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Conference back40::soapbox

Title:Soapbox. Just Soapbox.
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Moderator:WAHOO::LEVESQUEONS
Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:862
Total number of notes:339684

363.0. "Night shift 101" by POLAR::WILSONC () Sun Mar 26 1995 23:47

    How do we feel about night shift? 
    
    I like it. My girlfriend doesn't. My parents still insist on phoning me
    long distance after 2300 hrs, despite telling them monthly for the last
    two years that I work on the night shift which means that when they are
    asleep I am working and therefore not available. Friends still ask me
    where I am going when I get up during the second period to bid my
    farewells. So for fun I do the same to them, you know, phone my parents
    when I know they are out, ask my friends out to lunch and then act
    surprised to see them go after only two beers, "hey, where are you
    going its only 1330 hrs what is your PROBLEM, work? you mean you work
    during the day? That is like soooo weird. When do you sleep?
    
    What are your thoughts about the night shift?
    
    
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363.1ODIXIE::CIAROCHIOne Less DogMon Mar 27 1995 00:502
    I like my wife's night shift.  She never wears stuff like that in
    public, though...
363.2Going on the Night ShiftAIMTEC::MORABITO_PHotlanta RocksMon Mar 27 1995 03:0618
It is very timely that you mention this.  Next week I start on the nightshift
at the CSC in Atlanta.  There is going to be a group of us doing this, but if
the day people have a problem they need to contact us.  Originally, it was
said that we should be available by telephone in case there is a problem.

I however, was not happy with this.  I will be working from 7:00 pm to 
9:00 am three days a week.  When I get home I plan to put the place on total
telephone silence so I don't get bothered by telephone solictors and their
counterpart.  The solution was that we will be given pagers. 


	"There's going to be some sweet sounds, coming down, from the 
	 night shift"

	Triva question, who did this song?

Paul
363.3feel like a vampire sometimes...DELNI::SHOOKFowl Play Suspected in Hen House DeathMon Mar 27 1995 04:2421
    re last
    
    i beleive that song was by bob seager (sp).
    as you are new to the nightshift, i have a great booklet that discusses
    how to adjust your sleep, eating, etc. for the night shift. if you are
    interested, let me know and i'll mail you a copy. 
    
    re 0. i have been on the night shift for the last 1� years, also known
    as the "third-herd," and i am finally getting used to the hours and the
    routine.......breakfast at 1900 (7:00 pm), lunch at 0300, making sure i
    shut the ringer off on the phone, curtains sealing off any light from
    outside. biggest headache was reminding friends NOT to call me while i
    was sleeping. the message got across when i told them that if they
    called to "chat" in the afternoon, i'd be calling to "chat" at
    midnight! 
    
    advantages: great excuse to sleep all day, can run errands in the
    morning while everyone else is at work (especially good at christmas),
    drive home in the opposite direction of rush hour traffic, and more
    money.
    
363.4MIMS::WILBUR_DMon Mar 27 1995 09:338
    
    
    
    Having done them all.
    
    Happiness is working from 8am to 5 pm and no beeper.
    
    
363.5PENUTS::DDESMAISONSno, i'm aluminuming 'um, mumMon Mar 27 1995 09:596
   <<< Note 363.3 by DELNI::SHOOK "Fowl Play Suspected in Hen House Death" >>>
    
>>    i beleive that song was by bob seager (sp).

	Seger.  Maybe you're thinking of "Night Moves"?

363.6RDGE44::ALEUC8Mon Mar 27 1995 10:015
    .4
    
    hear hear ('cept i'll take 9.30am to 6pm)
    
    ric
363.7MPGS::MARKEYThe Completion Backwards PrincipleMon Mar 27 1995 11:0017
    As a musician, there is only the night shift. The problem is, getting
    used to the day shift... my body (and most importantly, my brain)
    has little concept of being awake between 6AM and noon. 6AM is a dandy
    time to fall into bed, not get out of it. Most of the colossally
    stupid things I've managed to do in life have been accomplished between
    6AM and noon.

    My first job in the computer field was as a programmer at a silicon
    foundry. They once opened a new clean room, and had a lot of equipment
    that during the transition period was only used on the night shift.
    This required me to join the other vampires, and I can't remember
    having more fun on the job in all my years. The exact details are
    left to the imagination, but it made college dormitories look
    reserved by comparison.

    -b
363.8SALEM::DODADonald Fehr, man of intransigenceMon Mar 27 1995 11:3412
            <<< Note 363.2 by AIMTEC::MORABITO_P "Hotlanta Rocks" >>>
                         -< Going on the Night Shift >-

       >"There's going to be some sweet sounds, coming down, from the 
       > night shift"

       >Triva question, who did this song?
    
       The Commodores sans Mr. Richie

       daryll

363.9SWAM2::SMITH_MAMon Mar 27 1995 13:053
    
    Marvin Gaye!!!!!
    
363.10BSS::SMITH_STue May 14 1996 02:182
    Hello?!?
    -ss
363.11BUSY::SLABOUNTYCrazy Cooter comin&#039; atcha!!Tue May 14 1996 11:123
    
    	You rang?
    
363.12FABSIX::P_OHALLORANspace for rentSat Aug 03 1996 08:354
    
    <--------------- OOOPS, wrong number    8^o