I too worked the 12 hour shifts 6 to 6 Days and Nights for over 7 years. I liked the Night shift the best as we were left alone to do our work and mook around.
Day shift had its advantages as well. The day ship Supervisor would order things using my name and when the order came in, take it home. This went on for god only knows how long before I ended up in the Managers office. Of course by this time he had stolen my work, taken credit my ideas, and weasled himself into a managers job. Believe me when I say that revenge is a dish best served cold.
This is funny in a sad sorta way.
I once wrote an excel spread sheet to figure lifetime for our process. It was a simple enough thing to do, and I enjoyed doing it. It took me just over an hour to write it and test it. Sure enough it worked perfectly. I could not believe that someone else had not thought of this before then as it saved about our process an average of four hours od down time a day. Before we had to manually calculate the averages and such and that always lead to errors and shut downs. Afterwards all a person had to do was enter the data and preso it was all figured for them.
I had not submitted the project to managment before going on vacation and upon returning I was told that the day shift supervisor had been given special compensation for developing this brillant time saving tool. Yup you guessed it, the ****er stoled my project. He changed the appearance of the spread sheet a tad and submitted it as his own.
That little bit of theft ultimately got him a managers job. A job that I too had applied for.
Six months later I ran into his boss, a building manager, at a meeting and the subject drifted onto why he had not chosen me for the Manager position. He told me that he was turned off by the fact that I attempted to take credit for someones elses efforts. Namely the excel spread sheet program. After the meeting I took him to my office and showed him all the information that I had and how my idea was stolen. he was not happy. Just over a week later they let the former day shift supervisor go. I like to think it was because of me, but I know it wasn't. A guy like that is what he is, and ultimately is to blame for their own downfalls.
It took me a while, but in the end I did get my revenge and I took great satisfaction in knowning that I had contributed to his demise. Am I a bad person for taking satisfaction from this, hell ya, but you won't hear me ever apologize for it.
[ August 09, 2003, 17:08: Message edited by: Atrocities ]