PollyFoxing
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Mar 16, 2016 11:26 AM
PollyFoxing
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DonMoore531
Ah the tree trimmer at 830, right as my melatonin kicks in, fuckers
funkygoon69
My mom is always on my case because I sleep all day. I worked 8p-6a and have to do it again today... like when am I supposed to sleep then?!
almostalone
My so works 3rd. Every once in awhile I want to shake him awake at 4pm. But I won't bcuz he works hard.
swampsweaty
I've never commented on anything but as a night shift nurse working 12-14hr shifts, this. So much this.
TacoSauce890
Just got home from 3rd shifting... I'm a daywalker and a nightwalker, but I hate work calling me when I'm trying to sleep x.x
cogs
20 years active duty taught me there's no hour on the clock or day on the calendar off-limits. Try 22-hour days for a month or more.
5700
10pm-7am inventory management: 8am-1pm breakfast/lunch short order cook. 2pm-9pm sleep.
nlaw1013
I like the part where people don't think twice about calling you about work in the middle of the day. Asshole, I don't call you at 2am.
KaJuN
"Hey wanna come over and watch the game Sunday afternoon?"...I can't, I have to sleep. 3rd shift = a day and a half weekend.
ThisIsTheBestUsernameICouldComeUpWith
Last summer I was working 3rd shift and had a class at 10a. I wouldn't get to sleep until 1p & dbag roommate would call me lazy for sleeping
PollyFoxing
The remedy I take is using hotel black out curtains for darkness and a loud box fan to drown out the noise. Oh yeah, ambien helps a lot too
Lupine1982
I think the stigma is the type of job you might be working at 3am. Late night cop > daytime animal masturbator.
AnnieProffitt
I can't up vote this enough !!! Get off work at 0700, get a call from someone at 1200, "what ? havent you got enough sleep yet?'. NOOOOOOOO
havoc433845
This, I sleep durring the day, and everyone makes all the noise they want, but god forbid I use the restroom at 1am cuz omg so loud
yagubluck
What do you mean you can't hangout all day? Your not doing anything?!
CowboyScientist
Bring a virus to work b/c you're sick, no one cares. Bring Ebola to work b/c you're a virologist, everyone loses their minds.
Vectorman2
Drive your semi into the loading bay, no one cares. Drive your semi into the elementary school, everyone loses their minds.
Bahklava
My favorite part of this is when the day folks wake you up all day and if you make noise at night it's an entirely different story.
Zalbar
11pm-7am 6 days a week. Fucking sucks.
sterchulius
It's always amazed me how confused everyone else is about third shift.
squirrelocaust
I've been working 3rd shift for almost 3 years now. I have had to explain how my schedule works to family and friends too many times.
JerkoTSock
I work 3rd shift at a drug rehab...usually i just sit here or i nap but tonight i had to catch up 2 months worth of notes for day shift...
Fathergiraffe
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay.."
Goboxergoboxergo
Haven't thought of this for years. You made me laugh!
GilderoyPopDropNLockart
Sleep?? What's that?
zytrcs
Haha ive done this!!
aTALLwhiteperson
Nothing like flipping your sleep schedule every weekend so you don't feel like a piece of crap for sleeping tell 9pm on your day off
ApsychicRat
ive always thought that doing that is silly, but then ive never worked night shift so what do i know
ohdeargodwhatiswrongwithme
I feel that. I work Tuesday morning to Saturday morning every week from midnight to 8am... Take a nap Saturday and then go from there.
kootiepatra
I gave up on that ages ago. I only switch if I'm going out of town, and try to do that for at least a week at a time.
MrCapps
Used to buy a 6-pack at 7:30 am and got the worst looks every time lol
duumed
tried doing that once after nigh shift, then realized I can't because you can only buy beer between 9 and 21 in this country, fucking shit.
Pyrowolf1
Either tell them to fuck the hell off and eat shit or tell them you're gonna drink it in the evening
ColonelObvious
My night shift ends at 7:30am and I gotta wait until 9, alcohol isn't sold here until then. Finland!
MrCapps
Yea, just sorta smiled and did my thing. I always thought it was funny tho. Judge all you want fuckers, I do what I want! :P
Vectorman2
Do you live in Utah? I may be a tad alcoholic, but who gives a crap if someone is buying beer at any point during the day?
Sunil227
Yup, my boss refers to me as a vampire because I like the late shift. Pointed out that in winter. The day shift don't see sunlight all day
AxelSss
Drink beer at 7 in the morning and yell at the neighbors for keeping you up at 9.
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Canuckbuck
I'd always have drinks at my coworker's place before heading home. It was fun until I realised I was walking past an elementary school drunk
AxelSss
Unfortunately I work security so I am alone all night. There are no coworkers to drink with, so I drink alone.
redamancy
Oh, the looks I get when I stop at the store on my way home from work to get a six pack ... at 8 am. =/
Browniesandwholemilk
Hahaha same here. Cept I get off work at 5 and walk into the store at 6 when they open.
damelamusica
As someone currently drunk at 10 in the morning because of this, cheers!
MNightShyamalamadingdong
As someone who freelances and works in a nightclub, that feels like me 5 days out of 7.
faeros
this is my life...
hipsterhank
I worked at a golf course & had a group of regulars that were 3rd shifters; they'd buy a case of beer & play 18 at 6 am every day.
Bloomdido
I worked 4 days on 4 off and then 4 nights, 4 off.. Buying beer after nights at 8 in the morning and getting seemed odd. For a while....
cookiesnatcha
7 to 6 here. I love the night shift,.
thesecretmachine
So accurate the looks I get buying beer at 830 am but I just got off work!
snomang
I wish we could buy alcohol that early in Australia
AxelSss
To be fair about half of the customers at a liquor store that early in the morning are alcoholics. I stock up at more normal hours.
