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I have been looking for manufacturing, assembly, production positions all over the Midwest. It's absolutely shocking how many of them want you to work rotating shifts.

Look at the image I submitted. That company wants you to work 3rd shift one week, then 2nd shift the next, then 1st shift the next, and then repeat it over and over. How in the hell is that healthy?

And this requirement for rotating shifts is prevalent in so many job ads now. WTF is going on with the world?

Full job ad here:

https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2ac8cd23b6411f88

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 192 points 7 months ago

This seems idiotic from the employer's perspective. You're limiting your pool of candidates a lot by requiring that their life can accomodate essentially 24 hours of possible shift time. Companies do shit like this and then complain "nobody wants to work anymore"

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 175 points 7 months ago

It is a selective filter. It seeks the most desperate because they will take any and all abuse.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

They also leave the milisecond they can which means the company constantly has to find replacements and retrain them. Lots of resources wasted just to abuse people rather than maximize profit by treating people better.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 14 points 7 months ago

Yeah well they have degrees or something that says it’s a good idea for profits or whatever and damn the consequences, so checkmate, prole.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is true. I once had a boss with an MBA. I am highly skilled, had a decade under my belt at the company. She once almost laid me off one year because her and another middle manager thought I didn't "fit with the team" any more.

Turns out I was just going through a divorce, was deeply depressed, and simply getting shit done and going home.

She knew but that MBA mentality just saw that I wasn't joining extra calls, putting in extra hours, volunteering to manage projects, etc. It wasn't even about department or company performance, we were in some of our best years ever. I discovered this years later after she was laid off, probably under similar circumstances. Fuck MBAs.

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

I find it awful how quickly extra work becomes normal, expected, minimum work.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I think part of the idea here is that people with options wouldn't accept such an abusive schedule in the first place.

Meaning they don't have to worry about increasing wages or providing benefits for people who work there for longer.

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