Dd just started a new job, is this normal

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Housekeeping. She worked 3 days then had 2 off and she just got her schedule and it says she is in for 9 days straight before her next 2 days off

Is that normal? I would be exhausted doing 9 days straight :(

I am quite a few years out of date now, but this was a similar pattern I worked as a hotel cleaner.
i actually quite liked it (after the beginning part!) I’m also autistic and just having a much longer routine was really nice, sometimes it feels like you barely get into your stride before a weekend, having the longer working was something I really learnt to enjoy.
give it some time it might be something she really likes in the end

Thankyou, thats actually reassuring.

My dh regularly works 9 days in a row - employed by a major international company

That link proves absolutely nothing.

You can opt out of the 48 hour working week, and in any case, it's an average across 17 weeks, not something that's set per week.

A) she’s probably opted out of the 48 hour weekly limit
B) it’s a 24 hour rest in 7 days or 48 in 14. She’s getting more than that
C) WTD is employment law, not H+S

Can’t believe so many experts on here are getting this wrong
the max 48 hours working week. (Which you can opt out of but this is irrelevant here) is averaged out over 17 weeks
as for rest days you can legally work 12 days in a row but it has to be followed by 2 consecutive days off

Whilst not great they are doing absolutely nothing illegal or breaking any H+S rules

It’s not even days off. If you finish at 7pm on Friday they can rota you back on from 7pm on Sunday.

Yes this was my experience of hospitality. Days off few and far between, poor pay. Working 60+ hours a week. She will have more energy than you but
yes she will have to see if it’s for her

Yeah a 48 hour consecutive break

It’s really not good, but other people I know who have worked on a monthly hours contract where they have an amount they will be on over a month but have no set shift pattern, have all had similar. She’ll probably get 2 or 3 days per week now on the next two weeks. Even a friend who works for NHS has had similar until she had a regular shift pattern. How many hours does she do per day ?

I think it’s pretty normal in hospitality, though I would be shattered too! Could she ask them to rearrange the rota?

I did housekeeping as a student and had to clean 10 rooms and bathrooms in 5 hours, despite already being slim i lost half a stone on a month from the exercise which 19 year old me was delighted about. Hard labour, yes.

It sounds normal to me, and is the usual for jobs that need staff there all the time.

I used to do a 5 over 7 shift pattern (NHS hospital porter) so I always worked 5 days in any Mon-Sun period, but sometimes those 5 days were next to the working days the following week.
But before my 10 day run, I did have 4 says off in a row.
It was just how our shift pattern worked, but by day 6 (we also had a 7 day run) I would be falling asleep in the rest room.

Very normal in health care. Also normal in the jobs I did to support myself getting my degree so I could work in health care!

She can apply for other things whilst she’s doing this. I wouldn’t assume she can’t cope.

Bully for you.

Not everyone wants to work stupid hours. Some people want a life.

I didn’t want to. I had a mortgage by then.

Working those hours contributed to me being mortgage free by 45.

I guess you can “have a life” in lots of different ways.

Dp works in the NHS and this is quite normal in his department. It happens when two rotas are run back to back so you get your days off at the start and end of each. E.g. 2 days off, 5 days on, 5 days on, 2 days off.

What the fuck are people on saying it shouldn't be exhausting, it's a physical job. Just stop.

OP it is quite normal in some sectors, hospitality and social care for example. I used to get it in retail sometimes when I was younger although it was't too common in my own experience - the rota would just work out that your days off were towards the start of the week one week and the end of the week then next. People often don't like it and rotas can contributes to high turnover.

100% this my DS is 21 working night shifts and prior to that in retail he would take overtime and worked 13 days straight (his choice) nights he opted to do 4 nights, he spends his days so busy, out and about with friends.

At 20 she will have energy to do this. See how she feels in 6-9 months and enjoy the money..

Good for you!! From a fellow grafter.

That’s still your choice.

Just because you think this young woman shouldn’t be exhausted by working nine days on the trot doesn’t make it true. We’re all allowed to feel how we feel without someone telling us we’re wrong.

Normalising long working hours, poor conditions and high workloads will not benefit the general population.

When I was a nurse I regularly worked 10 day stretches ,you could have days off at the beginning of one week and the end of another
I guess it depends where you work.

It feels as though the OP is projecting though. She hasn’t said her daughter is struggling, it’s all her fears and expectations rather than reality. A bit of resilience is not a bad thing to expect of someone at the start of their working lives.