Leo wrote:

> On 2020 Feb 7, , cshenk wrote
> (in >):
>
> > Shift work is something I did for ages. Worst was the '2/2/80's' of
> > the Navy RM community. It works out to 195 hours a month (once you
> > add in turnover time) vs 160 a month. The 160 a month get holidays,
> > the 2/2/80 folks do not get any holidays.
>
> When I was in my early twenties, I worked in a naval munitions making
> facility. It was during the Viet Nam war, and we occasionally worked
> six days of ten hours for a month at a time. I was a production
> worker, worked 60 hours a week, and got overtime for every day that
> we worked over eight hours. I hated it.
> Then I was recruited into a critical position, at the time, because
> of my degree and ran a swing shift at the chem lab. I was paid the
> same as if I was still in production, but I didnt care at the time.
> We worked seven days a week for eight hours a day for a couple of
> months. Thats only 56 hours a week and paid a lot less than six tens.
> For two months, I got up every day and went to work for eight hours.
> It was a relentless, bleak time for an unmarried young man who
> enjoyed an €œoccasional€� beer and rare smile from a lady who wasnt
> working for them. I didnt miss an hour of work.
>
> leo

Ah, over time pay would have been lovely but no, I was military.
Probably the worst part of that time was the treatment by the M-F 8
hour shift folks (who rarely did the full 8 hours).