[BRAH]

Where I am was a great place to work at until new management came in. Behind the scenes they're not respected but tolerated, on a daily basis employees are belittled creating a negative work environment of backstabbing, favoritism, incompetence, no accountability, no leadership where any type of criticism is met with "How Dare You Question The Great Oz!"

[Thanos]

That's the nature of going to work. Enjoy a good place, a good manager, and good co-workers while you can if you're lucky enough to be in a place that's currently like that. It's fucking inevitable that some one or some change will come along that entirely ruins the place for you and you'll just have to move on eventually. Even if you're making good money as a trade-off for all the aggravation and negativity it's hard to tolerate for very long before you have to leave on your own for the sake of your sanity and to salvage as much pride as you can. This happened to me back in 2011 when I was on an oilsands site that had years of work and money in it but I couldn't stay there because our direct supervisor was one of the most genuinely miserable and awful people I'd encountered in my entire career. The asshole had me so stressed out on the last month I was at that job that I had to run into the bushes to throw up at least once a week because I was under so much tension from dealing with him. It's one of the most depressing experiences anyone can undergo during their adult life and the sharpest lesson to be learned in that good things simply do not last for very long at all. What you go through at work is the only proof you'll ever need, if you haven't already learned it from some of the insane antics your own parents will get up to when you're a kid, that life is not fair and it never will be.

[Brenda]

I work shifts. One day I get up at 3:30 am, work till 2:30 pm, and the next day, I am not home till 11 pm. Screws with your sleep patern, tho.

[ShepherdsDog]

I wonder how often this researcher came in late before deciding to do a 'study'?

[bootlegga]

I tend to agree with that study - the best shift I ever worked was 11am - 7pm. I got a good night's sleep every night and could still go out at night and do errands in the morning. I've done the 18 hour day and I far preferred working smarter, not harder.

As for the naysayers here, how many of you were bitching about Daylight Savings Time earlier this year?

[BRAH]

Thanos Thanos:

That's the nature of going to work. Enjoy a good place, a good manager, and good co-workers while you can if you're lucky enough to be in a place that's currently like that. It's fucking inevitable that some one or some change will come along that entirely ruins the place for you and you'll just have to move on eventually. Even if you're making good money as a trade-off for all the aggravation and negativity it's hard to tolerate for very long before you have to leave on your own for the sake of your sanity and to salvage as much pride as you can. This happened to me back in 2011 when I was on an oilsands site that had years of work and money in it but I couldn't stay there because our direct supervisor was one of the most genuinely miserable and awful people I'd encountered in my entire career. The asshole had me so stressed out on the last month I was at that job that I had to run into the bushes to throw up at least once a week because I was under so much tension from dealing with him. It's one of the most depressing experiences anyone can undergo during their adult life and the sharpest lesson to be learned in that good things simply do not last for very long at all. What you go through at work is the only proof you'll ever need, if you haven't already learned it from some of the insane antics your own parents will get up to when you're a kid, that life is not fair and it never will be.

Wow, in new management's rush to fire or force out long time employees replacing them with their own one person who was fired without just cause lawyered up the next day and one month later settled with the company..

The best shift I had was Mon -Fri 3:00pm - 12:00am.

[ShepherdsDog]

bootlegga bootlegga:

I tend to agree with that study - the best shift I ever worked was 11am - 7pm. I got a good night's sleep every night and could still go out at night and do errands in the morning. I've done the 18 hour day and I far preferred working smarter, not harder.

As for the naysayers here, how many of you were bitching about Daylight Savings Time earlier this year?

I don't have to worry about DLS.

[Strutz]

I have pretty much worked day shift all my adult life. 9ish to 6ish time frame.

I found it difficult this past summer to do an 1130-830 shift a couple days a week because I would still usually wake up by 7 then putter around until time to go to work and then felt like it was bedtime by 11. I found it hard to adjust my meal patterns around that too and didn't quite eat right on the couple days a week I did that shift. Maybe if my 5 days/week were all that shift I would have adjusted accordingly though. I'm just relieved to be back to normal now.

[Hyack]

bootlegga bootlegga:

I tend to agree with that study - the best shift I ever worked was 11am - 7pm. I got a good night's sleep every night and could still go out at night and do errands in the morning.

I worked the graveyard shift for well over 10 years, off work at 7:00am, off to the gym or out hunting or fishing.....bedtime was 2-3 in the afternoon, up at 10:00 and off to work we go. The next best was the 12 hour night shift, 7:00 pm - 7:00 am, 4 hours OT every 2 weeks along with a 3 day weekend every other week.

[Batsy2]

These wussies should thanks themselves lucky they didn't live in Britain back in the day, when children as young as seven worked down the coalmines in dark and extremely dangerous conditions for 12 hours a day, six days a week. They would never have coped.

They were the good old days. Children have it too easy now.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Try not partying or screwing around on-line until 3-4 in the morning. It's amazing how easy it is to wake up at 6-7AM when you take your job seriously and go to bed at a decent time.

[DrCaleb]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Hell, even on weekends and holidays my wife and I are up before 8 AM.

Slacker! On weekends, I sleep in till 6!

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

I start work at 6:25 every morning, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

-J.

I'm at work by 5, every third week. 6:30 if I do the 'late' shift. The traffic is awesome, parking great, and the bus is not quite full.

Most of my colleagues come in at 8:25. Must be nice to be a government employee!

[ShepherdsDog]

A buddy who works for StatsCan is able to set his own hours and is almost always in the office by 5:45 AM.

[Tyler_1]

I have been an overworked underpaid emergency responder and disaster cleanup guy 24/7 for 22 years.