It's a valid concern. Hence the incoming max 60hr working week - yes, there'll still be exemptions for 'exceptional circumstances' or whatever, but the days of routinely working 6 x 12 will soon be gone.
Never topped 70 as a 7, but then I hardly did any OT. You must be doing a fair bit of RDW to reach 80+.
Has your route been recruiting lots of extra bodies in preparation for the max 60hr working week? We have, and there's historically low levels of OT as a result. Most of the boxes in my area are now either fully-staffed, or have enough trainees to provide full staffing once Covid allows them to finish training.
It's good you aren't reliant on OT 'cos I fear those who do are in for a rude awakening over the next year or so.
Hear you re 12s but even if you manage a decent night's kip, working 6 x 12 week after week can't fail but wear you down after a while. One of my former colleagues working this kind of schedule had several incidents at work, nearly crashed his car a couple of times (1hr commute each way) and ended up needing time off for health reasons (although the latter may have happened regardless).
Punishing.
Regards fatigue, I wouldn’t say it’s the actual work that’s tiring it’s the people you have to work with an their drama that grinds you down.
Im sure you’ll know if you have a bad shift on it feels like a 18hr shift not 12!
An extremely rare external opportunity (well two) at Gloucester Panel, Grade 7.
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I think fatigue is only an issue if you’re not managing your free time effectively. Us on 12h rosters know the day is pretty much written off and when you finish you’re probably going straight to bed on either rotation.
But agreed some of these figures are mad. I would recommend nobody to rely on overtime to sustain your livelihood!
I agree with you, off nights I’m not up until circa 1500hrs and days I’m home, food, hour of tv if I can stay awake then bed. I do hate days with a passion though, I can easily do 6 nights with no issue, but after day 3 I’m the walking dead!
With regards to pay and attracting the “wrong sort” ie those who don’t care, we’ve enough of those who’ve been doing the job since BR. It’s nice to see the odd new body come in who is actually interested, but that is soon knocked out of them by the old boys who simply don’t care anymore, along with a fair number of younger blokes.