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o_brother · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: Late Nite At Work

I'm usually not on line this time of the evening but I'm still at work waiting for a logger to come in... They were suppossed to be here around 6 pm and its 8:30 pm now and still no truck. Checked with the manager and he called the truck to see where they are.. They were coming up from the Valley and got hung up at the Border Patrol Check point south of Alice... Not sure whats going on with that... We are going to do a splice on an Electrical Mechanical cable that will take us about 6 hrs not counting pulling time... This may sound Greek to you if you don't work in the oilfield.....Anyway, I already added comments to most of the threads tonight so I thought I might start this one..... Anyone else out there pull all nighters at work? This one looks like we may still be working when the sun comes up tomorrow......

Mike
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cephus · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: overnighter

Yeah, I pulled many a double when I was in operations at Celanese. If you were working evenings over the weekend you had better be ready to stay over because some one always decided to call in for a sick day to party some where. The doubles were not all that bad, but the hurry back to another evening shift was a killer.
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kadiyaker · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject:

can't say that it's work, but in 4th year vet school we're required to work a week of night-emergency that rotates into a week of day-emergency - requiring one 24hr shift. That may not sound bad, but if you do the math we have to pay them $120 a day to work...
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crhfish · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject:

I went 54 hours once at a plant shutdown. I fell asleep stopped at a stoplight on the way home at 3:00am in the morning. A cop came up, knocked on the glass,woke me up, and actually drove me home in his car. I was close to home anyway and I must have looked like heck. Once nice officer!!

o_brother · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject:

Here's to the late shift workers. Its not all that often we pull an all nighter but we did last night.. Finished about 5 am.. Went home got a bite to eat, showered and got to bed about 6 am. Back at work by lunch... Have two jobs today as well...

Mike
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Mansfield Mauler · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:

Been there..done that, got the t-shirt! You need a beer!

Lost Cajun · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject:

Not all of you can appreciate this one, but some of you can. Back in the oil boom of the early 80s I was working 12 hr shifts on a drilling rig as a Derickman. We got stuck in the hole and pulled the 4 1/2" pipe in two 21,000 feet down a 1/2 hour into the shift. We pulled pipe all day long in 20 degree weather. About 11:30 that night , 30 mins before our shift was over, I see my relief's pickup leaving location. He quit and went home and I got to work his shift too. Thank goodness they sent somebody out to work my shift the next day. We ran pipe in and out of that hole in the snow for a week. I was pretty darn happy to go home after that week.

ccbobber · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:17 am Post subject: doubles

you all know what memory is. my recollection of my first job while still in college about 1961 was an accounting business who was the first company with a huge computer in southern michigan. only scifi reel to reel tapes or ibm punch cards would imput info. our major clients at that time were large employers with payrolls in the thousands of people. you guessed it, computer went down on . we worked, slept, ate and lived in the building for 5-6 days. the 2 bosses wifes ran errands nonstop and even picked up clothes at peoples homes, cigs, food, pizza. they were afraid if we left, we woundn't return. i got paid for about 100 hrs in 6 days
including overtime. it was a fortune to a college kid.
MEMORIES.
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threelegcoyote · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject:

C'mon, Bobber : you know back then they hadn't even invented the calculator, much less a computer. I hear you had to use knotted ropes and colored stones to add and subtract back in your time . LOL
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