I used to work a graveyard shift from 11pm to 6am. The first wave of morning workers were typically tradies in hi-viz, driving bright white vans. I used to think of them as a glowing army sent to scare off the walking dead clubbers who were still stumbling around.
You cannot pass.
I am a servant of the Maintenance, wielder of the Hi-Viz Vest.
You cannot pass.
The drugs will not avail you, creature of The Night.
Go back to the Shadow!
Youuu!...Shall Not!...Paaaaasss!
They said tradie, if this is to be believed, the drugs have probably already availed them.
I work 2300-0700. What is this seven hour shift you speak of?!
18:45-07:15 for me :(
It was more like 2230-0630 because of overlapping handover, but that's when I was officially on duty.
Does "graveyard shift" mean night shift or did you work in graveyard?
Someone has to make sure they stay down.
You actually work a shifter in the graveyard, shifting tombs n stuff /j
It means overnight shift, usually 10pm to 6am
Me on public transport going home from tha club, surrounded by people on their way to work.... A very sobering experience...
It makes you feel so wasted being around sober people. Or maybe it's that being around other people who are wasted numbs you to it
I always felt that they are still wasted, just in another way. They're recently awake, on the way to work that for the vast majority isn't something they're excited about. They're drained and don't want to be there. I always thought I'd much rather choose my position in those moments than theirs. And I'm sure at least some see us (in this situation) and are envious.
lol my first professional job had me on the overnight bus network (lovingly called the Vomit Comet) at 5 am. It was typically full of people who were drunk or high but they were tired so there was no trouble. Everyone minded their own business and we lived in peace.
I wish I could have said the same for the pre-game crowd when I was coming home from jobs that ended 9 pm or later.
Fuck night shifts. I worked nights for 11 months. 2 weeks off wasn't enough time for me to readjust. There were a couple of weeks during winter where I didn't see sunlight at all.
But there's the issue. Don't readjust, embrace it, become the nightwalker. Sunlight is overated and burns us anyway, hisss
Here's a question I thought of to ask people at parties: what is the time of night (or day I suppose) where you're just as likely to be staying up late as to be getting up early? In other words, sort of the midpoint between your latest bedtimes and earliest mornings. I think mine would be around 5 AM.
5AM is spot on in my (foolish) experience when I was younger. I have many fun nights still barely going at 5AM and I also had jobs where I got up at 4:45AM to beat the traffic for a long commute.
Bold of you to assume my latest bedtimes and earliest mornings don't overlap :p
It was routinely lunchtime (if at all) back in my party days
IMO, it's between 4:00 and 4:30am is the cutoff between days.
The Witching Hour
2-3 am unfortunately
About 5 pm for me. My shift is 10 pm till 6 am 5 days a week. And I try to stick to a 1 pm till 8 pm sleep schedule. But it is always interesting seeing people at 4-5 am and trying to guess whether they are knocking off or starting work.
I’ve started going in to work early so I’m getting up at 4:30 every morning now. Last week I was texting a friend who hadn’t gone to bed yet while I was getting ready for work. He works a typical 9-5 office job from home so he probably wakes up pretty late by my standards, even still he was probably pretty tired that day at work. But that’s his norm, it’s crazy to me.
I work an office job, but I tend to sleep 1 or 2 hours early in the evening and then stay up till 2 or 3 am. It's not really healthy, but it does give me more time to enjoy the quiet of night.
My roommate works graveyard. I naturally wake up at 4am.
There's been many weird catch-up conversations in the kitchen when our paths cross lol
Workweek is left side, weekend right side (if drinking)
I’ve worked both shifts. Night is definitely less tightly wound, on average. Both are caffeinated, so that’s not it. Career night shift usually day sleep 8hrs so that’s not it either.
I don’t think this meme is talking about night shift, so much as partiers and such.
Working rotating shifts and seeing and being both in just the space of a few weeks is a new level of misery.
I did shift work for years, and it has done permanent damage
I get up at 0430 for work now, and people ask how I cope with the early start, but it's infinitely better than what I used to do!
Yeah fixed working hours are better, did a year of rotating between just 2 shifts and even that was better than rotating between 3 shits.
My circadian rhythm is a myth. Most people quit within few years due to some health related issues and those who have managed to handle it longer just become alcoholics to mask health issues.
Cocaine is a helluva drug
Um no. In my experience, it's those who get up early that scare the crap out of zombies.
If I could stay up all night and sleep at day it would fix me
me and my crazy ex
That roller coaster is great though
Those of us who've been up for a few hours at 6 are a mix of both
I'm both..
I am both…. (Depending on the day)
I went to office at 0600 today because of the weather.
I never watched the Goosebumps TV show, was it any good?
Watch are you afraid of the dark instead
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