when do you say enough is enough when it comes to working overtime?

[Kalika]

I have been working 50 hrs a week for a month and im over it. went to the gym for the first time in 4 weeks the other day. i want my 40 hrs back. i like the money for supps, but cant enjoy it cause im drained.

I told my manager no more OT for me. now and then is ok. I was scheduled 10am to 11pm tomorrow and it's my Friday. I said sorry can not do it. Give it to someone else. im missing the gym and i need my rest and a life outside work. do you guys and gals agree? I have been working OT since the beginning of october.

im over it already.

[Deuce]

Thats a 12.5 hr day minus a 1/2 hr break even. That would barely be 4 days a week to make the 50. You better be thankfull for what you have right now. See hangnins thread titled "unemployment".

[microzide]

I didnt realize that 50 hrs. is considered overtime. I guess if your an hourly employee it is but otherwise I always thought 60+ hrs. was the norm for working and being successful nowadays.

Im still able to hit the gym 6x/week for 1-2 hrs., have a small social life, and still relax for at least an hour a day. I also dont play video games, watch a whole lot of TV, or participate in dead activities.

When I was young I took some time management courses and they were one of the best investments I have ever made.

[Enzo]

Shit 50 total hours??????
with the way unemployment is and the way the economy is your complaining??
how many people would cut your throat to have your job to put food on there table for there family?
my job only requiers 35 hrs a week....but i have done my 35 and added up to 70 extra for
overtime.
i did this for months on end. if the oppertunity is there take it. you dont know when its going to be your last paycheck. bank the cash.
stop complaining poeple can feed there kids right now and your doing good.
thank god for what you have, if not he'll take it away

[Data]

Originally Posted by Deuce

Thats a 12.5 hr day minus a 1/2 hr break even. That would barely be 4 days a week to make the 50. You better be thankfull for what you have right now. See hangnins thread titled "unemployment".

2x. I just got the word I'm getting laid off here as well and I have 7 months pregnant wife, christmas around the corner, and I'm also a student with loans.

[spl6hrc]

50 hours is a light week bro.

Time management skills are key and are all over the 'net.

Be thankful for the extra cash and put some into savings for when you're not gettin' your forty

[spl6hrc]

Originally Posted by Data

2x. I just got the word I'm getting laid off here as well and I have 7 months pregnant wife, christmas around the corner, and I'm also a student with loans.

Shit bro. sorry to hear that.

[HangNin]

apparently everyone thinks you are pretty much a wuss......LOL

[Mole]

I'd kill for 50 hrs a wk. I'd even take 60 if I could get it.

[svtpower97]

here is a little tip bro...when working a lot of over time change your tax claimings in federal from 0 to 6 and then change it back after all the over time is done....it sucks losing most of your over time money to taxes...and this is completely legal as well

[Kalika]

Originally Posted by svtpower97

here is a little tip bro...when working a lot of over time change your tax claimings in federal from 0 to 6 and then change it back after all the over time is done....it sucks losing most of your over time money to taxes...and this is completely legal as well

thanks bro!!! i swear they are taking so much from me. I am in the union so I have killer benefits and anything over an 8hr work day or if I work on my set days off it's considered overtime.

as for all you other guys.....I am taking it a little personal cause I am being taken advantage of and nobody else is taking the overtime. I should be grateful i have a full time job which I am.

the more you make the more you take and hawaii state tax is unreal!!

[Kalika]

Originally Posted by spl6hrc

50 hours is a light week bro.

Time management skills are key and are all over the 'net.

Be thankful for the extra cash and put some into savings for when you're not gettin' your forty

some days working 16 hours a day man is a long ass day. I dont care what anyone says and yes I thank god everyday for having a great job. There are plenty of rich people in this world and they all want to come on an Hawaiian vacation.

So yes....I enjoy my job and I like it. Although, to work from 3pm to 11pm then wake the next morning and work from 10am to 11pm is a long ass day.

[spl6hrc]

It's absolutely a long ass day. It blows. I work 12 on average but some are 16+ and those days always seem to happen when I have shit planned and because someone else did something dumb. IT's frustrating. But I get OT for anything over 8 so I've learned to just let it roll off my back.

