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Originally Posted by Redway
One of the benefits of working nights is that (what often seems to be the case at least) you generally work 10 to 12 hours as opposed to the daily standard (8 hours). Once you’ve done a week of those 12-hour shifts back-to-back 8-hour shifts (whenever you have to work them) don’t feel half as daunting anymore.
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I do agree with that to be fair, 9-5 still feels like a “baby shift” after a decade of sometimes working 30 hour weekends (7.30am - 10.30pm both days, 15 hour shifts, brutal). But then as you say, if I really wanted back then, I could work three full shifts and have 4 days off and still work my full hours.
They did “frown upon” that though and contracts were “over 5 days” so really they still preferred us to work 5x shorter shifts. But…
I was the one doing the rotas and the worst that ever happened was a call every 6 months to say “you shouldn’t really do that”. It was more to cover their own arses I suspect. So that if an employee claimed “unsociable hours” they could say “well that’s not our policy and we told them that”.