graveyards

[jwintosh]

so, it's 4am here on the west coast! it's been at least 8 years since i pulled one of these all-nighters. can't say that i miss them!! 1800-0630! yuk!! oh well, two more of these, and then, can you say, "maui!!"

gotta keep me up bros!!

jeff

 

[Len___T]

be grateful lol...I pull a week of graves a month lol..yuck...len

 

[oneaday]

I used to work em every month in a gallaxy far far away. Now I fly redeyes and get by on a couple of hours sleep snatched on the plane, get to the hotel by 4AM grab a couple of hours there, get dressed and start my week.

 

[Boppa-Wasch]

I use to work 2200-0600 for 8 yrs, then 1900-0700 of a very nice schedule for 6 years.......when I worked that is. Here's the 12 hr schedule:
M T W TH F S SN
w w - - - w w
- - - - w w w
- - w w w - -
w w w w - - -
Take 2 days of vacation, get nine days off.

 

[aleam_38]

no graveyard for me, I am an 8-5 person

 

[TexaSmoke]

Technically no graveyards for me, but sometime we have to work a good 20+ hours. But that a few and far between.

 

[Saully]

Silly me, I'm so used to 8-5 I thought this thread was going to be about cemeteries! When I was in school I had a part-time 3-11 job but since then it's always been days.

 

[jwintosh]

I use to work 2200-0600 for 8 yrs, then 1900-0700 of a very nice schedule for 6 years.......when I worked that is. Here's the 12 hr schedule:
M T W TH F S SN
w w - - - w w
- - - - w w w
- - w w w - -
w w w w - - -
Take 2 days of vacation, get nine days off.

i hear ya! taking 4 days of vacation (sun, mon, tues,,, sun), getting 13 days off!

 

[Broadway Joe]

What a coincidence, I'm a 9:30-6:30 guy, but my father-in-law has been trying to convince me to work with him on the weekends.....and it's the graveyard shift! 8pm-8am, it just sounds rough, let alone actually doing it!

 

[cvm4]

You'll pull through, now if it was an actual graveyard, well...

 

[tobby4]

The closest I have gotten to graveyard is bartending until 3 or 4 am.. that was bad enough considering I had class the next day at 11

 

[Broadway Joe]

Hell yeah, class is rough alone! I'm going to Villanova part-time at nights and on weekends and it's hard and time consuming! But it better be worth it.

 

[Rich K]

I hear ya. The last 4 weeks have been 100-hour work weeks for me. No good!

 

[ATCDub]

I haven't had a mid shift in almost three years but starting September I'd better get use to them again. Back to the normal rotation. They're not so bad if you get them on a semi regular basis though.

 

[Kingston]

I used to work grave yard (we called it dogwatch) 2200-0600 and swing 1600-0200 interspersed throughout the week.
Sometimes back to back.

 

[jwintosh]

0042 hrs,,, just finished a very nice Astral,,, on deck, punch gran cru!

arrived at a suspicious person call while smoking a cigar. my sergeant was on scene,,, laughing at me! hey! whatever it takes to keep me awake!!

 

[AndrewDill]

That's pretty funny, but yeah, I'm figuring that I'm a bit of a night owl. Might try to swing the graveyard and see if it works out.

 

[texas_stang]

I work 7 nights every month. I also work 7 days every month 5am to 5 pm or 5pm to 5 am. It sucks but I get 7 days off in a row 13 times a year without using any vacation. ( I also get 200 hours of vacation and 100 hours of floater)

 

[jmatkins]

I do hate the graveyard shift. Oh sorry DID hate it. I haven't worked on in years but they all sucked. I did emergency room X-Rays 3rd shift, so no time for going out for cigars.