So this happened about 6 years ago while I was shift manager for the company I’m still with now. It’s a large engineering firm and we needed a manger to do back shift (4pm-11pm) to work on a huge backload of work we had procured.
I volunteered because at the time it suited and meant I could do some housework etc during the day (modern man 😉) plus go to the gym while it was quieter and just generally do my own thing, downside was pretty much not seeing the kids mon-fri but the shift allowance helped soften the blow.
I picked a squad of guys but we also needed someone to do secretarial duties and basically do my paperwork while I dealt with the guys on site. Unfortunately, no one was willing to go from day shift and couldn’t really be spared anyway so we decided to hire someone new and get an office junior, which was basically a sneaky way of not having to pay someone full pay as the top brass weren’t overly keen on “blowing the budget“ as they said!