SJ Longthorne

No one got seriously injured on our project but we hit each other multiple times, even trying to be careful.

Because they want to accept as many projects as they can, we have 2 shifts so that every station can be used by 2 projects. Morning shift starts at 7am and ends at 3:30pm. Evening shift starts at 3:30pm and ends at midnight.

Planning promises they won't switch you from an evening shift to a morning shit directly the day after but it still happens all the time. Whether these are genuine mistakes or not I don't know but once you're scheduled on a shift it doesn't matter.

If you don't show up to it because you are exhausted, you are marked absent and that's recorded in the file HR keeps on you. If you show up and you doze off during your shift, most leads will report you and HR will give you a warning that goes in you file.

I once involuntarily dozed off for a few seconds while waiting for a build and the project lead reported me for sleeping at work. They gave me a 3 day suspension.

I protested, told them I've had trouble sleeping, even brought a doctor's note confirming it. They refused to remove my suspension on the grounds that I had shown "insubordination" in the way I protested.

We are not allowed to be upset because that's "unprofessional." Anything that doesn't make us tidy docile little cogs in the machine is "unprofessional." If we start breaking down because of our health or the stress, that's "unprofessional."