Mandatory extra shifts?

[nursling2013]

Hello! I am curious how many people are mandated to pick up OT shifts at their facilities? I work nightshift on a step down unit where the schedule is 6:45-7:15, three 12H shifts a week, scheduled every third weekend and on a rotating holiday schedule (where on night shift, the eve of the holiday AND the holiday count as "holiday" shifts though we only get paid holiday pay during the official holiday hours, so if I work the eve of thanksgiving and thanksgiving day, holiday pay starts at midnight on the eve and ends at midnight on the holiday. Make sense?)

Ever since I started working here three years ago, every quarter we are mandated to sign up for two extra weekend shifts; a Saturday and a Sunday, not necessarily on the same pay period. The longer I work here the more asinine it begins to feel. It is August and we are also expected to self-schedule all the way through December at this point, extra weekends included. It makes planning your life outside of work, AROUND your work schedule, a daunting task, and I don't even have kids yet. Just curious who else has had this type of experience. Is my disdain warranted or am I simply being a princess, essentially is what I'm seeking to understand.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Hello! I am curious how many people are mandated to pick up OT shifts at their facilities? I work nightshift on a step down unit where the schedule is 6:45-7:15, three 12H shifts a week, scheduled every third weekend and on a rotating holiday schedule (where on night shift, the eve of the holiday AND the holiday count as "holiday" shifts though we only get paid holiday pay during the official holiday hours, so if I work the eve of thanksgiving and thanksgiving day, holiday pay starts at midnight on the eve and ends at midnight on the holiday. Make sense?)

Ever since I started working here three years ago, every quarter we are mandated to sign up for two extra weekend shifts; a Saturday and a Sunday, not necessarily on the same pay period. The longer I work here the more asinine it begins to feel. It is August and we are also expected to self-schedule all the way through December at this point, extra weekends included. It makes planning your life outside of work, AROUND your work schedule, a daunting task, and I don't even have kids yet. Just curious who else has had this type of experience. Is my disdain warranted or am I simply being a princess, essentially is what I'm seeking to understand.

The scheduling thing sounds pretty normal to me, including the holiday scheduling. As far as the mandatory overtime, are you being paid overtime? In my last job, you would have had to work both shifts in the same pay period to get overtime.

Has your employer discussed the mandatory overtime as being temporary? Or is it a thing where, since you're working less than 40 hours in a week, they tack on an extra couple of shifts per quarter to bring up up towards 40 hours a week. (A full time 40 hour work week would include two extra shifts every SIX weeks, not every 13.) Is this how they're able to give full time pay and benefits for a shorter workweek without adding extra staff?

Really, your gig doesn't seem too onerous to me.