No one's saying working long days doesn't suck. Or that venting isn't called for, we're just helping you count your blessings lol

[MaNiFeSt]

be happy you have a job thats willing to even give you over time.

I'll leave it at that.

[tonyverdi]

Military doesn't know what overtime is...

[nthnbeachesguy]

I guess it depends what your doing for work. If it's construction of some sort that tends to be a little harder physically than an office job. When I was a first year apprentice plumber I was onsite at 7:30, lucky to leave before 5. Did that 5 days a week for the princely sum of $186 a week after tax and then usually did a full Saturday as well for extra cash. Usually work involved digging trenches for drainage, lugging blue metal and concrete around, on the jackhammer and grinder and shovel so you were pretty exhausted most of the time. A good day was up and down ladders all day doing roofing or guttering and the occassional bit of roughing in copper or waste. Ended up getting a job with the govt, pay increased 100%, hours decreased and also had every second Friday off, I guess the moral is get a govt job!

[buffum]

Man, I fucking cant belive it....

[Kalika]

Originally Posted by nthnbeachesguy

I guess it depends what your doing for work. If it's construction of some sort that tends to be a little harder physically than an office job. When I was a first year apprentice plumber I was onsite at 7:30, lucky to leave before 5. Did that 5 days a week for the princely sum of $186 a week after tax and then usually did a full Saturday as well for extra cash. Usually work involved digging trenches for drainage, lugging blue metal and concrete around, on the jackhammer and grinder and shovel so you were pretty exhausted most of the time. A good day was up and down ladders all day doing roofing or guttering and the occassional bit of roughing in copper or waste. Ended up getting a job with the govt, pay increased 100%, hours decreased and also had every second Friday off, I guess the moral is get a govt job!

I am a bellman. we have 2 towers which are 300 yds apart so I am pushing 10 100 lbs bags 300 yds back and fourth for 16 hours a day some days Talk about cardio..... im not sitting behind a computer jerking off. Manifest....your right. i agree bro. I am thankful. But when is enough enough? I want a life outside work.

I am not going to live my life working and having no fun and not being able to enjoy these islands. I need pussy, gym time, rest, the beach, surfing, and all he other things that come with living a good life.

[Kalika]

Originally Posted by nthnbeachesguy

I guess it depends what your doing for work. If it's construction of some sort that tends to be a little harder physically than an office job. When I was a first year apprentice plumber I was onsite at 7:30, lucky to leave before 5. Did that 5 days a week for the princely sum of $186 a week after tax and then usually did a full Saturday as well for extra cash. Usually work involved digging trenches for drainage, lugging blue metal and concrete around, on the jackhammer and grinder and shovel so you were pretty exhausted most of the time. A good day was up and down ladders all day doing roofing or guttering and the occassional bit of roughing in copper or waste. Ended up getting a job with the govt, pay increased 100%, hours decreased and also had every second Friday off, I guess the moral is get a govt job!

hahahaha. yea.....they take care of you for sure.

ps....im getting back into college to finish my degree. so we'll see what life has in store for me in the years to come.

[Kalika]

Originally Posted by spl6hrc

It's absolutely a long ass day. It blows. I work 12 on average but some are 16+ and those days always seem to happen when I have shit planned and because someone else did something dumb. IT's frustrating. But I get OT for anything over 8 so I've learned to just let it roll off my back.

No one's saying working long days doesn't suck. Or that venting isn't called for, we're just helping you count your blessings lol

yea...but we are expected to be all smiles and giving excellent guest service when some of us are running 16 hour days. then we get in trouble cause we we not mr personality during the check in process or whatever. they need to hire more bellman is all.

it's pretty easy

[nthnbeachesguy]

At least I didn't have to put on a happy face while I worked. Kinda hard to do when your fucken filthy from dust and mud and you're sweating like a rapist. As far as surfing went it was ok in daylight saving time cause there was plenty of time after work but during in winter I would be near losing the plot wanting to leave while the boss talked shit with the other trades at the end of the day stalling me from getting out of there. He didn't surf so he didn't understand.

