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CertInsaneC5
10-25-2015, 8:13am
Interesting read.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dramatic-history-40-hour-workweek-143000071.html
What's your reality on this? I know mine, but will wait to reveal it until you all chime in. :cert:
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OddBall
10-25-2015, 8:23am
I put in 50. But it's not really a grind. I enjoy the work.
Also, would the work week include commute time? It's not all that uncommon to have an hour commute one way.
50 minimum. Took this weekend off but I seem to be putting in 80-90 regularly.
mrvette
10-25-2015, 8:28am
Meanwhile the typical .gov worker in DC does about ten hours/week honest work, the rest is just BS time wasting around the coffee maker......from state dept/foggy bottom when I was in grade screwal, through so many offices and friends/even relatives over 53 years, I refuse to believe that somehow my eyes/ears are lying to me for 40 cognitive years.....
:issues:
Meanwhile the typical .gov worker in DC does about ten hours/week honest work, the rest is just BS time wasting around the coffee maker......from state dept/foggy bottom when I was in grade screwal, through so many offices and friends/even relatives over 53 years, I refuse to believe that somehow my eyes/ears are lying to me for 40 cognitive years.....
:issues:
It was certainly that way across the Potomac in Crystal City when I worked for the gubment. Most boring, brain-rotting job ever. Staffed for the busy season year-round, we were lucky to have 1 hour of work to do per day 10 months out of the year.
Burro (He/Haw)
10-25-2015, 8:42am
I spent 25+ years chasing OT. I'm ALL done with that shit. I work only what I have to now. Not 1 minute more.
04 commemorative
10-25-2015, 9:26am
not even getting into it,but looking back....it was not worth missing all the things with the kids I missed.
Well working more than 40 hour weeks put me in a couple different positions to mention.
By working heavy hours, I have many jobs I worked seven twelves on, many others I worked 5 twelves on and jobs (mostly in running chemical plants) that once we started we stayed at till the job was finished. Often got dinner catered in as those plants lost a lot of money if production was down. (one job went 35 hours straight) They not only catered dinner but lunch and breakfast
Due to shit like this I built up a sizable amount of "credits" in my retirement fund which allowed me to early retire at 55 with a very decent pension rather than work to 62 which is normal retirement. Those hours also built up a rather decent social security pay out which i started taking at 62 as I do not trust those asshole mutherphuckers in Washington!
The other factor worth reporting is what this did to my health, that was part of the reason I early outed at 55 I have no doubt in my mind that many of the health problems I now have came from working at chemical and atomic facilities. As of now I'm considered a 7 year survivor of Kidney cancer. Kidney and some other giblets removed and likely in the near future I will be on dialyses
Folks there is a lot more to work than just the money!
allthrottleandsomebottle
10-25-2015, 9:40am
35 hours max a week for the last 8 years with a 24 minute drive each way since 1980.
Got to have time to drive cars and shoot- clean guns :D
Mike Mercury
10-25-2015, 9:44am
I spent 25+ years chasing OT.
Interesting, I've avoided OT in the past 41 years. I can count on one hand the number of paychecks that had more than 40hrs.
I only ever worked once in a salary position; and I quit (right before they would of fired me) for refusal to work more than 40/week.
Burro (He/Haw)
10-25-2015, 10:29am
I now have came from working at chemical and atomic facilities.
Since our jobs and conditions were virtually identical, I'm kinda curious about one thing in particular; How much occupational dose did you get over the years?
If had to compare Nuclear and Chemical plants for health effects, Chemical plants 'win' hands down for shit you'll get into that'll hurt you. All that crap is transferred around in one thing and one thing only. Pipe.
had a boss long ago, he asked what my career goals were. i said retire early.
"that's not a career goal"
"maybe not for you, but it is for me"
i avoided being defined by what i did to earn money. a job was a means to an end....an end i chose. retire early.
i was on track to hang it up at 50, but then i got married, had some good fortune, and moved that up to 45.
if you can control your spending, it's amazing what you can do.
:DAB:
CertInsaneC5
10-25-2015, 11:18am
Interesting responses so far. :seasix:
There was a time, overtime chased me (I never chased it) when I was at a machine builder. 80 hour weeks were not uncommon. Longest day was 30 hours during an install. No more of that chit. It just did not pay enough at that time.
I have been on salary for many years and am being asked to move up the ladder a bit. I am being asked to up the hours "or else". I told them to fukc off. As I was leaving Friday. If I can't do the job in 40 hours, I sure as hell can't do it in more than that. We shall see come Monday as to how they have taken that. :cert:
Wathen1955
10-25-2015, 1:26pm
I put in probably almost 50 a week, and my commute is 2½ hours one way, but I work on the train. I get to work about 8:00am and leave at 3:00pm. I work on the train for another hour or so. I then work from home on Fridays from 8am to 3pm with several breaks in between.
oh, you can do your job in 40 hours, they want you to do another job in the extra time. plenty of unemployed peeps out there, if you flop over dead, they'll shovel you to the front door and their enterprise will go on unaffected.
