FabGuys.com forum: Maximum hours worked

By *ose_Quartz OP TV/TS
6 weeks ago

Berkshire

Anyone else maxed out on hours worked this week ? I’ve clocked up so many since Monday it’s going to be impossible to book. I ❤️ my job 💰💰

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By *jh59Man
6 weeks ago

Hinckley

80 hours this week

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By *ose_Quartz OP TV/TS
6 weeks ago

Berkshire

"80 hours this week "
104 by the time I finish later tonight 😂

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By *lindfold subMan
6 weeks ago

Reading

That’s too many hrs babe.

Be careful not to burn out xx

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By *ildwestheroMan
6 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

Running my own pub I dread to think how many hours I worked some weeks. Working for others I obviously got time off but even then with staff shortages and special events my scheduled 48 hour week often got extended to 60 or 70 hours or even more.

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By *ade crossTV/TS
6 weeks ago

chiselhurst

Retired but often did 14 hrs in day. Van courier back in the 90s

Tourist trade in the 80s

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By *ose_Quartz OP TV/TS
6 weeks ago

Berkshire

"That’s too many hrs babe.

Be careful not to burn out xx"
I don’t need to do anything other than be in attendance. I’m only doing it until middle of December 😉

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By *lindfold subMan
6 weeks ago

Reading

"That’s too many hrs babe.

Be careful not to burn out xxI don’t need to do anything other than be in attendance. I’m only doing it until middle of December 😉"

Ahh ok then babe… would hate to see you have to take time away from here through exhaustion.

I know you’ve set your target and I genuinely hope you get there though babe.

I’m pretty sure that with that work ethic, you’re gonna smash babe xxx

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By *atietv1TV/TS
6 weeks ago

co. Durham

Very rare I go above 37 hours now but have done 60+ many many times in previous jobs

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By *0yguyMan
6 weeks ago

Cumberland

When you’re self- employed you work all the hours you need to pay the bills. Normally a 60 hours week when I worked for myself.

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By *ybridMan
6 weeks ago

North Wales

I won’t work a minute more than 37.5hrs in a week these days.

I’ve done my bit over the years working all hours God sends. Unfortunately the Youth of today won’t do the shifts our generation have put in.

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By *lue555Man
6 weeks ago

harrow

Money can be nice working long hours but at what cost to your health.

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By *ocbigMan
6 weeks ago

Birmingham

I work to buy time.

I have had conversations with bosses that expect more with nothing in return… ie extra hours unpaid or no lieu time…usually goes ‘ you pay… I turn up, you don’t pay… I don’t turn up, now where did I lose you?’

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By *eepeter4Man
6 weeks ago

Bournemouth

I have worked with to many ⏰ clock watches in my time .the ones that are out of the door faster than a greyhound out of trap 3 at Romford.

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By *awihMan
6 weeks ago

Aldershot

Just remember, you should only work to live, not live to work.

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By *luteus maxMan
6 weeks ago

Waterlooville at night

My longest stint was lunch time on Sunday through until 8pm on Tuesday. I was a systems programmer for a computer service bureau, qmd it was an emergency call. I kept going by cat napping behind the printer

That was back in the 70s.

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By *ustOneBearMan
6 weeks ago

Neath

I work about 40 hours.

Not interested in working myself to death.

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By *ose_Quartz OP TV/TS
6 weeks ago

Berkshire

Just different work ethics at the end of the day. If I see a chance to earn big then I will, I got that from my peers.

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By *hris4tvMan
6 weeks ago

liverpool

Stable 72 per week at the moment...

Has not been less for about 9mths.

Often more.

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By *mandaWhenDressedMan
6 weeks ago

around

Remember being on a week of 12 hours shifts and thinking what the fuck am I doing here.

More to life than work and money.

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By *b72Man
6 weeks ago

Moray

"80 hours this week 104 by the time I finish later tonight 😂"

Fuck that. I rarely do over 39hrs.

I work to live, not live to work

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By *ldmanMan
6 weeks ago

Rawcliffe Bridge.

So much for the "Working Time Directive".

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By *ustOneBearMan
6 weeks ago

Neath

I have a very strong work ethic.

But I know if I dropped dead I’d be replaced in 24 hours. Such is the NHS these days. So I don’t work more than my contracted hours.

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By *hyna HutchMan
6 weeks ago

valleys

"...

I’ve done my bit over the years working all hours God sends. Unfortunately the Youth of today won’t do the shifts our generation have put in...."

Good for them I say.

Shit is normally your thanks.

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By *ocbigMan
6 weeks ago

Birmingham

"I have a very strong work ethic.

But I know if I dropped dead I’d be replaced in 24 hours. Such is the NHS these days. So I don’t work more than my contracted hours. "

Indeed so, also very familiar with ‘presenteeism’ the same boss as above used to get in 8-8.30, spend a good hour chatting over coffee about last nights Telly etc..

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By *0yguyMan
6 weeks ago

Cumberland

"I have a very strong work ethic.

But I know if I dropped dead I’d be replaced in 24 hours. Such is the NHS these days. So I don’t work more than my contracted hours.