[Anomeley]

50 hours LMAO. I have worked salary my entire life except when I was in college and I am now 45. I wouldn't know 50 hours if I saw it. A 12 hour day is the norm in my industry and when I travel it's on my own time regardless if I am flying or driving just like this weekend. I left DSM Saturday about noon from the office and drove six hours so I could be where I need to be in the morning ready to hit the ground running at 0600. I'm not complaining; I don't mind it. It's always been this way for me.

[buffum]

Man, 50 hrs a week would have been like part time to me in my day... Kalika, why dont you go work for a bank, make $10.50 an hour have the weekends off. All you would have to worry about is if they opened back up on Monday...

[deathknell3000]

I worked an average of 52 hours a week for 10 months last year. I never missed a day in the gym or put my family on the back burner.

Of course I averaged less than 6 hours of sleep a night.

Now I don't have a job. I'll take the overtime any day......

[DMW]

I am also salary and i get paid a flat amount every month whether i work my min of 50 or the weeks i put in 65. The pay is good but the working 11pm till sometimes till 11am or so really sucks. All my friends don't even bother calling me till friday cause all i do is work all night and sleep all day. Been doing this for almost 3 years now. But it pays the rent and puts food in my kids bellies...

[norm240lbs]

Originally Posted by svtpower97

here is a little tip bro...when working a lot of over time change your tax claimings in federal from 0 to 6 and then change it back after all the over time is done....it sucks losing most of your over time money to taxes...and this is completely legal as well

That is more than a bit short sighted. Sure you get some more money up front, but at the end of the year the government is still going to want it's share.

[Kalika]

Originally Posted by Anomeley

50 hours LMAO. I have worked salary my entire life except when I was in college and I am now 45. I wouldn't know 50 hours if I saw it. A 12 hour day is the norm in my industry and when I travel it's on my own time regardless if I am flying or driving just like this weekend. I left DSM Saturday about noon from the office and drove six hours so I could be where I need to be in the morning ready to hit the ground running at 0600. I'm not complaining; I don't mind it. It's always been this way for me.

this is most likely why you make the big bucks. You guys are not saying the type of work you do, just how im a wimp for doing 16hr work days at times.

sure I could sit in the ac behind a computer desk all day. The thread I believe I posted was who has a physical job. I am fine now, just needed some rest. I wanna see you guys do what i do for 16 hrs a day then go to the gym after work or hit the gym before work. 8-10 hrs a day it's doable. prepare your meals, rest, laundry, food shop, and live like a bachelor lives on top of working mad overtime.

but when i start getting 13 to 16 hr work days for weeks at a time it catches up with me. As I am sure it would with most here as well.

[Kalika]

Originally Posted by Anomeley

50 hours LMAO. I have worked salary my entire life except when I was in college and I am now 45. I wouldn't know 50 hours if I saw it. A 12 hour day is the norm in my industry and when I travel it's on my own time regardless if I am flying or driving just like this weekend. I left DSM Saturday about noon from the office and drove six hours so I could be where I need to be in the morning ready to hit the ground running at 0600. I'm not complaining; I don't mind it. It's always been this way for me.

this is most likely why you make the big bucks. You guys are not saying the type of work you do, just how im a wimp for doing 16hr work days at times.

sure I could sit in the ac behind a computer desk all day. The thread I believe I posted was who has a physical job. I am fine now, just needed some rest. I wanna see you guys do what i do for 16 hrs a day then go to the gym after work or hit the gym before work. 8-10 hrs a day it's doable. prepare your meals, rest, laundry, food shop, and live like a bachelor lives on top of working mad overtime.

but when i start getting 13 to 16 hr work days for weeks at a time it catches up with me. As I am sure it would with most here as well.

it sounds like a lot of business men traveling here on this thread besides the construction workers which I know all about also. Don't get me wrong I thank god everyday I have a job in this day and age, but when I start getting taken advantage of is when I draw the line.

[Loomis]

Originally Posted by svtpower97

here is a little tip bro...when working a lot of over time change your tax claimings in federal from 0 to 6 and then change it back after all the over time is done....it sucks losing most of your over time money to taxes...and this is completely legal as well

That'll just reduce your refund (or increase your liability) at tax time...

