We're being forced to work extra 4 hrs on a sunday!

HappyG1rl

Conor wrote: »

Aww poor diddums. Finishing at 9, getting home at 11pm and only having 10hrs at home until you start college. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
Why do you have to be so sarcastic? I am sure many people will appreciate what the problem is.

I work in a job where you regularly do up to 15 hrs a day, only getting 9hrs off INCLUDING the time it takes you to get home and back to work.
For many people who commute, they get 10 hours or less at home.
You are obviously disgruntled by this - do you want everybody else to suffer by being in the same position as you then?

In my new job, it's 12 hr shifts and an hours travelling each way so I'll get 10hrs at home every working day.
Yes but you were obviously offered these hours and accepted the job - that is the difference.


How long it takes you to get home is not their problem.
I agree with this point.

Welcome to the real world. Get used to it.

Conor, you come across as really unpleasant in this post and one of those people who doesn't like anyone else to have a better life. If you don't like your hours then you should try and do something about it - not criticise others who are better off than you.

Your post was totally pointless and unnecessary.

snails's_pace

i dont usually rant....but if my little sayso upset anyone...sorry :o shouldnt come on these forums when im so tired.....sometimes its easy to type in haste and i usually speak on here as I would to others in person...i'll take my foot out my mouth now....hope all works out op

Conor_3

Toots wrote: »

Your post was totally pointless and unnecessary.

Hardly. If they're whinging now, they're gonna be in for a hell of a miserable time when they get out of college.

You're just miffed because I don't do luvvey duvvey. Must be a southerner.

Perhaps if the OP finds doing a normal days work beyond them, they should pack the job and the college course in and consider a life on the dole.

ceridwen

Re Conor's comment on 80-odd hour workweek being "legal". Well Conor - it seems you are under a misapprehension here

http://www.tuc.org.uk/tuc/rights_hours.cfm

an extract from the TUC website re the legal maximum workweek of 48 hours a week.

Perhaps if you spent a bit more sleeping - and a bit less time working excess hours - you might have the energy to be a bit nicer and more polite to others. Just a thought.

dmg24

ceriden,

Conor is correct. In certain industries the Working Time Directive is not applicable, and haulage is one of those industries.

CFC

Conor wrote: »

Must be a southerner.

That's priceless

TokochickUK

I have worked a variety of jobs, most stocktakes being spread over a weekend peried or a few days as they are mostly huge places, Lifestyle ford parts the main warehouse, now that took weeks of counting nuts and bolts and washers lol but the big ones were in the evening after you had already worked 7am till 5pm, stocktake took us till about 12am.

working hours, never really stuck to those in any job lol, one place i worked at, a corrugated packaging place i would start work at 6 or 7am clean toilets, sweep through factory floor, or help the guys load up machines ( myself and one other had been known to start work at 4 am lol) wouldnt be so bad but i often stayed till 10pm and when contracts needed to be done i had stayed till after12am.

Im now a full time mummy but looking for part time work doing something i enjoy. And full time means, fulltime lol

LittleVoice

Thinking more positively -

If you take travelling time into account when looking at how much you are rewarded for your time, then being paid for more working hours means the overall rate (including travel) goes up.

The above is one of the ways in which I would work out whether it is worth working for a lower hourly rate at a nearer location.

ZootHornRollo

LittleVoice wrote: »

Thinking more positively -

If you take travelling time into account when looking at how much you are rewarded for your time, then being paid for more working hours means the overall rate (including travel) goes up.

The above is one of the ways in which I would work out whether it is worth working for a lower hourly rate at a nearer location.

but it sounds like the OP is working the amount of hours she needs to get by so lowering her overall income to increase the theoretical hourly rate would not really be an option.

edit : i take it back, i just re-read your post... replace travel time with actual paid working hours... doh!!!

davef

Conor wrote: »

Hardly. If they're whinging now, they're gonna be in for a hell of a miserable time when they get out of college.

You're just miffed because I don't do luvvey duvvey. Must be a southerner.

Perhaps if the OP finds doing a normal days work beyond them, they should pack the job and the college course in and consider a life on the dole.

SO WHAT ARE U THEN - A BITTER AND TWISTED, MISERABLE NORTHERNER
GET BACK IN YOUR SHED AND DRIVE ON HOME !!