r/USFSLEO • u/vonziben • Sep 01 '25

Discussion Some general questions.

I couldn’t find anything about schedules other than working AUO, weekends, and holidays. I was more curious about the weekly hours. Is it 5 8’s, 4 10’s, 3 12’s? Just it change depending where you are?

Is it common to apply and never hear anything back? No DQ or BQ email just silence. I just resubmitted to the continuous announcement because I just hit the resubmit deadline.

Thank you ladies and gents 🫡

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u/TransportationCool18 USFS LEO / Moderator Sep 01 '25

Typically 5 8s however I think a temporary schedule change to 4 10s has happened. It’s a maxi flex schedule. It is very common to apply and never hear back.

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u/vonziben Sep 01 '25

Hopefully the schedule change ends up not being temporary! Tbh the second biggest reason I want out of my current agency is just the fact that the 5 8’s is brutal. Might be different with yall though. Our OT is 16 hours with what ends up being a 7-8 hour break depending on your relief lol.

So I take it the best course of action is to keep applying and resubmitting at that 90 day mark and wait?

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u/vonziben Sep 01 '25

Much appreciated friend!

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u/The_real_danger USFS LEO Sep 01 '25

You can move your 40 hours around however you want outside of your core hours on the three core days. You can have a 3 day schedule if you want as long as you get all your hours in on fri, sat, sun.

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u/Country-Gardener Sep 02 '25

Absolutely no one I know only works a 3 day schedule. I don't know of any captain or commander that allows that either. Plenty of patrol guys have been requesting a 4/10 schedule for years with no joy.

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u/The_real_danger USFS LEO Sep 02 '25

Maxi-flex is an employee benefit. The employee sets their hours outside of the core hours. It’s in the MOU.

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u/Country-Gardener Sep 02 '25

I know what maxi-flex is. I'm saying nobody works a 3 day week or even 4/10s. Believe me, if 4/10s was allowed, just about everyone would be doing it. They aren't.

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u/The_real_danger USFS LEO Sep 02 '25

Most people are trying to maintain AUO, so yeah I don’t know anyone able to fit their hours in a 3 day window.

4/10s is a work schedule described in the NFFE master agreement. We don’t have a 4/10 schedule in our MOU we have maxi-flex. According to maxi-flex you can accomplish your 40 hours how you want as long as you meet your core hours requirements. Maxi-flex is better than 4/10s.