8-5 M-F

I drive an 18-wheeler. I don’t live in it full-time though, my employer calls me “regional”. Meaning I stay relatively close to home, rarely more than half a day’s drive.

I work Monday thru Friday, exact hours each day depend on what loads I’m hauling. I’m legally limited to 11 hours of driving per day; most trucking companies see that as a target. My current employer favors a different approach: plan for 7-8 hours per day, so drivers can theoretically work as many days in a row as they want, without being forced to take a day off.

I generally push myself anyway though. I’m not paid by the hour; the sooner I deliver my load, the sooner I get to go home.

I’m a 9 to 5. Sadly, tomorrow will be mentally hard. I have to explain to two managers why I can’t write a kernel driver for a device in one week while I insist the request is not reasonable.

It’s called something like “continental shift pattern” but I’m not totally sure.

I work 2 or 3 twelve hour day shifts. Followed by 2 or 3 night shifts. Never more than 5 shifts in a row.

Then I have 4 or 5 days off. Since I always end on a night shift I actually get off work 6 hours into my first day off at 6AM.

These are staggered in such a way that I always have two weekends fall into my days off per month.

I hate working at all but this is a schedule I “like.” Fuck 9-5 for five days with only two days off. Ew.

Mostly WFH with “when I’m needed” as my schedule. Very flexible, and pretty chill. In the morning I usually catch up on my inbox, check that everything is running as it should. Then a few phonecalls. I usually have another hour in the evening to catch up with coworkers in different timezones.
When I’m doing field work it’s usually 10-12 hours days, weekends included.

I got promoted to this position after doing 12 hour shifts offshore, five weeks on, five weeks off, for ages.

I work from Monday to Friday, 8:30 till 4pm with a half-hour lunch break, 3 weeks in a row.
The fourth week I work from 9:30 till 5, and then I’m on call from 5 till midnight and all day during the weekend.
On average I get 1 call per week that requires 15-30 minutes of actual work (remote). I can live my life normally during on-call time as long as I stay sober, within cell phone range, and within a 1h drive to work in case of an emergency.
As compensation for doing on-call, I get a company car, about 20% more salary, and 12 additional vacation days, for a total of 42 days per year (plus unlimited sick days).

I did the math… 48% of my time is pre-scheduled meetings.

4 on, 2 off; 8 hour overnights. It’s nice because Its easy to calculate what days I’ll be off in 2031, if I’m still in my same position.

Parttime 3 day workweek, 20 hours a week. 4 days off.

2-2-3 rotation, 12 hours shifts, 3PM-3AM

So I’m on 2, off 2, on 3 (so work Monday and Tuesday, off Wednesday and Thursday, the work again Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)

Then the next week it flips, so I only work Wednesday and Thursday and I’m off the rest of the week

I think it’s just about the greatest work schedule in the world, only bummer is that our PTO is based off of 8 hour shifts since most of the other employees work that and they didn’t make any special exemption for us. It mostly pretty much averages out since we work less days overall, but it would be nice to have that work out exactly.

I burned out and can now barely look after myself let alone my property. Thus work for me is existing. Actual paid employment would literally destroy me. The medication doesn’t help much.

But if you want interesting shift patterns, I was once on a rotating days and nights schedule that was a lot tighter at one end than four-on, four off. Day shifts were eight hours but staff were staggered so all hours from 8am to 6pm were covered. Nights were always 8pm to 8am. (On-call and a different team covered 6pm to 8pm.)

The worst part of it was that you could finish a day shift at 6pm and need to be in work for a night shift at 8pm the following day. 26 hours to adjust. That was all.

The best part was if your night shifts ended and the recovery time led into a weekend where there was no day shift. That made for nearly a week off, which happened about three times a year.

But absolutely none of that made up for the way it messed with my sleep schedule. I thought being a night owl would make it easy. I was wrong and it severely weakened me.

And it took several years of a different but increasingly stressful (days-only) job before I broke completely.

Working from 11 am to 5 pm Monday through saturday. I really like that I do work not a lot of hours per day, but missing that one extra day off.

Totally non scheduled, sadly.

In theory I work a flexible time schedule,realistically it’s more or less 0900 to 1800, but it’s very much depending on my clients. These are based worldwide, so if I am unlucky it can happen that (remote) meetings are at 2300 or later. I am on call half of the month, if major incidents happen I got to get up, but luckily these happen infrequently.

My staff works on a fully flexible schedule unless they are on call. The only fixed dates in their workweek is a jour-fixe on Wednesday and of course client meetings. Other than that I don’t care when they work as long as stuff gets done. (My staff is fully remote anyways) People have lives and qualified staff is hard to get - and why should I make people unhappy by insiting on some fixed times that have no operational benefit to me?

Occasionally I add in a ambulance shift, these are 12h+overtime and usally 7-19 or 19-7.

Default 9-5 with extreme crunch time during critical launch windows and key phases of up to a week of 18 hour days. 4-6 hours sleep, sometimes in a quiet client site room under a desk with tears in my eyes. If the launch crunch lasts more than 1 week, it goes up to 3 weeks 12-16 hour days. If it lasts more than that mutiple people critically fucked up, folks are getting fired and rollback plans, corrections new launch dates are made. Sometimes lawsuits but very rare.

Edit: time off en lieu for crunch time.

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