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Working a night shift...

CrayAddick
CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
edited October 2012 in Not Sports Related
It's 23:25. I'm at work until 7am. Anyone else working tonight please post... Or even if your up late....

The joys...
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  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    My brother went to work this morning at 8. He is coming home tomorrow morning at 8. He is a mad man.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    edited October 2012
    16:53 here in Alberta so I haven't even left work for the weekend yet.

    Long weekend this weekedn though for Thanksgiving - going to pick up my 14 lb Turkey from a friend who has a Buffalo and Turkey Farm (weird mix I know) so the Missus and I will be eating Turkey for the next fortnight!
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    Exiled_Addick said:

    16:53 here in Alberta so I haven't even left work for the weekend yet.

    Long weekend this weekedn though for Thanksgiving - going to pick up my 14 lb Turkey from a friend who has a Buffalo and Turkey Farm (weird mix I know) so the Missus and I will be eating Turkey for the next fortnight!

    Rub it in why don't you.
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Just enjoying a beer or two Cray.

    Cheers.
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
    Just finished my shift at fun express - i do envy these people that have set days off they can look forward to - the joys of having a weekend!
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    moutuakilla said:

    Just finished my shift at fun express - i do envy these people that have set days off they can look forward to - the joys of having a weekend!

    I don't like people who have weekend off, makes me feel bitter and evil.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    edited October 2012
    CrayAddick said:

    Exiled_Addick said:

    16:53 here in Alberta so I haven't even left work for the weekend yet.

    Long weekend this weekedn though for Thanksgiving - going to pick up my 14 lb Turkey from a friend who has a Buffalo and Turkey Farm (weird mix I know) so the Missus and I will be eating Turkey for the next fortnight!

    Rub it in why don't you.

    Well if it's any consolation I've probably got to go into work tomorrow to do all the stuff I didn't get done this week because I've been dealing with other people's problems all week.
  • 4_bowman
    4_bowman Posts: 223
    Yep I'm in 10 till 7 right through the weekend so that should keep you happy no weekend for me either :-/
  • SouthAfricaAddick
    SouthAfricaAddick Posts: 242
    Up late - waiting for crickets highlights to come on at 1.30 . Used to do night shifts many years ago - could never get used to them after many years - especially when finishing at 7 on saturday morning and then having to be in for 7 on Monday morning - weekend totally lost trying to get back into the ;swing'
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,679
    Sorry cray - not at work. Pissed up with off it.missus hates me. Sort of wish I was at work. Weirdly used to quite like doing the night shift - time and half!
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  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    4 bowman said:

    Yep I'm in 10 till 7 right through the weekend so that should keep you happy no weekend for me either :-/

    I'm on the same shift... Hmmm could it be?

  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    I just got home. I work 9-8 through friday and saturday night. Everyone else is out clubbing and getting bladdered.

    Work is literally ruining my life.
  • 4_bowman
    4_bowman Posts: 223
    could it be .....................a similar company
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866
    I was a night shift veteran at HMV... was a crazy nightmare, money was good though.
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    Understand how you feel mate. I worked night shifts for years and it really got to me.
    Hopefully you'll manage to get off them sometime.
    Until then, this sums it up:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUcKeKt8C1k

  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    I was on the night shift last nifght midnight - 4 off tonight then back in Sunday midnight - 4.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    edited October 2012
    Night shifts is a funny old existence. Now many years ago but 12 hour night shifts, Mon,Tue,Fri,Sat,Sun,Wed,Thu over a two week period then days, I did that for 5 long years. The only way I found that the body clock could deal with it was to fill in my off days with o/t funny enough. Best time going home in the morning when every fecker was on their way into work, downside traveling in when everyone was off out. Never saw the sun in winter for two weeks at a time and was permanently half conscious. In the summer I slept on a sunbed in the garden and if it rained mum would pop out and put a tarpaulin over me. A world ago.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    edited October 2012
    I love night work. Systems and networks guys in IT often work late at night as it's the only time maintenance/improvement work can be done without bringing systems down. I've done it for donkeys' years now and enjoy it - I can usually do most of it from home, but if I have to go to the office/a data centre, the roads are quiet, I can put music on wherever I'm working without disturbing anyone else and work entirely to my schedule. What's not to love about that?

    Soapy - that sounds brilliant - I wish I had someone to put a tarpaulin over me. I did the chip & pin rollout for Tesco aeons ago and it involved working round the country at Tesco stores overnight. In the summer I used to regularly get home at about 9 in the morning then kip in the garden. Woke up one morning to find I was absolutely soaked through - I think it had been raining that fine, misty rain for about an hour. Almost caught bloody pneumonia.
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    MattD said:

    I just got home. I work 9-8 through friday and saturday night. Everyone else is out clubbing and getting bladdered.

    Work is literally ruining my life.

    Feel for you working them hours, hope your paid well.

    I find the toughest part of doing nights is that middle of the night feeling, around 3 or 4am.. Hate it. Especially with my job dealing with people's problems all the time..
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    Gonna be some sweet sounds going down on the night shift.

    Moans, groans and farts :-)
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  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    Davo55 said:

    Gonna be some sweet sounds going down on the night shift.

    Moans, groans and farts :-)

    Moans? You going to be spanking the chariot whilst at work :-O
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    just starting the 2nd of three night shifts. don't find them too bad, less nutters on the road to get in the way.
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,913
    I'm back in at 2200 tonight. Last one!!!
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    edited October 2012
    CrayAddick said:

    MattD said:

    I just got home. I work 9-8 through friday and saturday night. Everyone else is out clubbing and getting bladdered.

    Work is literally ruining my life.

    Feel for you working them hours, hope your paid well.

    I find the toughest part of doing nights is that middle of the night feeling, around 3 or 4am.. Hate it. Especially with my job dealing with people's problems all the time..
    Rubbish pay, Sainsburys, just woke up, now to get ready and go in again..
    Its so boring I feel like it will end up dumbing me down/
    Not easy though, rushing about the whole time, given way more hours to complete than I have time for, then get absolutely annihilated if I dont finish.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    I work the occasional night shift.
    The best part is going home at 7.30 just as everyone else is going to work.
  • 4_bowman
    4_bowman Posts: 223
    strange im in tonight as well last one till wednesday :-))
  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    Started at midnight just finishing shall be on my way home in 5 minutes.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,413
    just been out at carnage (northern crazy night out). i'll be impressed if any of you know what it is
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    cafcnick1992 said:

    just been out at carnage (northern crazy night out). i'll be impressed if any of you know what it is

    Student?
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,362
    I worked shifts for about 8 years. Hated every minute of it.
    Summer time, for me, was absolute hell trying to sleep after a night shift.
    Suits some people but I cant see how, dont see your family or friends at normal times.

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