Originally Posted by
Wireless
They see it as your normal place of work. How you get to and from it is your ballywhack. In their eyes no different from a factory worker on night shift.
If you worked a rostered/planned shift then I can see the parallel with the "clock on, clock off" factory worker. OTOH once you've extended your shift, especially if it's well beyond what was planned then I think the parallels might fail.
FWIW we also have a couple of scary snoring rooms behind crew report area but if we have extended our planned duty day significantly (and certainly if you have gone into captain's discretion) then hotel rooms are made available.,