text: why its called graveyardship, when you work at night shift?   it's not caled graveyardship.  it's graveyard shift.  a work shift that runs during the early morning hours, as from midnight to 8 a.m. the workers on such a shift.  the graveyard shift is a popular name for the aforementioned third shift covering the small hours, in particular for radio presenters or in the retail trade. current popular explanations for the origin of the phrase "graveyard shift" reference the 19th century problem of accidentally burying people who were still alive. to prevent this from happening caskets were equipped with a bell-ringing device enabling a waking "corpse" to notify the world that they were no longer dead (this is also the origin of the term "dead ringer"). the graveyard attendants who remained vigilant throughout the day and night worked the graveyard shift.  interesting, eh?