[markmark]

I'm doing the work of two people right now and took a 20% pay cut. Its fine and dandy but when overtime hits, 60+ hours a week i seem to feel burned out with out a life outside work.. So yes, I understand what you are stating here. I can do it for a short time but not for long.

[Verses]

Due to the current market, the company i work for has introduced "help the umemployed" hence they will employ 2x as many people.(and the share holders cheer)

What this ment was that all those currently employed are now doing no more then 25-30hrs a week.

But on another note... you need a balance of social life and work.

"A unhealthy mind is like a fat bitch with out a twiggy". -

[Bishop]

Originally Posted by MaNiFeSt

be happy you have a job thats willing to even give you over time.

I'll leave it at that.

I agree, nowadays jobs are running these 12 hour shifts which cut down on the massive overtime that they use to hand out. Kalika, long days suck and working constantly without a break can be taxing.(No pun intended) Do as SVT said and change your W4 and move up your allowances, this should make you happier. I don't like waiting to get my refund check back, I believe people are losing much more than they gain. Get all of your hard earned money upfront and invest it.

[Bishop]

Originally Posted by Loomis

That'll just reduce your refund (or increase your liability) at tax time...

Fuck the refund! You are allowing the government to hold your money for a year, while you can be investing it and earning interest. Trust me! Take the money upfront! Move up the allowances and then they money you get back you move up your contribution to your 401k, unless you want to spend it!

[Kalika]

Originally Posted by Data

2x. I just got the word I'm getting laid off here as well and I have 7 months pregnant wife, christmas around the corner, and I'm also a student with loans.

Im so sorry to hear that bro.man..... bro. say your prayers and hang in there.

[Nibbe]

Work as much as you possibly can and put the extra cash away! You'll always have time to work out later. If you're really unfortunate you might have time to work out 24/7 in the future!

[jimrome]

my 1st job outta college was 7am to 7pm mon thru fri at $10/hr, and I rarely saw a lunch break. Then I usually worked 3 Sats a month from 830am to 5pm. It totally blows but you gotta just man up and make the best of it. When I got another job 2 yrs later they new the company and were impressed w/ my work ethic and I got a much better job, then 3yrs later I gotta a check from the claas action suit against them for no lunch breaks!! Point being, suck it up and better shit will be on the horizon

[Kalika]

Originally Posted by jimrome

my 1st job outta college was 7am to 7pm mon thru fri at $10/hr, and I rarely saw a lunch break. Then I usually worked 3 Sats a month from 830am to 5pm. It totally blows but you gotta just man up and make the best of it. When I got another job 2 yrs later they new the company and were impressed w/ my work ethic and I got a much better job, then 3yrs later I gotta a check from the claas action suit against them for no lunch breaks!! Point being, suck it up and better shit will be on the horizon

that's just it.......I hope the are taking all this OT I am taking into consideration when it comes to this full time bellman position.

[taba]

Originally Posted by svtpower97

here is a little tip bro...when working a lot of over time change your tax claimings in federal from 0 to 6 and then change it back after all the over time is done....it sucks losing most of your over time money to taxes...and this is completely legal as well

Yes this is a good tip. If you need your money now you do this. Either way you get your money. Now or later during tax time on your refund. We work out of a union for several contractors so we do the same. What we do is go 9 dependents and switch up the second have of the year so it will even out at the end of the year. You may get a small refund or break even depending on how much you worked extra.

One year work got slow in the 2nd half and we ended up paying some taxes instead of breaking even or getting a small refund. We did this when we were young and starting out. It help alot starting out in life.

If I were you, I would work all the overtime you can handle. When you get older you will not be able to work OT as easily as a young buck. Thats of course if you have a physcial job.

[Jmazz19]

I used to load trailers all day. 18 hour days in the summer. 100 degree days were torture, it was an oven inside the trucks. Picking up 50-75lbs cases of water and gatorade inside a 150 degree trailer while being held to a production rate high enough that you can hardly stop for water. Did that for 5 years or more. Used to make a ton of money doing it though. I have quite a bit in my 401k to show for it too! 15% of my check plus a 2-1 contribution from my employer. The work did suck though.