Working at the weekends...

Dunno, I work in catering. What's a weekend?

When was the last weekend you had off?

I honestly don't remember. It's pretty rare to get two days off together, let alone a saturday/sunday. I took a few days holiday last year around my wedding anniversary. Then, probably.

Fuck that.

I work one Saturday in three and get a day off during the week to compensate and that still blows.

Hmm. I don't really know any different tbh. I've been working in catering in one capacity or another since I was fifteen, you just get used to it. Same way you get used to everyone already being leathered by the time you get to the pub.

Holidays apart, I've worked every Saturday for the last two years. Usually finish around 10.30pm, but sometimes 1am.

Good things: I like having Mondays (and Tuesdays mornings - don't start till 2pm) to do my own thing around town, especially going to daytime cinema screenings without too many idiots around me. I like it being my own time, and feeling like I've escaped the mundane Mon-Fri office routine, even if it's only by a slight time shift. I like having an excuse to stay in on a Friday and Saturday night.

Bad things: Very much the flipside of the good things. Being out of sync with everyone else. Not being able to go mad on a Friday night. Being too tired to go out on a Saturday night. Using it as an excuse to stay in and become more insular.

i used to do the exact same shift as alba, and would agree with everything he says about it. for me, the worst thing was the fact i'd end up trying to do so many things on a sunday, because it was the only day everybody else had off. i'd want to spend some time with mrs fiendish AND have a band practice AND see my mates YET i was absolutely fucking exhausted from having done a 12-hour shift on the saturday and a 14-hour shift on the friday (not sure if you still have that horror, alba -- i know there were attempts to fix it, but i've no idea whether they worked) so just ended up feeling wiped out/pressured/guilty. TBH, it was perhaps the main reason the band fell apart.

these days i work one sunday in three, and actually quite enjoy it, basically because there are usually very few people around to meddle with what you're doing, and you can just put your head down and batter through the work.

None of my shifts are (officially) more than 10 hours long. We have it easy, grandad.

eeeh, y'cheeky young scamp! when i were a lad it were all 2am finishes and d**v*d d**k being a cunt.

actually, i feel a bit guilty about that now. i was every bit as much of a cunt.

well, almost.

today there was nothing doing so I got to leave early, so early that after my hour and ten mins commute I was still getting paid for the last half hour I spent on the couch having a cup of earl grey

where are you working, ronan, if you don't mind me asking?

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working for the weekend leads to this

http://media.canada.com/idl/vitc/20070606/122531-40451.jpg

total coolness?

chin it to win it

I work weekends but most people would say it hardly counts because I work from home. Or bed. Whatever. Sometimes it's still awfully aggravating to sacrifice a perfectly good Sunday, such as today, but I've insisted on having Saturday afternoon/evening and Sunday morning completely free to do my own thing.

I'm still kind of aching for something vaguely 9-5-ish, though.

i'm working from on a story all day today. i am pacing around a lot and eating bagels.

My old manager used to call 9 to 5-ers "clockpunchers" in this derogatory way.

Working today, but for a good cause -- a coworker suffered a family loss and I'm covering his time. It's short hours too, so that translates into getting most of this Friday off. Also, v. v. quiet at the library now...

As opposed to the fighting, shooting and shouting during the week? :-)

Well you know.

There's no-one there for you to fight with and/or shoot/shout at?

I always work weekends, but enjoy doing so on Sundays, in particular.

my normal work sked is tuesday-saturday. this month i used some vacation days to take every saturday off, to have nice full summer weekends with the family. that aside, i don't mind working saturdays -- they're much more loose and freewheeling in terms of office atmosphere. plus, during the week i mostly work afternoon/evening shifts, but saturdays are mostly 11 a.m.-6 p.m., so i get a full saturday night plus having sunday and monday off.

before my schedule took its current shape, a year and a half ago, i was on wednesday-sunday. that was kind of annoying. i like having at least one real weekend day off.

(i've worked lots of weekends over the years. lots of holidays too. it's just one of the things about newspapers, at least the daily kind -- you need at least a skeletal staff every day.)

i work only on the weekends and it means I have 4 days to party unmitigated

Really? What job is that?

Rock star, obv.

im an advocate for victims of domestic violence

what's rent like in knoxville anyhow?

I pay $385/month for a one bedroom apartment.

man that's not much more than i paid for a one-bedroom in 4th and gill 12 years ago. in a kendrick house. (r.i.p.) i guess knoxville didn't really have much of a housing bubble.

4th and gill has gone up a tad, but i live in park ridge

lol, my decent sized but still fairly small studio apt in nyc in 1990 was over $400.

lol @ the differences between places!!!!

park ridge is nice. and cheap. when i briefly thought about buying a house in knoxville (before deciding to leave), that's where i looked.

its my favorite neighborhood ive ever lived in

thank god i work weekends. i've been "shopping" on a saturday once. and to the supermarket (with my dad). HORROR.

*grumble*