bad day anyone?

[samdale]

ok so i've had a really fking piss poor day,
had to have a medical for a somewhat dream job, failed that because of my eyesight. apparently i have to be able to see the big "A" at the top of the board without my glasses and i can't. id already failed on an eyesight test for the navy for the same reason. i walked in with my glasses on so i knew what it said, why couldn't i just fking lie?!?!! to top it off i've had a really ish day at work. the amount of fking retards i've have to put up with both on my side of the bar and the customer side has really pushed me to the fking edge. if it wasn't for the 6 miles down the back roads from the pub to home (9 minutes ) id barely feel alive right now. got home shaking and for the 1st time today, felt alive.
lets just say it's a good job the roads are empty at 1am


on a better note thank god i put a few beers in the fridge before i left for work...

anyone had a sorry excuse for a day?

hell you can even post if you've had a really great day for whatever reason and would like to share...

[Johnny]

Sorry about your bad day...

Mine was great! Went to Donington, to the GP Exhibition for one of Gretchen's boys birthday treat, saw some great cars and got some nice pics. Children happy.

Then bribed people with birthday cake and got to drive round and park up at the back of the pits and were free to wander round while the general test day was taking place. Got more great shots of some nice cars (Ferrari 250LM , Mosler) and up close and personal with a Caparo. Awesome bit of kit Big thanks to a fellow PHer for taking time to talk cars with the boys.

Birthday boy then managed to get a pic and autograph with Duncan Tappy (top bloke BTW) who had been piloting the Caparo for the day. He then drove the same way as us for some 80ish miles of spirited drive home...

All in all, not too bad a day!

Hope this has cheered you up. An 8year old had a top day

Edited by Johnny on Friday 31st July 01:59

[mrmr96]

I left home at 8:00am for a 1 hour commute, arrived 9:00am and worked with no breaks until 11:45pm (ate sandwich lunch and pizza dinner at my desk) followed by a 1 hour commute home, getting home at 00:45am.

So I have worked 14h 45mins (excluding travel) with no break. If a normal 9 to 5:30 day with 1 hr lunch is 7.5 hours, I've done 15mins short of two days work today.

Yeah. Hacked off isn't the start of it.

[mrmr96]

Oh yeah, and Monday was 9:30am to 11:15pm. Tuesday was 9:30am to 8:15pm. Wednesday was 9:00am to 9:15pm. Today (Thursday, well Friday as I post this) was 9:00am to 11:45pm. Total hours in 4 days is 51hrs 30mins. At 7.5hrs per "normal" day I've done over 6.8 days work in 4 days. I'm just glad tomorrow is a holiday.

[samdale]

mrmr96 said:

I left home at 8:00am for a 1 hour commute, arrived 9:00am and worked with no breaks until 11:45pm (ate sandwich lunch and pizza dinner at my desk) followed by a 1 hour commute home, getting home at 00:45am.

So I have worked 14h 45mins (excluding travel) with no break. If a normal 9 to 5:30 day with 1 hr lunch is 7.5 hours, I've done 15mins short of two days work today.

Yeah. Hacked off isn't the start of it.

my day is usually around 11am till closing time with 1 ~15min break at around 4 if the bar is quiet... it's starting to take the piss.

now i've had an offer of a much better job confirmed, was starting on 7th sept. just to have the plans st on by my bad eyesight... again.



but yes johnny, nice to know today has gone well for someone

[mrmr96]

Probably wouldn't be so bad if I was working in a bar - I work in an office. :-(
My hours should be 9-5:30 and the pay reflects that, not the reality of the long days.

Hope you're looked after properly.

[samdale]

mrmr96 said:

Probably wouldn't be so bad if I was working in a bar - I work in an office. :-(
My hours should be 9-5:30 and the pay reflects that, not the reality of the long days.

Hope you're looked after properly.

my pay reflects that of not very well trained monkey but at least it's by the hour so i get payed more for the longer days.

