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too much work,..

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:50 am
by Charles256
anyone besides me work more than 76 hours a week?

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:55 am
by daedalus__
I pull 10-14 hours a day, generally. I do not care to do the math. lol

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:58 am
by Charles256
well i have determined that just because you can work 76 hours a week does not mean you should. as a result telling my boss he HAS to hire someone tinght (got someone picked out) and that I will trained tehmf or five days then i'm gone.put in my notice over a month ago..been waiting for them to hire someone...hired and fired two people...

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:00 am
by daedalus__
Did he make you?

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:02 am
by Charles256
oh no.that's not it.i got three jobs.one forty hours a week.one 20.and one 16. botu to quit the sixteen an hour oen cause i can do some work for the forty hour one at the twenty hour one.follow that? ;)

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:02 am
by shiznatix
define work? is just being at the office count or do i actually have to be doing something?

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:14 am
by Charles256
do something ;-)

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:29 pm
by SomeOne
i do around 70-90 hours per week......
hough...it's 40 hours per week regullar job.....everithing else is working for my company :twisted:

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:15 pm
by feyd
back in the day, I was over 100 hours a week. 48 hour shifts, 36 on. Six days a week.

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:17 pm
by Luke
feyd that's insane. Why??

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:18 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I work about 45 hours a week at my current job, then about 20 to 30 hours per week on coding for clients.

If you are waiting for your boss to hire someon before you quit, I'd ask for more money or just uphold your resignation letter. Unless you and the boss are really tight. It just seems unreasonable that he would have you do that much when he could feaibly hire someone to help you.

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:21 pm
by feyd
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:feyd that's insane. Why??
I had nothing else to do. :P j/k

It was a young company and they needed to crank the next five or so versions of their platform out quickly and cleanly. It was in California and I was paid hourly, so I was happy to do it. Less than eight hours, normal pay. Less than twelve hours, time and a half pay. Beyond that, it's double pay. :)

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:23 pm
by Chris Corbyn
My work sort of continues into my own time but I don't keep track of it since I'm not paid by the hour. I imagine I do 12 hours a day. But I have days where even while I'm at work I'll do nothing, or do something "fun" that wasn't on the TODO list. I guess you get out of it what you put in ;)

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:32 pm
by alvinphp
Since we are all seeing who has the biggest lack of life here....

I love working. I will regularly work till 2 am in the morning and sleep between 4-6 hours. If I could I would never sleep, but then my body doesn't operate so well with less then 4 hours of sleep. What I don't like is a company that requires you to work overtime though. I want to do it as a choice and not by force.

Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:36 pm
by Chris Corbyn
alvinphp wrote:I want to do it because I want to and because someone forces me.
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That should be "not because"... or we'd understand "!because"
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