Who works during the night?

faceman

Even though I work the normal 9-5 everyday, 3 weekends every year i have to work into the early hours the morning, this weekend been one of them. Worst of all is its always a friday and saturday.

Anyone else suffer from such an afflication or just work during the night at all?

I find my facial hair is growing faster while Im at my desk
It doesnt grow this fast while Im in the pub!

I need support!

Rozabeez

The shop I work in closes at midnight now, so that's the latest I'd have to work to on any occasion.

faceman

Ive been in the office till 9am to 2am on a bad weekend!

Doctor DooM

Latest shift in my place is eleven.

Sitting in front of a computer at 10.30 on a Saturday is NOT fun.

Rozabeez

That's awful, I finished at 10.30 tonight (was meant to be 10 >.<) and back in at 10am, but due to buses etc, I'll be there an hour early.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I don't work after 9 o'clock at nights thankfully, I don't think I could hack working over night!

missingtime

latest i've had to do is half 12 in an xtra vision

faceman

The worse part of when i finished at 2am was i had to be in at 9:30am the same day, and it was saturday. :eek:

Adyx

You get used to it though. I've been working in bars for about 8 years now. Always late bars/clubs so I never finish before 2.30 and at weekends it could be 3.30 to 4. I'd have to be back in for 10 or 11 two mornings a week too. Needless to say its often much later when we finish eh work so I sometimes just work straight through. If I'm very drunk/tired and in at 11, I occasionally sleep on the couch in our cloakroom.

KnifeWRENCH

I'm a student, I don't work!!!

Fajitas!

Gigs, weddings and parties usually mean late work.

Also end up working on photos til the early hours, but I could do it during the day if I wanted. I don't mind working late as long as I can sleep in til 9/10 in the morning.

missingtime

Fajitas! wrote: »

I don't mind working late as long as I can sleep in til 9/10 in the morning.

Thats a lie in :eek:

God i've been out of work FAR too long.

Aisling(",)

no one will hire me but if i had a job i wouldnt mind working nights

omb0wyn5ehpij9

missingtime wrote: »

Thats a lie in :eek:

God i've been out of work FAR too long.

I'm only working part time at the moment, but if i'm up before 10 that's an early morning for me!!!!

jor el

faceman wrote:

Who works during the night?

Hookers?

Aisling(",) wrote: »

no one will hire me but if i had a job i wouldnt mind working nights

Yes you would, it's not something anyone wants to do.

1huge1

Rozabeez wrote: »

The shop I work in closes at midnight now, so that's the latest I'd have to work to on any occasion.

Its not 24hrs anymore Roe?, is that only for the summer while most of the students aren't there or what?

geurrp the yard

jor el wrote: »

Hookers?



Yes you would, it's not something anyone wants to do.

Id rather work nights, you miss that 9-5 madness traffic etc.

jor el

geurrp the yard wrote: »

Id rather work nights, you miss that 9-5 madness traffic etc.

I work in Limerick. walk to work, haven't seen rush hour traffic since I left Dublin in 1998.

1huge1

I take it you don't have to go through that shambles of traffic lights they recently put up on the Tipp Rd and Childers Rd, all the same there still better than driving n Dublin

jor el

1huge1 wrote: »

I take it you don't have to go through that shambles of traffic lights they recently put up on the Tipp Rd and Childers Rd, all the same there still better than driving n Dublin

I do, on my way back home. What a load of cock, and/or balls. How to break an already broken road junction, brought to you by Limerick County Council.

bohsman

I work nights, sometimes in a casino but usually playing poker online, games are much better at night, really couldnt handle getting up early for a 9-5.

SV

Ah lads, ye have it lucky with yer "nights"

I work 12am till 8am.
Or 6pm till 7:30am..

Mmm
Need a new job.

karlr42

Latest is 11 in my Dunnes Stores, either on Wednesdays when there's no nightpack,or last night when there was a stocktake...
Speaking of nightpack, anyone here do that? Must be horrible- 23- 7 6 nights a week, working in a shop, with 10 other people and a manager(that's how we do it) stacking shelves and that task universally known by anyone working in a grocery store- facing-off .. that's bad enough during the day :P

Rabies

I work two nights a week. The joys of working in a busy night club bar

Musashi

This week I'm working 23:00 to 07:00

Better than when I was on "Continental" shift working 20:00 to 08:00, often on Thursday to Saturday nights

Fifteen years working at least three shifts (except for a couple of years on continental). Every so often the insomnia'messed up bodyclock means no sleep for three or four days. Then exhaustion forces a reset

dcukhunter

I work all nights 6pm till 8am some times work up to 24hr shifts but not to often.

