What kind of people work at night?

[Champane Flight]

I am

I am not controlling anymore. I am just doing reciepts off our products pipeline. We maintain two lines, a NGL line from Douglas WY to Borger TX. Then a products (Propane, diesel, gasoline) from BorgerTX to Denver CO. The propane takeoffs have to be manned.

 

[nickleinonen]

railway... 24/7

i am tired from work, and i didn't even work the 0001 to 0800 shift. i pulled a double yesterday from 0800 to 0001 [16 hours] went home slept for 4 hours, went back to work today for another 0800-1600 [8 hour] shift. and i think i have to pull another double tomorrow the overtime pay is great, and at least it if friday tomorrow. lucky me being an apprentice. i get sat-sun off as my weekend for like 3 years. after i get licenced, hello 0001 to 0800 shift with wed-thu weekend working on the service track [changing them darn 50 lbs cast iron shoes that the yard units use... i can't wait ]

 

[The patriot]

I put in my 12 hours today.

I keep telling myself that "It's worth it for double time and a half" but a lot of my family dont know who I am anymore.

I'm working Christmas (off X-mas eve), and New years eve, and New years day.

Eric

 

[Champane Flight]

Why?

Just got off. Why is it that every holiday I work theres something wrong? Yesterday, techs changed pump seals and of course they were leaking all night setting off LEL alarms. Not bad enough to shutdown on seal failure, just enough to set off sniffers every ten-fifteen minutes in propane... ... ... Going to bed "Happy day after Turkey day all"... ... ... ... ... .

 

[rmrc]

I've worked in quite a few Data Centers over the last 20 years. Most of them are 24 hour operations. You can't beat working the off hours tours. A slower pace and no upper management to get in your hair!!!!!!

 

[Hummin Cummins]

AMEN!!!!.

I HATE dayshift.

Nights are the best. No traffic, NO BOSSES

Just 2 of us here at the ole poop plant

 

[catoiler]

Yep,don't think I want to go back to days. work from 2:00 pm til 10:30pm 6 days. no boss and only 4 guys on night shift to worry about!The day guys tear up the loaders and dozer's so it gives me something to do. BTW work at a rock plant.







Mike

 

[Diesel Freak]

Also at work making this post. 12 hour shift here.

Just your average Semiconductor Vacuum and Process Abatement Tech (Production and Process Technical Developement) doing the "hurry up and wait" routine till something breaks.



actually I am bored out of my mind... . hence all the time I spend on TDR while I am at work.



If people would start buying more Pentium 4 chips... ... I would be much happier... work would speed up... and my year end bonus would be bigger.

 

[Eric Kahn]

I work nights (11pm to 7:30 am) as bldg maintenance for the post office, unfortunatly, they have as many boss'es at night as they do in the day, since I am at a major processing center (Cincinnati OH) and the mail gets sorted at night. I don't mind the hours, just the fact that they cut the night shift staffing so much that I have to take a weeks vacation to get a weekend off, my normal off days are Weds/thurs. been on nights for 3 years now and I might finally be going back to days, same off days but with enough people that you can move your off days to go to those weekend events

always wanted one of theose 7and 7 jobs and I did 13 years as a truck driver so I know the work 14 days for 14 hours at home routine also

 

[truckstom]

I usually leave between 6pm and 8pm... get where I'm supposed to unload, take a nap, unload, and head back. Anywhere in Texas, Okla. , or La.



gitchesum: which plant are you at?? I deliver to several Dupont plants in the Houston area... .

 

[Bill Lins]

Originally posted by truckstom

gitchesum: which plant are you at??

Gitch is a big dawg- he works in an orifice in downtown Houston!



Whitmore- guess your daddy didn't think much of cops, firefighters, paramedics, doctors, nurses, and all the other folks who keep the world running through the night. Sounds as though the clutch got let out on the mouth while the brain was left in neutral.

 

[speedracer]

Work nights all the time(driving), but rarely straight through without a nap. I prefer to drive between 8am and midnight, but sometimes circumstances require a different approach

 

[truckstom]

Originally posted by Bill Lins

Gitch is a big dawg- he works in an orifice in downtown Houston!



Oh I SEE... bein' the little mutt I am I wouldn't be gettin' down there much

 

[R.E. Miller]

Have considered it to go back to school.

I work in a diesel shop, and the service area is opened between 7am-12am. So we have two shifts, neither of which are bad hours, I just don't know if I will have enough time to do school during the day and still get to work by 3-3:30. I hear Cat offers 4-10's that sounds really nice. It never fails, by the time you write your job up, talk to the hext shift about what is going on with what you were working on, clean your work area, then your tools, you end up working over eight hours anyway. I actually think I could get more done at night, as stupid as it sounds I think there are a lot less distractions.



Russell

 

[Champane Flight]

Needs his Metamucil

A little on edge lately Bill?

 

[Bill Lins]

Re: Needs his Metamucil

Originally posted by Champane Flight

A little on edge lately Bill?

Naw- It just sets my teeth on edge when some people hold themselves above those who put themselves out in order to serve the rest of us. If those people should have a medical or other emergency during the night, perhaps they should wait until the next morning to get help in order that they won't have to depend on "hookers & thieves".

 

[Champane Flight]

I don't think

I don't think Whitmores Dad meant anything by it. My Dad (who was working nights and days just to put food on the table) used to say "The only people out at this hour of night besides us are Drunks, Cops, Owls, and Hookers. I guess we must fall into one of those catergorys". It was said in a joking way and he would always chuckle.



Two lessons in life. 1. Don't sweat the small stuff.

2. Everything is small stuff.

 

[gitchesum]

I wouldn't say I'm a "big dawg". Just a little puppy in a big yard.



I work in the Pipeline Control Center on Westheimer. I sit at my little console all day and run pipelines in Southern California and West Texas.

Before this, I worked at a Marine Terminal in Lake Charles for Conoco.



This is by far, one of the best jobs I could ask for. I do miss getting out and "takin a ride" every now and then but when it 100* or 20* outside, I'm gald I work indoors.

 

[Champane Flight]

Still?

Hey Gitch, are you still with Conoco/Phillips? Or with someone else? We have a bunch of controllers not to happy with the move to Ponca.

 

[gitchesum]

No Sir. I made the move to ChevronTexaco a year ago. I'm gald things happened the way they did because I was supposed to be a controller for Conoco. I left Conoco on a Friday, on the next Monday they announced the merger.

ChevronTexaco had already moved their control center and all the controller to one central location before I got here.



I do feel for the Conoco guys having to move to OK. Just like I felt for the guys at Equilon who had to move from Colorado to Houston. :{