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!- Gandalf, cleaner of Moria Club, holding The Broom and Mop.
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?!
It was more like 2230-0630 because of overlapping handover, but that’s when I was officially on duty.
I used to work a shift that was 7pm-7am Thursday and Friday, then 11pm-7am Saturday and Sunday. I miss night shift.
When I switched from that job to one that was (IIRC) 7am to 5pm Monday to Thursday, it was a challenging week.
edit: actually I think it was 6am to 4pm. I don’t exactly remember how the change went. I just remember developing a dependency on energy drinks and apologizing to my mentor for being sleepy.
18:45-07:15 for me :(
Does “graveyard shift” mean night shift or did you work in graveyard?
You actually work a shifter in the graveyard, shifting tombs n stuff /j
It means overnight shift, usually 10pm to 6am
huh, TIL a necromancer doesn’t necessarily fuck the undead but simply raises them from it.
Oh Jesus! Look here. You’re thinking of necroPHILIA. A necroPHILIAC. Don’t do honest necromancers like this! Some of us just out here trying to make a living in the dark arts son!
but you can’t have necromancy without a little romance 😏
Me on public transport going home from tha club, surrounded by people on their way to work… A very sobering experience…
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.
This describes my interactions with my son during the summer.
Oh my lord, and grandma (my mom) comes by during the day and then I get an earful that the teenager sleeps all day it can’t be good for him.
Actually it’s convenient for me because at least his grumpy self is awake when I am home. He’s playing online all night with his tween nephews, his half sister has a new baby so technically he is free babysitting his nephews all night every night till 4am so she can sleep and worry about her newborn most of the day while they are crashed out.
I’m gonna start throttling the internet at 1am, then midnight, then 11 two weeks before school starts.
smart
He will try to find a way around the internet throttling.
You might be my dad
Go to bed!
No chance 😝
Same, but I’m the one going to bed at 5am lol
I sent to a wedding and there were some college kids there who said they were going out after the ceremony if I wanted to come. It got later and I thought they’d changed plans but it rolled around to 10 and they said they were heading out. I went to bed. They woke up at 2 the next afternoon
I’m in my 40s now but boy oh boy when I was in my 20s->early 30s sunrise meant it was time to think about where I was going for the after-party
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
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
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Gotta get quality time in where we can, right? Haha that sounds lovely honestly :)
Cocaine is a helluva drug
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.
If I could stay up all night and sleep at day it would fix me
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If they’re anything like me, it would be heaven at first, then they’d slowly adjust back to normal. It’s a circadian rhythm issue tied to sun levels
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Ah, yeah now that’s a big brain strategy there
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Um no. In my experience, it’s those who get up early that scare the crap out of zombies.
me and my crazy ex
I never watched the Goosebumps TV show, was it any good?
Watch are you afraid of the dark instead
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…