had a boss long ago, was bothered that i was late on a snowy day. well boss, if my timely presence is so critical to the success of this place, you should send a 4x4 for me. and how much insurance have you taken out to replace my awesomeness if i get hit by a large bus on the way home.....yeah, well, quit shining me on. i'll be in when my little car can make it. :slap:
Datawiz
10-25-2015, 1:51pm
If I only worked 40 hours a week, I'd go nuts. :yesnod:
CertInsaneC5
10-25-2015, 1:53pm
oh, you can do your job in 40 hours, they want you to do another job in the extra time. plenty of unemployed peeps out there, if you flop over dead, they'll shovel you to the front door and their enterprise will go on unaffected.
had a boss long ago, was bothered that i was late on a snowy day. well boss, if my timely presence is so critical to the success of this place, you should send a 4x4 for me. and how much insurance have you taken out to replace my awesomeness if i get hit by a large bus on the way home.....yeah, well, quit shining me on. i'll be in when my little car can make it. :slap:
I'm going to use that the next time they biatch about whatever uncontrollable event delays me. :seasix:
Factory work requires people to be there on time. That's one of the reasons I bought the Excursion. Plenty of room for me to drive around and pick up my people if I need to
CertInsaneC5
10-25-2015, 1:55pm
If I only worked 40 hours a week, I'd go nuts. :yesnod:
Work 40 hours per week on that Z06 and get it back on the road already. :D
Datawiz
10-25-2015, 1:59pm
Work 40 hours per week on that Z06 and get it back on the road already. :D
It'll be back at the track by the 1st of the year. Planning on buying a long block from Texas Speed Performance and having G and I install it at the shop she worked for over the summer. We'll do this over Christmas break. :yesnod:
Should have just shy of 700 HP. :hurray:
I have put in over 40 since Friday night....
:yesnod:
Fasglas
10-25-2015, 3:00pm
One of my all time favorites.
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Since our jobs and conditions were virtually identical, I'm kinda curious about one thing in particular; How much occupational dose did you get over the years?
If had to compare Nuclear and Chemical plants for health effects, Chemical plants 'win' hands down for shit you'll get into that'll hurt you. All that crap is transferred around in one thing and one thing only. Pipe.
To be honest I do not now remember the counts I got on my last whole body scan. That was during the 80s, but it did get my doctors attention when I gave him my paperwork. Of course since then I have had a few Cat scans and many other medical/dental procedures which have added to that total. As a person that also had heavy asbestos exposure on the jobs and played with clutches and breaks for years, they like me to get yearly lung pictures.
For sure I believe that the many different chem plants with there many different chemicals and products are more dangerous in the long run. I have worked in 9 different plants and had to do 3 safety shower wash downs due to being hit with chemicals. That does not even begin to think about the amount of things I inhaled over the course of time.
Bucwheat
10-25-2015, 4:13pm
I still do 40 weeks ,for another 10 months maybe.
chevyman_ky
10-25-2015, 8:26pm
when I was working in underground coal mining in most mines we would start at 7:00 and work till whenever, 10 12 some time 16 hours. when I was working at the mine I got in a rock fall at I was working about 60 hours weekly. when I went to work at as a tech at a gm dealer worked 8 hours a day and 2 sat. a month.
polarbear
10-26-2015, 1:15am
had a boss long ago, he asked what my career goals were. i said retire early.
"that's not a career goal"
"maybe not for you, but it is for me"
i avoided being defined by what i did to earn money. a job was a means to an end....an end i chose. retire early.
i was on track to hang it up at 50, but then i got married, had some good fortune, and moved that up to 45.
if you can control your spending, it's amazing what you can do.
:DAB:
FIL retired in 1996 after spending 38 years as a Millwright in a paper mill. That lasted about a year (I love my MIL, but she could drive anyone nutz over time). He started a small business with the son of a buddy of his, doing traffic control at construction zones. That little company has grown to three locations in two states, employing well over 100 people. Up until two years ago, he worked an easy 50-60 hr week. His heart has slowed him down some, but he's still active in the business- in his mid 80's. And happy as a bum with a pocket full of diamonds. :)
polarbear
10-26-2015, 1:19am
If I only worked 40 hours a week, I'd go nuts. :yesnod:
:seasix: Same here- but it helps if you love what you do and have control over the hours you work, and what you do when you're there.
RedLS1GTO
10-26-2015, 6:52am
The only time I have worked hourly was jobs through high school and college. From there I went into the 24/7/365 world of the military. Gotta love a job where you can go to work on a Tuesday and not come home for a year.
Since then I have made it a point to work as close to 40 as possible and be salary. I've watched a lot of people that I care about work 60-70-80 hour weeks and what it does to them in the end. Some things are more important.
GE was horrific at using salaried employees. It was a constant squeeze to try to get more work done and spend more time... with no additional pay of course.
I end up at 42-45 hrs a week currently. 7:00-4:45 Mon-Thurs and 7:00-11:00 on Friday. We do work almost entirely for the .gov so when they're off, we're usually off. It's not a bad gig. Good hours and I get to do something I actually enjoy pretty much every day. I get to blow shit up. What's not to love?!
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