Tips for night shift work?

[Lebowski]

Originally Posted by magikman63

When you have shitty neighbors, energy drinks will be your best friend. Darken your room. Buy some ear plugs.

Truth, one of the worst parts for me of trying to sleep in the day after a night shift was that we had these wiggers who lived across the street who would wake up at 8AM and start bumping their music from their car in the driveway. Fucking crackheads.

[Sparky_204]

best advice is to find out if there is wifi access in your area then bring an ipod touch or even a laptop and then just surf the webs.

I have to work every second weekend in a hospital and it is 8 hour shifts but there is like total 4 hours a day of dead time not counting my break. I just log onto a computer and surf the webs during that time.

[TruthBeTold]

Originally Posted by BeverlyBK

Don't be suprised if you pee four or five times per night. When you're bored and don't have much to do, you will notice every single pang or hunger, and tend to overeat and constantly go to the bathroom.

I know exactly what you are talking about, you are right in so many ways.

[TruthBeTold]

Originally Posted by Lebowski

Truth, one of the worst parts for me of trying to sleep in the day after a night shift was that we had these wiggers who lived across the street who would wake up at 8AM and start bumping their music from their car in the driveway. Fucking crackheads.

You should have went down there and beat their dumb asses if they dont shut the fuck up. I had 2 Mexicans kids that thought they were thugs and I walked out of my apartment with an expandable baton and said either you shut the radio off or I will fucking beat your skull in until you die. They turned the volume down right away. They moved out last month, thank god. Their "step dad" was like 5'6", so he wasn't gonna step to my ass. Overall I did it for the lulz. And my peace.

[Richard Emling]

when i worked that shift i brought thai pads to work and me and a buddy trained for like 4 hours a night we hit mitts did body weight workouts ran sprints down the hallway then we watched movies ther was no supervisors

[TranquilLogic]

Originally Posted by Lebowski

Truth, one of the worst parts for me of trying to sleep in the day after a night shift was that we had these wiggers who lived across the street who would wake up at 8AM and start bumping their music from their car in the driveway. Fucking crackheads.

I used to have that problem with my neighbors. I tried talking with them and explaining the situation, they didn't seem to care. I tried talking with them on multiple occasions and even tried being nice to them.

Some people are just assholes... Which brings me to my next part.

So like the asshole that I am, I called the cops everyday which at first didn't do any good since the cops are so quick to react. Eventually (30 days of calls laters) the cops actually started waiting right around the corner for my call.

After 3 noise violations they got the fucking hint... And I gladly let my neighbors know I was the asshole who called the cops on them and it all could of been avoided if they weren't such douche bags.

[Will Jacobs]

Currently working 9pm-5am.

I actually really like it.

I spend all night watching videos although youtube and several other sites don't work, we have a very low grade flash plug-in to eliminate them.

I read A LOT. Wikipedia, webcomics, novels, whatever.

I'm writing a book as well.

I've put about 67 hours in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance A2. Nintendo DS is a godsend. PSP isn't bad either.

As far as sleeping goes, try to sleep right when you get home so you wake up around 3-5pm. I find that allows me the most opportunity to get what I need done taken care of during the day. There is NO ONE at the grocery store at 3 pm.

If you don't have supervisors, bring in a laptop if you have wifi. Portable DVD player, whatever. Learn magic tricks. Do everything you ever wanted to do but didn't because you had something better to do. That kind of thing .

[TranquilLogic]

Originally Posted by Will Jacobs

Currently working 9pm-5am.

I actually really like it.

I spend all night watching videos although youtube and several other sites don't work, we have a very low grade flash plug-in to eliminate them.

I read A LOT. Wikipedia, webcomics, novels, whatever.

I'm writing a book as well.

I've put about 67 hours in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance A2. Nintendo DS is a godsend. PSP isn't bad either.

As far as sleeping goes, try to sleep right when you get home so you wake up around 3-5pm. I find that allows me the most opportunity to get what I need done taken care of during the day. There is NO ONE at the grocery store at 3 pm.

If you don't have supervisors, bring in a laptop if you have wifi. Portable DVD player, whatever. Learn magic tricks. Do everything you ever wanted to do but didn't because you had something better to do. That kind of thing .

Something tells me you do a shit ton of masturbating.

[Lebowski]

Originally Posted by TruthBeTold

You should have went down there and beat their dumb asses if they dont shut the fuck up. I had 2 Mexicans kids that thought they were thugs and I walked out of my apartment with an expandable baton and said either you shut the radio off or I will fucking beat your skull in until you die. They turned the volume down right away. They moved out last month, thank god. Their "step dad" was like 5'6", so he wasn't gonna step to my ass. Overall I did it for the lulz. And my peace.

lol. I didn't want to go that far. I guess I would have just felt like an ass telling someone to turn their music down during the day time. If I was in their shoes I would tell me to fuck off. Then Me and Other Me would get into it and probably kill eachother.

Originally Posted by TranquilLogic

I used to have that problem with my neighbors. I tried talking with them and explaining the situation, they didn't seem to care. I tried talking with them on multiple occasions and even tried being nice to them.

Some people are just assholes... Which brings me to my next part.

So like the asshole that I am, I called the cops everyday which at first didn't do any good since the cops are so quick to react. Eventually (30 days of calls laters) the cops actually started waiting right around the corner for my call.

After 3 noise violations they got the fucking hint... And I gladly let my neighbors know I was the asshole who called the cops on them and it all could of been avoided if they weren't such douche bags.

I never had to call the police, that situation actually resolved itself because their house got raided and some of them arrested. I always knew that douche would go down in flames.

[jenlan]

i dont know