to be annoyed at our shitey employers again?!?!

[dizzydixies]

for the past 8yrs DH and I have worked shifts and when the clocks change its just the luck of the draw how it affects you, for example if you're nightshift when they go back you have to work the extra hour but if you're early shift you get an extra hour in bed.

there was no change in hours and no pay amendment - was just your luck. So of course poor DH has been practically every year working the extra hour as the nightshifts are 7days long. They've changed the shift patterns last year and lo and behold is nights tonight when the clocks go forward for a change just a small thing but makes a huge difference in a 10hr shift!

BUT this year they've decided that they shouldn't be getting something for nothing and are making them all come in an hour early to start their shift to make up for it

gits what a bunch of miserable sods and frankly poor DH who never complains about anything

anyway, there you go, rant over, as you were

What about the people already working... do they get to go home early, if the next shift is coming in an hour early.

Seems a bit mad to me... previous method of doing things as you explained it sounds much better. Maybe some people moaned about that though, thus they are trying something different. Whatever they do people will moan, as someone will lose an hour, or work an hour longer.

no there is an overlap of late/night shifts and the late shift finish at 2am conveniently

miserable sods.

I always seemed to end up working both shifts - if it was the extra hour we got lucky and got paid for the extra hour. However we always put down 9 1/4 hours on the time sheet when the clocks went the other way - they never picked up on the fact that we were paid for an hour that we didn't do as it was the "normal" number of hours

they don't have a choice unfortunately and when they raised it as a complaint they were told basically to suck it up or they'd be made to work to rule like they don't already AND more

ahh well we were lucky at the time sheets went up to the 24th of each month, so invariably the clock change shift was right at the start of the new time sheet. I don't think it dawned on them a month later when they processed the time sheets that one of those regular 9 1/4hr shifts was actually when we lost an hour .

For the 10 1/4hr ones we always used to put a little note next to it saying "clocks changed" (or words to that effect) to make sure they did remember.

DH is salaried so doesn't do time sheets otherwise am sure they'd do the exact same thing

any overtime they work the first 1/2hr is unpaid too so it wouldn't be worth their while

miserable gits

was the only time we were paid for "overtime" - I would frequently leave an hour later than my shift finished but if I put it down on the time sheet wouldn't get paid.

bastards

just right FAQ

bastards indeed

Dizzydixies - YANBU - this happened to me when I worked 12 hour shifts! So I'd end up working a 13 hour shift grrr! And because I was salaried, I would not get any extra - yet the shift operators who were hourly paid would!
'Tis crap!

apparently some of them didn't bother but poor DH did bless him then got held on this morning so was even more shattered