• db2@sopuli.xyz
    791·
    11 months ago

    Based on your title I don’t think you understand the meme you posted.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    75·
    11 months ago

    this is so fucking true holy shit

    i work the night shift and every time day shift comes back in, everything’s settled and quiet, everything’s streamlined and ready.

    When 2nd shift comes in (we actually have 3 shifts, and overnight is 3rd) it’s UTTER CHAOS

    • db2@sopuli.xyz
      38·
      11 months ago

      Here’s one I know a few of you will be familiar with: 1st breaks a machine and can’t run product leaving it for night. Night fixes the machine and runs the orders but has to re-break the machine before 1st comes in or risk getting fired for fixing it and being productive.

      • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Pull the god pin at the end of every shift. Dont tell management!

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 months ago

      Our third shift is all maintenance, no production, do they do their preventative stuff and nothing really happens. 1st comes in to a well lubricated factory, promptly fucks everything up and passes their problems on to second.

      And every day the cycle begins anew.

  • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    11 months ago

    The thing I hated most on night shift was, if something was screwed up on day shift and was still an issue when I came in, they would pass it off; but, if something was screwed up at the end of my shift, I had to stay until it was resolved, sometimes for hours.

    • hogunner@lemmy.world
      44·
      11 months ago

      I had a coworker who used to tell customers he was working on their issue and to call him back after 4pm. His shift ended at 2pm.

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

      That’s shitty.

      I hated the 3 am witching hour. We had to make decisions as consultants. 3 am rolls around and you question everything

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
    36·
    11 months ago

    I worked night shift in a metal fabrication shop about 11 years ago.

    Two bastions of humanity figured out that they could light an oxyfuel torch and adjust it to a neutral flame, snuff the flame out of a glove or something, and then use the torch to fill a plastic sandwich bag with a perfect mixture of oxygen and acetylene. They would then place this bag somewhere and light it on fire, which made a lot of noise. They had great fun until they tried it with a small office-sized trash bag. The word of the day is brisance. It made a tremendous bang which cracked some glass in the shop, but of course our two heroes were caught in the blast amd burned, because a sandwich bag made a loud pop, but a trash bag was more of a bomb. They lit the trash bag like they did the little bags, by holding a lighter to the plastic.

    • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      I was at an xmas party one year where the workshop boys did this with an upturned 44 gallon drum. It was the loudest bang I’ve ever heard. I thought we were under some sort of attack.

      They expected the drum to launch a little but what actually ended up happening was the upturned metal bottom blew off and launched a LOT punching a hole in the workshop roof. It’s a miracle that nobody was hurt (their hearing probably was). Somehow they didn’t get fired.

      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        11 months ago

        Somehow they didn’t get fired.

        When someone does something really stupid and shows remorse, you can be pretty sure they will never ever do it again. A new guy might though.