You are always covering for call-offs, you should have returned the favor!
Very few call offs.
Usually it's what I call "inept management", or "too few people".
For instance.. when I go from days to 3-11's, I only get one day off. So that's 6 shifts.
Unless a "downturn" is on my day off, then I'm supposed to work a double shift that day, so 8 shifts.
Unless we have a man on vacation.. then add 2 to 3 shifts more, we'll say 2, so now 10 shifts.
Then there's the "outages". 12 hour days, 7 days a week. Sometimes for up to 3 months.
Ugh.
Not too bad right now.
Now it's just "shift work" getting in the way.
Maybe one day I'll get a "normal" job.