Can anybody help me with shift patterns?
I have been offered a job where the work is four on/four off and the working week is Monday to Sunday. But looking on a calendar it appears that many weeks I would only be working for three days and at one point it looks as if you would only be working for three days a week for three weeks in a row.Is this the way it works or have I just picked it up wrong?
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Is it straight days or shifts. Mon, Tue, Wed, Thurs work and Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon off start the cycle. You would get to Friday being your first day of the working shift pattern after four days off but you would have worked the Sunday, so you would have done only 3 in that week (Sunday, Friday and Saturday as the following Sunday belongs to the next week shift pattern) but presumably you get a fixed wage and can work on the agency on some days off !
With 4 on 4 off your start day rolls on a day every week so 1st week you start on a Monday, 2nd week Tuesday, 3rd week Wedsnesday etc etc. It will involve quite a few weekends though but it’s good for time off but it depends how you are paid.
The job is Tramping on a rolling rota ! start day being a Monday
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The job is Tramping on a rolling rota ! start day being a Monday
So are you salaried ? if so then you are on a good number i suppose but not much fun nighting out over the weekend.
Nope its paid by the hour !
Davis’s in Crewe do this four on. four off thing. Not my cup of tea as you will end up working four consecutive Saturdays and presuming there’s no overtime days available some weeks you will only be getting paid for three days’ work, but I am sure the holiday aspect will make up for it in that if you put four days in you are actually off for twelve!!
I love doing 4 on four off,
It was a bit of a struggle at first having to work fri to mon,and nighting out,
But i love it now, so much less traffic at a weekend,
And easier to get parked up.
I wouldn’t want to go back to mon to fri unless i had too
Olog Hai:
…some weeks you will only be getting paid for three days’ work…
This is the problem with this pattern, i once was offered a job at Samworth Bros but it was this shift pattern and again paid hourly and the weeks with 3 days in can be pretty poor.
I’m sure it can be made up with o/t though.
Bedworth haulage also run that shift pattern on there containers… But that’s a set wage a week with extra days available so you can make your money up!
Hourly 4 on 4 off would strike me as strange for the scale, but then I guess some weeks youl get paid 5days instead of 4?!
I work 4 on 4 off for DHL and like you say some days you only work 3 days, but what most companies do is even it out over the year so you get the same wage each month/ week , well that’s how It works for me
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Yes you’re right about the three day weeks.
I used to work 4 on 4 off for Sainsbury’s at Hams Hall & whilst the other drivers were on 45hr weeks (o/t after) us 4 on 4 off lads were on 42hr weeks as this is what you average if you’re working 12hr shifts 4 on 4 off (due to the 3 day weeks,3 days being in one calendar week & 1 day being in either the previous or following week).
Cracking shifts though with plenty of opportunity for o/t and after your holidays (your allowance will be less due to your rota,at Sainsbury’s the lads got 33 days whilst us 4 on 4 off men only had 25 days) you only work somewhere in the region of 154 (iirc) days per year,excluding any o/t days.
The weekends can be a pain but at least you can work your calendar out for the year & know when you’re available for socialising & when you’re not. On my 4 day weekends you wouldn’t see me for dust but when my 4 off fell in the week it’d be two o/t days still followed by two off, happy days! Also if you plan your holidays correctly you can have 12 days off & only use 4 days holiday or even 20 days off & only use 8 days holiday.
Wish my current employer would offer me 4 on 4 off I’d ■■■■■■ his hand off!
FLIP:
Yes you’re right about the three day weeks.Wish my current employer would offer me 4 on 4 off I’d ■■■■■■ his hand off!
same here!!! would love that!!!
FLIP:
Wish my current employer would offer me 4 on 4 off I’d ■■■■■■ his hand off!
Me too and it has been suggested but the pay would have to be right.
Sorry to query, but why wouid it be three days on some weeks as others have said above.
When I did my proper job at (Tottenham Court Road LU station upgrade) we worked a rolling rota 6 on 2 off which was also separated by one of them week’s was days and the following week’s was on nights.
So for me it went:
Started on a Monday, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri, Sat on days then Sun, Mon off
Then nights Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon then Tues, Weds off
Then back on to days Starting Thurs etc, etc
So surely if you are doing four on, four off, then that is the same pattern as bald bloke said…
Or am being stupid. Which is very likely 
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Constantine:
… but why wouid it be three days on some weeks…
Because for example you might be off Mon Tues Weds Thurs then back in for Fri Sat Sun Mon but the Monday would fall in the following working week therefore a 3 day week and quite a lot of them too.
I suspect employers are using these shift patterns to comply with the W.T.D
mike68:
I suspect employers are using these shift patterns to comply with the W.T.D
Yes and that’s why we do 5 on 3 off it keeps your hours down.
tonyb70:
I love doing 4 on four off,
It was a bit of a struggle at first having to work fri to mon,and nighting out,
But i love it now, so much less traffic at a weekend,
And easier to get parked up.I wouldn’t want to go back to mon to fri unless i had too[/quote
i agree, 5 on 3 off and i love it, was asked not to long ago if i wanted to go on monday to friday with my own truck, i said no our weekend work is given to us on friday and unless something goes wrong we are left alone to do it, motorways are easier to it helps if your monthly paid too