Man,what a slow night...

[Belg]

12 hour night shifts sure bite.

Wish I was riding!

[ironMan]

12 hour night shifts sure bite.


I know what you mean. I did the shift work thing for may years. The worse part was we ended 7 straight Mids (two were 12's) on Thursday morning and started the 12 hour Dayshifts on Saturday morning. Management swore that we had two days off to recover from Mids and be ready for days. I guess they forgot about all of the mandatory meetings they scheduled for us on Thursdays and Fridays. Now I am straight days but spend more time on site.


PS We had dinner at the Public House and I had my first Troganator(spelling)
Thanks or the tip. Do any stores sell it?

[The_Veg]

Depends on the work I guess. I did 12's for EDS a few years ago in mainframe tape storage, with rotation every ten weeks. The boredom level varied greatly- I can remember nights when it was non-stop motion with the machines requesting volumes faster that we could get them, and I also remember nights when there were something like 5 volume requests all night and four of us standing around waiting for them. Other tasks went the way of the volume requests, since the amount of human work depended on the amount of machine work. The room was often cold too since they could never find a way to perfectly balance the air conditioning with the machine heat.
But when the workload was enough to keep busy without being enough to kill us, I loved it because 12 hours of it to me psychologically went by a lot faster than 8 hours at a desk. I think that was the job that moved me to reject office jobs if at all possible.
I guess the best advice I could give is bring a good book.

[Belg]

I know what you mean. I did the shift work thing for may years. The worse part was we ended 7 straight Mids (two were 12's) on Thursday morning and started the 12 hour Dayshifts on Saturday morning. Management swore that we had two days off to recover from Mids and be ready for days. I guess they forgot about all of the mandatory meetings they scheduled for us on Thursdays and Fridays. Now I am straight days but spend more time on site.


PS We had dinner at the Public House and I had my first Troganator(spelling)
Thanks or the tip. Do any stores sell it?

I don't know about the Troganator... havent' tried that one. the traquair is my usual staple... but your best bet is going to be whole foods market... failing that... Total B. Total B and Whole Foods dont' haev too much crossover. Also, Rick's Wine & Spirits in Alexandria has soem really nice hard to find brews.

It's a great place to eat, innit?

[Belg]

Depends on the work I guess. I did 12's for EDS a few years ago in mainframe tape storage, with rotation every ten weeks. The boredom level varied greatly- I can remember nights when it was non-stop motion with the machines requesting volumes faster that we could get them, and I also remember nights when there were something like 5 volume requests all night and four of us standing around waiting for them. Other tasks went the way of the volume requests, since the amount of human work depended on the amount of machine work. The room was often cold too since they could never find a way to perfectly balance the air conditioning with the machine heat.
But when the workload was enough to keep busy without being enough to kill us, I loved it because 12 hours of it to me psychologically went by a lot faster than 8 hours at a desk. I think that was the job that moved me to reject office jobs if at all possible.
I guess the best advice I could give is bring a good book.

EDS? I narrowly avoided a stint there... when they chopped midrange server support there from UUNET. yeah. books and forums... and dvd's... and.. and..

[The_Veg]

I was at the Mothership in Plano TX. They cuts LOTS. My then-sweetheart was in midrange control and survived many cuts then moved on to online vaulting or something like that before gettting sick of EDS and quitting after five years there.
I was expecting the mainframe storage job to really suck, since that's the picture everybody painted when I toured the workplace before interviewing but it really susprised me how much it didn't actually suck, which was especially good since since it worked well around my two biggest outside interests at the time- flight school and restoring an old K100.