Shout Out To Night Shift Staff!

[HLC]

Originally Posted by S&BXR6

Rofl, last week friday morning, i got home, sat up for as long as i could, ended up falling asleep at 11:00am, woke up at 1:00pm.... was trying to organise finance for my new car wich if ya read the other threads, i should pick up on thursday, but yeah man, i've parked at traffic lights waiting for them to turn green, and woke up with someone honking at me coz the lights changed :P

I've never fallen asleep while driving..... just that cat nap :P

ive done that at the lights before... and the micro sleeps behind the wheel. a lot of them.

they are scary as all hell. i seriously will be dirving down the motorway on my way home, not tired, not feeling fatigued, or restless or all the other symptoms but deadset just open my eyes up and i will be like wtf. i hate them :(

[iCat]

Originally Posted by S&BXR6

i've parked at traffic lights waiting for them to turn green, and woke up with someone honking at me coz the lights changed :P

finished up nightshift one morning, driving home through Melb CBD, came to set of red lights, sat there and watched them change: green, orange, red, green, orange, red, green, orange, red, pretty lights. divvy van sitting right next to me, when i finally decide to proceed they of course pulled me over. copper comes up to the window and says "what were you doing exactly back there?" to which i replied "having a power nap".

he had no sense of humour that morning lmao

[Lightning Strike XR6]

Back at work t night and also Sunday night

Should go quick like usual

[XRSIKS]

I'm back on days now , 7:00am start, 3:30pm finish, till monday, then god knows lol, all day shifts from now on though, but i will keep chatting to you poor folks on nights

[Lightning Strike XR6]

Great news.

Half an hour to go yew!

[outside]

another two nights now for me, didnt do the last ones as the misses was not feeling the best.

[XRSIKS]

Night shift overtime WooHoo!

[wodahs]

meant to be on tonite but in the last week or so ive been having problems with my sleep pattern sore joints and the odd head ache
im sleeping from 1 to a few hours and up for a while and so on and quite fatigued (no good for driving road trains)
off to the doc's tomorrow to see whats up with me

[5L]

its my nightoff tonight, last night is friday then ive got 5 weeks off.

[wodahs]

half your luck bud
i may be off for a day or two but ill be back at it very soon

[WOTDAH]

Do you guys hate night shift as much as I do. Redbull, V, Mother just dont work nothing keeps me awake all night. Sometimes I wonder how I get home in the mornings.

[outside]

been doing shift work for 29 years, so its a way of life for me. was doing 8 hours shifts at first, then 12 hours became the go, been doing them for 12 years or more now.
Never taken anything to try and stay awake, if you have to rely on something the maybe night works not for you.

[WOTDAH]

I was on day shift for 11 years then times got tough for my employer so they forced me on nights about 8 months ago. I thought I would be used to it by now, I would love to resign but in the current climate I think it would be hard to get a job else where.

[XRSIKS]

i'm back on days now, 5am starts, im enjoying the interaction with the consumers, but i did a night shift overtime last wednesday night, it threw me off, i got booked with cruise control still on, 70 in a 40 *construction* zone

[iCat]

my last day of day shift today, back to nights next week, and i cannot wait. i hate dayshift with a passion - up at 3.45am, i can just never get enough sleep. nightshift i know i can relax and snooze the whole day if i want. i think nightshift - it either works for you or doesn't.

hey, and i get a weekend off this week - woo hoo!! now that's a rarity! :1syellow1

[5L]

last night tonight ;)

WOTDAH- i used to drink all the energy drinks to stay awake and alert on night shift, havnt touched one in about 9 months though. i was finding that the days where i didnt drink them i would get tired and grumpy very fast.

im used to it now, and prefer it. less traffic to deal with, more time and freedom during the days. i mean if i worked day shift i would come home and watch tv then go to bed. at the moment i can wake up at 2-3pm then go out. in summer it is boiling hot during the day where i sleep with the air con on. winter time its cold all the time so that doesnt matter. oh and we get payed more

[kenz]

Im a carpenter and just finished a week of night work, 5pm-1am. I dont mind it, we do it every so often working in office buildings, having to wait till everyone goes home before we start. Didnt need anything to keep me awake either and as iCat said, got most of the day to sleep if needed. I found I got way more sleep doing nights compared to waking up at 4am for day work

[Lightning Strike XR6]

Here now at work. Just finnished all work now just wait to knock off.

[Mark s]

I am an hour off finishing my last shift for 3 days. I am going straight from work to finish a course with the Rural Fire service today and tomorrow. Boy I am going to be a bundle of joy this afternoon.

I work 8 hour shifts, Day 6:30 - 2:30 Afternoon 2:30 - 10:30 and nights 10:30 - 6:30. after doing it for 8 years i struggle after the 2nd nightshift.

Still the shifts allow me more time to do things than a normal 9 - 5 job and I get nice sleep in on afternoon shifts and get to visit the gym before going to work.

Working weekends suck, when there is bike, car racing or get togethers with family/friends and you have to go to work.

Cheers
Mark

[XRSIKS]

Back on nights again this thread still alive?

[benoxr]

Originally Posted by SNBXR

Back on nights again this thread still alive?

The thread is....more than I can say about me at the moment :

[wodahs]

well i think im off to bed early then but then again after working nites then working 3 pm to 3 am for six months - friday they told me im back on the 6 pm till 8 am nites again , well for monday n tuesday then back to the 3 - 3


oh and as i said .... nite :

[outside]

nights for me again tonight as always only two of them, but last week they had a guy working in my job who only does it once in a blue moon, (they have cut overtime back to all but nil) and he stuck the whole furnace together, 138 billets, on one of the zones the gas valve stuck open and he didnt know :
so they are working o/t shifts this weekend to make up of lost production. no quite night for me this week.

[XRSIKS]

We've gone from 5 HSO4's, to 14.... so Overtime is non existent, but i'm still on a perm line

*pets his laptop* good old Warcraft at work gotta love it.

[outside]

well almost done for another week. looking forward to the 4 days off.

[outside]

Originally Posted by SNBXR

We've gone from 5 HSO4's, to 14.... so Overtime is non existent, but i'm still on a perm line

*pets his laptop* good old Warcraft at work gotta love it.

HSO4's????

[wodahs]

oh my nite is fun - when running nites we run pallets of product from our wearhouse out to a company that uses it (running a production line) we usualy run 16 pallets a run 8 to 10 runs a 12 hour shift
been here 9 hrs and have only moved 3 tonite sleep: gettin so borin

[wodahs]

ahh almost forgot what a sunrise was like no its time to slee sleep: sleep: sleep:

[outside]

well back again tonight for an o/t shift, they wanted to use a guy who is not signed off for the job, but when i pointed that out and with what happened the other week, they come to the party, so here i am night work #3 out of 5 shifts

[BlueKoop]

Last night till Sunday for me.... everyother day and night doing home renos