I have to work for 12 hours today

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But the company is paying for our Thai food. Discuss.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

only 12 and free thai? you're so going to get the smackdown.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Only 12? Do you work in a sweatshop?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You're not working in a Thai brothel, are you?

xpost

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish, they have unions.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(this may not be true)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I am five years deep into an eighteen year shift. I pay for my own Thai food.

― nickalicious, daddy (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm out of work now but 12 was the norm at my old job. Not trying to be mean, I just remembered another wangoff thread about working ridic hours.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

You should inform your son upon his 18th birthday that he has to buy you Thai food for the next 18 yrs to pay back his debt. Only then will you release him from indentured servitude.

(x-post)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Your job sucked, Teeny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It randomly occurs to me I would like to hear Nickalicious freestyle over a Cleft and Cloven track. Make it happen plz.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hungry.
I work sometimes 18 hours straight, and then I'll do nothing for two days. But not the next two days.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It will happen.

Btw, I didn't mean to turn this into a wangoff thread, more as an outlet for posting stupid shit over my longer-than-usual shift.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan, are you a software engineer?

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Software tester.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway I'm getting the Ka-Ree (A-41), and paying for the Goong Kra-Bork (A-5) myself for an appetizer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i always assumed that the volume of posts around meant that a lot of people here worked long hours. sometimes i put in a 4 hour day 5 days in a row, other times i'll have to do a full week of 12-20 hr days... of course, thankfully, there's middle ground too.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

haha 12 hours? this must be a european thread.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i was gonna say.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

12 hours is a long time. I've never worked more than 8.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, American. I guess I've just been spoiled getting to work 40 hours a week for the most part (and for the next three weeks I'll be working plenty of late nights, this is just the first).

Also, it seems 90% of my friends (who don't work where I do) are livin' life in the casual 30 hr/week lane.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I get to work overnight at the undergrad Library soon for time and a half! I'm excited. I will try my best to fight the Morlocks of the underground undergrad.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet! I did a weekly 8 pm - 3 am shift at the library in college, it was fun.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I will not get free Thai food though.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I did a 34 hour shift last weekend. was the suck. I had to be in at work the next day (a monday) on time and ready to go all over again.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

cry me a river bud.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

So are all the people getting all macho about work hours working more than one job, or do you routinely spend more than 75% of your waking hours pulling a shift at one job?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

This should have been THREAD TITLE: "I am getting free Thai food tonight"/THREAD BODY: "'Cause I have to work late."

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I got hosed the other weekend because we were filing this gigantic motion in texas and people kept making changes for hours on end. It was like being in prison. I had to come in on time the next day because we had to serve it on all the parties. not fun.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

welcome to my world.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

This page has an interesting take on ridiculous work hours:

www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse

Tis the story of how EA are, apparently, making their staff work 12-14 hour days. 7 days a week. No overtime, no comp time. People simply burn out and leave and they can just hire more desperate idealistic young kids who want in to the industry.

Fuckers. I hear a class action lawsuit is in the works for the overtime pay. Why people think the IT industry is exempt from civilised things like, i dunno, overtime pay and decent wages for the insane hours I dont know.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

That would be my other question for the macho hours-workers - do you get overtime?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not trying to be wangish, I'm honestly curious.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't get overtime because I was a manager, managers dont get OT. Nobody was strictly forcing me to work 12 hours, but there was a lot of work that needed done, and some of it could only be done at certain times of the day, etc etc. I wasn't unhappy with it, it was a fun job.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i just work one job... i get a shitty paycheck but bonuses make it worthwhile and the more i work the bigger my share of the reward is. it's kind of fucked. it will never end. i am going to go home and dig a mansized hole.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I often work overtime. It is especially nice as I work a 37.5 hour week so the overtime starts a little sooner.

― eddy von halin (deangulberry), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

but also i get to work from home a lot too... mixed blessing. cabin fever much more likely.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I get tons of OT so I cant complain too much. Id be posting from some other wanky office job if that wasnt the case..

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

on second thought, i have realized there is the awkward prospect that if i dig a hole my boss may be in there and ask me why i left at 3:15.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sitting in Bangok and it looking like becoming a 12 hour day and I am sick of Thai food. Where's my break?

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, now it looks like I'll be working similar hours + weekends for the next three weeks without the benefit of Thai food, yay!

The Ka-ree was really good, btw, but the shrimp stick things were sort of weird and dry and not all that tasty.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Three days of work so far, thirty three hours on the clock and I didn't get any free Thai food. We did have quite tasty chili in the cafeteria today for lunch and I even got an employee discount.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I cant tell if its a good thing or not when you get used to working 11+ hour days on a regular basis.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

being used to it is better than not being used to it and having to do it anyway.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i had to come to work at 8:00 am (not that early, granted, but half an hour earlier than usual when I've been working late every night at home already) for a conference call with a contracted development agency in Bangalore.

