God How I Hate Day Light

Atrocities · #1 August 9th, 2003, 02:30 PM

I have come to one inescapable truth about myself; I absolutely and utterly despise daylight. I hate days because they are filled with chaos, noise, phone calls, interruptions, its bright, and generally not at all calm. I do like the evening hours, but that is the exception to the rule.

I love nighttime because it so quiet, peaceful, calming. No chaos, no hassles, no phone calls, just soothing silence with the occasional catfight.

Tis morning now, even though it is a weekend, I still cannot help but feel overwhelmed with anxiety about it becoming light out side.

To many years working graveyard I guess.

General Woundwort · #2 August 9th, 2003, 02:56 PM

"all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."

ROMEO AND JULIET, Act III, Scene ii

JurijD · #3 August 9th, 2003, 03:01 PM

I prefer say the evening hours of 16:00 to 20:00 in the summer, when the heat is turned off and the sun slowly sets but there is still enough light outside.

night also has its charms

I like the quiet of the night too... I usually achieve it during the day by telling everyone to get the hell out and then plugging up my ears

Slynky · #4 August 9th, 2003, 03:13 PM

I love it all ! Then again, I'm an old fart who can see that time DOES come to an end.

But, both have their benefits. Having said that, it IS nice at night when the kids are in bed and the time belongs to me and my wife.

Captain Kwok · #5 August 9th, 2003, 03:32 PM

Perhaps a winter residence in Alaska might solve your problem?

Atrocities · #6 August 9th, 2003, 03:38 PM

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Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
Perhaps a winter residence in Alaska might solve your problem?

Is it a problem? Perhaps so. But Alaska is far to cold and there are no sand dunes.

Loser · #7 August 9th, 2003, 05:06 PM

I had a strong dislike for the evil daystar myself. It always seemed to me, after staying up waaay too late on Civ, CivII, AoE, SMAC or whatever that the birds were some terrible harbinger of Sol, and that the daystar itself was God's own flashlight (held like a cop, not like a helper), shining down on me in my 'wrong doing', just to make me feel busted.

These days I work 0500 - 1400 and no longer curse the daystar. I wonder if I've 'grown' in some way or if I've just adjusted to the new shift.

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Atrocities · #8 August 9th, 2003, 05:16 PM

I guess I just like the night time.

Slynky · #9 August 9th, 2003, 05:20 PM

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These days I work 0500 - 1400 and no longer curse the daystar. I wonder if I've 'grown' in some way or if I've just adjusted to the new shift.

Hehe, I used to work in a top secret building, the kind with no windows and fully (mostly) contained with eating facilities, first aid, etc. Worked a 12-on 12-off shift (6 to 6). During the winter, I'd go days without seeing the sunlight. These days, I have a window by my cubicle...

[Edit - just noticed this was my 911 post...I'm a bit superstitious, too]

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Atrocities · #10 August 9th, 2003, 05:34 PM

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.

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