I love a challenge, but it needs to be realistic.
Quite frankly, what I am expected to do now is taking the piss. Before Covid, there would be 6 of us on night shift, making sure everything is done. Obviously some nights there were less due to holidays, but always at least 4.
Now it's just been me for 2 of the last shifts and at least 2 of the next. I had the luxury of 2 of us for the last 2 nights which helped enormously.
Add in additional stuff needed on aircraft due to Covid, recording it all (pointless and labourious methods) and it simply can't be done. Then you get your arse chewed because something utterly trivial didn't get done.
I leave every morning now with what some analysts would call PTSD, don't remember getting in the car, the drive home, whether I ran a red light, took two wheels over a roundabout anything. Home, some beer, bed, get up, eat something, repeat.
I left at 0712 this morning as the bloke who takes over didn't turn up until 0647 (standard informal agreement is 0630) was in a foul mood and just ranted about how much extra we have to do now. He's right, but I was in at 1750 yesterday to make sure he could get away on time, so it fell on deaf ears. Home, a few beers, no alarm set. Didn't wake up until 8pm.
I will be making a phone call to the big boss tomorrow, if he listens and accepts my reasoning and does something about it then fine, if he doesn't then he's gonna start receiving a lot of resignations from the people who were chosen to stay. It's wrong.
