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dghughes
When I worked overnight at a casino I'd lose track of time. I couldn't sleep during the day either so two overnights became three days awake. My motto was "Tomorrow is today" which would make a great James Bond movie title.
Deleteded
Working 7 nights a week to afford medical care?
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ProfessorMatt
Working swing on a film was fun when I was younger, had a wife to handle day-to-day household stuff, and didn’t have kids. Leaving for work at 5 pm, “breakfast” at 6 PM, “lunch” at 1 AM, ending the day at 8 AM, home and in bed by 9 AM. Catching up with the wife on the weekends. Once I had kids, though, that schedule meant that I was away from my family for longer than I wanted to be. Plus, once you hit a certain age, it becomes a lot harder to flip your sleep schedule for more than a few days.
extraDimensionalAnxiety
Happy Thursday!
Eyhlix
Wait.....
Iamtrebek
Of the 30 years I’ve been at my job, 25 of them have been on nights. I don’t even know if I could function on a regular schedule now. I’m institutionalized.
ubnty
That's assuming your company LETS you do all that overtime. If they don't, they'll claim it's for your own good ("Can't do your work properly if you're too tired to focus!"), but really it's just so it looks better on their spreadsheets, keeping the total amount of OT hours to an absolute minimum.
Hashbrown123
They have to. They straight up can't find someone that wants to do overnight.
ProChoiceBaby
6pm to 6am here. It sucks soooo much. Makes me despise my life.
Eyhlix
4pm-12:30am for almost 8 years now 0/10 not for me.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
For me it was 10 PM to 6 AM. Never did sleep well on that schedule.
Tietenkip
Happy to live in a country where working more than 6 days a week on an average month is illegal for safety reasons
57rescraft9
Just yesterday had a crown put in place, last step in implant. $835 for extraction, $4k for the rest.
UncleRat
If you don't know what day it is, what good is the overtime?
Hashbrown123
It pays the bills and puts food in my stomach.
kopper41222
I feel ya, i'm starting week 2 of working everyday. thankfully this is the last week of it but I also work 12 and a half hour shifts.
ThoseRulesArentReal
Heello from active night shifts!!
thatwoodguy
Most of my friends work jobs where they needed to work overnight I only ever did it for a few months working as a assistant computer operator at a shipping company. My friends say they don't miss not having to work in the middle of the night anymore
cusbuster
I was an on-site security guard on the night shift for three years. Sunday-Thursday 7pm till 7am. I would get home, cook dinner, and have a few beverages before my housemates got up to go to their day jobs. They would freak out that I was doing this until I explained that I was just doing what they did when they got home. The great bonus was that I could go out on Friday and Saturday night and not really be tired.
Lurch1911
My record is 3 days off out of five months… don’t ever do that.
HandoB4Javert
Today is Whensday...
Notmyjobtoday
I've been on overnights more or less continuously for the last five years, missing a week or two here and there.
Hashbrown123
The overnights themselves are not a problem, since I have Delayed Sleep Phase. It is more that halfway through my shift it changes days.
Hashbrown123
Really helps throw you off.
Notmyjobtoday
Yeah, it does. What gets really fun is if you travel for work, while on that sort of schedule. Combine 5 12h shifts and travel, and you can't remember if you slept yet or not, if you ate, or anything like that.
Wraid
shadowbane1120
Thats barely over 40 hours a week how are you making overtime?
Hashbrown123
I punch in 15 minutes early and my relief tends to be about 15 minutes late, so technically I get an extra half hour a day.
JohnBigboote74
My record is 26 nights in a row, but I once worked 78 out of 83 nights. After about 2 weeks, every day starts feeling like a Wednesday.
Hashbrown123
Last year around this time I topped out at a little under 2 months straight.
kwyjiboner
Food service industry?
porphyre1e00
Srz qzn: whyyyy? Did you get serious overtime? 78 days is about 4 months. Did you make 6 or 7 months worth of pay through that stretch?
FoxyEllie
:)
JohnBigboote74
I'm in the U.S. We don't use metric, so 78 days is actually less than 3 months. Yes, I made a ton of overtime, but I was also able to leverage my work habits to get the next available management position. It was a grind, but ultimately worth it to me.
porphyre1e00
Lol, I'm American too. A work week is 5 days. 78 days is 15.6 work weeks, basically 4 work months. I guess keep braggin on the hustle bro. Hope you have equity or ownership, cause when the boss makes a dollar, you make a dime.
marsilies
When he wrote that he worked 26 nights in a row, and 78 out of 83 nights, that was a good indication he wasn't talking about a "work week," but actual consecutive days.
digitreal
I loved midnight shift for maybe 6 months at a time. Drinking a beer at 6AM is a bit weird though.
TheLordFoxington
Used to work at FedEx as one of the people that puts the packages on the delivery trucks. Most of the shifts started between 2 and 3am, and ran until 9-10ish. It was always weird to realize I had the entire day ahead to do fuck all.
marthafarquar
The only downside is after a few weeks you start to despise the noisy, entitled, inconsiderate day walkers with every atom of your being.
Hashbrown123
When I worked security every other week my crew would go out to breakfast at a nearby diner and they would serve us beer no problem.
ultradongle
Worked overnights back in mid 2000's and I will never forget the taste of McGriddles and beer.
Kiares
Did 8 months of nights, I was a strange zombie at the end
barontaint
I'd be annoyed getting only two hours of OT a week working 7 days a week at 6hrs a day, I'd rather work 6 days a week at 7hrs a day for the same pay with at least a day off, but hey you do you.
Hashbrown123
That was originally how it was but no one wants to do that last night.
Dxoh
It's possible they are making more. I worked at a company where working Saturday was overtime payand Sunday was double pay, regardless of the actual hours worked.
barontaint
Oh I only really ever worked, hospitality, healthcare, and construction. They didn't care what days you worked and were all painfully aware a minute after 40hrs starts OT. The fun is sometimes when you start making too much OT for their liking they try to put you on salary which ends up being a pay cut, those bastards.
Dxoh
Many salaried jobs are still eligible for overtime. It's called salaried, non-exempt. Generally speaking, if you are salaried, but not in an executive, administrative, or management role, you are probably non-exempt. There is a wage rate requirement, as well, but I think that differs by location. Your companies were almost certainly guilty of wage theft (the largest total of theft in the US by a vast margin).