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A shift calendar for plant and manufacturing crews
Continuous operations run the longest cycles of any industry — twenty-eight days is common and the pattern rarely lines up with a week. These are exactly the rotations worth saving once and never working out by hand again.
The long cycles
DuPont runs twenty-eight days with four nights in a row and a full week off at the end. Continental moves through days, evenings and nights in two-day blocks. Neither is something anyone reconstructs reliably from a printed roster taped to a noticeboard.
Save the cycle and the day it starts, and the calendar draws the rest — months ahead for the leave request, and months back over what you have already worked.
The overtime you pick up
Where you work extra shifts for a rate, they can be recorded like any other job: who it was for, the hours, the rate and whether it has been paid. The app does not calculate your overtime entitlement — that is your contract's business — but it does keep your own record of what you worked.
What to switch off
Everything police-specific: the Court category, the jail and court directory, the reference documents. Hide them and what is left is a rotation calendar built for a pattern most calendar apps cannot draw.
The rotations this usually means
Whichever of these your employer runs, the cycle is drawn out day by day so you can check it against your own roster before you save it.
Built for police. Works for any rotation.
The law-enforcement side switches off. The rotation engine and the record of what you earned do not care what you do for a living.
Scan to install — or hold it up for the officer next to you.
