I've worked into the early hours a few times... 4am etc.

They had to pay us 1.5 times our rate for a night shift (which they class as if you start after 11pm... so they'd usually get you in from 4-6 and pay you single time.

Cunts 0_o

Never done a 'full' night shift, but hopefully I'll cope as I'm hoping to get into the fire service by the middle of next year.

(passed all of my tests almost 2 years ago... just found out I have to re-do them all incase I've became fatter/stupider )

I managed to cope with being up at 8am, training all day... staying up till 6am the next day to watch ricky hatton head butt a corner post, getting home at 7:30 and not bothering to sleep because I had a 12 hour shift starting at 9...

What's worse is that the gym I was working in's receptionist was on holiday so I had to sit on the desk all day... walking the floor would have made it much easier to stay awake!! once or twice I almost fell off the chair I was in if I didn't focus on staying awake but I had been awake for something stupid like 35 hours by this point!