The Last Poster Wins [v28]

[Chakramaster]

Ugh, I just... hate overtime. I've had to do it on a few occasions but it does make me kind of... irked.

That's the only drawback of being employed fulltime as opposed to being a contractor. As a contractor, you get time and a half for any hours over 40. As a fulltime employee, you just grin and bear it.

I've heard stories of some people having 80-100 hour work weeks. That would KILL me. I just couldn't mentally handle that, I would absolutely go berserk if my life was nothing but my job and that's all I existed for and got to do. XP

Yeah lately I've had to do that at least once a week. We've been down one person and 2 people have to close. So I've had to open from 6:30am and close at 7:30pm. With a drive to and from being about an hour from and to work each day. Those days were absolutely brutal and I didn't like it. The extra money was good, but I never liked those days. Luckily last week was the last week of that...for now.

Depending on if I need a day off or need to leave early or something. I may do some extra hours at work and leave early another day or something. That's how I felt about my old job. Because they planned the schedule out. I couldn't even plan my life around anything. So I'm at least glad to be away from that and have a more set schedule each week.

[Bulbasaur]

Yeah, 40 hours a week is a lot for me even. That's insane that some people do 80-100! I could never do that, even if it was my dream job.

[Neo Emolga]

Thankfully I haven't had to work on weekends too much. That's another thing that would be brutal.

I can understand really critical things, but if it's just for someone else to look good in front of their boss for beating a deadline super-early... just no.

[Bulbasaur]

Yeah, working on the weekends stinks. I had to do that yesterday since I didn't come in on Monday, and it was awful. To be fair though, I think it was worth not driving in a snowstorm haha.

[Noblejanobii]

Ugh, I just... hate overtime. I've had to do it on a few occasions but it does make me kind of... irked.

That's the only drawback of being employed fulltime as opposed to being a contractor. As a contractor, you get time and a half for any hours over 40. As a fulltime employee, you just grin and bear it.

I've heard stories of some people having 80-100 hour work weeks. That would KILL me. I just couldn't mentally handle that, I would absolutely go berserk if my life was nothing but my job and that's all I existed for and got to do. XP

Technically I am a contractor and legally I'm only supposed to be working 8-5, 5 days a week. But for this first week there were only two days I was done by five so it's looking more like 12-13 hour days, 6 days as week. And unfortunately that's just what is necessary to get all the work done that needs to be done.

[AD]

Yall are still working? Man, I have lost all concept of time while doing nothing but sleep or play video games. Everything blurs together now. What is time? What is this existence that lingers on, fringing on self mutilation, self destruction.


And pancakes. Can I get some freaking pancakes? Where are you going? You're lost. Wait no I am lost.

[Neo Emolga]

Yall are still working? Man, I have lost all concept of time while doing nothing but sleep or play video games. Everything blurs together now. What is time? What is this existence that lingers on, fringing on self mutilation, self destruction.


And pancakes. Can I get some freaking pancakes? Where are you going? You're lost. Wait no I am lost.

I would really love a month off. Would give me a nice chunk of time to catch up with stuff, get some projects done, have some fun, and just really refresh.

Weekends just aren't enough and vacations still feel like a blur. It was frustrating how fast Christmas break blasted by.

[Bulbasaur]

Yall are still working? Man, I have lost all concept of time while doing nothing but sleep or play video games. Everything blurs together now. What is time? What is this existence that lingers on, fringing on self mutilation, self destruction.


And pancakes. Can I get some freaking pancakes? Where are you going? You're lost. Wait no I am lost.

Yeah, I quarantined for two months but then I went back. I haven't had time to make pancakes but I can ship you the mix!

[Noblejanobii]

Haven’t stopped working. Need money. Gotta work.

[Neo Emolga]

Same, the only thing that changed on my end was me working from home instead of going to the office, but I've been working just as hard, if not a bit harder than before.

The good thing is it shaved off hundreds of hours of time and hundreds in gas costs now that I don't need to drive there. Seriously, I would love it if I could keep this arrangement, but it sounds like they want to get everyone back in the office. And it sucks because we're moving to a new location and it's one of those lousy open floor plan arrangements where no one gets their own cube and you have to take everything with you when you leave because the desk you have one day may be a different one you get the next.

What usually happens in those kinds of environments is everyone ends up working from home anyway.