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Brutal_HO

Brutal_HO

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Why are you on here so late?

I'm IT so there's that weird body clock.

I mostly cover a western region and the Pacific now so I have customers in HI and Guam, and often working on their stuff. HI is a few hours back, Guam is 10+ so the next day there. Always fun juggling that schedule.
 
Yeah prod migrations usually. Old company was after 9pm (the migration team was in the Philippines). Current company is after 5pm.

Either IT stuff or one of the dogs had to go out and I couldn’t fall back asleep after.
 
The late night body clock is a curse. It's really tough come hunting season when I have to flip it and get up at 0400.

The full on DC moves are the worst. I've done 36 hours straight with no sleep. Wasn't so bas when I was younger but now it's a grind.

Helping recover catastrophic failures and ransomware recoveries for those ill prepared are exhausting as well.
 
g00fy said:
My wife and I just had our first child sometime last week, I think, feels like longer. He's got us up every hour for feedings and/or diaper changes, makes it real hard to get any sleep or tell what day it is.
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Congrats on the new baby! It’s hard, but you’ll get through it. Do your best to help out with the feelings (if your bottle feeding) I know my wife appreciated it when I could help out. I dealt with the sleep deprivation much better than her. Anyways before you know it you’ll blink and they will be all grown up and you’ll wonder where all the time went. We have five and and the house is starting to get awful quiet. I hate it.
 
Jsboening said:
Congrats on the new baby! It’s hard, but you’ll get through it. Do your best to help out with the feelings (if your bottle feeding) I know my wife appreciated it when I could help out. I dealt with the sleep deprivation much better than her. Anyways before you know it you’ll blink and they will be all grown up and you’ll wonder where all the time went. We have five and and the house is starting to get awful quiet. I hate it.
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Thanks man. My wife has chosen not to bottle feed, so most of the heavy lifting is falling on her since she's the only one that can feed him. I do my best to help out wherever and whenever I can so when she gets up I get up.

Luckily she's been a lab tech at a hospital for 13 years so she's used to crazy hours and is handling the responsibilities and sleep deprivation like a rockstar. I, on the other hand, am not used to it being an 8-5 guy my whole life.

I know someday I'm gonna look back and miss this time, but right now it's not so fun. It's getting a little easier every day though.
 
My wife would pump which was great for her but I hated heating bottles up on the stove while holding a hungry baby. We didn’t have one of those fancy bottle warmers that they have now or maybe we just couldn’t afford one lol. I can’t remember it’s all kind of blurry. Stay strong you’ll get through it.
 
I have been working swings shifts last 30 years as a Shift Manager.
Work Nights every other weekend and 2 days during the week every other week.
So a lot of switching back and fourth. The short turn arounds are the most painful as I get older, LOL
24/7 plant no shut downs work all weekends and holidays. Looking forward to retirement in a year or two.
 
Have been on late nearly every night but not posting in this thread.

Killing a little time while I wait for things to complete doing a system recovery in Guam (remotely).

They lost 2 drives in a R5 array that had no sparing setup so reload time! F* gov running old gear.
 
WisHawk said:
I have been working swings shifts last 30 years as a Shift Manager.
Work Nights every other weekend and 2 days during the week every other week.
So a lot of switching back and fourth. The short turn arounds are the most painful as I get older, LOL
24/7 plant no shut downs work all weekends and holidays. Looking forward to retirement in a year or two.
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When I was stationed in Germany in the early 80's, we worked either 6 on 4 off rotating 2 days, 2 swing, 2 night 8 hour shifts, or when understaffed (I preferred) 4 days on 4 off. 12 hour shifts.

As a young man, it was easy and I always had plenty of drinking and partying time.
 
Just stumbled across this thread. I've been working midnights for 11.5 years now. Sleep is just a figment of my imagination...
 
I am glad i dont work nights anymore not that it was terrible but when i did work nights it was either 5days 5nights 5 off or a month straight nights then 2 weeks off. In the summer the night shift was welcomed as it was nice and cool working in the bush but in winter it was just brutal
 
Kudos to those who can do it. I'm up at 2 or 3 every morning, so my mental capacity quickly deteriorates after 8 then I turn into a pumpkin by 10.
 
Wrapping up yet another late night offshore work effort.

130M deleted records DB cleanup.

Roll through here on my last stop and always seem to catch a few spammers.
 
Brutal_HO said:
Wrapping up yet another late night offshore work effort.

130M deleted records DB cleanup.

Roll through here on my last stop and always seem to catch a few spammers.
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Quite a few today already, damn spamers lol
 
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