Baker - Anyone else do early starts?

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I have been working as a baker this summer starting at 3.30am every morning and normally not finishing untill 2.30/3.00pm each day.

Anyone else want to share the bakery job as I have found there is a lack of bakers in Britain. The bakery I work in has been trying to find another baker for the last 12 months and can't seem to get anyone interested. Currently it is just me and a women who make all the products for the shop which is very hard going.

Can't wait to finish in 2 weeks time:D
 
No way I could work those hours, though I do love the smell of baking bread, think I might get sick of it after a while though.
 
Yeah, I get up at 4 for a 5 o'clock start, working in a timber mill.

You're all a load of fairies if you can't get yourself out of bed early in the morning :P
 
used to do frequent 3 or 4 AM starts lorry driving. getting into the smoke or carlisle and annan before the traffic.

not any bloody more.
its going to bed while its daylight , and seing everyone going out , that realy cooked my goat.
leisurely 7 am starts now.:)
 
I work all sorts of odd hours. I'm a midwife and do on-call shifts so when there's a baby on its way, I have to go... no matter what time of night or day. Sometimes I don't even get to bed :(
 
Another for odd hours, my normal shift time is 07-00 till 16-00hrs, but i do so many standby days to which could mean starting at 07-00hrs on morning at not get home till 07-00hrs the following morning, or starting at 00-00hrs though to 16-00hrs. Depends on the faults and where they are, and other factors.
 
mullrallyesport said:
I have found there is a lack of bakers in Britain. The bakery I work in has been trying to find another baker for the last 12 months and can't seem to get anyone interested.
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maybe there isn't enough dough to attract new bakers :D







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When on early shifts I get up around 4:30 to 4:45, I get to work around 5:20 have a work out for around 45 minutes then have breakfast and a protein shake before starting work at 6:24. Mondays and Tuesdays I finish at 15:36, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I finish at 13:06. Late shifts I start the same time as the early shifts end, Monday to Thurdsay, I finish at 22:24, Friday, I finish at 19:24. But I get to work about an hour to 1 1/2 hours before I start work for a workout in the gym
Top that for starting and finishing times.
 
While I cannot beat that 3.30 am start in a bakery but my 5.30 am start time at my tomato greenhouses is enough to age anyone.
I wake up at 4 am, that's when I enlist the help of two burly dockyard workers armed with a crowbar each to prise my eyelids open. I then drag my carcass into the greenhouses with fingernails feeling like they are weighing more than the rest of me put together.
Once I get home at 2 pm - 3 pm after having spent all day in a hot sweaty sticky greenhouse, I'm too tired to think about doing anything else.
There MUST be something I like about the job as I've been doing it for nearly 16 years.
Mind you, that's only during the summer months, it's not too bad in the winter with it's 7.30 am start time but it's still bloody early - especially since I'm not at all a morning person.
 
Mate of mine was a baker, the boss was a dick who bullied the staff and constantly shouted at them, my mate worked nights baking bread, the day he left he baked 20 penises complete with testicles and set them up very nicely in the shop window, locked up and went home, when the boss came in at 7am he wasn't too happy
 
wack61 said:
Mate of mine was a baker, the boss was a dick who bullied the staff and constantly shouted at them, my mate worked nights baking bread, the day he left he baked 20 penises complete with testicles and set them up very nicely in the shop window, locked up and went home, when the boss came in at 7am he wasn't too happy
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I bet the men he took them off were not too pleased either :D
 
I am glad I am not the only one working stupid hours. Don't get me wrong I quite enjoy my job but some days it really is just a pain in the backside and the hours just get on top of you. Considering I am in no way trainied as a baker I think I have done well to produce the products I have on a day to day bases but still the owners are not happy:razz:
 
Yeah but not as silly as the OP, i'm up at 05:45 to be in central London for 07:30. Finish at 17:00 so its a pretty long day
 
I usually start 9:25am, sometimes it is 9:00am, and I think that is pushing it!!!! :eek:Needs me beauty sleep see! ;)



(although I never finish before 6:00, some days it it 8:00pm, at At Xmas it will be 9:ooam to 9:00pm days! That's retail for you:(
 
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Sometimes when 12 hr back to back shifts have been required, I've started at 01:06 AM and finished 13:06 PM.
 
i get up just afer 4-30 leave at 5 to start for 6am supposed to finnish 6pm sometimes as late as 8pm. do this for three days and then opposite for 3 night shifts, leaving at 17-oo. I think the o6 start in above post is because the wage office works in decimals. 06 being 0.1. when i worked for someone who was rumoured to make exceedingly good cakes it was 06.24 till 14.12 and 14.12 till 21.48 on shifts.
 
minimeeze said:
Nilagin - why the :06? Why not :00? Just curious :)
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We used to have a six minute overlap at the end of the early shift and the start of the late shift. It took the company a while but they soon realised they were effectively losing 12 minutes each day rather than getting a smooth handover between the two shifts. Also we work a 37.5 hr basic week
we work two long shifts and three short shifts in a week. For some reason when the overlaps stopped, the odd start time 06:24 and finish time 13:06 or 15:36 on a long shift stuck.
It does help a bit though as we then start and finish at different times to the rest of the factory so it's easier getting in and out of the car park. (alot easier with 100+ people leaving at once than 500.
 
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