TBH im just fking steaming that i've been kicked back onto minimum wage both times i've been accepted into a proper career just because i can't ttting seee.


unless of coures someone can lend me £2600 to get my eyes lasered...


might be able to tell by now by my typing that i put more than one beer in the fridge before work

[TurboMills]

Started work at 07:20 yesterday.

Finshed now at 04:00.

Getting picked up at 07:30 this morning. And I can't wait! I do pick my new boat up tomorrow evening though so hell yeah!

[blue_eyed_4]

summer school from 7am-1pm (didn't fail, just getting credits out of the way)
1:30pm-6pm hanging with friends and boyfriend
6pm-8pm had karate

overall it was a pretty good day; but I am awfully sore from karate

sorry about your bad day =/

[Loque]

Yeah, last friday was a st day for me.

Sister got trodden on by a horse, lost control of car driving to hospital (completely buggered the wheel up, hoping the suspension is alright) and to top it all of my employer thought I was skiving.

[Carfiend]

My insurance company lost the copy of the police report I sent them and so I have to send it to them again meaning a week has been wasted and they sit on the money longer the thieving bds.

[mrmr96]

samdale said:

mrmr96 said:

Probably wouldn't be so bad if I was working in a bar - I work in an office. :-(
My hours should be 9-5:30 and the pay reflects that, not the reality of the long days.

Hope you're looked after properly.

my pay reflects that of not very well trained monkey but at least it's by the hour so i get payed more for the longer days.

TBH im just fking steaming that i've been kicked back onto minimum wage both times i've been accepted into a proper career just because i can't ttting seee.


unless of coures someone can lend me £2600 to get my eyes lasered...


might be able to tell by now by my typing that i put more than one beer in the fridge before work

Glad you getting some overtime pay. Now, I'm not bragging about what I do, but just pointing out the injustice of my fees earned for my firm vs my remuneration: My day rate that my firm charges clients for 1 day of my time is £1,000+VAT. But at the moment I'm pushing back other projects to do this one particular one at short notice for a wealthy client (hence the hours) and since I'm pushing other work about my firm is charging a premium, so my firm's charging me out at £1,500+VAT. But as I did 15 hours (near enough) yesterday that's actually 2 days worth that will be invoiced just for Thursday. So I've basically earned my firm £3,000+VAT for one days work. That's good? For the firm, yes, but I won't get a fking penny extra as I don't get paid overtime. Time to "go solo" might not be far away if this keeps up.

Sorry to hear that your eyes are holding you back. What's the career you've been aiming for?

Glad you're unwinding with some booze. I must say I had a couple of Vodka mixers before bed last night too - just to help forget the day and wind down for sleep. (Else I dream about work - sad, right? Can't help it sometimes if it's been going through your mind all day, though. Good ol' Mr Smirnoff fixes that though!)

[lawrence567]

samdale said:

ok so i've had a really fking piss poor day,
had to have a medical for a somewhat dream job, failed that because of my eyesight. apparently i have to be able to see the big "A" at the top of the board without my glasses and i can't. id already failed on an eyesight test for the navy for the same reason. i walked in with my glasses on so i knew what it said, why couldn't i just fking lie?!?!! to top it off i've had a really ish day at work. the amount of fking retards i've have to put up with both on my side of the bar and the customer side has really pushed me to the fking edge. if it wasn't for the 6 miles down the back roads from the pub to home (9 minutes ) id barely feel alive right now. got home shaking and for the 1st time today, felt alive.
lets just say it's a good job the roads are empty at 1am


on a better note thank god i put a few beers in the fridge before i left for work...

anyone had a sorry excuse for a day?

hell you can even post if you've had a really great day for whatever reason and would like to share...

If it makes u feel any better i had a pretty average day!

[Ikemi]

mrmr96 said:

samdale said:

mrmr96 said:

Probably wouldn't be so bad if I was working in a bar - I work in an office. :-(
My hours should be 9-5:30 and the pay reflects that, not the reality of the long days.

