Anyone here working a 3 day/12 hour shift? What kind of job is it?

[Red Squirrel]

I worked as a paramedic 6x12 hours, 3 days followed by three nights, with 3 days off. It is a tough shift, and the lack off sleep gets to you very fast. The 3 off days just isn't enough to recover.

This would generally, as you can do the maths, come down to 21 working days a month, for which my boss payd normal wages. That is 252 hours normal wages. Anything over would be considered OT.

This comes down to around 63 hour weeks. I would have given anything to work just 3 days a week. The other thing is, on the quiet nights, we are not allowed to sleep at all, or you will be sacked, so the nights really gets long.

I worked in a small village, basically just running granny cases and mvas, so there were quite a few quiet nights.

I found it difficult to cope with, so had to leave the company, but the crews that stay behind continue, because it is an income and work is scarce. So know choice.

Conclusion, overworked and underpaid leads to mental and physical problem and lots off family related stress.

I think police here do something similar but 2 days 2 nights. I don't know why they can't just do steady days or steady nights. That split in the middle where you go from days to nights would suck because you're basically losing a day. I would rather just work 6 nights in a row one time, then 6 days in a row the next so the time off can all be together. Your first day off after a night is basically not a day off because you have to sleep.

 

[who?]

At the tortilla plant where I used to work we did 3 pm to 530 am for a few weeks but even with three days off when we had overtime and four days when we didn't the personnel director couldn't find anybody who wanted the jobs so we went back to five eight hour days. The first day off was a recovery day.

 

[Exterous]

I worked as a paramedic 6x12 hours, 3 days followed by three nights, with 3 days off. It is a tough shift, and the lack off sleep gets to you very fast. The 3 off days just isn't enough to recover.

I've always thought it was a bit odd to have paramedics, nurses, etc working such long shifts. You hear all the time about how being tired causes mistakes and then hear about paramedics, nurses etc being incredibly tired. Seems like a fair bit of risk to have long shifts like that