Am I the only one who can't stand afternoon/evening shifts?

[Eddie The 'Ead]

I'll glady work in the morning, or from morning to afternoon. but for the life of me for some odd reason I cannot stand working, say, 12-9. Today I work 12:30-8:45. Fun.

[Boozy]

I work 1-9 almost every Tuesday. I HATE it.

It is the longest shift in the history of shifts. I never know when to eat. My "lunch" break is at 4:30, but I'm not hungry for dinner yet and I ate lunch before I left. And I never know what to do with the mornings. Do I do something productive and risk being utterly exhausted before my shift ends at 9? The alternative is to just sit around and pick my nose. A 1-9 shift just ruins the whole day.

I'm totally with you. I cannot stand afternoon/evening shifts.

[hawkchick11]

I love working at night, my shift is from 7pm to 1am

im not a morning person though, im a total night owl

[Soulstealer]

I used to work a 1-9 shift at an old job. They just had dinner breaks to be 6 or 7 depending on which one you signed up for and how much staff they needed.

[Eddie The 'Ead]

Luckily today is a cool and overcast day (I love those), and it gets darker earlier. So maybe it'll feel like time is going by faster. Eh, who knows?

[myswtghst]

I'm a bit of a night owl, so I like working 3 to midnight, but it does start to get old after a while, as I can never go out and do things with friends at night and such. But the shift differential and plentiful OT tends to make my paycheck so pretty I can forgive that.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I'm a total loner and night owl, so missing out on time with friends during the day doesn't really bother me. When left to my own devices, my sleep schedule turns into something like 4 or 5 a.m. to noon or 1 in the afternoon. So afternoon shifts would be perfect to me.

And here I sit with the usual 8-5 gig. Groan.

[reformedwaitress]

See, I'm weird and I know it's because of my job. However, other than Sundays, I HATE day shifts at one of my jobs -- I WANT night and late shifts. The later the better. Know why?

Cause I work in a bar. Night is when I make money.

Though at the spa, I hate "late" shifts (closings -- 11-7:30ish) cause it means I get out too late to be on shift at the bar. I do all openings at The Spa -- I love making the schedule and having seniority (and working with girls who HATE getting up that early!)

[GolfCart34]

I couldn't stand working nights, especially when I would work a 1pm-9pm shift then have to work an 8am-4pm shift the next day. That and I worked 4-midnight for a few months somewhere else (well, after I got laid off from the tourist trap where I'd get funky schedules) and that got old really fast. This is why I like working for the bank I do now. I never start any earlier than 7:45 in the morning and I'm not out any later than 5:00pm.

[Becks]

I don't mind working early shifts. Currently I'm working second shift (my choice).

The one shift I hated was when I worked at Goodwill and had the 10-6:30 shift. That seemed to be the longest. (The 8-4:30, 9-5:30, and closing shifts weren't bad at all. It was just that one. )

[Bright_Star]

I work best in the morning. 7:00 in the morning to about 4:30 in the afternoon suits me just fine.

[crazylegs]

In my current job I prefer lates, 12:00-22:00, in my last job, I hated being there beyond 18:00. The worst shift I have is 10:00-20:00, you spend all morning waiting for work, then all evening waiting for tomorrows work. Such a terrible shift.

[ShinyGreenApple]

I have a love-hate relationship with late shifts as well as morning ones. I'm a night owl, meaning I'm at my happiest and most creative in the late evenings. Makes it easy to work shifts where I'm scheduled 3-10:30/close, or whatever. However, I'd rather be at home or out doing my own thing than at work doing re-shops or ringing idiots who rush in at five minutes to close and hang around till a quarter after

Morning shifts are nice because I'm off by 4 or five and can go home and still have daylight to do things by, but that also means I have to get up early, meaning I have had very little sleep from my night owlishness the previous evening, or giving up said night owlishness so I can get sleep.

I just sum it all up by saying if we had a choice, none of us would probably be working at all

[TNT]

I've never been able to get anything done before work (shopping, appointments, etc.,) so give my anything but second shift. Nothing worse than getting out of work and having nothing much to do but drink. I used to work 2:30 to 11:00, including weekends, which meant I also missed most of the NFL along with the NHL.

I'm happy on first or third shift, but second shift bites the wax tadpole.

[Nephy]

I like working the closing (2:00 - 10:30 p.m.) shift because I don't like getting up early.

But I hate working closing because I never get to see my guy anymore. Going from seeing someone in the evening every day + days off for five years, to only seeing them one day a week sucks major monkey nuts.
Plus he's home alone and bored all evening without me. God knows what kinds of things he's going to come up with to keep himself occupied.

Unfortunatley, when I got the job I told them I could work "whenever", and they took that to mean "Hey, she can work strictly nights!", even thought I was told I was being hired for days. But I'm still the new girl, so I don't want to make a fuss, since I don't have a "real" reason I'm unavailable to work nights.