What is a "graveyard shift"?
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I believe I was told that it's the hours at the dead of night when no one else would generally be working.
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Midnight to 8:00 am
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For most it's from 11:00pm to 7:00am ( working hours) + 5
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Tom Waits told me that it originated from people sitting at the graveyard to see if anybody was still alive. "Current popular explanations for the origin of the phrase "graveyard shift" reference the 19th century problem of accidentally burying people who were still alive. To prevent this from happening, the story goes, caskets were equipped with a bell-ringing device enabling a waking "corpse" to notify the world that they were no longer dead. The graveyard attendants who remained vigilant throughout the day and night worked the graveyard shift."
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My friends bf works these shifts as a grocery supervisor. They usually start at about 11 pm and get off at 8 in the morning. It's a terrible shift, no one wants to work them and I heard that it really messes up your sleep pattern.
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An exuberant dance move that was popular in the late seventies and eighties.
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11pm-7am
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Typically businesses or factories open 24 hours a day have three full shirst. First shift is typically from 8-4 second is 4-12 and third is 12-8. First shift is called day shift, second shift is cslled night shift, and third shift is typically called the graveyard shift. The term itself comes from Someone's explanation about being awake at the dead of night referring to a graveyard.
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