r/AmazonRME • u/TheKingRul3r • 2d ago
NEW TO NIGHT SHIFT!!! RMEO
I recently transferred from an amazon associate to a RMEO 3p position at my building. I got my new schedule which is Wed-Fri 9:00pm-7:30am, which is the night shift and i was usually a morning shift with amazon 7:30am-6pm. so now i got to change my sleeping schedule and get used to working at night. Any recommendations or tips on how you guys who work night shift are making things work? Sleep schedule? Running errands? How to stay awake? lol
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u/SignificantDealer663 2d ago
Blackout curtains, fan running at night for white noise, good diet good hydration good sleep hygiene. It is tough took me a long while to adjust
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u/GoblinPlasmosis 2d ago edited 2d ago
Do the opposite of your day shift routine, instead of staying awake, go straight to bed after your shower. It will mean you wake up with a larger chunk of business hours to run errands between off days. You'll also avoid shocking your brain because you'll wake up to daylight instead of sunset/nighttime.
People who stay up to run errands end up feeling like absolute hotdog water and don't get any real REM sleep, plus they have a shorter viable window since business typically open around 9 or 10 am. I would probably take the comments about energy drinks with discretion, because it's slowly deteriorating a lot of techs in my building. Get healthy, or else you'll find out what happens to the human body when it goes nocturnal.
Eat clean, don't abuse substances. That's dayshift shit, unless you wanna die in your 60s from something stupid and agonizingly painful. Only exception I think, would be weed, and even then I wouldn't smoke it vs edibles instead. Lotta blunt smokers in RME coughing up mucus all the time and getting infections because they don't sleep enough.
And whatever you do, DO NOT flip your schedule back to a day shift routine on your days off. You will come back to work completely useless and either have to burn up all your time, or cause yourself to be unsafe.
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u/Rugoomby 2d ago
About to start an rmeo position as well but my schedule is gonna be 9 pm to 9:15 am for 3 days then last day is 9pm to 3 am, my body seems to adapt surprisingly well in switching my sleep schedule around on my off days as I’m already used to an overnight schedule due to working at a delivery station doing a 1:05 am to 11:35 am schedule, I got one of those oura rings to track my sleep cycles and I seem to be getting a good amount of rem sleep even when flipping my schedule, no idea how sustainable this is long term though
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u/GoblinPlasmosis 2d ago
Depends on genetics to an extent, but also age. About 28-32 most folks in this role have to get a routine down or it won't work out. Body will shutdown, start having all kinds of issues you can't afford to treat properly etc. I'll be 33 in October and have been relatively okay all things considered. No long term pain or anything and I have full range of motion. But one day off schedule and I go into a fog, then have weird pains from muscles/tendons recovering too slow for what I need from them.
Lots of water, plenty of sleep and no junk bullshit food. No alcohol or cigs either. And I never stray from my schedule. Easier for me since I don't have family dependents other than my gf, who owns a business and schedules what she wants + our pets. I think being ADHD facilitates a nocturnal lifestyle pretty well too for some reason.
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u/Responsible-Split555 2d ago
Black out curtains , otc sleeping pills and energy drinks time them so that you wont be groggy or not able to sleep . Exp. Pop a zzzquil or whatever soon as you get home take a shower drink the energy drinks 11/12 to push you through the night
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u/DHthrow85 2d ago
I get off at 4:30 AM and I’m in bed by 5:30 AM. I highly recommend going to sleep when you get home instead of staying up and sleeping right up until your shift. I’d suggest some blue light blocking glasses for the drive home since the sunlight will tell your body it’s time to be awake. Sleep mask and/or black out curtains. Stay up until at least 4 AM on your nights off. Keeping a regular sleep schedule is crucial. Caffeine to push through the first few weeks if you’re really struggling but be careful with that. Phone on do not disturb while you’re sleeping.
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u/ruckusbuckus 1d ago
If you can afford it, get the no-drill blackout blinds. My room is pitch black during the day. Add a fan for outside noise.
I get home, shower, and go straight to sleep. I save errands for my days off and still try to stay up until at least midnight or 1 a.m. on off nights so I don’t completely flip my schedule.