Re: HMSO
"Got all the reports done in the first hour thanks to not having my boss constantly interrupt me "
My experience with out of hours call center coverage was that we could effectivly do nothing all night and still get paid.
We obviously founds stuff to do, mainly going through the day shifts work queues and finishing off jobs that they had logged but not done.
Of course every time we actually did the job we were being paid for, and thus didn't have 4-6 hours of slack time, the day shift bitched at us for leaving them work to do :)
I've also worked shifts, and the 0700 - 1500 that I got 80% of my work done by 10:30, at which point the office was full.
Take the crappy shifts :) plus if you work at Christmas you meet lots of nice Hindis and Muslims who also have many festivals with delicious food. For the BoFHs, all you can eat onion bajis. Certain Indian grandmothers take it as a personal challange that you can't walk away from the table :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
