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!

Last edited by Silky Johnson on May-15-2010 at 04:42

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Oh fucking yes.

I may be working the 11pm - 7am shift valeting at this hospital over the summer. Actually quite looking forward to it.

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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.

Valeting? Like people's cars? Or like a hospital porter, moving people around, etc? Those jobs pay really well!!

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.