For Student Workers
For Student Workers
Everything a desk worker does in Shift, from picking up a shift to acknowledging a float, on the app and on the web.
Your whole relationship with this app is five verbs: see, pick up, drop, swap, and acknowledge. Everything else on these pages is context for one of those five. If you are new, read the first four pages in order on your first day. If you landed here from a notification, jump straight to the page you need.
Start here
Getting the app, the one-time code, and the notifications that everything else depends on.
Not written yet Every day Your week: My ShiftsThe one screen that answers “when am I working,” and what every colour on it means.
Changing your week
The two feeds, one week versus every week, and picking up at another house.
Not written yet Dropping a shiftThis week or permanently, whole or in part, and what happens to the hours after.
Not written yet Swapping and handing offTrading hours with one person, including partial and one-sided handoffs.
Not written yet When you get floatedWorking part of your shift at another desk, and the acknowledgment it asks for.
Not written yetAhead of time
Painting your week before the deadline, and what the builder does with it.
Not written yet Break shiftsWhy break coverage is claimed, not scheduled, and how the picker works.
Not written yetEverything else
The house week grid, worker colours, and reaching the desk.
Not written yet Your hoursYour weekly total, the soft cap, and cross-house hours.
Not written yet Notifications and widgetsEvery notification you can get, and what each one wants from you.
Not written yet Asking the desk assistantWhat it can answer, and what it will not guess at.
Not written yet Doing all of this on the webThe same tasks in a browser, and the few things that are app only.
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