term for sure. I should be able to move into a straight day job in a year or two and I’ll be glad to give up the shift work.
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4
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[Re: Reloader79]
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07/12/19 10:52 PM
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Posts: 11,761 Saraland, Alabama
hammerhead
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Dupont schedule, no question about it I have worked shift work since 99 and it doesn't bother me one bit. I would actually rather work nights. I put in for a straight days mechanical maintenance job (4 10s) back in '14 and got it. It has had it's ups and downs...I think I have actually been back on rotating shift more than straight days due to guys quitting and having to fill in for the empty operations shift I wound up making more hourly, but lost money due to not getting built in OT. We worked the DuPont schedule at a previous employer and worked it for several years. Management changed and the O&M Manaer that took over didn't like the schedule as it allowed someone to take "vacation" without using vacation days (we could roll over unused vacation), and he figured it up and saw that we were only working about 1/2 of the year, and was still making more than he was. Being the plant only ran about 5 months out of the year, when the plant wasn't running he wanted us to work 5 8 hour shifts. We raised holy hell with him about it as we'd actually wind up losing money...5 8's or 4 10's is the same amount of hours, but you have to drive the 5th day, costing you money.
Last edited by hammerhead; 07/12/19 10:59 PM.
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Re: Poll
[Re: Reloader79]
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07/12/19 11:18 PM
07/12/19 11:18 PM
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Posts: 19,130 Chelsea, AL
straycat
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The only set schedule I've ever had was the traditional 8-5 M-F. Haven't done that since 2004. I only try to work Monday-Friday...but not uncommon for me to work from home in the evening and some on the weekends doing office stuff. I don't have a set hourly schedule. Some weeks 30 hours and some 70 hours. Just depends.
I work from the office some, on the road a lot, and from home. Family business so very flexible. Some days start at 4am...some days end at 4am. When possible I schedule work to avoid Birmingham rush hours (plural). I've only missed my boys playing a ballgame twice in 8 years....all because I was sick as death.
I work until I get enough done then I stop...if I'm not at home already then I go home. Or I travel for a few days and then work from home a bunch Or If I need a day off or time off then I just schedule it....I might work 8am to noon, take off til 8pm, then work from home until midnight.
I don't think I could ever do a set schedule but the thought of 14 days off in a row could make me change my mind.
"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever." Isaiah 40:8
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.� Samuel Adams
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[Re: Reloader79]
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07/12/19 11:32 PM
07/12/19 11:32 PM
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Posts: 18,071 Andalusia, Al. Covington Co.
DEADorALIVE
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Outback wins, hands down.
...failing that, I have a love/hate relationship with my schedule...28 days on, 12 hours a day, then 28 days off. Only working half the year is great...missing half the year at home sucks.
Well behaved women never make history.~ Out back Quit laughing...I think I broke something.
Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...
I have OCD and ADD, so everything has to be perfect, but only for a minute.
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