Dzimm Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Well I'm pissed. I've been working for Kreg Tool for quite some time on 1st shift working 7-3:30 every Monday-Friday. Perfect schedule for me. The "higher ups" have now decided to run on weekends and to get rid of temporary employees. This has caused them to change up the scheduling and the options they gave us are terrible. The options they offer are all rotating 10s or rotating 12s. This also has the packaging employees only getting 13 weekends off per year! This then leaves my department, of 6 employees, with less than that since we have to be here if there are packaging employees working!! My question is, have any of you worked rotating shifts and how hard is it to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowey Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Well I'm pissed. I've been working for Kreg Tool for quite some time on 1st shift working 7-3:30 every Monday-Friday. Perfect schedule for me. The "higher ups" have now decided to run on weekends and to get rid of temporary employees. This has caused them to change up the scheduling and the options they gave us are terrible. The options they offer are all rotating 10s or rotating 12s. This also has the packaging employees only getting 13 weekends off per year! This then leaves my department, of 6 employees, with less than that since we have to be here if there are packaging employees working!! My question is, have any of you worked rotating shifts and how hard is it to do that? Which kind of rotating? Day to night and back or rotating days off? I did rotating day to nights when I was young. I wouldn't do it now with kids and being older. I never felt like I slept enough and it seemed like too many accidents happened on rotation days. Rotating days off is what production does where I am now. Not working when all the 8-5 places are open would be nice at times. The older guys handle it alot better than the young people. Alot of call offs on Saturdays and Sundays from the youngins. Sent from my SM-S920L using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzimm Posted August 21, 2017 Author Share Posted August 21, 2017 Which kind of rotating? Day to night and back or rotating days off? I did rotating day to nights when I was young. I wouldn't do it now with kids and being older. I never felt like I slept enough and it seemed like too many accidents happened on rotation days. Rotating days off is what production does where I am now. Not working when all the 8-5 places are open would be nice at times. The older guys handle it alot better than the young people. Alot of call offs on Saturdays and Sundays from the youngins. Sent from my SM-S920L using Tapatalk The options have both rotating days off and rotating days/nights. I would consider rotating days but most of the options are rotating days/nights. Children seem to be the biggest factor in this situation. Everyone I've talked to with children straight up said they can't work rotating. One of the guys in my department is a single dad and pointed out that there are no daycares open that long or at night. For me, I'm only 22 but hoping to get Married, buy a house, and start a family in the next year so going to rotating shifts will make that extremely difficult. Especially since my girlfriend works basically the same schedule as me already (6-3). I understand why they need to do it but it sucks for everyone who has setup their lives around this schedule for so many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowey Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Which kind of rotating? Day to night and back or rotating days off? I did rotating day to nights when I was young. I wouldn't do it now with kids and being older. I never felt like I slept enough and it seemed like too many accidents happened on rotation days. Rotating days off is what production does where I am now. Not working when all the 8-5 places are open would be nice at times. The older guys handle it alot better than the young people. Alot of call offs on Saturdays and Sundays from the youngins. Sent from my SM-S920L using Tapatalk The options have both rotating days off and rotating days/nights. I would consider rotating days but most of the options are rotating days/nights. Children seem to be the biggest factor in this situation. Everyone I've talked to with children straight up said they can't work rotating. One of the guys in my department is a single dad and pointed out that there are no daycares open that long or at night. For me, I'm only 22 but hoping to get Married, buy a house, and start a family in the next year so going to rotating shifts will make that extremely difficult. Especially since my girlfriend works basically the same schedule as me already (6-3). I understand why they need to do it but it sucks for everyone who has setup their lives around this schedule for so many years. My department doesn't have the rotating schedule, we don't have attendance problems or issues with performance. But.. it's very expensive to start and stop the extruders over and over, so that is why production works the rotating schedules. The people that have been doing it a long time tell me it's nice when you need to take care of appointments or legal/bank stuff. You know ahead of time when you will have a weekday available to do that stuff. They work a 2/2/3 schedule here. One group works Monday,Tuesday, then has Wednesday, Thursday off, then works Friday,Saturday,Sunday one week. Then reverses it the next. The other group works the opposite schedule. So they still get a three day weekend every other week. 12 hour shifts for day and night crews. Sent from my SM-S920L using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzimm Posted August 21, 2017 Author Share Posted August 21, 2017 My department doesn't have the rotating schedule, we don't have attendance problems or issues with performance. But.. it's very expensive to start and stop the extruders over and over, so that is why production works the rotating schedules. The people that have been doing it a long time tell me it's nice when you need to take care of appointments or legal/bank stuff. You know ahead of time when you will have a weekday available to do that stuff. They work a 2/2/3 schedule here. One group works Monday,Tuesday, then has Wednesday, Thursday off, then works Friday,Saturday,Sunday one week. Then reverses it the next. The other group works the opposite schedule. So they still get a three day weekend every other week. 12 hour shifts for day and night crews. Sent from my SM-S920L using Tapatalk We have that schedule as one of the options. For us it doesn't cost really anything to start and stop production, the only reason we need weekends is to keep up with production since the company is growing so fast. I work in the injection molding department setting up machines and decoupling molds, etc. Basically every department on the floor has to move to this rotating schedule. In order to even do it they have to nearly double our workforce or none of us in molding, the tool makers, machine shop, will get the time off since we are such small departments and have to be here. Yet they keep touting that they are cutting the workforce need down and won't have to hire many more employees. More than 70% of our company has been here for 10-15 years or more. Changing things so drastically is really pissing people off and people are worried about everyone quiting. The worst part is that they are telling us there is no plan to change the pay at all. So we go from these great schedules to crappy ones without a pay raise. In molding we already make way less than any other injection molding company around here pays, I'm talking an average of $10/hour less than average starting wage in the industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyComanche Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Just tell them no and quit if there isn't any way around it. I work random hours/days and honestly am at the point where I've fairly much decided it has ruined my life. Rotating days and days/nights would be basically the same but with a little more notice, but absolutely wouldn't be worth it without substantially more pay than with the same job on a set schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnj92131 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 I worked at a plant that ran 24 hours a day. We rotated from 3 different shifts every 2 months. 2 months on day, 2 months on swing and 2 months graveyard. You do get used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeeppapa Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 I worked the rotating shifts in the really screws will your biological clock. When I worked night shifts we did get 1.35 an hour bump in pay. Sleep is the big issue. Continue to work the job and use us day time hours trying to get a different job. At least you have some daytime hours to get to some interviews. Don't make the move until you get the job that you want. Remember the only stress worse then work is not working. Best of luck. I sure liked those three day weekends though. Got a lot accomplished. Who knows you might like it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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