^^ just got back from my lunch break. Here till 830

 

There's something I wanted to ask my fellow sleepless impreza folk...


Do you find it easier to fall asleep when it's day time VS night time? When it's night my system just will not allow me to fall asleep, I'm wide awake every night and can't fall asleep for the life of me... However, if it's daytime and I have the day off (or a sick day, whatever) I find it a lot easier to fall asleep when it's daylight outside. I shut all the curtains and it's dark in my room but I still know it's day time out and that alone allows me to fall asleep. Something about the night screws me...


It could be due to the fact that most of the really horrible things that have happened in my life have always happened in the middle of the night so perhaps it has something to do with that? Maybe it's because I was born and raised in Germany and my natural clock is still stuck in Germany? I dunno, but was curious to see if anyone else had a similar issue with sleeping... Is it easier to FALL asleep in the day (I said nothing about staying asleep, just falling asleep which is the hardest thing for me to do)

 

Hahaha, "Lunch break" at 5:30am, nice. I remember those days.




When I worked for Adobe the last time (I've worked there 3 times now) I worked the graveyard shift as a sys admin in the main NOC (Network Operating Center) and I would work 10pm to 10am, 5 days a week, but there were plenty of weeks where we'd be working 7 day weeks (understaffed) non stop for months and that really takes its tool. It's bad enough that it was graveyard, but it was 12+ hours every day with no break (No break in the continues days, we got our normal lunch hour and all that). On top of all that, I had to get there about 45min-1 hour early to get a synopsis of what has happened during the night from my shift partner (guy who works days opposite of me). We'd also have to stay late about 45mins-1 hour to explain everything to the guy taking over in the morning, so that's a 14 hour day easy.



Sometimes I'd have to stay until the late afternoon because once a ticket is open I have to fix the problem before I leave, and sometimes it takes hours to properly fix a problem (like a switch goes down in India or something... Gotta call like 5 people to get the issue fixed and that takes a lot of time)... The worst is when I had to work a 20 hour day which left me 4 hours to drive home, eat, sleep, and return. I didn't even bother going home, they had a bed setup in a vacant office for situations like this so we had the option of sleeping there instead of having to drive home before the next shift.


I did that routine for almost 2 years, and near the end of that 2 year stint I had lost almost everyone who was important to me. I literally didn't have time for ANYONE let alone being in a relationship, and I couldn't even hang out with my friends. I made a decent amount of money from overtime alone but it wasn't worth it, not worth it AT ALL. There's a fine line between work and pleasure... You have to find a balance that allows for plenty of fun times. No play and all work makes people crazy.

 

Thanks to this forum i was stuck on streetfire.net for the passed few hours...

Bruce....for me, 've always been a night person. From junior high until now, I'm always awake at night. Hell, I used to have one hour of sleep before I go to school (same with college...and even finals week)....night time always felt better for me

 

I'm working grave shift (12-830am) as a DC Tech for an adult social network company in the colo (read: in our cage in the colo -> 60 degrees / no windows / loud *** servers). It definitely isn't as bad as how you had it. We only work an 8 hour shift (12 if we need to cover part of the shift before/after). Luckily its pretty chill and 3 nights out of the week, there are 2 of us so its definitely easier to get stuff done and to relax a little.

So you'd have to come in early/leave late just to bring the next shift up to speed? They didn't overlap your schedules? We have a 30 minute overlap between shifts so we don't have to do that.

 

Yeah, it was called "The Handoff". During a shift you take super detailed notes on exactly what happened and why it happened. When my coworker comes in it is my responsibility to explain everything from my notes so that he's up to speed on what's going on... Since this it takes 30-60mins to do a handoff, after working 12+ hours you want to go home, so if you did the handoff right when the shift started the person that is supposed to be going home has to stay up to an extra hour, so it's better just to do it before the shift and have someone come in early, know what I mean?

 

Yeah, I get it, I just figured maybe they'd try to overlap your schedules so you dont have to come in early (but then again, we can do it at my company since we have 3 shifts - day,swing,grave but if its just 2 - 12 hour shifts, that makes sense). We have shift reports that we need to send out at the end of our shifts but most of the details are in the tickets that we link in them so the report itself isn't as detailed as the tickets.

 

couldnt sleep, so i just got back from the gym.. anyone else still up from yesterday?

 

still up....coffee+dead car meet at quickly+beer pong after=awake...and i have to be somewhere at 10AM....fml

 

I'm awake thanks to my sick husband...

 

tis the season....for the cold and flu....warm water/tea with honey helps

 

i fail once again...FML i seriously need to change my sleeping schedule

 

So what is everyone eating for lunch? I have some leftover spaghetti and it looks like there is some leftover cake here at work. Meal of champions.

 

for some odd reason...im craving for some Denny's breakfast or some McDonalds....ahaha

 

Just went to go get the motorcycle I got for my kid that I was hiding and remembered I left a box of car part that came with my car in her garage months ago. Found amongst other awesome parts a kartboy short throw and shifter bushings. w00t