re: #394 kirkspencer

My own life corroborates this: When I worked at Officemax I almost always had to work the Sunday shift, simply because most of the staff there could not or would not do so. As the Officemax where I worked was open from 10am to 7pm on Sundays, this meant a 9 1/2 hour day (employees had to be at the store minutes before it opened and we normally left 30 minutes after closing time, with 1/2 an hour off for lunch). The last hour I was often something of a zombie and if I went to dinner afterward I said very little.

More recently, I’ve seen this happen to me couple times when I’ve had to stay late at work to finish something I was working on (I’m not required to do that, but I am loath to leave important work incomplete). After noticing it I cut back on how late I’m stay after 5pm, as that kind of tiredness brings on narcolepsy with a vengeance.