I’ve started using Google Calendar for the technician schedule at work. I was getting tired of having to call all the time and asking, “What hours am I working tomorrow again?”
Our schedule tends to change very quickly, as both of us are in our early 20′s (and the other tech goes to school). We were just doing it on paper, and by the end of the month, there was so much white out on the page, the thumb tack that holds it onto the cork board would keep falling off.
So, it’s nice to just be able to log on to google and check the schedule. Any time there’s a change, we just log on, change it, and print a new copy for the pharmacy (so the pharmacists know what’s going on.)
It’s working fairly well, but I do wish google would let you customize how it displays times better. If you put in an “event” (in our case a work shift) as say, from 9am-5pm, it will show as “9am Andrew”. That doesn’t do me any good, so I have to set it as an “all day” event, and just put the hours as part of the event title.
So, it’s not necessarily the best solution, but it suits our needs nicely.
