Actually, there were times when I had night shift work as well. I was a systems admin for a U.S. Navy Reserve personnel management server that literally had global scope. We had people from the USA, Europe, Korea, Australia, the Middle East - anywhere that the U.S. Navy had reservists, my system had users. But we determined that the best time for me to apply system patches that required long down-times was 2nd shift starting from about 3 PM and going to about 11 PM. So on days when I had a major system patch, I would go in late and would set up an announcement on the login screen and with a timer to broadcast to current users. We would have it all cleared by the Navy brass. However, I was almost never alone in the office because other systems had similar scope and my fellow admins were there, too, diligently patching the systems to Hell and gone.
But it was pretty quiet on 2nd shift.
Adam, don't you know how to handle the politicizers and chatty-kathy types? You tell them how stupid or incompetent they are to waste your time like they do, in hopes that they will eventually get the message and go away permanently.