JeffwiththeNukes
I worked 3rd shift. There were bars that were open for us to drink at 8:30am.
Wootxor
Praise you boys... the single reason they allow alcohol to be served in the mornings
nottheguyyouwerethinkingitwas
I love Nevada. Majority of bars never close and if they do, there's always the casino. I work nights so i know your pain. Beers at 7am
AxelSss
What magical place do you live?
JeffwiththeNukes
Michigan
AxelSss
Is it too late to take back my comment about you living in a magical place?
cartmanstits
I feel like the whole stigma of morning drinking is kinda bs and mostly used as a way for people to convince themselves their not alcoholics
gorgosaurusrex
*they're
cartmanstits
I didnt have the characters left for they're
IgnisInvictus
Ha! Thanks that was awesome. I find myself making up abbreviations and crossing my fingers they make sense.
AxelSss
Lol, that's awesome
psyopper
Worse than third shift. .. Compressed Work Week night shift. Ask me how I know.
iwanttobebobdylan
Please explain.
Bacidath
I do 3 7-7s and a 7-1... Then slap some forced OT on top
fhecrewdavid
Did the same thing at a data center. Takes a toll man.
TheDouche
3-1/2 days on & 3-1/2 days off - all predictable daytime hours - that sounds amazing! Are the days off weekends? Even better.
Bacidath
All nights Sat -Tues usually get Thurs and Fri off because of ot
NapoleonDynOmite
Try 2 weeks of 10 hr days then 2 weeks of 12hr days. That's 4weeks no days off. Then a month or 2 off
cheerwinenomnoms
Try rotating 12 hour shifts. 3 days 7-7p, off one day, 7p-7a off a day, repeat
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psyopper
I'm doing it right now.
mostbitchen
Is it, is it fun?
psyopper
Beyond your wildest nightmares.
jenzhere99
Bet it's nice when your neighbors blow leaves and mow their lawn for 6 hours while you're trying to sleep, right?
Bulbathor
God yes. My apartment is constantly full of lawn mowing noise along with several ice cream trucks that make rounds.
Bulbathor
People also blast their music at 8 in the morning. Who the hell does that?
msjess
That is happening to me right now and I'm about to loose my shit!
zurrai
Ugh. Before I lost my job, I got home from work around 12-1am, and I didn't get to bed until 4am. My bedroom is next to the entrance (1/?)
zurrai
of my apartment building and right outside the parking lot. My neighbors are NOT quiet when leaving for work. -.- (2/2)
Feenfurn
My neighbor takes a leaf blower to his roof 3 times a week. It drives me nuts!
Feenfurn
he's doing it right now....as I'm about to lay down for a nap...
PollyFoxing
You're tuned into everything sleeping during the day.
battery1979
Earplugs and a sleepmask are my saving grace.
zigbigidorlu
I read that as "earslugs".
kessle
Bablefish are useful but not for this particular problem.
headbitchincharge
I live above children who screech all day earplugs are my best friend
bananerbread
When my dad worked night's he told the neighbors not to mow their lawn at noon, because that's when he was sleeping. Well, eventually they
bananerbread
Stated mowing at noon again. So he went out on a weekend and mowed the lawn at 3am. One time. "That's what the headlights are for" he said.
IgnisInvictus
Love how he was even polite w/ the object lesson. He chose a weekend. I'd be so tempted to grab a headlamp and weed wack at 3AM on a Monday.
bananerbread
They didn't mow their lawns at noon anymore...
Badlyphotoshopedconfucedfloofygiraff
Also, "how can you eat dinner at 5am, that is crazy!" - Take your day and add 12hrs, that's my 'day
jqdao3
Move to Australia?
nfseskimo
m'day*
mangoshapedspace
when i worked grave, 7p-7a, i eat breakfast for 'dinner'. and dinner for 'breakfast' before work. meal routine was keeping me sane
insertreallyfunnyusername
I still try and eat the right meals at the right time, I only do 4 night every 2 weeks though so I guess im an amateur.
Sifernos
I eat dinner around 1 a.m. twice a week and my boss doesn't get why I hate the late shift so much... 5...5? (Shudders)
Badlyphotoshopedconfucedfloofygiraff
When I had night shift, Woke up 9pm, brunch at work when I started 11pm, dinner at 5-6am and quit work at 7am. Went to bed around 1pm.
ruedergeselle
You can get used to it, but it somewhat isolates you from other people.
TheZethyrian
Only those filthy casuals with diurnal schedules.
Udidntcnething
Thats the appeal, at least for me it is. I hate people.
DigitalBang
I used to have 3 days off, worked 4x10. it was glorious. Now it's back to 5x8 :\
Badlyphotoshopedconfucedfloofygiraff
I had 7 on, 7 off. Was perfect, vacation every second week and ample of time twisting rhythms. Bad pay thou.
DigitalBang
Same job was doing 4x10 sometimes 4x12, then off 3 days all "3rd" shift. Rocked just over 400 hours of overtime for the year.
DigitalBang
In U.S. overtime is 1.5 regular pay.
DigitalBang
replace AM, with PM is what I say
IfYouLiveAroundMeLetsGrabABeerOrBottleOfWhiskeyOrBurnAHouseDown
Me too! Whoop whoop
erb325
Then some people get so confused by that like you just tried to teach them latin
HadMeSomeChickens
Ante meridiem muta post meridiem, blenne.
erb325
Woah.... Easy there.... You dont need to start conjuring satan