I worked 3rd shift overtime last night. Can't sleep today. So what do you do?

[GrumpyJoe]

Splitting some wood.

 

[TheMan419]

We are under a heat warning here. So I値l get up at 0 dark hundred tomorrow and mow the lawn.

 

[Thomas]

Putter until eyes get heavy...yawning like BIG old bear would.

 

[bigtiller]

I worked 3rd shift (11 to 7) a few times. I thought it was much easier to work 7 days a week than to suffer through a weekend working only 5 days a week.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

We often get jobs were we have to pull night shifts, 9pm to 9am. I stay up all day first night, suck it up, and then crash next day. 2nd night is a lot easier. Hardest is coming off nights after 2 or three weeks.

 

[bunyip]

I used to come home, have a beer then fall asleep in front of the TV.

 

[oosik]

Worked at a company making industrial size air handlers. ONE TIME they asked the swing shift crew to say on and work night shift. The company only had two shifts - day and swing. We had already put in a ten hour shift and they wanted the oncoming eight. Most of us made it about half way thru night shift - then went in the back of one of the big air handlers and slept the remainder of the shift. Took me two days to recover from that fiasco.

 

[QRTRHRS]

I worked 3rd shift (11 to 7) a few times. I thought it was much easier to work 7 days a week than to suffer through a weekend working only 5 days a week.

A former co-worker worked every day for a full year so he could attest to that, LOL! I have had my share of night shift's. After a weekend, the first night back is a rough go no matter how you do it. After that, I would come home, find things to do then crash about noon or so. Get up, have breakfast at 10pm and go at it again.

A couple of the worst schedules I ever worked were one where I had one full weekend off, then like one Sat, one Sunday, on both, etc., etc. There were two and three day on stretches during the week. The 20% shift differential made it somewhat workable. Typically, shift work around my area is like 7 to 7. Two on, two off then on for sat, sun, mon with being off the following sat, sun, mon. That eases the company OT bill but is not much fun for the workers. I mean, most would rather it be Fri-Sat-Sun.

Those that have to work a swing shift suffer the most. The night shift tour is one long grueling week.

For the ultimate swing shift, try trucking. All bets are off there.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

My daughter worked what I thought was the crappiest shift ever devised...5:00 pm to 5:00 am, for seven days straight...then she had seven days off, which made it somewhat bearable. I would rather shovel manure...which I have done...or asphalt...which I have done also.

 

[300UGUY]

I’ve worked all kind of shifts, all night shifts suck. I worked years of afternoons, and midnight shifts. Midnights was the hardest on sleep, everybody I worked with complained of sleep deprivation. I used to get only 5 hours a night for weeks. Some nights almost none. Even worse was rotating shifts.....