this is so fucking true holy shit
i work the night shift and every time day shift comes back in, everything's settled and quiet, everything's streamlined and ready.
When 2nd shift comes in (we actually have 3 shifts, and overnight is 3rd) it's UTTER CHAOS
Our third shift is all maintenance, no production, do they do their preventative stuff and nothing really happens. 1st comes in to a well lubricated factory, promptly fucks everything up and passes their problems on to second.
And every day the cycle begins anew.
The thing I hated most on night shift was, if something was screwed up on day shift and was still an issue when I came in, they would pass it off; but, if something was screwed up at the end of my shift, I had to stay until it was resolved, sometimes for hours.
I had a coworker who used to tell customers he was working on their issue and to call him back after 4pm. His shift ended at 2pm.
That's shitty.
I hated the 3 am witching hour. We had to make decisions as consultants. 3 am rolls around and you question everything
I just want to fall asleep from 3-5. Doesn't matter if I slept all day and got up at 10:30PM.
The title and content contradict each other.
What happens during night shift stays during night shift.
I worked night shift in a metal fabrication shop about 11 years ago.
Two bastions of humanity figured out that they could light an oxyfuel torch and adjust it to a neutral flame, snuff the flame out of a glove or something, and then use the torch to fill a plastic sandwich bag with a perfect mixture of oxygen and acetylene. They would then place this bag somewhere and light it on fire, which made a lot of noise. They had great fun until they tried it with a small office-sized trash bag. The word of the day is brisance. It made a tremendous bang which cracked some glass in the shop, but of course our two heroes were caught in the blast amd burned, because a sandwich bag made a loud pop, but a trash bag was more of a bomb. They lit the trash bag like they did the little bags, by holding a lighter to the plastic.
Holy fuck.
Imagine filling out the paper work for that one
We had another shop in the chain I worked for fire everyone for doing that when I was a mechanic. There were no injuries but the neighboring businesses called 911 because they thought there was a bomb.
Yeah that is attention no business wants.
Night shift:
Uneventful, the muggers slumber
Day shift:
Dear God the crackheads
Meanwhile day shift has twice as many people working with half the business then wants to complain when we didn't clean up all their messes.
I'm sick of taking out trash bags that I put in the night before.
Unless you work in document scanning, then it's reversed.
