Reply #28: I also worked for a railroad (Penn Central/Conrail)

[Urban Prairie]

From 1975-85. Due to cost cuts and layoffs, I found myself bidding for jobs on the graveyard shift by 1980. That spring, two very attractive women were hired by management as executive secretaries, and both soon were promoted into management. One of the women managed to get a supervisory position on the shift that I worked, and said to me: "Now I can get a suntan like you have!!" (I took advantage of the shift I worked that summer to get exercise by going swimming at a lake near my apartment, and also often by riding my bicycle at a park nearby)

This of course was back before tanning beds had been invented. I looked at the woman incredulously, and replied: "I am working this shift because I have to, not because I want to, and what are you going to do in the fall and winter? Get promoted back to the day shift?" :crazy: