Quitting My Job, Selling My House, and Moving into a Cave Is Starting to Look Like an Attractive Option

Well, I just talked to the other operator, and he hates the new schedule proposal, too. The sticking point seems to be that, since we were suddenly told that we had to cover some time during the weekends, we ended up with a schedule where you're pretty much always working some portion of the weekend. Either you're working Sat. and Sun. night, or you're working during the day on Sun., or you're working Fri. evening. Now, for me, this really isn't that big of a deal. Yeah, it's not as good as having weekends off on a regular basis, but you've always got at least part of the weekend off, whatever shift you're working, which I figure does give you the opportunity to hang around and do things with normal people on their normal days off. And you're always guaranteed of having Sat. evening off (even if you might have to go in and work at midnight), which actually allows you to schedule things on a regular basis. But apparently I'm the only one who feels that way, and the other two guys would rather be working all weekend or have the whole weekend off, depending on where they are in the rotation. Which is a perfectly legitimate desire, but considering that the idea was to stick to 8-hour shifts, and considering that there has to be a reasonable gap between different shifts, I don't see any good way of doing that. Certainly not with three people, which is what we're down to at the moment. So I told both of them, hey, if you can come up with something better, for gods' sakes, do it! I kind of hope they can, if only because I'm a little afraid that I'm going to end up being cast in the role of the bad guy, since I came up with this rotation that they seem to loathe so much. Although I don't honestly know how much of that anger is just because we were all more or less led to believe that we'd probably be working the no-weekends schedule and then had that yanked from under us at the very last minute. I know I'm deeply annoyed about that.

And I'm ranting again. Sue me.