Ever make you come in after 8 hour's of rest. Place I work, makes 2nd shift and only 2nd shift come in at 7am after getting off 11pm every third Saturday. Anyone else have to deal with this.
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Ahh the ol' "clopen". Back in my retail days, I used to have to close the store around midnight, sometimes going until 12pm and be BACK in at 6am to get the store ready. That was the extreme, but yes, often times we'd close by midnight and be back in for 10am.
I work in hotels. This is the norm. There have been plenty of times where I worked 11 PM to 7 AM and had to be back at 3.
Early jobs, jobs you have in your 20s.. fine.
but funny enough, I just had a 6pm to 8am shift working this past Friday night.. all my boss said was "You can come in at noon on Friday". Like, sweet.. you comped me 3 hours for an extra 6 hours of work, ruining my weekend.. a holiday weekend no less.
Something they don't tell you when you go to salary.. you're going to be doing a heck of a lot more than 40 hours a week.
but funny enough, I just had a 6pm to 8am shift working this past Friday night.. all my boss said was "You can come in at noon on Friday". Like, sweet.. you comped me 3 hours for an extra 6 hours of work, ruining my weekend.. a holiday weekend no less.
Something they don't tell you when you go to salary.. you're going to be doing a heck of a lot more than 40 hours a week.
I received a note at 10:30 PM the night of the KState game that the presentation I was giving at 11AM the next day (two hour drive away) was crap and needed to be re-done.
I was at Jack Demsey’s in NYC, so needless to say I wasn’t about to head back to the hotel to work on it. Car service was picking me up at 7AM and we needed printouts. Got home around 12:30, cranked out deck til 4, up at 6:30, in car at 7. Nailed the presentation.
I’d say stuff like that happens about once a month. If I wanted a nine to fiver I’d have gone into insurance.
I was at Jack Demsey’s in NYC, so needless to say I wasn’t about to head back to the hotel to work on it. Car service was picking me up at 7AM and we needed printouts. Got home around 12:30, cranked out deck til 4, up at 6:30, in car at 7. Nailed the presentation.
I’d say stuff like that happens about once a month. If I wanted a nine to fiver I’d have gone into insurance.
If crafting presentations is too difficult, maybe you SHOULD be working in insurance. :boxing:
A good buddy of mine somehow lucked out in his place of work, He essentially makes presentations for the sales guys and sometimes gives guidance.. but mostly, he's a Power Point guy and makes close to 6 figures. He's got the life, and I make sure he knows it regularly.
I'm retired now, but used to work for a resin manufacturer in the technical service division. I've shown up at 6:00 AM at a customers plant, left at midnight or later, and been back there the next morning on 4 hours sleep more times than I care to remember. Worst one was starting at 6:00 AM and leaving the plant the next morning at 2:15 AM. Got to the hotel at 2:45 AM, slept 3 hours, took a shower and headed for the airport to catch a 9:00 AM flight out only to have it delayed by bad weather and was stranded until early evening around 6:30 PM in a podunk airport that had next to nothing to do.
When I used to work in the resin manufacturing division and we had the 8 hour swing shift, it was pretty common for us to work 16 hours, then come back in. When we went on 12 hour swing shift, it was a much better gig because we only worked 12 hours at a time unless you stayed over 4 hours for someone who needed to come in 4 hours late.
When I used to work in the resin manufacturing division and we had the 8 hour swing shift, it was pretty common for us to work 16 hours, then come back in. When we went on 12 hour swing shift, it was a much better gig because we only worked 12 hours at a time unless you stayed over 4 hours for someone who needed to come in 4 hours late.
OT, but I live in hotels — tear out the walls. I have accountants pay for it all.
Apparently there are more peasants around these here parts than we reckoned. Who knew?
Or logistics.
I work 8-5 and once I leave for the day, I am finished. No work cell-phone (nothing to get done after hours anyway). I have a work laptop I never get on at home, because I don't want to deal with anyone's **** the night before. I am out of the office.
There's something to be said about not hating your job... I was in the Marine Corps for long enough to know that waking up at 4am and working 60 hours a week is NOT the way I want to live my life.
You think you have it rough, try being a teacher. They sometimes have to grade papers at night and rarely have time to use the restroom.
Going to post this in another thread about hardest job.
But I'd kill for a job that I can mindlessly do at night. Grade tests using an answer key? Read some 7th grade papers that you can pretty much do in-front of the TV? Sorry, that's not mind bending work. It's the same ****, every day over and over. And for some that might be monotonous.. but when you spend a decade trying to fix new problems and learn new technical systems.. well, myself personally, I long for the busybody, task-oriented work.
You got any gold records on the wall? If I leave you a message will you call?
I do data analysis. Work from 7-4:30 everyday and take about 1 & 15 minutes for lunch. Rarely touch the computer at home. I am quite bit more efficient than others so that helps me avoid long hours, but too many people let their work bog them down, I’ve been around long enough to know the reward in corporate America is not coming to those people it’s coming to the ones who can BS about how important their work is the best. If you can’t do that know one will ever know how hard you work, if you can no one will ever know how little you work. Under promise and over deliver.
Accounting was my least favorite subject in college.. but as I've gotten older and into personal finance, it makes more sense. I can't comment much on it, but I guess it would be repetitive. And it has to be a little more complicated than teaching students about the same native Americans for 30 years.
Working in IT, it's new **** every day. You rarely see the same problem twice. It's an upgrade to one of your systems that breaks/fixes a ton of things, it's a new system entirely, it's new architecture that all this sits on, new projects for customers both internal and external ones. It does get exhausting for the brain, but I guess it makes the time fly.
Accounting is mind numbing, soulless pursuit. Every accountant I’ve met is as mechanical as the day is long.
Probably right, but there's something nice about going into your job each morning and knowing what needs to get done and knowing, pretty much, exactly how to do it.
Plus, good money. And a skill set that can very much help your personal life.