WTF!? What were you working? 16 hr days 7 days a week??? I can’t even begin to fathom working such hours. Like fuck that I would’ve probably went crazy. Like how do you even make time to go to the store and buy groceries, or cook a meal?
That moment another co-worker is a wrestling fan. at least the dude i know likes old school stuff and grew up knowing dusty rhodes personally.
But fuck a guy that is all anti-wwe. I hate that more than “there was 3 kanes and the real ultimate warrior died in 1992”
But yeah my co-workers asking to chill? Nah i train.
Now breaking that seal of training bjj or martial arts where i work where guys have cauliflower or most are vets. That is the ultimate ice breaker.
Guys who roll and have no ego, are the chillest dudes
I used to do around a 50 hour week. You just deal with it by working, you clock on, you do your job, you clock off. The trick is just to push negative thoughts out of your head. Mindless tasks are great for zoning out and thinking about something else that interests you, it’s like working on hobbies while you work. Mindful tasks make the day go quicker if you’re not looking down at your watch every five seconds.
116 hours a week…i dont think that’s entirely legal
Hate my job, but you just do it. My job is easy enough to where I can zone out, and think about other shit I want to think about all day, and still get the job done better than anyone. After I clock out I go home and do the shit I wanna do to get out of that shit hole.
I get what you mean. Fact that like its 30 minutes before you’re ‘supposed to leave’ and you have all your work done is a complete waste of time unless you’re a people manager.
He said oil field work so he probably worked one week and then had the next week off or something like that
My mom pays half my rent and my aunt who lives with me pays the other half so I don’t work. I’m 24 (will be 25 in July) and I haven’t had a job since I was 19.
I’ve had about 5 or 6 jobs in my entire lifetime (shit, I may have had seven) and I just kept getting fired because I couldn’t keep my anger under control. Every job I ever had I got fired for the same shit…an angry outburst that resulted in someone getting punched or something getting thrown or a window being broken. The same thing would happen. I would get hired full time, be good for about a month or two and then I just fly off the handle and lose my fucking job. Then I’m sitting at home waiting for my last check while my mom is yelling at me for losing yet another job. The only time I didn’t get fired for something aggressive is when a co-worker prevented a suicide attempt. I tried to hang myself in the utility closet. Man those were dark times. This is also the only time my mom didn’t yell at me for losing a job. She also stopped pressuring me to get another one after that happened.
Right now I’m in college for computer science. I’ll probably start working again when I graduate…that’s if I don’t have the same problem as every other graduate. You know, finding a job. Even then that’s a long way off. I’m just finishing Calculus 1 and I haven’t even enrolled in a programming class as of yet. I’m just taking gen ed and math courses right now.
This is silly, i work 50-60 every week and have two kids at home. if you are bored find another job.
I am in marketing as well(advertising sales) and i know a lot of companies are like yours. they have heavy redundancies in marketing(hospitals are the worst) and the truth is they could let go of several people in your department and if you are lucky enough to keep your job they will pile the work on you.
Chances are this will happen, my advice don’t complain about it. If they know you are not busy companies are always looking to cut expenses.
Is your company public? if so all it takes is the stock to drop one point and they will start looking at ways they can reduce staff.
I have been in the professional environment for 16 years and I have experienced both ways. believe me too slow during the day is better than too busy.
According to my research–which is the movie Armageddon–they lived on the oil field until the job was done, then just sorta did whatever till the next one.
Damn…Uh…you might want to look into a line of work where you don’t really have to interact with people. Or better yet just find something where you can employ yourself and not have to work with anyone. Like you sound like the kind of person that just doesn’t fit within normal society. Your not a bad person or crazy. Just normal society or the general workforce enviornment just isn’t for you.
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I’m with you OP, and I’ve quit several jobs for wasting my time. The reality is, individuals perform the same job at different rates, and the person(s) in charge will either understand that or disregard that.
I just recently landed a job at a small company, and everyone here has a job, and is responsible for their work being done. The time it takes you to do it, the time you arrive, and the time you leave are almost entirely dictated by your personal needs (unless there’s a scheduled meeting or something) and as long as your job is done and you can be relied on to do it, you’re good.
I know most companies aren’t like this, but if I can find one at 32 then I feel confident in saying times are changing, and hope is out there if you are indeed a dynamic individual who can get shit done.
It was a live in arrangement. Live at the job. It was supposed to be only 12 hours a day, but the number of days I worked only 12 hours could have been counted on one hand each year. I basically got flown all over the country to drill oil wells and optimize drilling operations On call 24/7. It payed a fuck ton of money though to compensate. Basically sold my life in exchange for a fuck ton of money each year.
Generally you’d get a half day that was slow every 3-4 days where you could leave your subordinate alone because nothing major could really happen during that time. Longest shift was I think almost 60 something hours. Did I mention fuckton of money?
Only righands, drillers, and company men get that they get a 2-2 or 3-1 schedule where they get 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off or 3 weeks on / 1 week off and generally work 12 hours shifts guaranteed everyday. Directional Drillers (which I was), MWD, and Field Engineers don’t get off. Always on call 24/7. Longest I went without a day off was around 3 months. You make minimum 150k a year after starting though generally and can make up to 300k. I didn’t quite hit 300k but some guys did that were more experienced than myself.
Cool thing though is some times you get random vacations. Rig breaks down and you they don’t need you for a week but want to keep you on call. Get paid for a week and you get to just run around doing what ever you want. I got to go to NYC and Niagara Falls once during one of those trips after a rig in Pennsylvania broke down. Pros and Cons.
I know guys that have worked on trawlers before (fishing) and it’s essentially 24 hours a day every day you just nap and take breaks when you can. There is never just time when you’re not required to help out if something happens even when you’re trying to sleep .
When the show was hot, Dangerous Catch gave people insight into how people aboard such ships have to work.
Shit goes down, it’s all-hands, no ifs, ands or buts.
Working for Amazon for a little over a year now, I only work 4 days a week(10 hour shift), giving me 3 days off (those three days being Thus - Sat) and plenty of time to enjoy the things I purchase for myself. It’s what I’d call an acceptable 40.
I am jealous of that work week
If you have to question how to deal with the 40 hour work week, you’re not pushing yourself enough. I lump it in with people that complain about their pay: what are you going to do to change it? Leadership paths get you into a role that makes that 40 whiz by real quick and next thing you know you’re pushing 50-60 hour weeks. But you’ve got to want it and you’ve got to have the passion to want that. May be time for some reflecting on where you are and where you want to be on a specific timeline that works for you, not just “someday it ‘might’ work out”. I’m guilty of being complacent in my own progress through the business world. It’s not a shame to hit a flat spot in development, it’s a shame to stay that way.
I work 40-48 hours a week, and go to the gym immediately after work 4 days a week.
Get paid on Thursday; get drunk on Friday. That’s how you deal with it.