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[–] jimmux@programming.dev 47 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

They said tradie, if this is to be believed, the drugs have probably already availed them.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I work 2300-0700. What is this seven hour shift you speak of?!

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

It was more like 2230-0630 because of overlapping handover, but that's when I was officially on duty.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago

18:45-07:15 for me :(

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Does "graveyard shift" mean night shift or did you work in graveyard?

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Someone has to make sure they stay down.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

You actually work a shifter in the graveyard, shifting tombs n stuff /j

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[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Me on public transport going home from tha club, surrounded by people on their way to work.... A very sobering experience...

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It makes you feel so wasted being around sober people. Or maybe it's that being around other people who are wasted numbs you to it

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lol my first professional job had me on the overnight bus network (lovingly called the Vomit Comet) at 5 am. It was typically full of people who were drunk or high but they were tired so there was no trouble. Everyone minded their own business and we lived in peace.

I wish I could have said the same for the pre-game crowd when I was coming home from jobs that ended 9 pm or later.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 points 5 days ago

But there's the issue. Don't readjust, embrace it, become the nightwalker. Sunlight is overated and burns us anyway, hisss

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (7 children)

This describes my interactions with my son during the summer.

[–] mig@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume my latest bedtimes and earliest mornings don't overlap :p

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

It was routinely lunchtime (if at all) back in my party days

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

2-3 am unfortunately

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[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Working rotating shifts and seeing and being both in just the space of a few weeks is a new level of misery.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I did shift work for years, and it has done permanent damage

I get up at 0430 for work now, and people ask how I cope with the early start, but it's infinitely better than what I used to do!

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[–] BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tis is how me and one of my housemates are. She games all night and i wake up for work at 5ish. So she is having dinner around when i am having breakfast lmao

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Gotta get quality time in where we can, right? Haha that sounds lovely honestly :)

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

Um no. In my experience, it's those who get up early that scare the crap out of zombies.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 8 points 6 days ago

Workweek is left side, weekend right side (if drinking)

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 5 days ago

I'm a morning person in the sense I like the quiet vibes of the morning. I'm just not a "wake up in the morning" person.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zorcron@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

I don’t think this meme is talking about night shift, so much as partiers and such.

Cocaine is a helluva drug

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If I could stay up all night and sleep at day it would fix me

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Have you considered remote work on the opposite side of the planet?

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

...no like live where you can match your circadian rhythm and work remotely in a place tha it lines up with. Most office/teaching jobs dont have a night shift.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Ah, yeah now that's a big brain strategy there

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago
[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

me and my crazy ex

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That roller coaster is great though

Those of us who've been up for a few hours at 6 are a mix of both

[–] Enekk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I never watched the Goosebumps TV show, was it any good?

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Watch are you afraid of the dark instead

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