What do you mean, the best part about working a late shift is that management is at home not fucking around in my business.
I love the late shifts.
Nobody is there. Nothing is happening. Everything is calm.
Don’t know what You do, but my job is the same situation, plus I get a 25% bonus for doing night shift.
I work in Cybersecurity.
I wish I got a pay bonus for late shifts…
Since I work remote, the best bit about the late shifts (and weekend shifts) is I can just pop in wireless headphones, turn on an alarm for new alerts and just do chores until I get a phone call or an alert or two show up.
Or, if I have completed all my tasks and it is an exceptionally slow (or over-manned) weekend, i can read a book or play a game I can easily pick up and put down.
It almost makes up for the long day shifts that are non-stop work and occasionally chaotic
Just started night shifts recently. The management is gone so nobody gets in my business. Everybody knows that the night shift is difficult so they expect less of me. Nobody expects me to come in on weekends. I make 25 percent more than the day shift.
I remember working both day and night shifts on an assembly line. Day shift was pretty good. The line was fully staffed, we had a full compliment of maintenance guys to fix the line when it went down. Good music.
Night shift was crazy different, way better. No management. Understaffed, and no maintenance people. So, some stations were always slower and you could sit down for a bit. Nobody was in the drive-thru at Taco Bell at 3am. And, it was seriously 15 degrees cooler in the plant. We never hit our quotas, and management was pissed. But we never had to see them.
I was a manager of a warehouse for years on night shift. I had no bosses except for one hour at the end of my shift.
As long as we got our shit done I didn’t care what people did. They complained on days we weren’t doing stuff that would help their shift once we got our work done. The solution our shift came up with was making sure the guys timed their work to finish just before the end of the shift so they wouldn’t have any expectation to do day shift work.
They did some sweeping to pretend they were helping days but no actual extra work.
There is something so freeing about not caring about what piss of management. The day I realize that being efficient and managing to meet crazy deadlines was not benefiting me in any way was like a gasp of air after drowning in the mindset that working hard will get you recognized. Instead, when I started to say no and not caring, I got a raise? Of course, ymmv.
I tried it once out of curiosity. I definitely do not have the personality required for night shift. It was also kind of sad. My supervisor obviously hated his life. It’s also the only job I’ve ever quit with zero notice. I just stopped showing up, and apparently they were used to that. Nobody ever called me.
