Tundras live: Dad jokes whether you like them or not (TLDR)

Yep, but it's still work. At least most days. I might need two lunches and a nap today, though.

 

Can't beat that commute, eh?

 

The boys have learned to start crying as soon as I climb into bed. The one guy has also decided he will no longer take a bottle. So I fed the one at 11 then spent an hour trying various ways to convince the other one to eat. Then of course he was up by 4 because he was hungry again.

 

It's great. If I have to change out of my P.J.'s, it's jeans, tee, and ball cap instead of something more presentable. I will actually get work done, even in my less than crispy state; which would have been much more difficult today having to wake up early and go into the office. I fell out of bed 30 minutes ago, and lunch can actually be followed by a power nap without anyone looking sideways.

 

Yes
That’s good stuff too

 

There'll be a few memories that stick in all of that, though. Probably already are some... I have a few from when my son was a baby, and I don't remember the groggy disappointment at having to get up for it.

 

Luckily our attire is fairly lax. Just needs to be clean and moderately presentable. T and jeans is my go to, with a beanie or a ball cap. I do like the separation of work from home, though. Doesn't hurt that my commute is short. I might change my tune if I had a 30+ minute drive to the office.

 

Seriously, pitch it to your coworkers to see if they'd like it, and then you guys can pitch it to the bosses. The OT reset might even make them happy. It takes 4 bodies to fill a position and we've been running this schedule 5 years and not had anyone burn out on it. If they added a couple extra people to our department to cover sick/vacation it would be absolutely perfect. Even skeleton crewed, we have made it work and cover stuff because we love the schedule.

Best schedule to cover a job 24/7 IMO. We work 12 hour shifts with the 7 on 7 off, so in a 28 day rotation I work 7 day shift from 6AM-6PM and 7 nights from 6PM to 6AM. The week between flipping the schedule makes it way less brutal to do the shift work life. Only "downside" is that we work Wednesday to Tuesday and OT resets at midnight Saturday night/Sunday morning. Small price to pay for essentially working 6 months of the year.


Imagine the adventures you would have with every other week off?

 

LOL. And now that guy makes candy condoms in the mid-west?

 

True, not a physical job, but still would take it. In your 2.5-3.5 transitions do you feel like you get to have actual rest time or is it just the BS of trying to flip the schedule? Not familiar with the "pitman schedule" at all. Can you elaborate?

 

I've worked at two sites now that do 2 (or 3) days then 2 (or 3) nights then 4 (or 5) off. Days are grouped into Monday/Tuesday, Wednesday/Thursday and Friday/Saturday/Sunday. So you work two of those "groups" then have two off.

All indications are that it's tough on your body but I wonder if it works a little better for the folks who have families. A little easier to only sleep through two days of your kids' lives at a time instead of 7, maybe? That's the only reason I can think of that they don't switch to the schedule you describe since one of our other sites is actually on the 7 on 7 off.

 

I mean someone has to do it. I can never open a candy wrapper anymore and not think of @LarryDangerfield

 

This is absolutely something to consider. You, for example, would probably not like it. To be fair, your particular parenting situation is not the norm, though. 3 of the 4 of us that did this job for the last 4 years were married and had kids, and they still loved it. If you sleep 8 hours you still get 4 hours a day with the rug rats. Is that much less than if you work a 9-5?

A few months back we did have a shakeup where one got fired, along with an employee in a different position. One of the people in my position applied for and moved to the other position to fit better with weekly pool and darts league stuff. The other one in my position moved back home to a different state, so I am the last of the original people in the position with 3 new ones. So far everyone loved the schedule.

 

I worked as a maintenance mechanic in a manufacturing plant. It was (2) 12 hr shifts. 7am-7pm/7pm-7am.
It was a dedicated day and night crew.
I forget exactly, but they would stagger the days. 5 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, etc. Something like that. So one week you'd have OT and the next would be just shy of 40 hrs.
It was a physical job. Not to mention 12 hr shifts. I was 25.
No way in hell I could swing that now.
6:30-3, M-F. In bed at 8:30 every night.
I'm good.

Edit: there also weren't "weekends". It ran 7 days a week and your on/off days were staggered.

 

Love my rotating shift, I've talked about it before but we've got some newish people in here.
I only work 7 nights in the 5 week rotation, broke up into two groups. The 4th week is 4, 8 hour days and the 5th week you're off. It's awesome using 32 hours of leave to get 15 days off.
Not to mention, shift differential, built in overtime and triple time for worked holidays.

Adam thinks I'm crazy but it works awesome for us.

 

Why does the driver never die in these crashes?

 

Well, the fat rat got smarter last night. Finally went after the peanut butter in a trap. Trap snapped, but lucky bastard flipped right out. Looked a bit stunned, but not injured.

Frak…

 

I've always asked that same question and 99.9% of the time the driver is drunk. It sucks that the innocent people always die.

 

Just checked my app setup - you can simply add another door sensor

 

Probably but only if eaten out of a belly button...

 

Even from a belly button, no coffee for me.

 

I used to have a '92 Ford E350 van. The floor behind one of the rear wheel wells had a 2" hole rotted through, so I just kept a rubber floor mat over it. I parked it next to the dumpsters in the back lot one day and left my lunch bag in it. I went to get my bag at lunch time and there was a hole chewed through the bottom corner, my snickers had been pulled out, and there was an empty snickers wrapper and a bunch of rat turds on the driver's side floor. You little bastard.
The next day, I pull into my driveway after work and a big Norway rat waddled it's fat ass across the front of the garage door and disappeared around the side.
That sonavabitch climbed up my back tire at work, through the floor, ate my goddam snickers, then hitched a ride back to my house and moved into my effin garage!
I tried every trap known to man. I bought the biggest sticky traps made. I would find them flipped over and on the other side of the garage with big rat prints in them. He'd step on them and shake them off like he had TP stuck to his shoe. Giant old school traps for rats? I'd find them tripped and flipped over, with the peanut butter gone. Poison? Every kind. Never touched.
I even had a live animal trap set up because after a year of him shitting all over everything and only chewing up paperwork that I had stored in boxes (not to eat or used for a nest, just to chew it up to be an asshole), I decided I wanted him alive, so I could look him in the eyes as I drown him in the pond.
Never went near the trap, no matter where I put it or what bait I used.
I even made an electrified trap. Never went near it.
After a 3 yr war with this prick, I was cleaning the garage and found him dead in the corner, behind a set of tires. Died of old age.
I was so pissed because I wanted to kill that bastard.

 

I don't know why but that's some funny shit there!