I’m dod and just recently came off mids after 36 years of various rotating schedules. The main thing I learned is that nothing sucks like straight mids.
Straight shifts that rotate every week are great…until you hit that mid week. 5 mids in a row is a killer. Did this schedule for years and it was probably the worst of them all.
Ok but have worked the rattler? 1300-2100...9 hours off...0600-1400....8.5 hours off..2230-0630.
Sounds like my hell. I would much much rather work a straight line of any sort. Days swings or mids. No rotating shifts. No rotating RDOs.
Yeah I’ve worked all three shifts every week. Did that for years too. I’ll say this. There’s a difference between a controller body in its 30s and early 40s and a controller body in its mid 40s and beyond. Those rotating shift hit differently. But I’m 60 and I’d still rather work multiple shifts than straight mids. But to each his own.
I would be forced to work nights/mids for the next ten years probably.
Rattler isn’t even bad if you respect it. If you come off an off days freight into a mid that’s impossible. What am I supposed to do on my Sunday? Try to sleep all afternoon? You’d never be able to anyways. Great idea of a weekend.
The rattler helps lower seniority people. I'm higher seniority, but I still favor the rattler.
Depending on your home life the rattler really isn't that bad. I go to bed approximately the same time on my Fri night, Sat night, Sun night, Mon night, Tue night. Wed and Thur night I go to bed about an hour earlier without the mid... obviously with the mid that is out the window but still 4-5 days a week I go to bed at around the same time.
That's what I do, although I try to swap my Friday to the earliest shift. 2-10, 2-10 2-10, 1-9, then ideally 8-4 if I can swap my last 1-9
I wake up maybe 1-2 hours earlier than normal if I get that 8-4... Usually get a 10-6 and has no change in my sleep schedule. Sleep midnight to 8 am most nights
Reading is hard for some people 😂
I been saying this forever, gotta fix staffing from the low levels up. It’s the only way it’ll truly get fixed one day. And yeah, I’m glad they’re “paying attention” to fatigue, but this is a bandaid on a steel cable that doesn’t address to the root cause.
Nah, let’s hire direct all facilities! Let’s fix the staffing at the source! Down with trickle up staffanomics!
We should be doing every option at this point
Yeah I remember all of the idiots lining up for the poke for a time off reward
Someone is salty they didn't get magnetic powers
