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[riverc0il]

Is about how many hours I worked this week. This included one only 30 minute (working) lunch break, lots of energy drinks, way too much Coca-Cola. When you spend more than half of your day at work and are only awake for three hours that involves any location other than work, something is seriously wrong.

:blink:

Two more hours tomorrow for seven days in a row. Someone pass me a beer.

:beer:

 

[ZYDECORICH]

Dude I feel your pain. I have been working all kinds of extra hours due to the Olympics, lots of billboards which bring in the boatload of cash for the network. At least we are working. Try to blow off a day during the week if you can to ski. I did that last week and it helped.

 

[snoseek]

I too feel your pain. Go skiing now!

For so many years I worked 60-80 hours every summer not including commute. It has a way of grinding you down. I'm getting too old for that I think

 

[billski]

The worst part is that it's right in the middle of ski season. I clocked about 60 last week. Itching to comp it out with a midweek hijinx to more hilly terrain in the days before President's day week tear-up.

 

[Hawkshot99]

Christmas and presidents weeks I have to work at least 9 days in a row, usually more depending on how the calender falls of 13 hour days. I love 91 hour weeks, when I dont get overtime....

 

[Warp Daddy]

America is grinding its workforce in comparison to most developed nations -- way too much stress -- way too much doing more with less to the point of diminishing returns

Glad i pulled the plug at 51 yrs ago in the mid 90's then i spent time helping organizations that had DUMBSIZED ( downsized) try and recover what they had lost when the WRONG people exercised their options to jump start their lives and many corps lost the battle of the brain drain

Apparantly some still haven't LEARNED FROM THAT MISTAKE .

I feel badly for you guys - take care of yourselves -- you only have JUST so MUCH LIFE FORCE to waste . get busy making a LIFE not just a LI VING .

Simplify , get yourselves out of debt , pay yourselves firstby pretax savings , learn the concept of ' ENOUGH" and MAKE time for life's important stuff -- I NEVER MET ANYONE on their deathbed that said -- "I wish i had worked longer "

Today's

 

[Warp Daddy]

forgot to add -- read the book entitled "Your Money or Your Life "== some good insights

 

[riverc0il]

Warp, I am a living example of not following the money to carve out the life I wanted to live. I got the heck out of the rat race and turned my back on better paying jobs to be where I want to be to do the things I want to do. I hear you loud and clear, man!

Normally, it is just one week. Normally, it isn't that many hours. But the work force is indeed being stretched really far right now.

The way I see it.... it will come back to bite companies in the butt once things turn around. People getting screwed right now will be the first to jump ship at the first chance they get when things are better. And the people most able to jump ship will be those that are the best performers.

BUT that is fine because mixing up the minds and getting new excited blood into different organizations can only help. It is just a matter of how long everyone has to wait until that point!

Companies pulled WAY back last year on a work force that had already been cut way back. Those jobs are gone and are not coming back and that is going to make any economic recovery even harder.

Any ways.... that crap is mostly over now. Two more 12 hour days Monday and Tuesday and then I am putting in for some MAJOR vacation time these next two months (as soon as the Mets line me up with some storm tracks!).

 

[Warp Daddy]

Warp, I am a living example of not following the money to carve out the life I wanted to live. I got the heck out of the rat race and turned my back on better paying jobs to be where I want to be to do the things I want to do. I hear you loud and clear, man!


The way I see it.... it will come back to bite companies in the butt once things turn around. People getting screwed right now will be the first to jump ship at the first chance they get when things are better. And the people most able to jump ship will be those that are the best performers.

. Two more 12 hour days Monday and Tuesday and then I am putting in for some MAJOR vacation time these next two months (as soon as the Mets line me up with some storm tracks!).

Steve being the thinker that you are, i frankly assumed that YOU did do exactly that and opted for sanity. , My comments were for general consumption so as to shed some light for OTHERS .

Moreover I am absolutely certain that what you cite in the 2nd paragraph will play out---. it did in the nineties.

Glad to hear you are going out to thrash some pow next week ---------------- come on u weather guessers --DELIVER THE GOODS

 

[hammer]

I work a regular 40 hour work week most of the time...all this talk makes me feel lazy... :razz:

 

[Marc]

Don't get burnt out Steve.

I feel very lucky with my employment. FM treats its employees like gold and consequently have an extremely high retention rate.

 

[riverc0il]

Don't get burnt out Steve.

I feel very lucky with my employment. FM treats its employees like gold and consequently have an extremely high retention rate.

Trying not to. My company used to be people before profits. Bad economies scare execs into shitting on people just so they can make a budget instead of deciding the profit margin is budgeted should be decreased to come in line with realistic expectation. Retention rate dropped quite a bit due to some major changes three years ago. It will hold during the bad economy but will definitely bottom out once things get better.

For me, it is difficult not to burn out because I will not accept inferior work. It is completely within my power to shrug my shoulders, not put in any extra time, blame the company for giving me fewer resources, and watch service tank more than it already has. But I can not accept that. For better or for worse. Guess I am a buck stops here kinda guy... even when it is someone else's buck.

 

[Marc]

Yeah, I know the feeling. I'd be lying if I said there were a few times I had more than I wanted to manage, but the redemption is in that my management is very perceptive to the contributions of each employee. Here it's a cultural thing, and it really has to be cultivated from the top down to work.

 

[Warp Daddy]

. Here it's a cultural thing, and it really has to be cultivated from the top down to work.

Very true !! Sr Mgt Creating the environment in which motivation is LIKELY to occur is fundamental