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Night shift sucks (slrpnk.net)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

How dare you, I have always-on night shift! Oh wait, you aren't talking about OS feature that lowers blue light.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Only if you love being driven like the sheep you are ;]

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

-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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You're forgetting the liquid shits that come with night shift.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

My stomach is gurgling already thinking about 12 hour shifts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

who does #2 work for?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

God speed, man.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Northern light: yes, seen it too. Lynx: usually there aren't that many at sea, so haven't seen them :p

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

what did you do at the army?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Subjugate populations outside the empire through combinations of soft and hard power

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

As has been done since the advent of life.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Yes, nations without enough nuke to eradicate humanity (including Mars settlements) have no rights and are not really human.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

EW commander and later OSINT analyst.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

Day staff coming in "God they didn't do everything uhhhgghhh," Day staff at handover "K bye"

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Management is supposed to be positive? Do I get that right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If you have a good one yes

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I work at a large airport this summer. What is this "fully staffed" you're talking about, and where can I get it?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

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!