Show your nightstand flashlight!

[Candleometry]

I would but I literally don't have a nightstand.

How do you stand at night?

 

[Monocrom]

How do you stand at night?

At my 3rd Shift job. That's how.

 

[Candleometry]

At my 3rd Shift job. That's how.

Oh gosh, you’re bringing back 3rd shift memories. I liked it but it wore on me. Now I just have a nightstand.

 

[Monocrom]

Been working 3rd Shift for more decades than I can remember. Been in Zombie mode for the last 5 or 10 years.

 

[Laukia]

Surefire hybrid with a Malkoff M61 drop in.

 

[dc38]

Been working 3rd Shift for more decades than I can remember. Been in Zombie mode for the last 5 or 10 years.

Night shift CAN be quiet and relaxing, but it totally screws with the sleep schedule and Circadian rid'm. Most of the night shifts I've worked, on the other hand, have almost always been filled with rush orders, production fiascos, machining hiccups...generally bad handoffs that cascaded to my team wasting our energy playing cleanup and wrap up. It got so bad that the day crew actually successfully accused the night shift of sabotage, leaving us NO pre-staged work for the next day, to the point where we spoke to them about it, and the "tactful" thing to do was to stage easy to fill jobs for them to have time to set up for. The worst part? They expected us to spend the last hour of our day doing so for EVERY subdepartment, even though we were essentially a floater 1 department group...we eventually established a game plan where we would scope the biggest orders that the day shift left behind, finish those first, and split the group to start a second order while the first group finished up and started staging the orders for ONLY the departments we had worked at.

List of issues vs. our "malicious compliance":

1) we left everything a mess
---1a) okay, we started taking pictures and sent directly to the Director of Ops before and after our shift.
2) then it was we didn't leaving things the way we found them and had no work, which was true, after we cleaned up their messes while they had no work staged for us.
---2a) okay, we made a list specifically as to the orders we expected to complete, and the next order that would be staged for the stations we worked for the next day.
3) we did not submit production orders in a timely manner, even though as the assembly shift supervisor, I had made a list of the orders AND submitted them via email AND paper for confirmation. IDR the title of the parts request person, but essentially the buyer/planner showed me that no emails had been recieved, and even weirder no paper orders submitted.
---3a) okay, at this point I was done playing around. I asked the custodian to let me handle the trash for the office that day, and rummaged through the trash to find no less than 5 of my large "billed" orders (at least 400 units a piece) IN THE TRASH. In the end of day handover meeting the next day, I non-chalantly brought up we need to tighten up orders/requisition, otherwise it's no different than throwing the orders in the trash, "like this" and demonstrated taking a live order, reading the order number and client, then droppinng it into the bin...you could see a few buttholes pucker in that department, and the director said "I see, thank you for that demonstration, but please take that back out of the trash..." - that issue didn't happen as often again. I hate being a deek, but don't mess with the livelihoods and tarnish the integrity of my crew, ya dig?

 

[Candleometry]

Night shift CAN be quiet and relaxing, but it totally screws with the sleep schedule and Circadian rid'm. Most of the night shifts I've worked, on the other hand, have almost always been filled with rush orders, production fiascos, machining hiccups...generally bad handoffs that cascaded to my team wasting our energy playing cleanup and wrap up. It got so bad that the day crew actually successfully accused the night shift of sabotage, leaving us NO pre-staged work for the next day, to the point where we spoke to them about it, and the "tactful" thing to do was to stage easy to fill jobs for them to have time to set up for. The worst part? They expected us to spend the last hour of our day doing so for EVERY subdepartment, even though we were essentially a floater 1 department group...we eventually established a game plan where we would scope the biggest orders that the day shift left behind, finish those first, and split the group to start a second order while the first group finished up and started staging the orders for ONLY the departments we had worked at.

List of issues vs. our "malicious compliance":

1) we left everything a mess
---1a) okay, we started taking pictures and sent directly to the Director of Ops before and after our shift.
2) then it was we didn't leaving things the way we found them and had no work, which was true, after we cleaned up their messes while they had no work staged for us.
---2a) okay, we made a list specifically as to the orders we expected to complete, and the next order that would be staged for the stations we worked for the next day.
3) we did not submit production orders in a timely manner, even though as the assembly shift supervisor, I had made a list of the orders AND submitted them via email AND paper for confirmation. IDR the title of the parts request person, but essentially the buyer/planner showed me that no emails had been recieved, and even weirder no paper orders submitted.
---3a) okay, at this point I was done playing around. I asked the custodian to let me handle the trash for the office that day, and rummaged through the trash to find no less than 5 of my large "billed" orders (at least 400 units a piece) IN THE TRASH. In the end of day handover meeting the next day, I non-chalantly brought up we need to tighten up orders/requisition, otherwise it's no different than throwing the orders in the trash, "like this" and demonstrated taking a live order, reading the order number and client, then droppinng it into the bin...you could see a few buttholes pucker in that department, and the director said "I see, thank you for that demonstration, but please take that back out of the trash..." - that issue didn't happen as often again. I hate being a deek, but don't mess with the livelihoods and tarnish the integrity of my crew, ya dig?

Shift wars suck.

 

[dc38]

Shift wars suck.

For NO REASON either...we were there to help with work that we were already overburdened with...for some reason, people I thought I was cool with suddenly flipped a script and treated my team as enemies...I dunno man, people and modern tribalism I guess.

 

[Monocrom]

Night shift CAN be quiet and relaxing, but it totally screws with the sleep schedule and Circadian rid'm. Most of the night shifts I've worked, on the other hand, have almost always been filled with rush orders, production fiascos, machining hiccups...generally bad handoffs that cascaded to my team wasting our energy playing cleanup and wrap up. It got so bad that the day crew actually successfully accused the night shift of sabotage, leaving us NO pre-staged work for the next day, to the point where we spoke to them about it, and the "tactful" thing to do was to stage easy to fill jobs for them to have time to set up for. The worst part? They expected us to spend the last hour of our day doing so for EVERY subdepartment, even though we were essentially a floater 1 department group...we eventually established a game plan where we would scope the biggest orders that the day shift left behind, finish those first, and split the group to start a second order while the first group finished up and started staging the orders for ONLY the departments we had worked at.

List of issues vs. our "malicious compliance":

1) we left everything a mess
---1a) okay, we started taking pictures and sent directly to the Director of Ops before and after our shift.
2) then it was we didn't leaving things the way we found them and had no work, which was true, after we cleaned up their messes while they had no work staged for us.
---2a) okay, we made a list specifically as to the orders we expected to complete, and the next order that would be staged for the stations we worked for the next day.
3) we did not submit production orders in a timely manner, even though as the assembly shift supervisor, I had made a list of the orders AND submitted them via email AND paper for confirmation. IDR the title of the parts request person, but essentially the buyer/planner showed me that no emails had been recieved, and even weirder no paper orders submitted.
---3a) okay, at this point I was done playing around. I asked the custodian to let me handle the trash for the office that day, and rummaged through the trash to find no less than 5 of my large "billed" orders (at least 400 units a piece) IN THE TRASH. In the end of day handover meeting the next day, I non-chalantly brought up we need to tighten up orders/requisition, otherwise it's no different than throwing the orders in the trash, "like this" and demonstrated taking a live order, reading the order number and client, then droppinng it into the bin...you could see a few buttholes pucker in that department, and the director said "I see, thank you for that demonstration, but please take that back out of the trash..." - that issue didn't happen as often again. I hate being a deek, but don't mess with the livelihoods and tarnish the integrity of my crew, ya dig?

I'm sorry that you and your team had to go through that. Yes, 3rd shift can often be quiet and relaxing. Though not always. Technically, I'm in charge of Security for the entire building at the start of my shift.... Since I'm literally ALL the security at the client's site when I'm there. I'm used to working alone, and relying on myself. Bosses know I do a professional job, so they leave me the hell alone. Which I prefer. Though yeah, human-beings were never meant to work Vampire hours on a regular basis, for years, at a time. On my day off, I still crash into bed at 11pm.

 

[PaladinNO]

Some follow-up photos to my earlier post. And a tie-in to this thread and this post.

I recently purchased what turned out to be a slightly damaged tripod, having both a dented leg and a missing plate (ended up getting a 75 % discount for keeping it, at my own request). And those 2 things made it perfect for holding my nightstand lights!

Convoy L21B, 519A 1800K, slid nicely in the opening under the tripod head, and without the plate, a Convoy 3X21E, 519A 1800K could be placed reliably on top of it. So now I have both of my favourite nighstand lights with adjustable height and excellent, smooth movement options.

Ceiling light:


Bed reading lamp, Emisar DW4K, E21A 2000K.


L21B, 100 %


3X21E, ~40%


Both:


...Who says the winter has to be dark and gloomy!?