I did my 10 x 12s around dangerous mining equipment! Don’t worry, I almost got flattened by a 400 t mining truck only once!
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I am currently a hotel receptionist. Night is when extremely drunk hordes come in from the beach and try to reserve one bedroom for 10 people and a child they’re trying to sneak in.
Only if you love being driven like the sheep you are ;]
In the navy I preferred the night shifts. Nice and quiet. Day shifts were hectic, always stupid shit happening. Night shifts in the CIC were cozy, chill, having some coffee together, making grilled cheese sandwiches, being able to do work in full concentration as no one bothers you constantly. On the bridge it was even better. Extreme darkness, having nice conversations with your colleagues while watching the stars and the lights of other ships on the horizon. Only downside is the night shift has to get out of bed for fire drills etc during the day, so sometimes that leaves you with only 2h of sleep every day during sea trials. But that’s only 2 to 6 weeks of sleep deprivation so not all too bad imo.
Sometimes our nights were good. I caught the northern lights in full force a few times. I spied myself a lynx once or twice.
Most nights were high stress, hot mess.
Northern light: yes, seen it too. Lynx: usually there aren’t that many at sea, so haven’t seen them :p
what did you do at the army?
EW commander and later OSINT analyst.
Subjugate populations outside the empire through combinations of soft and hard power
As has been done since the advent of life.
Yes, nations without enough nuke to eradicate humanity (including Mars settlements) have no rights and are not really human.
I guess in the services, the command chain is still there at night, if required.
3am food service, it’s just you, the other night-shifters, and 400 drunk people.
Any management with power is safely tucked up in bed.
Day staff coming in “God they didn’t do everything uhhhgghhh,” Day staff at handover “K bye”
Management is supposed to be positive? Do I get that right?
If you have a good one yes
The kind of customer you interface with at 1AM is absolutely NOT going to take “we can’t solve this now; I’ll make sure a supervisor or manager contacts you during the day” as an answer. You typically get quite the earful for something 1st or 2nd shift never has to worry about. After this happens a few times, it more or less eradicates any perks of working this shift.
As a night shifter, occasionally this is a perk. You can get simple questioned answered the same day, and if there is ever some kind of policy issue it can be brought to their attention relatively easily. To say nothing of an emergency situation where you need someone above shift supervisor, management may say call them in an emergency but they never answer their phone at 3am but god forbid you don’t pick up on the third ring at 2pm when you’ve been asleep since noon.
Okay but that is a “their” problem? I always found nights to be quiet. If there is no emergency contact in place or can not be reached, that can be shitty, but at the end of the day not my problem.
Rule one of management is their problem is everyone below thems problem. Conflicting info/orders? You should know who is right. Bad info given? Why did you do something so dumb? Short staffed? Figure it out. Day side is short? Why arent you helping your team?
If you have any responsibilities on overnights save for run a machine to hit quotas there is always going to be some dumb mandate or oversight from management on the dayside that your team is going to take a hit for.
I work at a large airport this summer. What is this “fully staffed” you’re talking about, and where can I get it?
Yeah, any service job I know of is always cutting people, adding more jobs to fewer employees, and in general refusing to tolerate the existence of a single second of downtime.
But hey, at least the money isn’t good, the work breaks bodies, and you have to put up with all sorts of verbal and mental abuse from customers and management!
I worked night shift stocking shelves for a few years, but one day I had to work a day shift and had the opposite experience.
The store was so busy that I endlessly stocked clothes hangers for eight hours. It was full-on chaos and management was nowhere to be found.
Don’t forget that night shift customer-facing jobs also have to deal with the night creatures that are said customers.
Things get real weird from 11PM-3AM. These people didn’t need IT support, they needed a psychiatric counseling hotline.
For me, my body literally couldn’t take the constant “biological darkness” (no UV). After three weeks, I experienced moderate dysphoria, anhedonia, and could no longer achieve restful sleep. Perhaps more-so than the average person, I am a slave to my circadian rhythms and absolutely depend on a normal clock to function.
Hah. That’s just my default operating software. Fortunately a little pill (patch update) fixed most of this shit for me.
Glad you noticed it and did something to rectify
Thanks. I knew I was in for a wild ride when a co-worker quoted MIB:
The company keeps us on Centaurian time, standard thirty-seven hour day. Give it a few months. You’ll get used to it… or you’ll have a psychotic episode.
Management was very accommodating in making the switch back to 2nd shift. I noped outta there and went on to much greener pastures soon thereafter.
-Day shift:
Too many people
Higher expectations
Absolute slog
Managers breathing down your neck
-Night shift:
Broad discretion and autonomy
More free time
Quiet
No managers
Exactly. Also everyone’s so fucking uptight on day shifts. On nightswe can have radio banter and when somethings fucked I can conver that as creatively as I want. Theres no meetings on the off shifts, I just get to show up and do my job without bullshitting to management about how I’m doing my job. On off shifts as long as shit gets done noone seems to give a damn about how it gets done.
You’re forgetting the liquid shits that come with night shift.
It’s funny you mention that. I’m dealing with the squirts as I write this comment lol. Not sure if it’s the nightshift, the pulled pork I had for dinner, or my second cup of coffee causing this. Probably a bit of all three
God speed, man.
My stomach is gurgling already thinking about 12 hour shifts.
How dare you, I have always-on night shift! Oh wait, you aren’t talking about OS feature that lowers blue light.
