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I know he was head of the proof room at the New York Times, working the "lobster shift" and continuing the family tradition of newspaper jobs that began with his father, a Budapest printer named Mores Rozsa.

They call a night shift at a newspaper the lobster shift, for reasons much debated but never solved.

As a “copy boy” on the lobster shift until 2 a.m what I observed was no worse, but no better, than countless other workplaces — like openly discriminatory jokes.

Michael Mayo, a longtime bank stock analyst, said he was working the lobster shift so often just to keep up with the latest International Monetary Fund rescue or Slovenian parliamentary vote that he might as well call himself a 24-hour-a-day research shop.

Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch.