The slowest, felt the longest, but less stressful of the shift among the other shifts. The 3rd shift starts from 1600 hours (4pm) and ends at 0001 hours (midnight). I believe that I feel this is the longest shift because of the fact that I started the shift during daylight (when the sun is still up), and ends it in darkness (when night falls). It's just the mind playing tricks actually since it's still 8 hours shift that we're working in.
However, in truth we do spend longer hours than the stipulated 8 hour shift. There's still the take-over of duties that needs to be done. And we need to be ready for the work ahead of the start of the shift, so all the vital information needs to be handed over to the incoming shift. For most of the operation staff, we are here an hour before shift starts at the very least. Reason why is that after parking our vehicles outside the terminal, we have to take the shuttle bus into the terminal. As buses schedule go, no matter what the rectification to the timing they did, there's always a waiting time for the bus to come. It's a 5-10 minutes ride from the bus stop to the marshaling center, where all the operations staff get down. But the waiting time adds to this.
For the guys that work in the control tower, like me (!), we have to take another shuttle to go to the other end of the terminal. And hence, more waiting time. Due to the lesser amount of people travelling to the control tower, they've provided us with either a Toyota Hiace van or a lorry (lori ikan as i call it...heh). Going back is the same thing, in reverse. So there's a lot of waiting time for the travelling to and from the bus stops. And yeah, it's a big company but nothing we do here is that glamorous...hahaha...but the company is a vital part in the country's economy, so at least I know I'm doing my part to serve the country and it's economy, albeit with a private company.
One thing good about this shift (yes, there's always a positive thing here) is that within an hour plus of the start of the shift, most of the normal hours people which include the HOS, HOD and senior managers would be going back home. So less meetings, phone calls and emails from them for me to answer. Although for some of them that have Blackberry in hand, they still send emails about work from home. Talk about working hard, eh!
The thing I hate most about this shift is that I don't get to "see" my wife during the week. It's either she's asleep after I get back, or I'm too groggy to send her off to work when she wakes up at 6am. And she misses me a lot, because we love spending time together talking about random stuff, reading newspaper and just channel surfing on the t.v. when we're at home.
Arrrggghh...must change profession lah!
However, in truth we do spend longer hours than the stipulated 8 hour shift. There's still the take-over of duties that needs to be done. And we need to be ready for the work ahead of the start of the shift, so all the vital information needs to be handed over to the incoming shift. For most of the operation staff, we are here an hour before shift starts at the very least. Reason why is that after parking our vehicles outside the terminal, we have to take the shuttle bus into the terminal. As buses schedule go, no matter what the rectification to the timing they did, there's always a waiting time for the bus to come. It's a 5-10 minutes ride from the bus stop to the marshaling center, where all the operations staff get down. But the waiting time adds to this.
For the guys that work in the control tower, like me (!), we have to take another shuttle to go to the other end of the terminal. And hence, more waiting time. Due to the lesser amount of people travelling to the control tower, they've provided us with either a Toyota Hiace van or a lorry (lori ikan as i call it...heh). Going back is the same thing, in reverse. So there's a lot of waiting time for the travelling to and from the bus stops. And yeah, it's a big company but nothing we do here is that glamorous...hahaha...but the company is a vital part in the country's economy, so at least I know I'm doing my part to serve the country and it's economy, albeit with a private company.
One thing good about this shift (yes, there's always a positive thing here) is that within an hour plus of the start of the shift, most of the normal hours people which include the HOS, HOD and senior managers would be going back home. So less meetings, phone calls and emails from them for me to answer. Although for some of them that have Blackberry in hand, they still send emails about work from home. Talk about working hard, eh!
The thing I hate most about this shift is that I don't get to "see" my wife during the week. It's either she's asleep after I get back, or I'm too groggy to send her off to work when she wakes up at 6am. And she misses me a lot, because we love spending time together talking about random stuff, reading newspaper and just channel surfing on the t.v. when we're at home.
Arrrggghh...must change profession lah!
1 comment:
yea sayang... missing you a whole lot.... missing spending time with you...
Thanks for the sup daging last nite... hehehe... at 1.15am... I was having sup daging.....nyum.. nyum...
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