Do Editors sleep or drink coffee all night?

I'm just curious. I live in the big state of Texas and I am on Central Standard Time, but it seems like no matter what company I do a shop for, I always receive my shop grade/feedback at 3 or 4 o clock on the morning. Are these local editors trying to make a deadline or possibly editors from another country?

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I'm guessing that they make their own work schedule and it seems that a lot of them work from home.

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…and probably from another time zone.

My editorial skills usually fell apart around 1 AM when I was working as a freelance editor, but I am in CA so if a shopper may have been in NY, they might have been getting their feedback around 4 AM.

Perhaps there is a large editorial pool in Hawaii.

Night owls, too. If I had my way, my schedule would run from 10am to about 1-2am.

My favourite editor used to email me in the wee hours if he found something funny/preposterous/amazing/unbelievable in my report. He said he knew I was
a nightowl.

ninamason Wrote:
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> Night owls, too. If I had my way, my schedule
> would run from 10am to about 1-2am.

Since we are all independent contractors, why can't you have your own way with your schedule? That is a big reason why many people are MS'ers, for flexible schedules.

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> Since we are all independent contractors, why
> can't you have your own way with your schedule?
> That is a big reason why many people are MS'ers,
> for flexible schedules.

Because some of us have full time jobs and only MS to supplement our income?

@ TowerOrchard ~ I was responding to ninamason which I quoted in my post. And I work a FT job also but I am still in control of my MS schedule.

Hey I am a huge night owl. I normal go to be anywhere from 4-6 am local time. I do my shops in the day and enter reports anywhere from 10pm- 3am. Usually. Some editors may also be shoppers.

Shopping Western NY, Northeast and Central PA, and parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Have car will travel anywhere if the monies right.

I usually first do my MS vists, then my MS reports and then finaly do my proofreading jobs, so it can get quite late before I get around to doing them. But then I am in Europe and only proofread reports from this area.

- Nick
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Shopping the UK, Denmark and Sweden as well as elsewhere at times.

Scheduler here: I know with Sassie companies, and probably some others, certain emails sent by the system go into a sort of queue to prevent overloading of the email server. These are sent out at a slow rate. If there are a lot of emails in the queue, then you might end up receiving your shop grade, notifications of new shops, etc in the middle of the night. This is also the reason that you can receive an email about the availability of a shop that has already been assigned.

It's frustrating and I would prefer the emails to go through at the time we send them, but that's unfortunately not how the software works.

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Steven Cooley
Scheduler
Customer Impact, LLC.
Scooley@customerimpactinfo.com

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