Man what a day at work. Back to the grind after the usual seven days off and all hell breaks loose. People everywhere losing there jobs and total mayhem. What the f#%k is going on!
A Little Background:
About six years ago upper management came up with this wise move to get more production out of us by going to a 12 hour rotating shift. There would be 4 crews, 2 AM and 2 PM, alternating weeks. We would work 3 days on 1 day off, 3 days on 7 days off. Work days would be Thurs, Fri, Sat, off Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed, off 7 . Pissed everybody off because they cut our pay 10% off the bat because we worked 36 hrs and got paid for 36 so that was 4 hrs less than what we were used to getting paid for.
Anyway everybody kinda buckled down, went to work, quit their bitchin and got to liking these hours and the 7 days off. Hell you could go on a vacation every other week if you wanted to (and you had the cash).
(Well known national "corporation" buys out family owned business in 2003 but does not offically take over under it's name until January 2004).
Now fast forward to September 2003. Plant busy as hell. Memo goes up--mandatory overtime until further notice. Now we're working 7 on 7 off.
October 2004. New owners decide we are going back to an 8 hr, 3 shift, 5 day work week after working 24 hrs a day 7 days a week for over a year. The new hours start January 1st. That meant they had a whole crew of people that were going to lose their jobs and that came today. What a bitch. But I guess it was better than waiting until Christmas.
I'm going to miss those seven days off.
At least I still have a job.
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