Background; I just started work about a month ago for a very large plywood supplier in the southern United States. The pay and benefits are pretty good considering the position in life I’m in at this moment but the work schedule is completely insane. I work what’s called the relief shift where my shift works on the corresponding days in which the other shifts are off. Day shifts are Sunday/Monday 7am-3pm, swing shifts are Tuesday/Wednesday 3pm-11pm, and graveyard shift is Thursday/Friday nights 11pm-7am. My ONLY off day is Saturday but I get off at 7am. For the past week I’ve been working 12 hour shifts because of the regular swing shift screwing up and him being moved elsewhere in the plant so everyone that runs that same machine has to make up for his lost time. I’m absolutely exhausted working like this and it showed today. I’ll spare details but I’ve never ran my work station as terribly as I did today because of exhaustion/fatigue. Doe anyone else work a similar schedule and how did you get through it? Any advice on how to make my time easier at my job would definitely help.