Been doing the 911 thing for almost 27 years now, last 6 have been on the 2230-0630 shift with either Fri/Sat or Sun/Mon furloughs. Not once in those 27 years have I had Sat/Sun off as I never had enough seniority while Call Receiving or Dispatching and as a floor supervisor we always split the weekend into the F/S and S/M option.

Well, that all changes now as I was chosen for a new assignment of “Administrative Supervisor”. Instead of running the shift I will be tasked with a variety of projects and duties that were previously handled by the eight floor supervisors, tech support folks, Ops Manager, and Section Commander.


It is a new position our Captain created. Not a promotion but more of a lateral move by taking one of the floor supervisor spots to focus on collateral/ancillary duties so the floor supervisors can focus on floor operations. Scheduling, stats, QA Program, compliant investigations, system upgrades, SME on how equipment and policy changes affect the floor, and “other duties as assigned”.


Daytime, some flexibility in hours and a mostly 4/10 schedule with Sat/Sun/Mon furloughs. I will no longer be “essential personnel”. That means I get holidays off (won’t miss working New Years Eve and July 4th at all!). Also when it snows a 1/2”, crippling the Seattle metro area, and the County/City/Courts all shut down I’ll get a free day off instead of being required to report regardless.

I’ve been in a bit of a rut for the past few years, looking forward to doing something different.


Oh, and the best part is after 23 years of shared work space at the floor supervisors podium and one of eight sharing the supervisors office with individual lockers and two communal desks, I get an honest to God office of my very own!

Congrats!!!

Nothing but good there!

(As a non KCSO guy but local, I know how overloaded you guys are!)

Bill R

Sounds like a good move for you. To bad it doesn't come with an increase in salary.

Jim

That's great! Perfect schedule IMHO at 4x 10's. 27 years, you've certainly earned it.

In that position I'd be stoked for this kind of "lateral" move. Working days and getting 3 day weekends every week would be worth quite a bit of salary increase to me.

that shiny thing you'll be seeing in the skY? It's normal, don't worry about it.

Congrats! You’ve certainly earned it!

Congrats on this change!

I’ve seen our local 911 folks in-action; after as long as you’ve worked in that role, I bet this change will be like gold!

Congrats - It will take a bit of time transition to the day shift -you get used to it -
Enjoy the week -ends and Holidays !!

Congratulations!

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
Daytime, some flexibility in hours and a mostly 4/10 schedule with Sat/Sun/Mon furloughs.

If it works with the other schedules, consider requesting Sat/Sun/Weds off. I had that shift for a couple years on 4/10s, and absolutely loved it. Work a couple days, get a break; work a couple more days, get a longer break. Fully half of your workdays are "Fridays".

Thanks all for the kind words...

While technically no “raise”, a 20% reduction in commuting costs works out to about 4300 fewer miles driven and 100+ hours of my time annually.

I’ll take that any day!

Congrats.

Congrats....welcome to the daylight....You no longer, have to worry about becoming a vampire

I don't know whether to congratulate you or not.

I loved night shift. I used to do six straight 12-hour nights and had eight day off. Best schedule I've ever had.

It did take me years to convert back to a day schedule though. Something about the night....

Congratulations! Sounds like it will be a great change for you!

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
I don't know whether to congratulate you or not.

I loved night shift. I used to do six straight 12-hour nights and had eight day off. Best schedule I've ever had.

It did take me years to convert back to a day schedule though. Something about the night....

This for me too... I guess congratulations if you are happy with days. I'd probably have quit if they told me I was going all days.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
I don't know whether to congratulate you or not.

I loved night shift. I used to do six straight 12-hour nights and had eight day off. Best schedule I've ever had.

It did take me years to convert back to a day schedule though. Something about the night....

What was it like drinking other peoples blood for food?

the money may be lateral, but the perks are the big good news

Awesome !

Of our current nine supervisors (10 FTE, we currently have one vacancy) I am #2 in seniority.

Back when I was #4 (about seven years ago) I was consistent Dayshifter. We pick shifts by
Seniority and #1 always took Graves (2230-0630), #2 never picks anything but Swings (1430-2230), #3 wounds go between Days and Graves, so I always was able to get my first pick of Days.

I used to give #1 a lot of crap about “wasting” her pick on Graves. After she retired, when #3 and #5 were on Graves, #5 had a “personnel issue” that necessitated moving him to another shift and they asked for a volunteer to go to Graves while that was sorted out before mandating the junior supervisor to the spot (which would have created a need from someone from Days to go to Swings to replace her).

I decided I would go as I was in a funk over some admin issues and a few problem employees on the shift I was tired of dealing with. Turned out, Graves wasn’t half bad when you kids are grown and gone and you can “commit” to the schedule and not have to wrestle things like soccer practice, school teacher conferences, etc. All those years I gave #1 crap and turned out she was smarter than I gave her credit for.


Yes, from an “Operational” perspective, Graves is a more fulfilling shift. “Better” calls, fewer people, fewer problem employees, fewer bothersome citizens, not having to buzz the door for vendors/deliveries, and handling all the boring stuff. However on a slow night it can be one lonnnnngggg shift. Lots of down time spent web surfing, socializing with coworkers, BS’ing with coworkers, and wasting Comp or Vacation time leaving early because there is just nothing to do.


Going to the Admin job though is for all intents and purposes, like a brand new job. I will have very little to do with operations, mostly projects and assignments. We get paid pretty well (just slightly into 6-figure range annually) and, to be honest, when on Graves there are times I look at my check and think I am seriously ripping off the taxpayers. Then I realize that being in a reactive position, I am not necessarily paid for what I do so much as for what I know and can do if needed.

This move will change that as I will be going from a reactive position to a productive position. I expect there will be little to no work time web surfing except during lunch break.

I hit the ground running Tuesday morning with no less than five projects, four of which are “new”:
-QA review process we need to start up,
-Regional radio system hardware install upgrade in the center
-Call Answering statistics/analysis being restarted after going several years without
-Center representative to a multi jurisdictional Counter terrorism work group
-Operations shift scheduling (has been one of my collateral duties for several years)

When I got to work Tuesday night I opened email to find I had already been assigned my first complaint investigation as well. Low level complaint (major investigations handled by IIU) but none the less part of the new job and the employee involved is a long time problem child so everything needs to be done “right”.



So basically to sum it up, yup - I will miss Graves to a point. But even though I am going to Days the “stuff” I didn’t like about Days won’t be my problem, it will be the Days Operations Supervisors

Looking forward to the change and challenge after all this time...