Weekends & holidays were my best-kept duty secrets-- don't forget the part about management being mostly absent and not pestering you while you were trying to get your own work done!
Yep, and none of my fellow coworkers could ever figure out why I liked working 2nd shift, or why I volunteered to trade with them to get their holidays! Shift premiums, overtime pay, plus best of all....
NO BOSSES! Oh yeah.....and since we were located along the river......
LOTS of fishing and getting paid for it!
Not only did members of management not work on weekends, holidays, and 2nd shifts.....they couldn't even be located if we actually
did need them for something. We had to make the spur of the moment emergency decisions on everything, and then wait for the fallout on our next regular work day.......but none of the boss's threats ever had much bearing, since we'd let him drag us into
his boss's office, and then we'd turn the tables on him by informing his boss that he had refused to answer our calls, so we made the best decision we could. His boss would thank us for our efforts at trying our best to solve the problem and tell us we were free to return to our work site, and then he'd rip the boss a new one! I really liked
his boss!
The last time he played that game, he struck out. His boss gave him the ultimatum to resign or be fired.....he turned in his resignation.
Our next supervisor didn't come around at all after normal hours, but made himself available 24/7
IF we needed him....plus he was an all around great guy.
Power plant operation is a 24/7/365 deal, and the schedule has yours truly on duty. Oh well, no bosses around, extra pay and things are quiet so far. Probably spend most of the day web surfing unless the thunderstorms form up in my area.
