TGR-ECOSSE
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| posted on 16/5/07 at 11:58 PM |
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A racing car is born is on if you are awake
A racing car is born is on at 1 am on discovery real time if you are still awake. If you are awake why? I am still up because i got home from work at
23.45 absolutely shattered and now am wide awake  and back up at 7am Must check lottery numbers now
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worX
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 12:05 AM |
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awake, but at work (with no tv)
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TGR-ECOSSE
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 12:30 AM |
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Thats it finished. Only you and me awake mate. Have not done a nightshift for 2 years and don't miss it at all. In 2 weeks i will be on constant
days again so hopefully will have more time to work on "the car". Enjoy work
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hobbsy
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 01:00 AM |
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I'm up but no access to that channel
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martinq357
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 02:32 AM |
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worX
Awake here aswell
Is that a 12 hour night you're working?
There's some talk of changing to 2D2N 12 hour shifts here. I'm for it but never worked the 12 hour nights before, what do you
think?.....
Martin.
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worX
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 03:01 AM |
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it's the poo-est of poo shifts ever.
I work from 6pm to 6am four nights on and then four nights off. It isn't good at all as you don't ever experience your four nights off.
When I am off, I try not to be awake at night and try and live some of my life awake in the day, so you lose half a day at the start and half a day at
the end of the four off.
It was ok a couple of years ago when I was single, I would just stay awake at night most of the time, and it always felt like I had plenty of time
off, now if I do one thing in the four off or mess up my sleeping just once it feels like the four off is reduced to one, or two at the most!
I'm sure there are plenty of people out there on the same or worst shifts than me (at the moment or previously) but that doen't mean I
have to enjoy it! I work in a (quite large) factory and I am the only person here at night! and there is only so many books you can read. I also
don't have acces to the internet (this is a random and very rare favour awarded by one of the bosses!)
ah well, ho-hum
I could always look for something else I suppose (just wait until that loan for my car is paid back, and I will!!)
Steve
[Edited on 17/5/07 by worX]
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RK
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 03:29 AM |
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Many moons ago, I worked nights for about two weeks, til I had a "wage disagreement" which put an end to that job. I found it kind of cool
that you were just waking up at about 2 in the afternoon and you wander around in a daze while everybody else is just getting tired from work. But you
do feel a bit cut off from the real world, for sure.
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Macbeast
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 06:09 AM |
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Real world ? There is a real world?
We work 12 1/2 hour shifts: day shift 0745 - 2015, nights 1945 - 0815. Only one man on in this control room.
It's odd but on day shift it seems I get home and more or less go straight to bed and up at 6 again next morning, so no me time, whereas on
nights I get up about 1pm and have some time before I have to leave for work at 18.30.
Nights nothing happens, we just have to be here in case. I have thought of suggesting I stay at home and send in bits of old rope and they can send me
money, but I don't think they share my sense of humour.
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 06:37 AM |
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Brought the dvd when i brought the new book
Learnt a lot fom it.
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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dilley
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 06:51 AM |
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Just find a nice cosy cupboard somewhere and sleep through,get paid for sleeping
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Agriv8
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 07:03 AM |
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Did shifts for 8 years. patern included a week of nights every 3rd weeks. You dont realise how much it knaks your system until you come of them
It HARD work - though was good for going out boozing on a Saturday night after a week of nights !!! Oh and I still have the ability to virtaully sleep
at any point day or night
Dont think I would ever want to go back to shift work.
regards
Agriv8
Taller than your average Guy !
Management is like a tree of monkeys. - Those at the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. BUT Those at the bottom look up and see a
tree full of a*seholes .............
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TGR-ECOSSE
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 07:30 AM |
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Good Morning. I have worked so many different shift patterns and none of them are family or car building friendly. Finaly got to sleep at 3am
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worX
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 10:28 AM |
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another fault of mine is that I get into bed at some point around 7am, but I am useless at sleeping at the best of time, so the slightest thing wakes
me up (both neighbours to one side have babies!) so 11am is usually about the most amount of sleep I get four hours...
It really isn't condusive to family or any typr of "normal" life at all, and I'm not surprised that I don't have a great
diet, and am pretty much permanently tired!
Steve
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DIY Si
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 10:40 AM |
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Sounds a bitlike my old shift pattern. 12 hour daya nd night shifts, on a rotating pattern. you;d start on a monday and tuesday day, then fri sat sun
night (oh that was fun). You'd then be back in on wed thurs day. The day/night shift then changed for the next two weeks. 72 hr week, followed
by a 24 hr week. Not too bad though, as I hot a 44% shift allowance, and I worked on my own behind a locked door, so could sleep alllll night long!
Oh, and I didn't have a boss, due to being the only person from the technical department in the factory.
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
My new blog: http://spritecave.blogspot.co.uk/
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TGR-ECOSSE
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 10:45 AM |
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Good morning worX i know exactly what its like. Bet you will feel like sleeping about half an hour before going to work. Cant wait to get back on
permanent days but the downside is we are only going to 1 shift because of redundancies. Looks like i will be out of a job in the next year. Anybody
looking for a pcb repairer?
I used to work 12 hour nightshifts as a quality inspector for Continental/Uniroyal tyres and dont think that would have been a safe option to have a
sleep. Oh how i miss the money
[Edited on 17/5/07 by TGR-ECOSSE]
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worX
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| posted on 17/5/07 at 12:33 PM |
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I get ready for work like an hour early (5pm) so am ok then, it's the two times in the shift that I feel tired (overly tired if you know what I
mean!)
The first time is at around 8pm, and feels really strange as mobody should feel tired at that point, and then again at around 3am, and thats a
toughie...
I am also the only one there, but my job isn't that technical - in fact I assume you have watched the Simpsons, Homer Simpson job is based on
mine!!!
Oh and my job isn't that secure at the moment as the entire U.S. owned part of the company is for sale, and on top of that the money isn't
that good anyway!!
I really do need to look for a better job don't I???
Steve
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