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True. I had a interview at this print shop had a “flip shift” so you work 12 hour days starting in the am, one day off, then you come back and start in the pm. I asked them how that’s even possible (as a human) and they said “you just do it”. Obviously I didn’t take the job. Also had a tour of the production floor. Everyone looked like they had one foot in the grave.
I noticed the same thing, the people were all dead inside and outside from being worked to death.
One of my current coworkers used to do that kind of stuff. He's mid-40s now, I asked if he'd go back - even for the good money. "Hell no, I couldn't do that now" was the answer.
Still to this day I don’t get why a employer would have a flip shift other then to inflict pain onto its employees. The place runs 24/7 just have 3 shifts and stick to it. I’m sure thier excuse is that how it’s always been here. Glad the job market has changed since then.
The places I remember from my father's time ran 3 shifts, and some of the larger ones had a swing that ran 3 shifts as well, but was offset 4 hours so you'd always have coverage.
I think it boiled down to employers realizing they could cut back on shifts and have less people by overworking the people they had.
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