Just the worst. I had a job at a gym that closed at 10pm (took about 30 min after close to finish up so you got out at like 10:30) and would have to be in to open the next day at 5:30.
It was fucked and I feel your pain.
Yup. I had to do this too at a previous job. It's wears you down to the point of not even being coherent enough to do your job on the opening shift.
Yup. Had to close one evening at 10:30-ish, come in for a fucking store staff meeting at 5 am the next, and then help open at 7 and work until afternoon. Don't remember exactly when it ended because I stopped being lucid around 11:30
The assistant managers at my old work constantly had to clopen, part of why I never took a promotion. It's an alienating experience to sign off at work and not even get to enjoy that moment since you know you'll be back there soon.
I remember having to do a clopening where i finished at 9pm and had to be back at 630am. I was the only person in my department, and the nightshift crew had removed most of the signs because we were changing the produce areas. I wanted to shoot my manager.
This happens in nursing to a degree. In my state it’s illegal without express consent of the nurse to have less than 8 hours off the clock. One of the churns we had went from working 7-7 to 11-11 and would have it paired where she’d work 11-11 and then 7-7 the very next day. The hospital had forms for people to waive if they wanted overtime but never did that for her. Then there are just things like my unit director forcing all the new staff that had went to day shift to do both day and night shifts with a couple days. One of the scheduling nurses fought to prevent her original plan which would’ve been day shift and night shift just sprinkled in randomly. I got through 2 days, felt like absolute shit the entire time, injured myself from falling and then got punished complaining to one of the senior nurses about it and took the third day off and got punished again for that.
At the preschool I worked I split shift open and closed 4 days a week. Monday/Tuesday Thursday/Friday
Start at 6 making breakfast, after lunch had a 2 hour break then dinner at 5 and cleaning up to 6.
I was living at work more than at home as it was a 40min commute each way.
Bonus I got to cook vegan food for children and grew a community garden for the neighborhood the preschool was based in.
I'm sorry to hear you are suffering under this cruel practice.
Ruling class really does conspire to beleaguere the working class so that there is no time, energy, health left for activism
At least those hours allow you to get a decent sleep between shifts, potentially. I used to work at walmart and they had me on shifts sometimes 3-11 then 7-2 and that shit was horrid
best buy used to do that to me. yeah i was like "mfs are not even letting me get 8 hrs of sleep". i just asked if i should be expected to sleep in my car
i manage a very small crew and despise the clopen so much (i had to do it constantly for a decade) i twist my schedule in knots to prevent it. and if there's no mathematical way i'll just have the person or myself close early and maybe come in later so it's not as bad.
