Today, after informing my boss that I needed stress leave from my 70-hour-a-week shifts, I got my new work assignment. Sixty hours a week, starting at 2 a.m. FML
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Today, after working 12 shifts in the past 8 days at 2 jobs and thinking today was a day off, I got the call that I misread my schedule and I was in fact scheduled. Got off at 2:30 am, work again at 9 am with 9 shifts to go this week. FML
Today, my boss asked me to pick up more waitressing shifts because we are short-staffed. I already work seven days a week. FML
Today, after working for over a decade at the same place, I was formally written up with two days of leave without pay for refusing to work extra overtime. I've been working over 80 hours a week for four months now and even cancelled some very important plans so I could work every day. FML
Today, I started a new job. The hours are long, but I didn't mind as I could REALLY use the overtime. Turns out, they don't pay over time. I'm just expected to go "above and beyond for the company." FML
Today, I once again got less than 20 hours of work for the entire week. My boss's solution? Double the staff. FML
Today, my boss asked me to work over the entire weekend. That would be fine if I didn't already work a 60 hour week. He also said the extra hours on the weekend wouldn't be paid. FML
Today, my boss told me I have to start work 4 hours early tomorrow, because that my coworker, who happens to be his son, will not be coming in because he's "too tired". I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week without complaining. His son works two 4-hour shifts a week. FML
Today, my job announced we will be working mandatory 7 days a week for the next 6 weeks, maybe longer. There goes my summer. FML
Today, I was told I would also be covering some of my boss's shifts next week. She gets to go on a vacation to Europe with the bonus we earned her last year. That's why she was tightening our deadlines to the point where some of the employees had to hire babysitters for their children so we could stay at work. FML
Today, exactly 19 seconds after I logged on, my boss Zoom-called me to let me know 3 people are out sick, probably until Monday, so if I wouldn’t mind doing their work as well so we don’t fall behind, within working hours, no overtime available. He wasn’t happy when I told him no. FML
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mrssheldoncooper 0
He only cut 10 hours?! What kind of douche do you work for?
Mirorbo 27
Hmmm....sure are a lot of nasty darlings commenting on this one.
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my2centsworth 15
It was good of your boss to accommodate you.
sallen0046 4
You asked for a less stressful work day with less hours, and that's what you got. Unless you work emergency medicine in a hospital, the night shift is always less stressful. You should have thought about that before you made the request, or at least asked what other shifts were available when talking with your boss. You're not the only employee. They can't create a shift specifically for you.
5t3ff1k4h 47
The night shift is not always less stressful. Fast food places are more stressful at night because of a) the bar rushes and b) dealing with drunken people who can't even give an order properly. It's also harder on your system to be working those hours, at least until you're used to it. My body was never used to it, so it was always more stressful for me.
TheDrifter 24
Truck driving is the same, except it's drunk drivers not drunk orders to deal with. I'm on a seventy hour a week schedule ATM, 4 am to 6pm Monday to Friday. You don't get crap done during the week, by the time I get home it's time to sleep then go back to work.
boatkicker 5
4am - 6pm? Is that even legal for a truck driver? I thought that, by law, they weren't allowed to work shifts longer than 8 hours at all, ever. I'm probably just an idiot, or that may have been for one specific company or something. I dunno. Ignore me. Those hours have got to be killer though. Are the drunks still on the road at 4am, or do you have that shift specifically to avoid them? On the subject of fast food and drunk orders... just kill me now. Thankfully, there aren't any bars near where I work, and the liquor store next door closes at 10, so after that it's quiet. But there's always a big drunken rush right before 10 when everyone runs next door to buy the nights last bottle of whatever.
ZE287 0
dude welcome to this crappy economy do the work or or get in the unemployment line I know 20 people that would love your job.
TheDrifter 24
Really? I hear that all the time, but when I, as a contracted truck driver, offer them even one of my shifts I never get any takers. It's not like it's terrible, only fourteen hours a shift with six of that being driving and the rest being loading and unloading eighty pound boxes of beef. So pretty much anyone with a cdl and four limbs could do it. I've had ads out in both our local papers for a month and I still haven't had any takers for Friday thru Sunday shifts.
boatkicker 5
Do you train people for their cdl? If it was all local driving, and you'd train me, I'd do it.
teihas 7
Apparently Louisiana needs some major labour reform. Most places it's illegal to require someone to work 60 hours.
krez 20
So quit. No job is worth that much suffering.
lovestricken 0
My normal work schedule: 7/12's which means I work 7 days a week 12 hours a day (7am-7pm). Anyone good with math? That adds up to 84hrs a week. That number is the minimum I work because sometimes I need to stay over 1-2hrs a couple of times a week. I work the full 12 hours and do not have free time, my boss has to come replace me around noon for 30 minutes just so I can eat lunch. School: I have college classes 2 times a week at night since I cannot do so during the day. I take a minimum of 5 classes (15 hrs) a semester so I can finish my 6yr degree in 6 yrs and not 1000. Homework: I do my work on the 5 nights of the week I don't have to go straight to class after work. It usually only takes me maybe 2 hours a night (the night after I went to class) to finish it all because I stay on top of it and make sure I don't procrastinate, because if I did there would be nearly no time to do it later. Before you start... 1. I absolutely love my job and am not complaining about it I'm just stating the facts. 2. Im serious.. I really do love what I do and don't mind the hours. 3. The hours I work are not illegal and I knew the schedule before I even applied. 4. Yes I know I'm crazy, but it works for me :) Not 100% of the time, but most of the time you know what hours (or a round about schedule) your going to be working before you accept a job somewhere. You know what the job requirements are and if you work there you accepted them. I can work 84 hr weeks with school at night and homework after that (not including social/family time and some extra hobbies I do on the side) and I can laugh at people who say a 40hr week is too much for them, but everyone is different so don't knock someone for their opinion but also remember how it could be so so so much worse if you had a schedule like mine!
boatkicker 5
I'm kinda curious as to how you fit 5 night classes into two nights.....
Zebidee 9
That blows my mind. I hope the payoff either now or in the future is immense. Kudos.
lovestricken 0
Two of them I go to on both Tuesday and Thursday nights. One is a lab so I only take it on Thursdays. One is the lecture class for that lab so I only take it on Tuesdays. And one is a computer course that I usually do while I'm in one of the other four classes I take. So for Tuesday I take two and Thursday I take two, and the fifth I do in one of those classes. It's really not too bad for a 15hr semester because of the way I schedule it and my job actually helps ALOT with school even though I'm not taking any classes for the field I currently work in.. Me and my 4 coworkers have mad multitasking skills from working where we do. Ive studied psychology and human behavior and I know we can only technically do one thing at a time (so if your driving and texting your brain is concentrating on the words your typing and your other hand thats driving is basically on autpilot for a brief moment) but.. if there was anyone that could push that line where the brain decides it can only do one thing at a time it would be us. So doin my online course while still taking good notes (that people ask to copy all the time) in the class I'm actually in is pretty much childs play. I dunno how I did it but everything just seems to have worked out really well so far
boatkicker 5
Ah it makes more sense that one is an online class. I couldn't figure out how there could be three classes on any one night that didn't have overlapping schedules. But if one is online than it makes much more sense.
hellokimmiee 5
stop wasting all your time on the internet
baileylaidlaw 6
Better then nothing bro.
SexyMexi21 23
In another couple of months tell him the same thing. sounds more like construction hours... I know they kill. I feel your pain OP
lolzatyourprobz 12
Is that even legal?