Stupid hours

[hillhead]

home by half six today:smilewinkgrin:

 

[paulyoung666]

most i have ever done ( not tiling though ) was 6 months of 12 hour days without a day off , 40 hours at normal rate then 32 hours at time and a half and then 12 hours at double time , single time was £10 / hour and that was getting on for 20 years ago , shows how times have changed , my new job is paying £8.50 / hour with no overtime rate , just single time , aint complaining too much though , its better than the dole :yikes:

 

[doug boardley]

been on duty since i got up at 5:30 this morning, by the sound of it at least another hour to go!! Damn! I wish those kids would go to sleep!!:lol:

 

[tungsten tip]

we had some good times on those aldi and lidl stores phil but they are a young mans game . on the asda walmart stores the terrazo layers are having to lay 200 or 300 mtrs per day using at least 30 tons of ready mix . give me a nice clean bathroom , kitchen or conservatory anyday now . still miss the old sand and cement fixing days though .:8:

 

[faithhealer]

I work long shifts, don't sit down usually 'till after nine each night but try hard not to work weekends. As a engineer I had to do 40hrs plus shifts, 6'oo am 'til 4.00pm next day so this is easy peasy

 

[Deleted member 9598]

i dont mind doing long hours working,but its the traveling after that kills me.:drool5:.
would be grate if i could use the bike,,but u cant get tools on a gsxr 1000...shame.:smilewinkgrin:

 

[tungsten tip]

yeah its a pain the amount of time spent on the road :mad2:

 

[DHTiling]

Sometimes it is just down to the pure traffic volumes and not just distance....

I have known it take nearly an hour to get into a town only 5 miles from me..:mad2:

 

[paulyoung666]

Sometimes it is just down to the pure traffic volumes and not just distance....

I have known it take nearly an hour to get into a town only 5 miles from me..:mad2:

tell me about it , it took 30 minutes to go from stockton high street to norton duck pond the other day , all for one poxy little bit of roadworks that was 5 yards long :mad2:

 

[White Room]

Try a ghoster on a job, there fun

 

[faithhealer]

Try a ghoster on a job, there fun

whats that then

 

[White Room]

Working all day, then thru the night, then next day:yikes:

 

[jay]

Working all day, then thru the night, then next day:yikes:

yep there fun////
dont like the sound of your traffic over there would send me batty

 

[faithhealer]

Working all day, then thru the night, then next day:yikes:

Oh yeah, that's what I meant on previous post, never done one on my knees though, how do you walk afterwards or do they just drag you into the carkpark!! lol

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Try a ghoster on a job, there fun

Ghoster, thats a term I havn't heard for a while. Done my share of those, not any more

 

[Tecnik2000]

As they say stupid is as stupid does :lol:.The best advice I can give is reap what you sow!!
I dream of 14 hr shifts lol

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

ask phil hobson how many hours you spend tiling an aldi supermarket floor ,150 mtrs per day ,screed ,tile & vibrate. friday was like a day off only 600 mtrs of grouting to do .good money but after a few of them you change shape .

This is in reply to the post about power vibro floors. Every penny was earned, no one gave us a thing. Damned hard work, done by damn hard men, respect to them all.

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

well how hard you work depends on many things how old you are when you started could the work dry up in a mowmenet so make hay while the sun shines .do you only need to pay the bills and go on hoilday once a year and that enough for you .do you have a drive that makes you want more out of life .
all these things make up how hard you work .well i always made hay while the sun shines so do all the tilers i know .to give you a clue of how we worked all work on price on site no less than 12 hours a day if we did not earn a days wages in 5 hours the rest bouns. you could not work with us if you could not keep up . so doing hotels two rooms a day was standard and no courners cut .to give you a clue we would work at a hotel untill 6 pm go and have some dinner then go to a shop fitt work untill 2am then go home sleep then be on site at the hotel at 8am to do it again .and every now and again work 48 hours none stop so its your choice work hard play hard .work easy want less

 

[White Room]

I remember the same Ray, working all day then travel to Surrey and work till midnight...could'nt it now though age has taken it's toll.

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

I remember the same Ray, working all day then travel to Surrey and work till midnight...could'nt it now though age has taken it's toll.

how much det you owe now says says weather you made the right chioce as how hard you have to keep working to keep paying

 

[charlie1]

This is in reply to the post about power vibro floors. Every penny was earned, no one gave us a thing. Damned hard work, done by damn hard men, respect to them all.

Would you you not like to go back to that type of work phil or is all that stuff behind you? Can imagine it would be very physically demanding working in a team like that.

 

[Old Mod]

Can imagine it would be very physically demanding working in a team like that.

I've not worked on vibro teams but whilst tiling in Africa back in the mid eighties laying 100's of metres a week of a marble tile integrating 4-5m2 area of pillks Four Square that formed kitchen and bathroom areas when the stud work was put down on top. That was gruelling. Temperatures like u'd not believe, being advised to drink TEN litres of water a day, which we did by midday! And no water cooling to start with, all bottled water stored in the ships containers they were delivered in! Drinking hot water is not recommended in searing heat, tastes like ......... :smiley2: all good experience tho! 90 hour weeks!

 

[widler]

well how hard you work depends on many things how old you are when you started could the work dry up in a mowmenet so make hay while the sun shines .do you only need to pay the bills and go on hoilday once a year and that enough for you .do you have a drive that makes you want more out of life .
all these things make up how hard you work .well i always made hay while the sun shines so do all the tilers i know .to give you a clue of how we worked all work on price on site no less than 12 hours a day if we did not earn a days wages in 5 hours the rest bouns. you could not work with us if you could not keep up . so doing hotels two rooms a day was standard and no courners cut .to give you a clue we would work at a hotel untill 6 pm go and have some dinner then go to a shop fitt work untill 2am then go home sleep then be on site at the hotel at 8am to do it again .and every now and again work 48 hours none stop so its your choice work hard play hard .work easy want less

For them hours, week in weekout ray i would want to retire by the time im 40
Whats the point in working 18hoirs plus a day in your 20s and still having to work in yours 40s/50s ?
Ive worked since i was 16, grafted, yes, but normal hours not daft hours.
Im 44 , have a good life,im not a millionaire ( not even a thousandsire ) but if i was working them hours every week id want to be a millionaire by now

 

[widler]

For them hours, week in weekout ray i would want to retire by the time im 40
Whats the point in working 18hoirs plus a day in your 20s and still having to work in yours 40s/50s ?
Ive worked since i was 16, grafted, yes, but normal hours not daft hours.
Im 44 , have a good life,im not a millionaire ( not even a thousandsire ) but if i was working them hours every week id want to be a millionaire by now

In fact thinking about it i remember a roofer on a site, worked on his own,work all hours, went on hols loads of times a year , asked him (i would of been 17/18) why he worked all them hours , he said " i be dead by the time im 50 cos of this but i want the good life now "
I thought at the time yeah that sounds good , but thank god i didnt cos if i was dead by the time i was 50 i would miss the best parts of my life

 

[david campbell]

At the end of the day you work what you need to, if you can afford to knock back jobs with crazy hours then you will. If you want/need the money then you'll grab it with both hands, horses for courses and all that!