That’s the length of the workweek I have ahead of me. I’m working 8 hours Sunday, 12 hours a day Mon-Fri, and another 8 hours on Saturday. I don’t know what got into me, they kept offering overtime and I kept accepting it, the next thing I know I’m working 76 hours in one week.
Well, hell, good thing I didn’t have any plans next week and the following paycheck should be nice. Next time though, I half to remember to check the schedule book to see what I’m already working before I keep accepting hour after hour of overtime.
I work 13 hours a day monday to friday, 6 hours saturday or sunday. With no overtime. And the pay is crap. You get used to it pretty quickly. ::shrug::
Well, if we want to talk long work weeks, how about this:
King Crab Cannery, Kodiak, Alaska:
Peak of the summer pink season (in 1995).
18 hours per day (average), 7 days a week, for 37 days straight.
That’s about 126 hours per week, and in July that year I worked over 550 hours.
The cannery had 6 quality control stations so they hired 6 quality control people for the summer. This meant that if the cannery was open, I was working.
It turned out to be one of the biggest seasons for pink in many years and we were caught completely off-guard because the last few years had been on the slow side.
You learn what it is to be tired. I did not get to use the remaining 6 hours for sleep, it took me about 45 minutes to get to/from the cannery.