[139673] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Fri Apr 15 13:45:20 2011
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <A6D2685F-4565-4BC8-BCC5-0A0C2FB2A10D@americafree.tv>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:43:54 -0400
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Cc: Mark Green <ktm200exc@hotmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:41 26PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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> On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Mark Green wrote:
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>>=20
>> Suggestion; once on the 'night shift' stay put for at least three =
months... Sleep patterns take time to adjust. Jumping between day and =
night shifts will burn out even the most motivated employee. =20
>>=20
>=20
> What we found was that we would find people who wanted to be on the =
night shift, and would NOT like to be changed, at all. Some people like =
night
> work, or have family situations where it is ideal for them.
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Yah. Read the current news coverage about sleeping U.S. air traffic =
controllers, especially the articles about how hard it is to switch =
shifts, and very especially if you do it often.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb