How maney hours a week do you work.

[Truckie]

How many hours a week do you work.

Well how many hours a week do you work? I work an average of 50 to 60 hours a week. I have been doing this since March 1st of 03 and it is now really catching up to me. I feel like crap. I took the day off to sleep and rest. Just worn out and with the all these bugs going around I figured I better get some rest. I even got a gallon of orange juice handy for some vitamin c.

50 to 60 hours a week at work + working at the fire department an average of 10 hours a week no wonder I'm tired.

MIKE

 

[gitchesum]

If you listen to my wife and friends, you would be lead to believe I have WAY too many days off. But I do work over 40 hours a week



I average 44 hours a week. 48 one week, 36 the next. I work exactly half a year. We just have a schedule that makes it LOOK like I have a lot of time off.

 

[lmills]

As little as possible at my job. Don't get me wrong I am not lazy. I am always busy doing other things like fixing up the house, running to help friends and family members or helping out at our church. Typically I work about 30 hours a week at my job, but in reality probably work close to 12-13 hours a day 6-7 days a week.

 

[benhall]

On average I'm in the 40-50 hours a week, but that can change when on a deployment or during an exercise. I know as I go up in the ranks, that my work week will only get longer, and my shaved head will get even balder. lol



Ben

 

[Oil Burner]

I work close to 50 per week but only get paid for 40. Actually, I'm paid to do a job and I do that job within whaterver time frame it takes.

lmills, I hear you on the extra work. I spent all night running a jack hammer in a basement last night (putting a bathroom in downstairs in a family members house). Before that I put in a new concrete drive and custom stone walkway at my own house. Those hours add up fast.

Mike, you just need wings and beer to cheer you up. Hope to see ya Sunday. Just think, those hours are worth it when you have some extra scratch to buy truck parts

-Jason

 

[lschultz]

You asked

If everything is running as it should be we don't do a d*** thing Well actually we take readings on equipment twice a day,start and stop equipment,listen(as long as we have been is this place you can tell when something is fixing to go down or fly apart,then we got to work do our monthly pms and put up with all the bull **** from the big boys. Pretty well do what we want and they pay us too. We usually work 8 hr days unless somebody on off shift wants off then we have to cover. Getting up at 12 at night sucks if I have to come in at 3 in the morning.

 

[TowPro]

This depends, if you include getting there and back I guess I work 12 hours per day. Then I get home and work an hour or 2 on the garage, then another 24 hours work on the weekend, again, on the garage.



14 per day x 5 = 70 + 24 on weekend = 94 hours per week.



Now I sleep for 50 hours a week.

I guess I have to count maybe 10 hours total for eating per week

Thats 60 hours, plus 94 working = 144 hours.



Now there is 168 hours per week. and I can account for 144 of them.



168 - 144 = 24 hours.



What a slacker! I loose a whole day per week screwing off? No wonder I can't get anything done!

 

[nickleinonen]

when i work was still offering overtime, i was doing 48hrs a week or more, but now with no overtime [and 1600-0000 shift doesn't get too much OT anyways] it's only 40 hours a week, less 30min a day paid lunch, less 10min a day paid break, less 10min end of shift wash up time, less 10 min begining of shift job briefing time... so we only work 35 hours a week, then remove the time you spend walking around to find parts or tools, then it ends up be another few hours less...

 

[gitchesum]

Hmmm, you might have to give us your definition of WORK.



The amount of time you are at the job, or the amount of time you do actual work.



In the case of the latter definition, the hours go WAY down.

 

[Truckie]

Well I generally start at 6:00am and work till 6:00pm the morning starts off loading a 12 pallet truck with 20 or more pallets, have to judge which ones can and must stay on a pallet, sort stack and pile the product in the truck. At 7:00 or 7:30am start unloading tractor trailers of all types of paper , facile tissue,paper towels,toilet paper etc etc... or any other trailer I get in with cups plastic's or any other product we carry. All the trailers I get are

53 ft 28 pallets to a trailer, I have to get a peace count on the product, then brake the product down to another pallet so it can fit in the stock area. Must take 2to 4 rows off the pallet so you can double stack them. 8:00 to 8:20 brake then back to work, when finished usually around 9:30 to 10:00 I then start putting other stock away that we get in. That can be anything from mops to all types of chemicals,paper products,,etc. etc...

My company handles 3 major chemical product company's,6 or 7 different paper and plastics company's like DART, SOLO, DIXIE just to name a few. + bunch of other company's and products the warehouse we occupy has 6 floors and is a million square feet, we occupy half of that, with product in the basement, first,second,third,and sixth floor. O ya I for got 11:00 another 20, minute brake. If not putting stock away then I'm helping fill the orders for the next day. We run 7 trucks a day 5 days a week, and 10 guys in the warehouse, to fill those trucks and routs, +the other guys also do what we call will calls because people can call in orders and walk in off the street. Then at 2:00 we get a half hour brake. So as you can see its pretty busy where I work, with little time to slack off. My company has been in business in Pittsburgh in the same building for 87 years, and we have all the biggest accounts in Pittsburgh, to service and the Western Pennsylvania, like hospitals,schools,rest home,industry's,stadiums,Church's and what ever else is out there that needs serviced or needs or wants to do business with us.

