I love my job overall, but recently got pissed at my admin's decision to not let me work a double. I work overnights, not by choice, and it's very difficult on my health. I got schedule changed to attend a training during the daytime. The problem is this is in the middle of my work week, so I'd have to break up my routine/schedule by waking up early on my Wednesday just so that I can be able to fall asleep that night at a normal hour instead of going into work that night. Then after my day of training, I have 8 hours to go home and do what I have to do before going back into work for my “Friday”, which will leave me inevitably ehausted, yet if I don't wake up early on my Friday, I won't sleep that night, and my whole 2 day weekend is screwed up. By the time I get squared away, ill be ready to force myself to take a nap in order to make it through the first night back in.
So I asked if on my “Thursday” I could work a double- work my overnight shift, then attend the training, and then I'd be done and off for 3 days instead of 2 and not have to deal with the sleep cycle screwup. I was told “No”, simply because they don't want to deal with changing schedules for everyone that wants to do the same thing.
Bonus rant: When it comes to overtime, my supervisor gets precedent to any shift they want before me, yet when the overtime is mandated because of no volunteers, I get mandated over my supervisor. Fun