Re: Wed. Jan. 17, 2018 - 4:22 AM EST
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What you doin' up in the middle of the night? To hot to get up in the daytime, so you sleep all day and fart around on the Internet all night?
By the way, a 24 hour clock would call 12:15 AM - - - 0015
So that makes you 16 hours ahead of EST in the US. Now I've got it..
Rog
I am a night person, perfectly suited to living down here.
The "stupid" animals have the right idea.
Find somewhere cool to sleep all day then rummage around all night.
The black fellas also worked the same, hunting & gathering during the dawn hours then retiring to some where cool for the rest of the day.
It is only "mad dogs & English men who go out in the midday sun"
The landlord's son is on uni vacation right now & works up the road in a factory making steel roof trusses.
After 2 days of working with steel in temperatures of 120F + he went to the boss & asked if they could vary the work hours.
So now they are starting work at midnight and finishing at 8am or when the days orders have been filled.
They are now taking 6 hours to do what 3 weeks ago was taking 10 hours.
The owner had been trying to find $ 500,000 to install some sort of air conditioning in the factory but it is a big all steel uninsulated building with a 30' high roof sitting in the middle of a massive concrete yard so air con was never going to work really well.
Now they are talking about working "seasonal hours" starting at 12 midnight in summer, shifting around to 12 noon in winter.
Something the owner never thought of and the workers are behind 100% even if they loose a little overtime. The boss is now paying them a production bonus to make up about 1/2 of the lost pay.
Every one is happy, even the engineers as they can now work in a quiet office that does not shake whenever the crane is working.
I worked strait night shifts all through senior high school & uni then continued working weird shifts till I got out & went into transport, where again I started around 10 am but would work till midnight or latter if needed.
Worked really well with the original partner cause he was a morning person so I would load the truck during the night & he would deliver lighting & gear to all the photo sites between 3 & 6 am then go & pick up the proof sheets before most customers offices opened.
In summer I get up about 8, faff around the house for an hour or two then head off to the workshop thus missing all the traffic.
So the workshop sees me between 10 & 11 , I put in 3 hours outside then head indoors or do call outs till around 6 pm.
The brain kicks in 120% around 3 pm so I do a real lot in the late afternoon/ evening.
Trade customers have keys to the yard & store room .
A lot of them will drop off gear on their way home 12 to 4 pm , I will service them overnight & they pick the gear up on their way out between 3 & 6 am.
Crawling under a 72" steel deck in the middle of the day is not fun.
I have been inside bread ovens that were cooler.