Marcus.Aurelius

1 AM, sometimes 2 AM. finish

And then I can't sleep when I get in, so I think I might start using Boards instead to carry me off.

Doctor DooM

Marcus.Aurelius wrote: »

1 AM, sometimes 2 AM. finish

And then I can't sleep when I get in, so I think I might start using Boards instead to carry me off.

Thats what the nocturnal forum is here for.

cHaTbOx

SDooM wrote: »

Thats what the nocturnal forum is here for.

Lol plug plug plug:)

Doctor DooM

random chatbox wrote: »

Lol plug plug plug:)

Why shouldn't I plug?

We're a new forum and an important resource to those with sleeping issues.*

It is my cause- nay my duty- to plug this forum like it's never been plugged. Sink plugs will be jealous of the world class plugging I shall perform!



*may not actually be true

cHaTbOx

SDooM wrote: »

Why shouldn't I plug?

We're a new forum and an important resource to those with sleeping issues.*

It is my cause- nay my duty- to plug this forum like it's never been plugged. Sink plugs will be jealous of the world class plugging I shall perform!



*may not actually be true

Plug away i just wanted to type plug plug plug because I like writing plug ,but you go fulfil your dreams of being a better plug than a sink plug.

But do not underestimate the sink plugs powers.They can sit there quietly among the grease and floaty bits until it decides to leak causing the world to panic.They are not our enemies ,they are our friends,brothers in arms, plugging what you do not have the capability to plug.

Now plug plug plug*


*I love saying that word

cyberwolf77

I work form 21:45-06:15 at least five days a week. Being a baker fracking sucks. (Pays nice, though.)

djdeclan

I work a regular 9-5 during the day (though its mostly 8-6 or 7) and I DJ at weekends and sometimes during the week.. proper nocturnal work!!
Gotta love the bar staff who have to clean up for ages after I swan off 10 mins after the music finishes!

50hertz

I work shifts which is a month of days and then a month of nights 7:00am-7:00pm. After 8+ years you kinda get used to it. I don't mind working nights.

dougd

Used to do tech support, total insanity, 2.5 years of 24/7/365. I was a zombie at the end of it, sometimes it was fun, or maybe exciting , like when you were fixing something big and your customer tells you that the problem is on the 6 o clock news, like no one in LA can making a f***&6% phone call or something so could you like fix it a bit quicker.

After I quit and started 9-5 again, it took about 9 months before I could enjoy a saturday afternoon. I could n't handle that work stopped like on Friday evening and you went home and came back on monday. Then I figured out that was normal! I cant stand the sound of a pager!

I dont miss it!
cheers

LD 50

When I was in DELL I used to do 12 hour shifts Mon-thurs on the swing shift. That could mean I'd start at 5,6 or 7 oclock in the morn, and finish 12 hrs later in the evening. Then it'd swap round the next week. It seriously screwed up my body clock.
My next job I'd sometimes be finished at half 2 in the morn, then have to cycle home, which woke me up, and I wouldnt be able to get to sleep till bout 4. But I prefer to work nights though. Don't know why.

Nerin

LD 50 wrote: »

When I was in DELL I used to do 12 hour shifts Mon-thurs on the swing shift. That could mean I'd start at 5,6 or 7 oclock in the morn, and finish 12 hrs later in the evening. Then it'd swap round the next week. It seriously screwed up my body clock.
My next job I'd sometimes be finished at half 2 in the morn, then have to cycle home, which woke me up, and I wouldnt be able to get to sleep till bout 4. But I prefer to work nights though. Don't know why.

when i worked nights (in a certain evil supermarket grrrr) i loved it.
less customers :pac:

kaimera

Lately been doing the graveyard shift during maintenance windows on whatever day(s) they are decided upon.

Got one tonight starting @ 10....if it goes well, tomorrow too.

Mountain_Surfer

Work in hotels really takes the biscuit imo, generally start around 6pm on a friday and finish about 3am sat morning, then back in again for 3 or 4 depending on what time we finished the previous night, often in till 2 or 3 am, sometimes later Then back to Dub for college during the week there is always light at the end of the tunnel!

Tabnabs

The worst thing I found when working late was getting up a 11 to start work at midnight, nothing worse than getting up when everyone else is going to bed

TimTim

When I work nights its from 9:30pm to 8:30am. Its even worse getting stuck in traffic on the way home after a long boring night...

During nights it will only take me about 15 minutes to get in work. It took me an hour to get home one morning recently....