Hope you're looked after properly.

my pay reflects that of not very well trained monkey but at least it's by the hour so i get payed more for the longer days.

TBH im just fking steaming that i've been kicked back onto minimum wage both times i've been accepted into a proper career just because i can't ttting seee.


unless of coures someone can lend me £2600 to get my eyes lasered...


might be able to tell by now by my typing that i put more than one beer in the fridge before work

Glad you getting some overtime pay. Now, I'm not bragging about what I do, but just pointing out the injustice of my fees earned for my firm vs my remuneration: My day rate that my firm charges clients for 1 day of my time is £1,000+VAT. But at the moment I'm pushing back other projects to do this one particular one at short notice for a wealthy client (hence the hours) and since I'm pushing other work about my firm is charging a premium, so my firm's charging me out at £1,500+VAT. But as I did 15 hours (near enough) yesterday that's actually 2 days worth that will be invoiced just for Thursday. So I've basically earned my firm £3,000+VAT for one days work. That's good? For the firm, yes, but I won't get a fking penny extra as I don't get paid overtime. Time to "go solo" might not be far away if this keeps up.

Sorry to hear that your eyes are holding you back. What's the career you've been aiming for?

Glad you're unwinding with some booze. I must say I had a couple of Vodka mixers before bed last night too - just to help forget the day and wind down for sleep. (Else I dream about work - sad, right? Can't help it sometimes if it's been going through your mind all day, though. Good ol' Mr Smirnoff fixes that though!)

I'm not having a dig or anything, but surely can you not take this to your Line Manager/MD? State that you are working so many hours over your contracted time and that by doing this you are bringing in thousands extra for the company each day.

Therefore either you demand overtime for this to continue or you clearly state that there is too much work for one person to physically complete and that projects will have to over-run (or be managed time-wise better!) or employ another person to take the extra load.

Why should you work for free? Sure, some of us do 'free overtime', but the hours you're putting in are a bit excessive - You'll only make yourself ill, or have a breakdown of some sort! Do your 7.5 hours a day and leave any unfinished work until the next day.

I can't see any grounds for being fired if you are working to your hours. Anyway, if you're thinking of going solo, what do you have to lose?

Just my 2p worth

[XMES RUS]

mrmr96 said:

Oh yeah, and Monday was 9:30am to 11:15pm. Tuesday was 9:30am to 8:15pm. Wednesday was 9:00am to 9:15pm. Today (Thursday, well Friday as I post this) was 9:00am to 11:45pm. Total hours in 4 days is 51hrs 30mins. At 7.5hrs per "normal" day I've done over 6.8 days work in 4 days. I'm just glad tomorrow is a holiday.

I read an article last week in the paper about people that gloate about the hours they do, they reckon (the paper) that people like you only actually acheive half what you say so given this calculation you have only done 3 and a bit days work in 4 so thefore you owe your company time, I bet I've helpded you fell good.

On a serious note, no job should warrant those hours, you either need resources or a new job:-))

[Rude-boy]

I get the feeling mrmr96 knows exactly what he is doing and why he is.

I suspect most of us are familiar with the layer cake.

I also suspect that our 80's pop hero is trying to climb it as fast as possible and, right or not, talking to HR about it will do nothing more than slow or stop the assent.

edit to add:- Jesus, just seen some of the other replies. Seriously these are normal hours some times. There are days when i get to surf on here for hours. There are days when I'm in the office for 8am, leave at 9pm and still do 3-4 hours at home before going to bed.

No one should be under any illusion as to what your job entails and if you don't like it there are 10 others who would kill you for it.

Edited by Rude-boy on Friday 31st July 11:58

[bazking69]

My day seems to be going like clockwork so far.
Infact I even ventured out to the supermarket to get some kit for a BBQ tonight as I am that confident that the sun will stay. At least for day.