I live in an apartment and I work 50 hours a week from 10PM to 8AM, so my sleep usually falls in between the hours of 9AM to 4PM (give or take an hour depending on how much noise and disturbances there are). I have let my neighbors know of this and asked kindly if they could respect that as I would respect whatever quiet times they need. Basically all I ask is don’t run around your apartment wearing steel toe boots and don’t crank the music up to 11 on the dial, I can usually sleep through some pretty load stuff like hurricane Juan or my fire alarm. But the dick who lives above me feels the need to do just that, music blasting all day, stomping around with shoes on, slamming doors, having shouting matches with their girlfriend (sounds more like ex-girlfriend though). I’ve tried reasoning with them , calling the landlord, calling the cops, and I basically get the same response from them all, its during day time hours so it doesn’t matter. My landlord says that no one else complains. Well everyone else is at work during this time! Nobody respects night shift workers, sometimes during the day (when I’m asleep) i’ll get a buzz from the front door of the building to go sign for a package, so I jump out of bed with my pj pants on throw on a t-shirt and go down stairs. I’ve actually got comments a few times when I am dressed like this that I should stop abusing the system and go get a job! What. The. Hell?? I probably work more than them. Everyone just assumes if you aren’t wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase from 9AM to 5PM Monday to Friday that you are a welfare bum. Sorry, I’m really starting to rant and carry on now, but it is past my bedtime. —Zzzzzz
This article appears in May 30 – Jun 5, 2013.
The Captain is a fan of having NOBODY carrying briefcases and wearing suits between 9AM and 5PM.
Society has produced the strangest work environments, habits, structures, methods, occupations…. There’s too much redundancy and inefficiency. Most of those poor souls in the business world don’t realize there’s another thousand Zombies doing exactly the same thing, at exactly the same time, over and over again.
They’re contributing to the economic decline just as much as the Welfare bums, but in a different way.
I worked graveyard shift for years. loved the solitude and being able to do stuff (going to Stanley park, seawall etc) weekdays after work when everyone else was working. but daytime noise is a factor when trying to sleep. use ear plugs and get a top floor apt. I lived across from st pauls when they were doing construction work during the day, so I moved. one of the drawbacks to working the vampire hours. but I didn’t think I had the right to ask them to be quiet.
Yeah, it sucks. I would suggest getting a fan or something that makes a lot of white noise or whatever. I feel your pain though as my old apartment felt the need to cut the entire front lawn with a whipper snipper.
BZzzzzzzzzz….Bzzzzzzzzzzz….Bzzzzzzzzz.
As for the other issue just ignore it. One thing I always love about shift work is driving home on a Monday morning and watching everyone else with miserable faces waiting for the bus or caught in traffic.
I can sympathize…
I have a crying baby to my left, young jerk teens below me with quite an impressive sound system- the bass is anyways… enrages me to no end, and a perpetually fighting couple that stomp to the point of my chandelier shaking pretty much daily. They’ve broken up twice but I still hear them both living there. At least it sounds like your couple finally broke up.
I also used to work night shift (12-9am) and living across from the old hospital before I had to ensure the weeks it took them to rip that down… meanwhile jackhammering in our underground parcade that resonated up through the elevator shafts.
It was pretty much to the point where I had to put in ear plugs AND tie a towel around my head to get any sleep whatsoever.
People wonder why I’m frequently grumpy.
Ive easily missed half of my sleep from the last decade.
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we have crows and diggers on the street. i just crank the fan to high, i like the white noise but i can still hear everything anyway. earplugs freak me out
yeh, I can’t wear ear plugs myself. I need to hear what’s sneaking up on me LOL
You can’t enforce your schedule on other tenants, OP. Go find a top floor apartment in a small building or invest in earplugs. Otherwise, move out of town into a house.
Wear ear plugs and get a big ass fan, the industrial paint-drying type. I can’t wear ear plugs because I can hear my heart beat which is just another sense of my mortality. That damn heart is going to stop sometime. And me with it.
If I may pull a “crayons” and double-post, I have worked the graveyard shift many years in my youth and I understand what you’re dealing with but you are in the minority as most folks are diurnal. Now you know what bats have to deal with. That and an invasive fungus brought upon them by the treads of the shoes of careless sperlunkers.
Love you crayons.
for the love of god move out!!!
why should everyone in your building tip toe around because you work the back shift?
find a quiet place and leave everyone else alone.
AND tie a towel around my head
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Luckily, the only thing I can’t sleep through is snoring and bass coming from a car or the next room. I apparently likely have more rem sleep cycles and often wake up right out of rem. i cant wear earplugs because I won’t hear my alarm (which already has to be turned up as high as the radio will go — and the buzzer doesn’t wake me up at all). Sounds like the bass is what’s fucking you up, OB and I sympathize. I don’t really have any useful advice to give, just my empathy.
It was a bad summer, that one was…
I never used to be but I’m a super light sleeper.
As long as my phone is on vibe somewhere on the bed, I’ll wake to my alarm
even with ear plugs in.
That’s even if I get to sleep in to the alarm… fighting couple, crying baby, and downstairs ravers usually get my ass up early 2-3 times a week… with my ferocious feline jumping on the bed waking me up the remaining days.
One of the unfortunate realities of night shifts. I, too, used to work the dreaded graveyard shift, trying to catch some z’s to the background noise of lawn mowers, construction, kids playing in the street, music, etc. As frustrating as it was, life was going on around me. There isn’t much you can do, besides maybe moving to the top floor or wearing earplugs.
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