Are you being worked to death?

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In my industry (energy), we are being worked around the clock, 22-14 hours per day. Our injury and accident rates are through the roof, overtime costs are exploding, people are exhausted. We had a guy snap his wrist, we are so short handed he had to drive himself to the hospital.

Anyone else working their asses off?

whirled_up_girl · Accepted Answer

I wouldn't say I'm being work to death personally, certainly not in the same way your job sounds but 12 hour shifts at the hospital can be rough sometimes. When I am there now I work day shift, and it can be tiring with everything going on, hanging IVs, giving meds, admitting patients to the floor, dealing with rapid responses etc, it can be a lot standing, walking and not much sitting which is what makes it tiring. When I worked night shift it was worse even though it was technically less busy. We had a higher patient load and immobile patients had to be turned regurlarly to prevent pressure sores. At night there are less nurse aids to help so there were times I experienced minor back, neck and shoulder strain, from turning and lifting patients. Luckily no serious injuries for me although one of my collegues hurt his back helping a heavier patient and was out for 6 weeks on medical leave. 12 hour nights were the worst for having a normal life during the day especially if they weren't scheduled in a group. I used purposely ask for stretch of 4 nights in a row of 12hour nights rather than have them broken up during the week, so I could reduce the amount of times I was changing my sleep cycle, but that became to be too exhausting after a year so now I stick to day shift.

meetkitty123 · Accepted Answer

Im being worked to death but more due to life circumstances has me worn out. I had a 7hr morning job a family member in a hospital/rehab to visit and bring a meal to run home to kids cooking cleaning homework and then run to a 2nd pm job 4-5 hrs. Home sleep and do it again. Now I quit the 2nd job this week but Im playing catch up on everything That fell behind.

I understand what you mean by a job running you down I once worked for a factory where they were allowed to work us 30 days straight as long as the 31st day they gave us the day off. Then they would do it again for another 30 days. They worked us 8-12 hours a day. The paycheck was great but our mental states were not. I was in a lead position and by the 4th month accidents and mistakes were high.

zeitgeist057 · Accepted Answer

I do, but it's optional. Last summer, I worked 6 shifts in a row of 16 hours each, for a total of 96 hours for one week; more than most people work in two weeks. That month, I made more than 3X the base income for full time, due to all the overtime.

Now, I'm still working my butt off, but it's a mix of work and school. I'm doing FT work of 40+ hours a week, still working some of those 16 hour doubles, but also doing FT nursing school, both an ADN program simultaneously with a "fast track" BSN program. The estimate is about 15 hours/week attending classes, and another 15-20 hours per week working on reading, assignments, etc. I also do one 12 hour clinical (unpaid) shift as a nursing student each week at the local hospital.

Oh, and I do a short 4 hour shift each week as a volunteer at a local wildlife rescue center.

This may seem like a lot of bragging, it's just my life right now. I have kind of justified it to myself because of the COVID pandemic, social life hasn't really been a thing, so I have extra time on my hands, I might as well be productive. Make some money, get a better career through education/training. I plan to slow down a bit and be having 3 months/year vacation in about three years from now, for the rest of my work life. So it's a means to an end.

lucas262 · Accepted Answer

Amazon driver here.

people come and go every day.

Iv personally done 197 stops, another guy who runs my own neighborhood did 205 yesterday.

At a 1 delivery per 2 mins kind of pace. Most never take breaks.

We all just wanna go home, 17$ an hr isn't worth it. Add on we've no union.
Amazon plans for 10 hr days average. They intentionally made the job attritional to keep labor costs down and make people quit.

Few know we're contracted through smaller companies called delivery service providers that deliver for actual the Amazon. So no union. Many people myself included have come close to a mental breakdown because of the pace, and constant need to be , switched on,

Juxtapose · Answer

No, working a double-digit work day is a sign of being a sucker to me. Don't take that offensively, you can handle drudgery and whatnot a lot more than me but I don't want any part in that crap unless I have a gun to my head so to say.

I'm in the camp that says the average work day should be 4 hours and it's backed up by science actually.

https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/the-4-hour-workday-why-you-should-only-work-4-hours-instead-of-8.html

DarkWinterNights · Answer

I also work in Energy and we’ve had about 5 long time employees retire in the last month, with more planned. These people have decades of knowledge that can’t be replaced. We’ve shut down projects, we’re barely keeping production up and we’re not ready for a winter like last winter. We’re also doing far better than our competitors.

I don’t think people realize the gravity of the situation and how bad things are going to get,

msc545 · Answer

I kind of am. Mental health care is very difficult to obtain, and I am up to my ass in patients who need it. That is financially good, and I love what I do, but the overload is rather remarkable.

Likes2drive · Answer

I was for quite some time, the only relief I’m getting from it is being off a few weeks because of surgery I had to have done. My job is short handed also, overtime is a lot but gets me so exhausted in just 5 days

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I am an attorney and I routinely work about 45 hours per week.

888theGreat · Answer

I put car in shop and two weeks later they have not started on it, I think most businesses are making same people do everything.

Subarugirl · Answer

On top of my 40 hour a week job, im also cook, cleaner, tutor, personal shopper and chuffer. Im exhausted

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Nope. I didn't come to this world to be exploited with labor. I take it easy.

Uptowngirl88 · Answer

Hell yes health care is just as bad.

Jmmmfi4 · Answer

Nope

Tornado92 · Answer

They're racist they hate us black man.

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