I've been on a Night Shift for more years than I'd even like to admit at this point.
Through the years I've seen so many employees come and go as I moved from company to company myself.
One of the things I noticed is that Night Shift hours are the perfect hours to manage one's addiction.
Smaller crews put more distance between employees, and the advantages of empty break areas and bathrooms through the night make indulging in an addiction almost unnoticeable.
It was working Night Shift that I learned the term "Functioning Addict". I met a lot of hard working people that I found out later in life were in their own battle with addiction at the time we worked together. One of them became one of my closest friends years later.
Not everyone had the ability to manage their addiction and still function, although you couldn't tell them that they weren't absolutely killing it.
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