I hate working this shift

[jgln]

On slow nights I cruse this site, fine, but if I have a comment to make to someone, a question, whatever, I usually have to wait 24hrs to see a reply. Not to mention as the night goes on there is even less activity so nothing even changes, no new replies, no new topics. Oh, I work 10pm to 6am.

Going to bed at noon is getting old too, especially on nice sunny days.

Anybody else have this shift?

 

[jgln]

Same thing with email too. I send an email to a friend and have to wait until the next day/night to see if they reply. Even worse to come back and find they did not reply.

Same thing with emails to boss and daytime coworkers.

This is like communication before telephones and computers...mail by horse and carrage.

 

[jgln]

...or playing chess by mail.

 

[beersteiner2345]

That's how I feel now that we moved out to Arizona. I am three hours behind all my friends and family, so they all go to bed at like 6 or 7 my time.

 

[jgln]

That's how I feel now that we moved out to Arizona. I am three hours behind all my friends and family, so they all go to bed at like 6 or 7 my time.

I know what you mean, I lived in CA for a while and when I called back home on a Friday night after getting done work at 6pm my friends would already be half wasted. I used think of something I wanted to tell someone then realize back here it was already midnight so I could not call.

 

[jgln]

Then again too I have a sister in CA who sometimes will email me at 1am and I am up to chat.

 

[dunnright00]

Make friends with some tweakers...

 

[jgln]

Make friends with some tweakers...

Ok, what are they?

 

[jgln]

I find too another site I frequent for another hobbie of mine does some kind of maintenance between 4-6am locking me out.

 

[SDCore]

Its because Southern Jersey sucks Some west coast guys are on this last but not normally I feel your pain even tho its only 12:30 here. Seems this site dies after 11 pm pst

 

[jgln]

Its because Southern Jersey sucks Some west coast guys are on this last but not normally I feel your pain even tho its only 12:30 here. Seems this site dies after 11 pm pst

...hmmmm, for that remark I am going to make you wait 24hrs for a reply.

 

[dfc]

On slow nights I cruse this site, fine, but if I have a comment to make to someone, a question, whatever, I usually have to wait 24hrs to see a reply. Not to mention as the night goes on there is even less activity so nothing even changes, no new replies, no new topics. Oh, I work 10pm to 6am.

Going to bed at noon is getting old too, especially on nice sunny days.

Anybody else have this shift?

I have a couple of different shifts. Most of the time I work from 6:00p-3:00a. I don't mind it. Traffic is awesome when I go home.

 

[jgln]

I have a couple of different shifts. Most of the time I work from 6:00p-3:00a. I don't mind it. Traffic is awesome when I go home.

So when do you go to bed, right after work? Get up around noon?

I guess that is cool, but going in at 6pm not so much.

I worked 3-11pm for a while at my other job, stayed up all night watching bad TV and working out some.

I was going to be laid off so I found this job, new guys get this shift. I am not new to this job, just this company. Guys much younger than me with more seniority.

 

[dfc]

I usually go to bed around 5-6am. Wake up around 1-2pm. Today will suck a little, but I'm used to it. I have to be in at 10am.

 

[jkings52]

Make friends with some tweakers...

Tweakers are people who use speed and stay up all night long.

I work the 10pm to 6:30am shift. But on the bright side living in SoCal I don't have to deal with the traffic like everyone else. Plus I just talk to my friends on the east coast in the morning.

 

[Homercidal]

I have worked all the shifts in a factory while young and going to school. Whichever one fit my class schedule was the one I had.

I think working second shift sucks worse than nights, mostly because I'd never see my wife and kids or friends. Before that, when I worked 3rd right after high school, I'd practically fall asleep at the wheel driving to work, no matter how much sleep I got the day before.

 

[jgln]

I have worked all the shifts in a factory while young and going to school. Whichever one fit my class schedule was the one I had.

I think working second shift sucks worse than nights, mostly because I'd never see my wife and kids or friends. Before that, when I worked 3rd right after high school, I'd practically fall asleep at the wheel driving to work, no matter how much sleep I got the day before.

I used to take a nap on Sunday evening before going in to work back when I started in Feb but now I feel I miss to much of the weekend and I am not really that tired so I wind up staying up 24+ hours in a row between Sunday and Monday, last couple times it was 27 hours straight.

 

[oldmate]

Now you know how it is for us Australians

 

[jgln]

Now you know how it is for us Australians

Hold, someone will be right with you........

 

[beersteiner2345]

Probably better for me these places shut down actually... because I wouldn't go to bed otherwise. lol

 

[Yankeehillbrewer]

I used to work Graveyard quite a bit when was out in the Field(Telecom) I loved it, the nights usually went by fast because there was always a ton of work to do, then I'd get home and go right to bed & sleep a few hours. Be up by noon or one, and go play Golf. Then I had times I would just sleep for 10 or 12 hours. The only part that sucked was if we had to transition from Day to Nights, or Vice Versa multiple times in a week. That always messed with me.

 

[nefarious_1_]

I usually get stuck with the night shift on a few surveys (environmental testing) we do at my company. I hate it and totally feel your pain.

The last job involved arriving at our Lab at 9pm to pick up transportation, then driving 1hr. to the site. I remained on site for my half of the 24hr. sample period, packed up all the equipment when it ended, then drove the samples back to the lab.
All said and done, from the time I arrived at the Lab to the time I was leaving to go home: 16 - 18hrs. depending on the sampling tasks, daytime traffic, etc. I'd usually have to be in for a day shift the next day.

To top it all off, I hardly got any overtime because my total hours for the week rarely topped 40. My boss always schedules me accordingly.

Needless to say, it completely sucked and I'm really glad it's over. It's only a matter of time until another job like that starts up...

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Ugh, third shift SUCKS! At our shop we tend to get one or two (sometimes more) jobs a year that require a couple guys working third shift. I seem to always be one of the guys that gets volunteered. I hate it- my body just can't do it. I am ALWAYS tired, no matter how much sleep I get, which usually isn't much. I don't know how you guys can do it on a regular basis.

 

[jgln]

Ugh, third shift SUCKS! At our shop we tend to get one or two (sometimes more) jobs a year that require a couple guys working third shift. I seem to always be one of the guys that gets volunteered. I hate it- my body just can't do it. I am ALWAYS tired, no matter how much sleep I get, which usually isn't much. I don't know how you guys can do it on a regular basis.

Yep, this is my shift until another position on days opens up. I am "The new guy" here. I was going to be laid off at my other job because I made too much money, too much vacation, etc. so I applied here. Same exact job, different company. I lost vacation and pay not to mention the severance because I quit. Then I had to take this shift, been a rough year so far and I am not getting any younger. Went from being a manager of a whole facility to being the new guy working this shift. Had 5 weeks vacation...now just 2. Fiancee still works there, has 5 weeks.

But I do what I have to do, it might have been difficult to find a new job so I jumped on this one when I saw it. Good company though so maybe I can advance fast. Weird for me to be the new guy in a place of younger workers with the seniority I had at the other job.

 

[jgln]

I had a job once, good job liked it a lot, aerospace, where sometimes I would come in the morning and told to go home and come back in that night. Really had to be flexible at that job too.

 

[TxBrew]

I always hated graveyard. My BIL still does it and we rarely see him.

 

[Joker]

My BIL still does it and we rarely see him.

I hear that. I have friends that are bakers (very early to mid-day) and a few others that just work off shifts or change shifts often and you either don't see them and/or never know when to to call them without waking them up and feeling like an ass.

 

[TxBrew]

I hear that. I have friends that are bakers (very early to mid-day) and a few others that just work off shifts or change shifts often and you either don't see them and/or never know when to to call them without waking them up and feeling like an ass.

Every tie I call him I have to ask if it's OK to talk and he's shocked by it. I'll call him at 6pm and he'll still be sleeping due into work in a couple of hours.

 

[Airborneguy]

I did 2315x0750 for about 5 years, and can't wait to get back to it. I only left because when I first met my wife I was offered a good day time position that would allow us to spend a lot of time together. I'm hoping to get promoted and go back to midnights as a boss. In my job, all the fun happens at night Plus, way less supervision, and a $6000 pay raise from night differential.

 

[yummybeer]

i use to work on 2nd/3rd shift when i first started out working for my current employer. i will say that i personally prefer 3rd shift over 2nd shift any day. but i now am in a department that only works 1st shift.