Weekend of hell

[jaybird2001wi]

I won't be in much every weekend due to my hectic work schedule now. I now have to work the following EVERY week:

 

Tonight: 11pm-7am Saturday

Saturday: 3pm-7am Sunday

Sunday: 11pm-3pm Monday

 

The worst is that I won't be able to have time to go home and sleep tomorrow morning, so I have to sleep at work. I would like to buy a ton of energy drinks because I am going to need them now. I will have to make friends with the coffee maker every weekend.

Anyone ever have weekends, shifts like this?

[Katuluu]

For most of the past two years I have worked Sun-Fri 5am - 7:30 pm. Though a month ago I cut back to ~40 hrs a week and I haven't known what to do with all my free time and full nights sleep.

[zingsheim]

jaybird where the crap do you work. That is crazy!!!

[Paul77]

I know what you mean. Last summer I was working 60-70 hour's a week. Then towards the middle of the summer I was transfered within my company. Suddenly I was only working 45 hours a week. I'd get out at 3 or 4pm and I was like "my goodness, this is really nice." I was hitting the batting cages everyday, I was getting home in time for supper, I was going to baseball games.

 

It was great, to bad it didn't last.

[dadofandrew]

For an 8 month stretch in Eau Claire, I worked:

 

Fri: 8-4, 5 or 6-4AMish

Sat: 8-4, 5 or 6-4ish

Sun: 10:30-5:30, 6-12:30ish

Mon: 8-4, 5-1:30ish

Tues: 2-9:30ish

 

That was actually much easier than when I did 60 hours or so a week while going to school.

[Team Canada]

Al, when the heck did you sleep?? I can't imagine that schedule.

[dadofandrew]

Al, when the heck did you sleep?

 

Wednesday and Thursday.http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

That was true to a point, actually, after sleeping in 'til 12:30 or 1 on Tuesday, I actually enjoyed my "weekend". If you look at it, my sleep went up nightly, only about 2.5-3 hours Friday, but then 5 or so Sat, 5-5.5 on Sun, and so on. I also worked within a couple miles of home, so I did not need to get up much before work, just a half-hour.

 

And, the Fri-Mon night gig was delivering pizza, an easier gig you cannot have. What really sucked is when we'd get really busy late on a Fri or Sat, and I'd get back from my last run at 4 or so and there'd be an hour plus of clean up. I stopped at Hardees for bisquits and gravy several times on my way home to bed many times.

 

The sad thing is I used to have to "wind down" for an hour or so before going to bed, still do actually.

 

EDIT: Anyone know why j-o-b gets edited out for you?

 

 

(edit: popped in word that wasn't supposed to be filtered --1992)

[Katuluu]

For the life of me I can't figure out why "@%#" and "*%!+*" are blocked. Clearly my mind is far too wholesome.

How disappointing.

[homer]

I used to work some crazy hours in summers duing school. We put up and tore down festivals - no I was not a carny. Like 7am - 3am for about a week - pulled a 25 hour shift once.....went to Denny's afterwards and they stuck us in a corner away from everyone because we stunk so much.

[dadofandrew]

I recall one of my managers saying when they opened a store, they worked 12 hour shifts, and people could stay, no restrictions on hours. One lady I worked with worked 7AM one day to 9PM the next, 38 hours straight.

 

She worked 108 hours at 2 stores in a week one Xmas as well. 68 hours of OT.

[1992casey]

There've been some problems with refining the cuss filter to get it to do what we need and want. Yuku's default is too aggressive; the replacement that kicked in about midnight last night was too buggy.

 

I reverted the filter back to the 'pre-experiment' stage about an hour ago. I'll post more detail in Issues when I get a few minutes to do so.

[1992casey]

More detail on the cuss filter issue

[jaybird2001wi]

zing, I am a caregiver for adults with mental illness and traumatic brain injuries and do some minor CNA work. I gave my boss my two week notice 3 months ago and he wouldn't take it at all and basically talked me into staying. I have worked for the same company for nearly three years now and I can't even escape the company at all.

It also helps that a coworker of mine, whom I mentioned before, looks like a cross between Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Biel (body of Biel, face of Scarlett and lips of Biel.)

But then again, my bosses have worked desperately to keep me and the only way I would be willing to work is if all my work days were crammed in a 3-day span so I get four days off every week. It isn't too bad, but I just got home this morning and I am so irritable that I probably won't be able to fall asleep until about noon or 1pm and then go right back into work tonight at 11pm.

[LouisEly]

Weekend of hell?

 

I just spent a weekend in Las Vegas, 102 degrees, watching the Badgers (live), and was sick with a severe cold the whole weekend. And got a stuffy head on the plane ride home, which caused my left ear to not balance with the change in pressure on the decent, almost causing my ear drum to explode. And it was the third consecutive time I have gone to Vegas and have gotten sick just before leaving.

 

In Vegas when it is 102 degrees and sick the whole time. Don't talk to me about a weekend of hell.

[razzzorsharp]

Bright side of this weekend:

 

Badgers won

Packers won

Brewers won the series

Cubs lost the series

Cardinals Swept

Bears Lost

[GAME05]

yeah, i can have some bad schedules sometimes now that i've picked up a second job at a video store to help with my car payments. 40 hours of work at the day job, plus 20-ish hours a week at the video store. What i'm finding is it's not so much the total number of hours worked per week, but the schedules you have.

 

Mon-Fri: 8:30 am-5:15 pm

Three or so days per week I run straight from work to do a 6 pm-1 am shift at the video store.

 

what's extra nice now is the important job (day job) is requiring a lot more hours per week, and i can't figure how i'm going to fit it in. i'd like to quit the second job, but i can't afford to part with that income source.

[rluzinski]

During my junior year of college, I would work 2, 16 hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday and be off the rest of the week. Time to study and enough hours for health insurance.

[jaybird2001wi]

I just got home and now I get 4 days of rest before I go back, so I am a bit relieved I can actually sit around and do nothing for a few days. Although, I hate working on 1st shift on Mondays because I have to pick up the slack on getting stuff done because someone does the least amount of work possible.

 

After working third shift last night and then adding 1st shift to make a double, I had to do 2 hours of personal cares (minor nursing stuff) and then cook breakfast, pass medications, load dishwasher, unload dishwasher, cook lunch, pass more medications, load dishwasher, unload dishwasher, do ALL of the charting on the six residents I deal with at the group home and still found enough energy to dedicate 3 hours of one-on-one attention towards one client (which was mandated according to their service plan). Ugh, and now I gotta choose whether to go to sleep or eat... I am too tired to even eat right now and am too hungry to even nap. I work so hard at my job, I run around constantly doing everything I can and don't even find time to eat.