Indeed so, also very familiar with ‘presenteeism’ the same boss as above used to get in 8-8.30, spend a good hour chatting over coffee about last nights Telly etc.."

It’s rife in the NHS where staff say they are all “working so hard” in the coffee room and where meetings always start quarter of an hour late after coffee and a chat.

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By *excessMan
6 weeks ago

Sleaford

I'm in a position where I don't need to work beyond my contracted hours, so I don't do a minute more than required.

Work to live is my mantra🙂

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By *ocbigMan
6 weeks ago

Birmingham

No one’s gravestone says ‘He was a good employee’

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By *licequeenbear891Man
6 weeks ago

Teddington

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By *licequeenbear891Man
6 weeks ago

Teddington

One time I worked 24 hours, never again, my second longest shift was 16 hours

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By *ario456Man
6 weeks ago

newport

Regulalry 84 a week

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By *ose_Quartz OP TV/TS
6 weeks ago

Berkshire

"No one’s gravestone says ‘He was a good employee’"
no one was suggesting that. It was about working too many hours to input a time sheet

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By *ose_Quartz OP TV/TS
6 weeks ago

Berkshire

"I'm in a position where I don't need to work beyond my contracted hours, so I don't do a minute more than required.

Work to live is my mantra🙂"
I’m in a position where I don’t need to work more than I need to. I just like having a shed load of extra cash. It also keeps my body extremely ripped without having to fuck around in a gym

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By (user no longer on site)
6 weeks ago

Rostered 12 hour shifts, usually do 15 hour ones, was great when getting an inflated incentive but that stopped a long time ago

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By *eedsbearmanMan
6 weeks ago

Leeds

I work about 50 hours a week, but get paid well for it. The "joys" of senior management.

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By *ose_Quartz OP TV/TS
6 weeks ago

Berkshire

"I work about 50 hours a week, but get paid well for it. The "joys" of senior management."
I am senior management 😂

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By *eedsbearmanMan
6 weeks ago

Leeds

"I work about 50 hours a week, but get paid well for it. The "joys" of senior management. I am senior management 😂"

Need to delegate better

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By *ose_Quartz OP TV/TS
6 weeks ago

Berkshire

"I work about 50 hours a week, but get paid well for it. The "joys" of senior management. I am senior management 😂

Need to delegate better

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no not at all. I still have guys working. I wouldn’t expect anyone to do that I wouldn’t do myself. Basic management really. Guessing you’ve never worked in engineering / construction.

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By *eedsbearmanMan
6 weeks ago

Leeds

"I work about 50 hours a week, but get paid well for it. The "joys" of senior management. I am senior management 😂

Need to delegate better

no not at all. I still have guys working. I wouldn’t expect anyone to do that I wouldn’t do myself. Basic management really. Guessing you’ve never worked in engineering / construction. "

Nah financial services, much easier

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By *ose_Quartz OP TV/TS
6 weeks ago

Berkshire

"I work about 50 hours a week, but get paid well for it. The "joys" of senior management. I am senior management 😂

Need to delegate better

no not at all. I still have guys working. I wouldn’t expect anyone to do that I wouldn’t do myself. Basic management really. Guessing you’ve never worked in engineering / construction.

Nah financial services, much easier

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says it all 😉

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By *hebestrimmerMan
Forum Mod
6 weeks ago

Sth Elmsall

Back in the early 80's I worked 12 hours 6 days a week, it was either that or wife n kids would starve, was only job I could get at the time.

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By *our-slaveMan
6 weeks ago

nottingham

I have a web design and photography business that takes up a vast amount of my time. I’m up at 5am 7 days a week and I often work at weekends too. But I love it so much that I don’t really count it as being work. It’s great fun and so creative, plus I meet many wonderful people who, like me, are into BDSM.

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
6 weeks ago

Bedford

Late seventies Easter weekend went to work early on the Friday morning worked straight through until Tuesday. Self employed earned £1,500 that was a shed load of money back then average wage about £90 a week. X

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By *lindfold subMan
5 weeks ago

Reading

Thankfully, I’m self employed and can almost choose when I work through the week. Sometimes, I don’t anything….

But then at the weekends, I have to drive to lots of different places in the country so I could leave my home in Reading at 10am on a Friday morning and then not get back home until early hours of Monday morning if I’ve had a show on a Sunday as well.

I’m a musician btw and have worked really hard for years so that I can work two days a week and take five off and still earn what I need.

It’s a job I love immensely and have lived a blessed life because of it ❤️

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By *luvnylonstockingsTV/TS
5 weeks ago

southsea

"Running my own pub I dread to think how many hours I worked some weeks. Working for others I obviously got time off but even then with staff shortages and special events my scheduled 48 hour week often got extended to 60 or 70 hours or even more."

I managed pubs for 24 years ,60 and 80 hour weeks ,so i feel for you ,although because its a way of life you dont notice it at times .

My first pub ,i didnt have a full day off bar holidays in 5 years .

It was worse when we shut at 3 and reopened at 5 .

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