Long work days ...

• gorocks99

  

  ... suck. Going on hour 16 at the office right now, been here since 8am. Damn report going out tonight (and fyi, it's being reviewed now, so I can be on here )
• Trueblue23

  

  Good luck man. Just imagine how great it's gonna feel to hit the bed when you get home!
• rugbywrestler

  Wow, thats gayer than AIDs
• gorocks99

  

  Trueblue23 wrote: Good luck man. Just imagine how great it's gonna feel to hit the bed when you get home!

  Would feel a lot better if I didn't have to be back here about 8 hours from now! Suck. Oh well. Could be a lot worse.
• baseballstud24

  My fiance and I are going through the same thing right now. She's an accountant and she leaves the house at around 7:30 every morning and she doesn't get home until around 10:30 at night.
  
  I'm a teacher and coach baseball (I also have an hour drive each way) I leave the house at 5:15 in the morning and get home at around 8:15 every night. It sucks!!! Once baseball an busy season are over though, we'll be back to our regular schedules...hopefully!
• RedRider1

  

  Did you get the memo? Don't forget the cover page on your TPS reports.
• OneBuckeye

  

  Try living on a farm.
• fan_from_texas

  I hear ya. I worked every day in February. It just makes me feel beat down by the end.
• captain_obvious

  Paid hourly or salary? I always liked to ruin the whole day if I was going to work. My preference is 4 12 hour days over 5 10 hour days.
• gorocks99

  

  Salaried -- and it's usually 5 11-12 hour days. FFT, I don't think I could function w/o my weekends (I'm still gripping to that bastion of sanity)
• fan_from_texas

  gorocks99 wrote: Salaried -- and it's usually 5 11-12 hour days. FFT, I don't think I could function w/o my weekends (I'm still gripping to that bastion of sanity)

  The weekends are the worst. Working long days during the week sucks, but what really sucks is to get a call at 8.00a on Saturday morning with a bunch of work to do. That's just demoralizing.
• se-alum

  

  I feel your pain. I usually leave the house @ 7am and don't get home until 4:30pm.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• gorocks99

  

  se-alum wrote: I feel your pain. I usually leave the house @ 7am and don't get home until 4:30pm.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
• Fab4Runner

  

  A girl at my hotel quit with no notice a few months ago so I was working some 16 hour days...most back to back. It was no fun. Almost every single guest asked me if I ever got to go home. That got old.
• Little Danny

  

  A normal workweek for me is about 60 hours. There are times when it is much more, not too many when it is less unless I take vacation or a day off.
• fan_from_texas

  Little Danny wrote: A normal workweek for me is about 60 hours. There are times when it is much more, not too many when it is less unless I take vacation or a day off.

  Pretty much the same here. I don't often work 80+ hour weeks, but I'd say 90% of my weeks are between 50 and 70 hours. It's just the constant working at slightly elevated levels that's a killer. Doing one terrible week here or there isn't that big of a deal, but doing slightly long-ish weeks constantly for a year and a half just wears me down.
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  I used to work seven 12-days (one week on, one week off) when I was in operations for a transportation company. You'd alternate day and night shifts. The week off was nice (especially coming off an week of overnights), but during the last couple of days of a working week you were a zombie.
  
  On a different note, methinks working a 40 hour week and traveling long distances on top of that is much worse than working a 55-60 hour week in your office. Something about being away from home wears you down - you can never really kick back and relax while you're away. A four-day trip to Seattle or Portland wears my ancient ass out for two weeks.