Not only had their managing director here not bothered to forward them the documentation on the work we'd handed off to them for further development, they also hadn't taken it on themselves to open the fucking .zip file and browse through all the other directories on their own. So all their questions were unanswerable because they hadn't looked at anything yet. Even though we had to bust our asses last week because "They absolutely need it by Friday!"

But the kicker was: a dog in Bangalore was barking through the entire conference call. You couldn't hear a thing. The dog was literally howling, it almost sounded like it was laughing. The impression, then, is that @cc3ntur3 outsources it's systems development work to a FARM or something.

I fucking hate work.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

12 hours is standard close to deadline ain't it?

@cc3ntur3

MUHAHAHAHA.
Sorry, I had to larf at BigBlue.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, it was all fun and games that first time around, but now I'm working 12 hour days and coming in on weekends & Thanksgiving for the next two weeks. No Thai food, either.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

12 hours is standard close to deadline ain't it?

I did an 18-hour shift to make a deadline once. And then after maybe 3 hours of sleep I went to another workplace.

In the meantime, I, a temp, will probably work more than 12 hours today on my current assignment (on the plus side, overtime; on the minus side, no life). But why are so many ILXOrz still online on Friday night/Saturday morning?

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 19 March 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Ten hours a day, four days a week v. Eight hours a day, five days a week?

I could almost go for the former. I mean, once you're at work, you may as well put in an extra couple of hours if it means getting an entire day to yourself. It's the way Bukowski used to do it.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 19 March 2005 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

4x10 is a great idea. More businesses should do it.

My wife, in the nursing profession, tried 2x16(weekends)=40hrs pay, but unfortunately got stuck working with a bunch of dicks, so she knocked that off rather quickly.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a half hour away from the midpoint of a twelve hour shift this evening, and let me just say with all sincerity that SWEET FUCKING CHRIST ON A LILAC-SCENTD, SOUPED-UP SEGUEWAY, I AM FUCKING BORED TO TEARS!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Without getting too personal, what is your work schedule like, Alex? Are all of your shifts twelvers?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Things that would make a twelve-hour overnight shift at the Newsdesk (where I am) more fun:

1. A Playstation.
2. A set of big, fuck-off drums
3. Closer proximity to a hotel of dubious repute (we have big windows and a pair of binoculars, yet nowhere interesting to aim them).
4. A dartboard
5. Soundproof doors.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

My sched.

Monday : Conventional day, 9am to 5pm (or thereabouts)
Tuesday: Off
Wednesday: Off
Thursday: 4pm to 4am
Friday: 8pm to 8am

In the interim, I freelance write and am the proverbial "Mr.Mom" to our one-year-old-next-week child on Tuesdays and Wednesdays (the two days my wife works).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Fewer days, longer hours is far and away the better deal. I find that on days when I work I'm not going to get anything productive done before or after so the fewer the better.

For a time my schedule was two days from 10am until midnight (or later) plus one dinner shift. Not quite 40 hours but close enough for me and I had four days to do whatever I wanted.

But that was a job with constant movement and activity (plus free meals). A 12-hour office shift sitting at a desk and typing, would suck

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I would suffer "jet lag" every day with that kind of schedule, Alex.

I couldn't imagine not having the internet during late-night shifts. My step-father used to watch a lot of HBO when he worked the front desk of a Best Western, but even that must've gotten old eventually.

At Kinko's, we had two overnight persons. They'd work ten to eleven hour shifts, seven nights in row. Then, they'd get the next week off. It always seemed like a good deal, but one always forgot that it took a day to get back on schedule and another day to get back into the nighttime routine.

And then, there are the truckers.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I would suffer "jet lag" every day with that kind of schedule, Alex.

Welcome to my world. But, y'know, I've literally been working this particular shift for a DECADE. Sleep deprivation is a huge part of my life (and it's bizarrely come in handy with dealing with the baby -- I'm not nearly as troubled being woken up at odd hours). But fatigue will always beat you!, so concessions must be made. As a result, I sleep for much of the day on Saturday, taking a big bite out of my weekend. But, c'est la guerre.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

If all goes well (ahum), we'll be having 12 hr shifts for two months. *barf* Now we work from 9 tot about 6 every single day of the week. *double barf* Every few months I have a breakdown, I'm having one now.

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Saturday, 19 March 2005 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, take a Nerf football to work. It'll be fun until something gets broken.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 19 March 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

my mom does 4x10, she loves it. Well, she doesn't love the job (secretarial), but having three-day weekends all the time is nice.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 19 March 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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