Working long hours
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I started work in the print when I left school, straight onto continental shift pattern of 36 hours over 3 days, and would regularly work 3 out of 4 rest days on overtime, again 12 hour shifts, then when I was 25 I got made redundant and started my own business, and just carried on working at least 12 hours a day, sometime 7 days a week if it was really busy.
Got to 40 and looked back and realised how much time I'd missed living because I was working, so sold the business and now live a much more relaxed semi-retired life.
As the saying goes, no one goes to their grave wishing they'd worked more!
Got to 40 and looked back and realised how much time I'd missed living because I was working, so sold the business and now live a much more relaxed semi-retired life.
As the saying goes, no one goes to their grave wishing they'd worked more!
red_slr said:
handpaper said:
Ask again in 'Commercial Break', OP.
My legal maximum is 71 hours (3 x 15, 2 x 13) in a 5-day week, 84 for a 6-dayer.
Theoretically, given enough waiting around with the tachograph on 'break', a 90-hour week is possible.
As someone who is effectively 'at work' from 0600 Monday to late on Friday, the more time I get paid for the better (unless I've got an assignment due, then a few hours in the services of an evening can be very useful!)
How do you get to 71 hours?My legal maximum is 71 hours (3 x 15, 2 x 13) in a 5-day week, 84 for a 6-dayer.
Theoretically, given enough waiting around with the tachograph on 'break', a 90-hour week is possible.
As someone who is effectively 'at work' from 0600 Monday to late on Friday, the more time I get paid for the better (unless I've got an assignment due, then a few hours in the services of an evening can be very useful!)
3 x 15 = 45
2 x 13 = 26
45 + 26 = 71
I average 60 to 65 hours per week, working nights, starting around 10.30pm and finishing about 9.30 - 10.00am, which I do 6 nights a week. If I'm honest though, it feels like 7 because I work part of both Saturday and Sunday. I don't particularly like working nights but it means I earn a bit more and in the Summer, I have some daylight hours to do stuff I enjoy.
red_slr said:
I can only presume you don't know Regulation (EC) 561/2006 then...
Hence my question to that poster.
Not read the regulation but from what I saw I think that he means he is driving his legal 45 or no more than 90 in two weeks but that there are lots of hours spent waiting to load or unload so he is still paid for those. At 71 he will still have had his 8 hours rest no matter what too.Hence my question to that poster.
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Depends how delayed I am round the GRA and the delay BA and/or Fumicino manage between them. Most Fridays it is 9hrs travelling alone 
Theoretically I'm not even allowed to calculate and quite my monthly hours worked by a particular quirk of German law. I must deliver a States Work Package each monthly that must be strictly unrelated to hrs worked. In reality with the travel I do, it's around 70 each week. 15.00 Sunday afternoon departures or 04.00 Monday departure do not for a good weekend make.
Theoretically I'm not even allowed to calculate and quite my monthly hours worked by a particular quirk of German law. I must deliver a States Work Package each monthly that must be strictly unrelated to hrs worked. In reality with the travel I do, it's around 70 each week. 15.00 Sunday afternoon departures or 04.00 Monday departure do not for a good weekend make.
In one of my jobs I'm working flat out from 8am. Calls stop coming in at 6pm (the phones go over) but the work generated between 8 and 6 often takes till 8 or 9pm to finish. Doing that each Thursday and Friday is knackering. Other jobs more manageable.
Average worked hours per week now reduced to <70. Record is 124 hours in a 7 day period. That's not on-call where you can rest but on duty. Dangerous in retrospect.
Average worked hours per week now reduced to <70. Record is 124 hours in a 7 day period. That's not on-call where you can rest but on duty. Dangerous in retrospect.
Some of you guys must earn mental money for it to be worth that level of agro.
I work a decent working week (probably 50 hours) and I'm paid a good wage (my wife doesn't have to work, we have a lovely 3 bed semi, we live well) but there is no way I'd add another 50% of hours on a regular basis onto my working week. I'd never see my wife and son, and the one thing thats important to me is spending time with them.
That said, when the proverbial hits the fan, I support my team however I can, and do whatever hours it takes to bring us back from he brink. I do ensure I do sensible days after things cool off.
I work a decent working week (probably 50 hours) and I'm paid a good wage (my wife doesn't have to work, we have a lovely 3 bed semi, we live well) but there is no way I'd add another 50% of hours on a regular basis onto my working week. I'd never see my wife and son, and the one thing thats important to me is spending time with them.
That said, when the proverbial hits the fan, I support my team however I can, and do whatever hours it takes to bring us back from he brink. I do ensure I do sensible days after things cool off.
economicpygmy said:
conanius said:
Some of you guys must earn mental money for it to be worth that level of agro.
No money is worth the stress TBH.70-100 per week. Nearly into the last year of a 5 year plan when I will reduce it to 50; cant wait!
economicpygmy said:
conanius said:
Some of you guys must earn mental money for it to be worth that level of agro.
No money is worth the stress TBH.70-100 per week. Nearly into the last year of a 5 year plan when I will reduce it to 50; cant wait!
I used to work 12 hour shifts alternating between mornings and nights 4 on 4 off. These were only when the plant was up and running (usually a month or so at a time) so never got into a routine. Hated the shifts with a passion, I don't like doing many things for 12 odd hours let alone going to work.
Now I work days at an average of 40 per week, some days I'll travel to London and back from the far NW of England and back in a day and it's a long one. We don't get paid overtime but can bank the hours and in theory take them off but I struggle to fit my annual leave in let alone this credit time.
All these people working 80 plus hour weeks do you get paid for the OT? Personally I've been there and got the t-shirt in terms of trying to do a bit extra but IME no one thanks you for it and you're really just decreasing your salary in terms of an hourly rate.
Now I work days at an average of 40 per week, some days I'll travel to London and back from the far NW of England and back in a day and it's a long one. We don't get paid overtime but can bank the hours and in theory take them off but I struggle to fit my annual leave in let alone this credit time.
All these people working 80 plus hour weeks do you get paid for the OT? Personally I've been there and got the t-shirt in terms of trying to do a bit extra but IME no one thanks you for it and you're really just decreasing your salary in terms of an hourly rate.
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