• BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
    2 hours

    I’ve started going in to work early so I’m getting up at 4:30 every morning now. Last week I was texting a friend who hadn’t gone to bed yet while I was getting ready for work. He works a typical 9-5 office job from home so he probably wakes up pretty late by my standards, even still he was probably pretty tired that day at work. But that’s his norm, it’s crazy to me.

    • mig@lemmy.world
      13 minutes

      Oh my lord, and grandma (my mom) comes by during the day and then I get an earful that the teenager sleeps all day it can’t be good for him.

      Actually it’s convenient for me because at least his grumpy self is awake when I am home. He’s playing online all night with his tween nephews, his half sister has a new baby so technically he is free babysitting his nephews all night every night till 4am so she can sleep and worry about her newborn most of the day while they are crashed out.

      I’m gonna start throttling the internet at 1am, then midnight, then 11 two weeks before school starts.

  • jimmux@programming.dev
    7 hours

    I used to work a graveyard shift from 11pm to 6am. The first wave of morning workers were typically tradies in hi-viz, driving bright white vans. I used to think of them as a glowing army sent to scare off the walking dead clubbers who were still stumbling around.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      37 minutes

      Does “graveyard shift” mean night shift or did you work in graveyard?

    • FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world
      6 hours

      You cannot pass.
      I am a servant of the Maintenance, wielder of the Hi-Viz Vest.
      You cannot pass.
      The drugs will not avail you, creature of The Night. Go back to the Shadow!
      You shall not pass!

      • Gandalf, cleaner of Moria Club, holding The Broom and Mop.

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6 hours

    Here’s a question I thought of to ask people at parties: what is the time of night (or day I suppose) where you’re just as likely to be staying up late as to be getting up early? In other words, sort of the midpoint between your latest bedtimes and earliest mornings. I think mine would be around 5 AM.

    • Memnochian@aussie.zone
      3 hours

      About 5 pm for me. My shift is 10 pm till 6 am 5 days a week. And I try to stick to a 1 pm till 8 pm sleep schedule. But it is always interesting seeing people at 4-5 am and trying to guess whether they are knocking off or starting work.

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6 hours

      5AM is spot on in my (foolish) experience when I was younger. I have many fun nights still barely going at 5AM and I also had jobs where I got up at 4:45AM to beat the traffic for a long commute.

  • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 hours

    Me on public transport going home from tha club, surrounded by people on their way to work… A very sobering experience…

    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
      2 hours

      lol my first professional job had me on the overnight bus network (lovingly called the Vomit Comet) at 5 am. It was typically full of people who were drunk or high but they were tired so there was no trouble. Everyone minded their own business and we lived in peace.

      I wish I could have said the same for the pre-game crowd when I was coming home from jobs that ended 9 pm or later.

    • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
      7 hours

      It makes you feel so wasted being around sober people. Or maybe it’s that being around other people who are wasted numbs you to it

  • velma@sh.itjust.works
    5 hours

    My roommate works graveyard. I naturally wake up at 4am.

    There’s been many weird catch-up conversations in the kitchen when our paths cross lol

  • Zephorah@discuss.online
    7 hours

    I’ve worked both shifts. Night is definitely less tightly wound, on average. Both are caffeinated, so that’s not it. Career night shift usually day sleep 8hrs so that’s not it either.

    • Zorcron@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7 hours

      I don’t think this meme is talking about night shift, so much as partiers and such.

  • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
    8 hours

    Workweek is left side, weekend right side (if drinking)