1st ever night shift

Been here since 6pm and due to a managerial **** up we don't actually have any work to do.

Oh well engine ticking over heater on full only 6 hours and 10 minutes to go.

 

Where you working mate? Nothing worse than a night shift on the road. Once did work on Stocksbridge bypass for a week which where all night shifts, worst week of work I've ever done.

 

OK till about 2pm then wizard of oz kicks in

 

I used to love working nights. Never seemed to feel tired like when I have to get up early. Was partying hard on a weekend at the time too so it fit my lifestyle perfectly. Happy days indeed.

 

Try doing 12 hour neets darn the pit.........6 in the afternoon while 6 in the morning...........for 6 days...........every three weeks

Down there, there aint no kettle or heater or even anything soft to sit on, what you have you carry with you..........day in day out

 

I've worked nights a lot. I prefer em, in so much as I got paid more, (as Ponty says) it's not a struggle to get up, and when I was younger it fit nicely with my drinking/partying/substance taking habits.

But now I'm in a proper relationship, I prefer days. It's like leading seperate lives when you're on totally opposite shifts.

 

I don't want to startle you or owt Nudge, but Thatcher closed em mate.

 

12hr neets? Pfft, lightweight. 6pm til 10am regularly when I was on nights. 12 hour shift and 4 on overtime. Miners aren't the only people in the world who work hard you know.

 

I certainly don't miss night shifts. It wasn't so bad when I did them, as I worked in A&E where it was busy, light and noisy all night, so it wasn't till it died down by 6 or 7 when you started to feel tired. But I was a younger man in those days! Having said that, the observation ward on Brighton A&E was a killer. Looking after drunks, ODs and and people too vulnerable to be sent home at night, all of them snoring away and usually needing nothing more than regular observations. It was so difficult to stay awake that we only ever did half a shift each on there, swapping round at 3ish. Even then you'd take turns at popping down to see whoever was on there to make sure they hadn't dropped off. There was a dent in the nurses station where everybody, at some point, hit it with their head as they dropped off!

I once had a couple of Charlton players on there though, who had been given a right old kicking on a night out. One of them was out for a while. I seem to recall a nasty leg injury.

 

Wait until you've been together for years and you'll offer your right arm for the halcyon days of separate lives and night shifts.

Yours,

Mr Cynical B'stard.

 

druggy!

 

Only on the weekends, over a decade ago.

Shoot me.

 

Is that auto predictive text on again - don't you mean 'shoot up' ?

 

After doing standard office hours for 27 years, I did my first night shift at the age of 44. Once I'd started working shifts, I found I preferred them to 9 while 5. I seemed to have more time at home, too, and was glad to see the end of that back to work Monday morning feeling. Although weekends on nights usually had me in sulk mode!

 

No.

 

At gun point were you?

35 mile walk to work and back bare foot?

What a hero

 

Where did Nudge mention doing any work

 

When I worked nights, I never understood why it was deemed unsocial. My view was that anyone working 9-5 Mon to Friday had to do banking, haircuts (cost more) etc on Sat mornings. Most people doing shifts usually have more time to themselves unless they are the type that go straight to bed straight away and then don't get up till its time to go to work.