Four tens, mandatory overtime, and a peak that swallows December
Warehouse schedules are built around throughput: compressed weeks, night crews and overtime that is mandatory rather than offered. The pattern is stable until volume changes it, which is exactly when everyone at home has already made plans.
The schedules this actually has to cope with
Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.
Four tens
Four ten-hour days and three off, with the three landing wherever coverage needs them.
Night crew
Inverting the day for as long as you are on it, with the sleep that implies.
Mandatory overtime
Added when volume spikes. Not optional, and not announced far ahead.
Peak season
Extra days and longer ones from November into January.
What it sounds like at home
- “Mandatory overtime lands on a day we had plans.”
- “My three days off move and nobody at home can track them.”
- “Nights mean I sleep while the house is busy.”
- “Peak season changes everything and nobody warned my family.”
- “The schedule is posted on a board and nowhere else.”
Where Freeish fits
Photograph the posted schedule and import the week in about a minute.
Mandatory overtime is one edit that everyone sees without a message.
Sleep after nights is visible, so the house knows.
Compressed days off are obvious to whoever is planning around them.
One week, start to finish
Ana, pick and pack
- Ana photographs the board at the end of her shift.
- The four tens import and the three days off are visible.
- Her mother, who has the kids, sees the week without asking.
- Mandatory overtime is added on Wednesday and everyone knows by Wednesday.
- Peak season goes in as a block rather than as a series of surprises.
Questions warehouse workers ask
Can it read the schedule off the board?
What about overtime added on the day?
Will my employer know I use this?
Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.
Now on iPhone — Android coming soon. Free to start. Import a photo of your next schedule and see who stops asking.