[RKDinOKC]

Started at the company I work for now right out of college in the machine shop on night shift. Day shift machinist ran the same machine all the time. Night shift machinist ran the hot jobs so you got to move around a lot and run all the different machines.

One of the jobs was on an automatic lathe with about a 5 minute cycle time, then you had to change parts. The last operation was a tap that made threads. When the tap was deep enough the lathe would reverse the spindle with a big clunk to back the tap out. I slept in a chair leaned back balanced on the back two legs. The clunk of the tap backing out would wake me up and I would be up and ready to change parts by the time the machine finished.

The night shift supervisor watched me do this just waiting for me to sleep too long so he could yell at me. He LOVED yelling a people. After over an hour he finally gave up, shook his head, and walked off. Learned this by watching a guy that mostly ran the bigger machines with 15-20 minute cycle times.

There used to be a rule in the company rulebook that you could be fired if you got caught sitting on the tank of the toilet. A guy was sitting on the tank with his feet on the lid so you couldn't see them under the stall and sleeping. One day he fell off and broke his arm, hence the rule.