Night shift check in
Cargo Master
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From: Murphysboro, IL
I don't know if I would like to go back to a typical day job again. Honestly if I had my druthers I'd work the 1500-2300 shift here. If I could create my own schedule I'd work from 3 am till 11 am, start early and get it done but that shift does not exist in this ofice.
Rick
Rick
Originally Posted by heavnbound
Well after doing this smoke-eating job for some 23+ years and working schedule work like this, the thought of having an 8-5 scares me to death!
I don't know what I would do with myself coming home from work like "real" folks...it would probably drive my wife crazy!
I did do the real world routine for a year and a half back in 1984-1985 when I went to sunny California...but I couldn't make a living in L.A. so I came back to Alaska and went back to my old habits! LOL!
And yes RR4E, I post on several of the Forums here and *ahem* another Ford site. *quickly ducking* But I am primarily here on FTE.
I don't know what I would do with myself coming home from work like "real" folks...it would probably drive my wife crazy!
I did do the real world routine for a year and a half back in 1984-1985 when I went to sunny California...but I couldn't make a living in L.A. so I came back to Alaska and went back to my old habits! LOL!
And yes RR4E, I post on several of the Forums here and *ahem* another Ford site. *quickly ducking* But I am primarily here on FTE.
Elder User
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From: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Originally Posted by truckertaz
Social life??? I think I saw them on sale over at Mal-Wart the other day... I was thinking about getting one, but then I figured I wouldnt know what to do with it anyway 
I used to work(same job) 5 8's, had fri/sat evenings off, and it allowed for a social life, and a shift I liked....this one came up and I was picked as I'm able to cover way to many aspects of my trade...and very few others could at the time with the ability to be responsible. If I were to have my choice, I'd work the 4 pm to 2 am mon-thurs, and skip the weekend crap, and have all my days off in a row, rather than wasting one of them on shift change/rotation. I spend my weekends mostly doing paperwork/pc work, and find it rather mundane, as well as the fact that if I didn't drag it out, could have it done in less than 2 hrs out of 10. Sometimes you have to wonder at the decisions of management....they think some of this stuff is actually difficult.
Cargo Master
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From: Murphysboro, IL
well fellers, I'm signing out of here. My midnigh coworker who wasn't here when I started tonight came in about 3 am. His wife is ok and all just a minor deal. Anyway I came in early so I could leave early, also he came in because he knew I was wantin to jet a little early.Be back at 2300 Saturday for the Sunday morning night shift check in.
Elder User
Joined: Oct 2004
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From: Fairbanks, Alaska
Tonight...
Hi Forum,
Don't know if I'll be on tonight...if so it will be later. It's my 19th anniversary so I'm taking the Mrs out for a nice dinner!
Prime rib and lobster sounds like just the ticket!
Don't know if I'll be on tonight...if so it will be later. It's my 19th anniversary so I'm taking the Mrs out for a nice dinner!
Prime rib and lobster sounds like just the ticket!
Posting Guru
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: SW Arizona
The last time my husband had to work a "9-5" job was at a welding shop, about 25 years ago. Did this on occasion when the Arms and Armour business was slow. Quit because they were not interested in having an expert welder who cared about doing a proper job for a customer. Just a fast one who could put something together with chewing gum, bailing wire and hope that it stays together. He was quick but was also thorough. But they did not want quality. That's when he chucked the whole idea of working for someone else entirely and been working for himself ever since.
We have weathered some hard times since but our needs are few. A man has to have some integrity in this world.
We have weathered some hard times since but our needs are few. A man has to have some integrity in this world.
Elder User
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From: Fairbanks, Alaska
Amen to that VikingBabe! Glad to see there are still a few of us left! I am always getting on my crews about this very thing. We don't have a lot of "runs" in my dept so a lackadaisical attitude starts to develop and the guys start using the fire dept as a means to support their off-duty time and interests! Then I get on them and remind them they this is a serious job and that people depend on us a bit more than they do the Maytag repairman! They come around again and begin taking the job seriously once more...till boredom sits in again!
Nice to see your hubby takes pride in his work!
Nice to see your hubby takes pride in his work!
Elder User
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From: Winnipeg, Manitoba
I'll add my AMEN! as well vikingbabe.... I work with a few good men who take pride in our work, but other shifts on the same job tend to slack on paperwork, accuracy, and accountability. It sucks trying to take something like that over on the next run, and generally wastes my time trying to figure out where they left off, and be able to make some sense out of it. Quality counts, speed is only a by-product of experience(IMO). Any job I've ever worked, I look at being good first, speed only comes with experience and time. Take my last oil change for example...decided to pull into a lube place, got the "new kid" and ended up having to come back to get the filter yanked off to get the oil to the right level, as he over-filled the truck. I wasn't to happy about that, but glad I caught it before I'd driven to far and had blown a few seals out from to much of it in the engine.
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From: TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm here tongiht. Plans for my birthday party fell through so we just ended up hanging out and everyone else got drunk. I drove a friend home and headed home. Fun stuff, it shoudl be the other way around i should be the one having fun. oh well.
dang i'm already a 1/4th - 1/5th through my life, and it ain't lookin to good so far.
Something i was thinkin about on the way home is this. If you died tongiht how many people would be at your funeral? How many people have you touched in your life? My dad had over 1100 people at his funeral. The whole funeral home was crowded and the line was out the door. Right now i it doesn't seem like i would have very many, maybe like 30 or 40.
dang i'm already a 1/4th - 1/5th through my life, and it ain't lookin to good so far.
Something i was thinkin about on the way home is this. If you died tongiht how many people would be at your funeral? How many people have you touched in your life? My dad had over 1100 people at his funeral. The whole funeral home was crowded and the line was out the door. Right now i it doesn't seem like i would have very many, maybe like 30 or 40.
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From: Aurora
I might as well jump in here. I work 4 10's from 10 PM to 8 AM Wed thur Sat. Rotate shifts every 3 monthes. Been here for 5 years. Before that I was in the Army for 20 years working all kinds of weird shifts. I like it cause theres only one other person here till about 7 AM.
Elder User
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From: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Checking in after work...what a night! My other guy punched out at 6 am, and I was left to run the clean-up on paperwork, loading the last trailor, and working a couple of inbound drops(trucking industry). Decided it was time for a cup of coffee, only to leave the dock, and find some ***** had jammed one of the toilets with to much ****-wipe.....and left without telling me. The bathroom, hallway, and half the office(1700 square ft office) was flooded in about an inch of water.....what a chore that was to clean up, needless to say it ended my day on a rather sour note. Crackin a couple of pops here just to take the edge off that ignorance.