Recently, our midnight dispatcher put in his two weeks to move to an airline based closer to his home. Just days after that the second shift dispatcher was fired with no intent by management above me to replace her. We only had four dispatchers to begin with.

We were able to lure back the midnight dispatcher with the schedule of three twelves. So that he doesn't need to make the hour drive as often.

So, I'm trying to make a schedule work.
Restrictions:

• Need 24 hour coverage from 0800 Monday-0100 Saturday morning.
• Tommy (yellow) to work 1900-0700 Mon, Tue, Wed
• Ed and John must stay at or below 40 hours a week.
• Nick (myself) can cover mid afternoon hours if needed.

There's some flexibility, such as Tommy could work 2000-0800, Midnight hours on Wed, Thurs could be covered by phone at home by Ed and John alternating, and the like if needed.

Base schedule with some initial ideas are on Google docs. Let me know if you can think of anything...

Thanks for the help.

That looks workable until someone get's hurt, sick or takes a vacation.

That's why we were running four dispatchers.

When I started there were only three of us. Someone was sick, vacation, etc., we worked 12s to cover.

Who's the whipping boy going to be and what is your goal? Do you want everybody(besides Tommy) to get the same amount of hours? Can there be some shift overlap?

There can be some shift overlap. Ed is the morning/afternoon guy, John is the afternoon evening guy.

The real problem is covering the Thursday/Friday midnight hours. Without screwing Ed and John... to much.