Well at 5:00pm hopefully we have all the orders done if not we keep filling them till we finish, and if enough time we start to load the trucks for the next day, if not then we call first shift in early to start or finish loading the trucks.

If any of you get what they call WQED or a privet television station like it I know you all have seen and herd or Rick Seebeck who works for WQED and dose those pretty cool TV programs on Pittsburgh, He just had one on here last week thinks that are made here in Pennsylvania, but he did a segment on my company a while back famous Pittsburgh buildings. It was the Pittsburgh Terminal building.

If you want or need more info on this company I work for or the TV program it was on just pm me.

MIKE

 

[jrusko]

at my "real job" I work a steady 40 hours a week, monday thru friday, 8-4. I've been working a second job for a while now, that's another 20-25 hours a week (gonna step that up to 30-35 after the holidays are over, not much else to do in january anyway). Just workin that to pay off some debts (like the $40k truck ) and buy a house.

 

[MGordon]

0! I've been unemployed since May.

 

[QRTRHRS]

55-60 hours Monday through Friday then Saturday and Sunday I work as much as possible to try to keep the farm choirs up. The horses don't even know me anymore when I spell the wife and start the haying in the am on weekends. It's not the long hours that bothers me, it's leaving home in the dark and coming home in the dark that bites.

 

[sdaves]

Currently I work 53 hours/ week at the fire station, and about 15-20 hours/ week doing my PT doing HVAC. Total about 70-75/ week.



Until a year ago I had worked two fulltime jobs. One at the fire department doing 24 on 48 off, and second with a smaller county EMS service doing 24/48 with an additional day working day car 9 hours. Worked out to 110 hours/week. Did that for 10 years... from age 18 to age 28. I will honestly tell you this, it made me age about 10 years more than I was.



What can I say though??? Us public servants arent important enough to pay well until someone's house is burning, or someone is dying.



I do love my job though.

 

[RMcCulloch]

Currently, zero (or as close to that as I can get).



OTOH, before I retired, I'd average ~60 per week, even when on vacation.



Using my current "workload", I figure that my overall average should get down to 40/wk about the year 2020.

 

[ronco]

As of September 1, five years ago, management decided that O/T was too expensive, so they quit paying it. I have some long days and long weeks, but I don't average 40 hours a week. That kills the office when they call and I say "Sorry, I made my week already!".





Ronco

 

[Camara]

I work a 40 to 50 hour week for a contractor,unless it snows. Then I work a full 40 hour week for myself, as well as a 12 hour saturday, as I am getting my own business started. So thats about 100 a week. This week I had 130 hour week because of the snow between last friday night and last night. But during the summer months I do as Ronco does and I usually have 1 day off a week because I make my 40 hours by wednesday afternoon. The bosses don't believe in paying OT even though it is the law.

 

[Sticks]

When I was working for Cub Foods, I found my self in the uncomfortable position of being the only person in the store that could process the invoices, do payroll & attendance, daily sales and count the money.



After two weeks it was Affectionately referred to as the "Sticks"/Cub Foods Hostage Crisis.



At 21 days a "news letter" started circulating as an attachment to e-mails that I sent that read like a news article with daily updates.



After 48 days of working 7 days a week, and going in twice a day for anywhere from 4 to 8 hours each time, the store manager started getting nasty letters from my friends and employees from other stores/companies that I worked with demanding my unconditional release or the UN would be called in for an armed response.



I was released (went back to my normal 40 hour week) on day 63 when the store manager finally got off his a$$ to secure an exchange bookkeeper with a sister store who had a part timer that needed some extra hours. I went through 3 trainees that quit because they hated the shift for bookkeeping (11 pm to 7:30 am)



522 hours of OVERTIME (882 hours total) in 9 weeks. The worst part was this was during the choice summer months for motorcycle riding, and I had 2 vacations canceled.

 

[The patriot]

I worked 7 -12 hour shifts last week.

Missed a lot of interesting stuff here while I was gone.

I usually miss all the family functions, I'll be at work Christmas eve, AND Christmas.

My job seems as though they want to fire me. I'm the "slacker that dont show up for OT on my days" off. Yes, I'm serious.

I hope I can hold out this last year. If I cant... . oh well.

Eric

 

[PaulCreamer]

Propane season kicked into high gear so ... 100+ hrs a week is an average. No time for anything else

Don't let your sons grow up to be truck drivers!!