Mandated overtime and a rotation that covers every hour
A facility runs every hour of every day, and when the next shift is short you do not go home. Mandated overtime is the defining feature of the schedule for most officers, and it is the part no rota shows.
The schedules this actually has to cope with
Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.
Rotating twelves
Days and nights in blocks, covering every hour of the week.
Pitman or similar
A fortnightly cycle giving every other weekend off — one of the few that lines up with the calendar.
Mandated overtime
Held over because the next shift is short. Not optional and not predictable.
Holiday coverage
Assigned, because the facility does not close.
What it sounds like at home
- “I get mandated and my family finds out when I do not come home.”
- “Nights mean I am asleep while the house is awake.”
- “My family cannot remember which weekend I have off.”
- “Holidays get assigned and everyone else plans as though they are mine.”
- “The rotation is impossible to explain to anyone who does not work it.”
Where Freeish fits
Set the rotation once and it keeps generating, weekends included.
Mandated overtime is one edit that everyone sees straight away.
Sleep after nights can be visible so the household knows.
Nothing about where you work is stored — times are the point.
One week, start to finish
Marcus, corrections
- Marcus sets his rotation once and stops re-entering it.
- His wife plans around the every-other-weekend without asking.
- He gets mandated for four hours and extends the shift from the car park.
- The night block shows his sleep window.
- Christmas coverage is visible in October.
Questions correctional officers ask
Does it handle a 2-2-3 rotation?
What about being mandated?
Is anything about my workplace stored?
Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.
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