[Error: unknown template qotd]12-hour graveyard shifts (6:45pm-6:45am) four nights one week, three nights the next, working on a production line building ceramic filters for cell phones, while also taking college courses. Especially when they would spring a day of mandatory overtime on me on the middle day of my three-day weekend.
I was so happy when I called in sick because I hadn't slept for two days and wouldn't have another chance to sleep for another two unless I took the night off, and they told me I would be fired if I didn't come in. I said that was fine by me and never went back.