I’ve worked 2nd (afternoon), swing (evening), and 3rd (overnight) shifts for the majority of my life. I recently moved into a training position where I’m Monday through Friday, 8am to ~5:30pm (I get OT while I’m cleaning up and writing reports).

As much as the 2nd/swing/3rd shifts screw with your life in other ways, the difficulty in scheduling any kind of life services outside of working hours is maddening. Doctor’s appointment? Nope. DMV? Maybe Saturday, if you’re lucky. Chaperone your kids field trip? Hahahhah no.

I don’t want to burn sick time for a doctor’s appointment (I need to save those for when my kid is actually sick), and I sure as hell don’t want to use up a “vacation” day for it. How tf are you supposed to get anything done?

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    2 hours ago

    Burn PTO. Already get up at 6 to get the kids off to school, straight to work, straight to dinner, pick one chore until i pass out, get up at 6

      • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Eh that makes it a complete solution, but there’s a lot of daily tedium that can be knocked out with a cell phone, and in some cases dipping out to swing by whatever shop/service is viable

        Not that I’m suggesting it’s easy or that corpo culture isn’t broken. Just my personal best answer

        • coolfission@lemmy.world
          1·
          30 minutes ago

          what about stuff like cooking, cleaning, laundry? Also in-person appointments like doctor, dentist, vets (if you have pets), car maintenance, etc? Banking and scheduling these appts you can do completely remotely but everything else requires being in-person

  • lukaro@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    A lot of late afternoon appointments and ducking out of work an hour or two early. Burn through pto for out of town appointments.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I run errands on the way home from work. Dr. Appts on weekends though I don’t go much. That’s just me though, having kids shit added in to my life sounds awful.

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours ago

    I do 12 hour shifts, 3 days on 3 off then 4 on 4 off pay periods. The 3 days off don’t feel like enough so I don’t know how people work with 2 days off. 12 hour shifts do make it hard to do anything when I get home though.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
    13·
    4 hours ago

    I work from home, and I’m paid based on various billable tasks. I work up to three times as fast as they think those tasks should take, and I only really work from 11am-3pm most days.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
    231·
    4 hours ago

    This is why the rich don’t understand how the poor “can’t work”. They have kids yo. And lower end jobs oftenhave very strict hours. But the upper end jobs have lots of flexibility. And the rich of course just don’t volunteer at their kids school, or they have a parent home with the kids to do all those things.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      4 hours ago

      Last month, I was looking for advice for burnout.

      The advice I found was inevitably “take a leave of absence from work and get a therapist.”

      What a sick fucking joke.

        • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Wonderful combo that.

          Maybe this is my pedantry showing – I would say not THC alone, but cannabis in general. I like my THC at a low-ish level, and balanced out by the other cannabinoids and terpenes, for a full-spectrum entourage effect.

    • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 hours ago

      That’s a weird way to pronounce “we’re an abusive workplace and I advise you to form a union.”

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Lol fuck that. It was either a really shit pahing job or a really high paying job. If it was inbetween tat company fuck can jump off a cliff.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Block it in your public calendar as “doctor’s appointment” weeks in advance, so nobody schedules a meeting with you at that time. And send an email to your boss so they have it in writing.

    Be prepared to show the receipt to hr the day of, for documentation.

    Other things like friends meetups, laundry, grocery shopping happen after work and on weekends.

  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 hours ago

    Doctor’s appointments are considered as showing up to work in my country so people don’t go undiagnosed for years before it gets worse. Anyways I don’t have a life as well. I just do things that are possible to do in the evening (gym, studying, meeting friends). Weekends are for errands. Fuck life