JScott128

Bergenfield FD

Old Tappan FD

New Milford FD

Tenafly FD, disappointing turnout from Tenafly

Closter FD

Demarest FD

Rockleigh FD

Norwood FD

Northvale FD

Harrington Park FD

Haworth FD

I'll skip the rest of Alpine FD, Mike covered that....

Haworth FD

Alpine FD

Bergen County Sheriff's Dept, BCI Crime Scene Unit

Bergen County Sheriff's Dept

Bergen County Sheriff's Dept

Cresskill FD

Cresskill FD

Cresskill FD

Cresskill FD

I can add some pics to this. Mike- I must have been on the same block as you taking pics. For people that weren't there, the parade was ok, there were a couple of large gaps in it where people thought it had ended and they had to have a patrol car drive around on the PA telling people it wasn't over yet. It was a beautiful day though, so I can't complain.

Scott

Cresskill PD-

The OT is definitely a concern, I have heard there is very limited OT with this schedule. The guys who work a lot of OT on my job are opposed to this switch. But we would be getting paid for some of the extra hours and it is going to equate to a 6.6% raise, so the guys that are for the 12hr shift make the arguement that its like having OT built into the schedule. The other arguement is that the 6.6% raise is pensionable, so it will work out when you retire. Anyone that works this want to chime in about the OT?

Scott

Truck4 - Thanks for the bump!

And thanks for the parade info Brett!

Scott

Chris- the Pittman schedule is 12hr shifts broken down like this:

S M T W T F S S M T W T F S

X D D X X E E E X X D D X X

X= Day Off

D= Day Shift usually 7a-7p

E= Evening shift 7p-7a

Some depts rotate every week, some rotate between days and evenings every 2 weeks, and some do it longer. I've heard that every 2 weeks is pretty good. The benefit to the schedule is you work only 182 days a year. You are working more hours than the standard "40hr" work week. We are negotiating to get the extra hours we work split between 110hrs in time off and the rest getting paid for. The 110hrs extra you work in some depts are given back to you in extra days off, sometimes called "kelly days". Sometimes the kelly days are assigned to you, some depts you can take them off when you want to. Every other weekend you get Friday, Sat and Sun off, which for my wife and a lot of families, is a nice bonus. Our dispatchers work this schedule now, they do not like the long weekends that you work, they said you are pretty beat by Sunday. But you got to figure it all balances out. Hope this helps.

I'd really like to hear from anyone else that works it, we are still trying to decide whether to make the switch, so far, I haven't heard anything negative.

Scott

We (NYSP) use it, and I would say it's incredibly popular. Better in all regards. A lot more days off, and if you use vacation time on the short weeks, you can have quite a few 7 day vacations, year round.

Do you rotate between nights and days and if so, how often is the rotation? We have some officers that are concerned about family life... I assume that the days you are working, you aren't doing much of anything else (like spending time with the family), but you have more days off to do that.