Shift Patterns

[dinoboxer]

Not sure if in right place but maybe someone can help me. I am trying to change a shift pattern from 12hr shifts DDDNNNRRR to NNNDDDRRR .N=Nights 6pm-6am, D=Days6am-6pm, R=Rest. There are three teams of 2 persons. Problem is I finish on nights at 6am on my first Rest Day so spend most of my first Rest Day in bed and cannot go out on evening of my last Rest Day due to early start on my first day back at 6am. If I could change it around I would finish my last day at 6pm thus giving me the night to sleep without affecting my first Rest day and I could go out on my last Rest Day cos I would be starting my shift cycle on Nights 6pm Can anyone see a way to change this

[buildersmate]

Sounds great idea if you could persuade your employer to do this. However ........
The reality is that unless you restart the second cycle of 9 days by working from 6pm on the EVENING of your 3RD Rest day, your proposed cycle actually takes up 10 days, not 9. To be able to work this nightshift, you'd have to sleep much of the third rest day.
Its swings and roundabouts - you can't spirit time from nowhere.

[Yorky Lass]

I must be missing something. If you worked NNNDDDRRR when would you sleep after your 3rd N shift, you are straight back to work.

[buildersmate]

Exactly YL - I took that as impossible to work a 24 hr shift, so assumed the first D (after the 3Ns) was the following day. Its then after the Rest days that the restart of the 3Ns has to occur on the evening of the 3rd Rest day.