This happens in nursing to a degree. In my state it’s illegal without express consent of the nurse to have less than 8 hours off the clock. One of the churns we had went from working 7-7 to 11-11 and would have it paired where she’d work 11-11 and then 7-7 the very next day. The hospital had forms for people to waive if they wanted overtime but never did that for her. Then there are just things like my unit director forcing all the new staff that had went to day shift to do both day and night shifts with a couple days. One of the scheduling nurses fought to prevent her original plan which would’ve been day shift and night shift just sprinkled in randomly. I got through 2 days, felt like absolute shit the entire time, injured myself from falling and then got punished complaining to one of the senior nurses about it and took the third day off and got punished again for that.
This happens in nursing to a degree. In my state it’s illegal without express consent of the nurse to have less than 8 hours off the clock. One of the churns we had went from working 7-7 to 11-11 and would have it paired where she’d work 11-11 and then 7-7 the very next day. The hospital had forms for people to waive if they wanted overtime but never did that for her. Then there are just things like my unit director forcing all the new staff that had went to day shift to do both day and night shifts with a couple days. One of the scheduling nurses fought to prevent her original plan which would’ve been day shift and night shift just sprinkled in randomly. I got through 2 days, felt like absolute shit the entire time, injured myself from falling and then got punished complaining to one of the senior nurses about it and took the third day off and got punished again for that.