Post by Lt Cmdr Aria Xalot on Apr 19, 2015 11:07:23 GMT -5
While I could see 12 hour shifts on a bare bones skeleton crew, a real small ship or a mostly vulcan crewed ship I don't think it would be terribly effective for most humanish races. 12 hours is a long time to be working the last few hours readiness and performance would probably be dragging quite a bit from personal experience on such shifts. Plus doing that dang near every day for a long period of time would probably wear down anyone who isn't a total workoholic. Reason why I think 3 shifts plus a fill in swing shift is then you are at 8 hour shifts plus you can have off days which I imagine all of the higher endurance vessels would factor in especially given starfleets pretty cushy lifestyle in general that prior to the klink war even had such vessels housing families school etc. Of course circumstances such as combat ops heightened alerts etc could modify it.
For meal breaks it is as simple some go eat some stay. No danger 50% 0n 50% eat. Then swap when first group is done eating. More heightened alert could be 75% on 25% eat. Emminent danger wait till its passed to eat .
Example of a workable system with 3 shifts time wise but 4 shifts worth of personel where each shift gets one week off in a 4 week cycle.
1,2,3 = regular 3 shifts S= swing shift
Week one Shift line up:
1
2
3
S shift is off
Week two shift line up:
S
2
3
1 Is off
Week three shift line up:
1
S
3
2 Is off
Week four shift line up:
1
2
S
3 Is off
Of course I could be way way way overthinking it.
And for XO doing duty roster if its anything like real life basically chain of command dictates each section leader does his own then sends it to XO. XO just basically checks to make sure section leader isn't on crack then blesses off on it. Sort of like back in the day when one of my joes turned in a leave packet that 1sg would have to sign off on. Me being a fire team leader I'd check to make sure that it fit with what the company was doing and wouldnt screw up the squads numbers. Then I would turn it in to the squad leader. Squad leader would eyeball it to make sure I wasnt on crack then pass it to the platoon Sgt. Platoon Sgt would eyeball it makeing sure the suqd leader wasn't on crack and drop it in the 1sg's box. 1sg would pretty much sign it and return it without looking at it closely unless he was bored if so he would just check it to make sure none of the presvious sets of eyes were on crack and whamo leave approved. The XO probably wouldn't be super involved in most of the crews evals either and take their section leader who deals with them personally advice unless it completely conflicted with their experience with said individual, but the XO would be very very much involved in the section leaders evals as they are directly under him in the chain of command and the XO deals with them personally.
And since I just got off another awful 12 hour shift im going to sleep now hopefully my tired brain made sense .
For meal breaks it is as simple some go eat some stay. No danger 50% 0n 50% eat. Then swap when first group is done eating. More heightened alert could be 75% on 25% eat. Emminent danger wait till its passed to eat .
Example of a workable system with 3 shifts time wise but 4 shifts worth of personel where each shift gets one week off in a 4 week cycle.
1,2,3 = regular 3 shifts S= swing shift
Week one Shift line up:
1
2
3
S shift is off
Week two shift line up:
S
2
3
1 Is off
Week three shift line up:
1
S
3
2 Is off
Week four shift line up:
1
2
S
3 Is off
Of course I could be way way way overthinking it.
And for XO doing duty roster if its anything like real life basically chain of command dictates each section leader does his own then sends it to XO. XO just basically checks to make sure section leader isn't on crack then blesses off on it. Sort of like back in the day when one of my joes turned in a leave packet that 1sg would have to sign off on. Me being a fire team leader I'd check to make sure that it fit with what the company was doing and wouldnt screw up the squads numbers. Then I would turn it in to the squad leader. Squad leader would eyeball it to make sure I wasnt on crack then pass it to the platoon Sgt. Platoon Sgt would eyeball it makeing sure the suqd leader wasn't on crack and drop it in the 1sg's box. 1sg would pretty much sign it and return it without looking at it closely unless he was bored if so he would just check it to make sure none of the presvious sets of eyes were on crack and whamo leave approved. The XO probably wouldn't be super involved in most of the crews evals either and take their section leader who deals with them personally advice unless it completely conflicted with their experience with said individual, but the XO would be very very much involved in the section leaders evals as they are directly under him in the chain of command and the XO deals with them personally.
And since I just got off another awful 12 hour shift im going to sleep now hopefully my tired brain made sense .