8-5 M-F

I drive an 18-wheeler. I don’t live in it full-time though, my employer calls me “regional”. Meaning I stay relatively close to home, rarely more than half a day’s drive.

I work Monday thru Friday, exact hours each day depend on what loads I’m hauling. Unless I have an early appointment, I don’t leave my house before noon on Mondays. Whatever time I get home on Friday depends on how work goes. Sometimes I’ll do some Saturday driving as well, but that’s almost always because I couldn’t make it home Friday night for some reason. Going to my house during the week happens sometimes, though that’s rare.

I’m legally limited to 11 hours of driving per day; most trucking companies see that as a target. My current employer favors a different approach: plan for 7-8 hours per day, so drivers can theoretically work as many days in a row as they want, without being forced to take a day off.

I generally push myself anyway. I’m not paid by the hour; the sooner I deliver my load, the sooner I get to go home.

I did the math… 48% of my time is pre-scheduled meetings.

I’m a 9 to 5. Sadly, tomorrow will be mentally hard. I have to explain to two managers why I can’t write a kernel driver for a device in one week while I insist the request is not reasonable.

Mostly WFH with “when I’m needed” as my schedule. Very flexible, and pretty chill. In the morning I usually catch up on my inbox, check that everything is running as it should. Then a few phonecalls. I usually have another hour in the evening to catch up with coworkers in different timezones.
When I’m doing field work it’s usually 10-12 hours days, weekends included.

I got promoted to this position after doing 12 hour shifts offshore, five weeks on, five weeks off, for ages.

It’s called something like “continental shift pattern” but I’m not totally sure.

I work 2 or 3 twelve hour day shifts. Followed by 2 or 3 night shifts. Never more than 5 shifts in a row.

Then I have 4 or 5 days off. Since I always end on a night shift I actually get off work 6 hours into my first day off at 6AM.

These are staggered in such a way that I always have two weekends fall into my days off per month.

I hate working at all but this is a schedule I “like.” Fuck 9-5 for five days with only two days off. Ew.

Default 9-5 with extreme crunch time during critical launch windows and key phases of up to a week of 18 hour days. 4-6 hours sleep, sometimes in a quiet client site room under a desk with tears in my eyes. If the launch crunch lasts more than 1 week, it goes up to 3 weeks 12-16 hour days. If it lasts more than that mutiple people critically fucked up, folks are getting fired and rollback plans, corrections new launch dates are made. Sometimes lawsuits but very rare.

Edit: time off en lieu for crunch time.

I burned out and can now barely look after myself let alone my property. Thus work for me is existing. Actual paid employment would literally destroy me. The medication doesn’t help much.

But if you want interesting shift patterns, I was once on a rotating days and nights schedule that was a lot tighter at one end than four-on, four off. Day shifts were eight hours but staff were staggered so all hours from 8am to 6pm were covered. Nights were always 8pm to 8am. (On-call and a different team covered 6pm to 8pm.)

The worst part of it was that you could finish a day shift at 6pm and need to be in work for a night shift at 8pm the following day. 26 hours to adjust. That was all.

The best part was if your night shifts ended and the recovery time led into a weekend where there was no day shift. That made for nearly a week off, which happened about three times a year.

But absolutely none of that made up for the way it messed with my sleep schedule. I thought being a night owl would make it easy. I was wrong and it severely weakened me.

And it took several years of a different but increasingly stressful (days-only) job before I broke completely.

Working from 11 am to 5 pm Monday through saturday. I really like that I do work not a lot of hours per day, but missing that one extra day off.

8:30-4:30 4 days a week, 9:30-5:30 once in a while. My “home” day varies.

2-2-3 rotation, 12 hours shifts, 3PM-3AM

So I’m on 2, off 2, on 3 (so work Monday and Tuesday, off Wednesday and Thursday, the work again Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)

Then the next week it flips, so I only work Wednesday and Thursday and I’m off the rest of the week

I think it’s just about the greatest work schedule in the world, only bummer is that our PTO is based off of 8 hour shifts since most of the other employees work that and they didn’t make any special exemption for us. It mostly pretty much averages out since we work less days overall, but it would be nice to have that work out exactly.

Parttime 3 day workweek, 20 hours a week. 4 days off.

4 on, 2 off; 8 hour overnights. It’s nice because Its easy to calculate what days I’ll be off in 2031, if I’m still in my same position.

I work from 5:30 AM till 4:30 PM Monday through Friday. They sometimes give us Mondays off to avoid paying overtime (although lately they’ve been doing Fridays which sucks cause they don’t tell us we’ll have the day off til Thursday and sometimes they’re fine paying overtime so Fridays are harder to schedule stuff on than Mondays). Breaks are at 8:45 AM for 15 minutes, 11:45 AM for 30 minutes, and then sometimes a 2:30 PM one for 15 minutes (this is hit and miss).

what’s your job?