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Where my night shift people at?
I work midnights every other weekend, Fridays and Saturdays, and I must say that I quite enjoy it. It's quiet, and I have the whole building to myself pretty much. Easy money, really. Plus, I get the majority of my school work done when I work nights.
The fact that it's only 2 nights a week every other week doesn't screw with my sleep schedule much either - it helps that I'm a night owl to begin with. But for the people that aren't, and have more erratic work schedules or longer periods of night shifts: how do you cope? What keeps you going on the night shift? Do you have a lot to do?
Now that I've got a laptop and there's an internet connection here, I dunno what the hell I did all night before.
Share your night shift experiences!
Cocaine. Lots and lots of unfiltered cocaine.
Oh shit, I didn't know that you're a prostitute. 
I'm not, but my asshole is tighter than Rakim's flow.
OH SHIT LOOK AT THIS LIL NIGGA GOING 80s UP IN THIS PIECE
I just listen to music/browse the internet/play games all night long. I'd be totally fucked without my laptop - it's really rather sad.
I *do* have work that needs done, it's not just a babysitting job, but it's not difficult or anything.
Also, coffee. And smokes. Maybe the best things in the world when it's 3am and raining outside.
I once watched this movie and I can't remember the name of it but this new guy gets a job working at the morgue and he has to do the night shift. It's really creepy there's no one around its really quiet and it has those green flickering florescent lights. He thinks he hears something and he goes to investigate. He goes into the room where he heard the noise and there are bunch of dead bodies on stainless steel tables covered with a white sheet...
oh jenny be careful its always the nurse working late all alone that gets killed by the psycho.
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I just listen to music/browse the internet/play games all night long. I'd be totally fucked without my laptop - it's really rather sad. I *do* have work that needs done, it's not just a babysitting job, but it's not difficult or anything. Also, coffee. And smokes. Maybe the best things in the world when it's 3am and raining outside. |
i used to paint and remodel banana republics interior from 12pm-4am. it was awesome. i hate dealing with assholes who are too retarded to know whether something looks good on them or where to find a pair of jeans in a store that is the size of my apartment
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Also, coffee. And smokes. Maybe the best things in the world when it's 3am and raining outside. |
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| Originally posted by enydo Oh fucking yes. I may be working the 11pm - 7am shift valeting at this hospital over the summer. Actually quite looking forward to it. |
while i was in shreveport, i was part of a 24/7 operational squadron, so we had night shifts....11pm to 7am...4 nights on, 2 nights off....on 3 month rotations.
i didn't mind that at first....then at the 3rd month i was ready to shoot someone. not so much that it was night shift; but that if i had to do anything on base, i was losing sleep during the day.
i honestly found it very nice to come off shift as the sun was coming up and go for a run. granted not everyday, but often enough, i thought.
buddy of mine has been working nights for almost 3 years now...can't believe it.
The only time I ever worked night shift, I was working in a variety store/gas station, and I hated hated hated it.
I was always either alone and bored to death, or being pestered by drunken idiots wrecking the store and stealing shit, or by creepy old men hitting on me. Not to mention that the door never closed properly, so the 'safety feature' to protect me (the door was supposed to lock and I could give access to whom I wanted), never worked. So sometimes I would be at the back of the store working on shit and then suddenly someone would be standing behind me. I never felt safe.
Then there was the sleeping issue. I could never sleep through the day... lawn mowers, kids screaming outside, roomies being assholes. My sleep was so interrupted, I was probably getting less than 6 hours each night. I could never hang out with friends because when they were around, I was sleeping, and when I was around, they were at work.
Would NEVER do night shift again... ever.
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| Originally posted by jennypie Hell yeah, coffee and smokes. Good call on the rain. The facility I work at is right by the lake, and it's set in a really nice quiet wooded area with a park and ravine in the back. Always smells so damn good around here, especially when it rains. IGK, the movie you're thinking of is Nightwatch, with Ewan MacGregor. edit: when I first started working here, night shifts creeped me the fuck out. There were a lot more demented/confused residents here at the time, and let me tell you: it's not a fucking welcoming sight to go up to the third floor at 3am and turn the corner and see a 90 year old woman wandering the halls in her nightgown, muttering incoherently that she wants to go with "Those people down there", while pointing to the exit door. The front doors open by themselves all the time, too. But then I finally figured out that it was the steam from the dryer vent tripping the sensor. The housekeeper who used to work nights spazzed out one night at the beginning of my shift and told me not to go up to the third floor because she had seen a ghost in one of the empty rooms. UGH FUCK. Doesn't help that so many people have died here. JESUS. |
Well, it's a small building. Only 4 floors, including the lower level which is where the activity room, lounge, dining room, kitchen, etc. are. There are only 49 rooms here.
It's not so bad. This is the 3rd floor, down at the end of the hallways is where I used to always find that lady wandering:
This is the stairwell I usually use...which still creeps me out at night:
lol so eerie
the hallway looks a little like the shining. but i imagine you worked in a big hospital/institution
Jennie, your job is fucking scary.
I know. I bet you couldn't do it. Because you're a pussy. 
i worked a 12 hour night shift for almost 2 years, supervising manufacturing. compared to dayshift, it was so relaxed. i had time to do all of my work, and to talk to my employees. now i don't have time for any of that. but at least i don't sleep away all of my off time anymore.
Yeah, that is the downside. Never feels like you have a day off.
Been working the graveyard shift at various Safeways for 7.5 years. Funnily enough, that ends after this month, as I've had enough of nights. I want, like, a real life again!
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| Originally posted by jennypie I know. I bet you couldn't do it. Because you're a pussy. |
I work third shift as a security guard at a vacation resort. Pretty alright I guess since it's more or less the only way I'm going to get my pre-reqs out of the way before applying to vet school. I don't know how I would take these upper level courses with a day job.
Most of my shift is spent walking around for an hour until I tag the next guard out for his patrol. When he's gone, I read a book or something until he gets back. I will be taking two semesters worth of biology starting Monday; I am glad I can finally put that wasted time to good use.
Also, my biggest problem with working nights is figuring out when to eat my meals. The last thing I want to do when I get home is make breakfast/dinner before sleeping.
I consumed an unhealthy amount of Red Bull and Jack in the Box during the couple of three month stretches I'd work graveyards when I was working retail. So gross.
Yeah. It's my day off too. I cope by staying up all night so I don't have to drink a boatload of caffeine tomorrow.
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