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It's 4am, I just got home from a 12 hour shift that was supposed to be 9 hours, and I've got to be back at work in 5 hours for a shift that supposed to be 11 hours but will likely be 13 without a break.
Tonight wouldn't have been so bad, except my boss doesn't seem to realize that cutting half the kitchen staff early doesn't save any payroll if the rest of us all end up working late to finish all the crap that didn't get done when we had plenty of help on.

I had to vote Never, I just can't purposely inflict pain to myself........ :la:

I'm in the "daily" crowd. Looking for a new job right now actually.

Can he even do that, legally? Keep you over that long and require you to be back in 5 hours?

Anyway, my boss is an idiot, but he mostly stays in his office and let's the supervisors run things, and they're usually pretty cool.

I have an awesome job, and make great dough, and have lots of debt from student loans.


CT law says you must have 8 hrs between shifts, with one lunch break (unpaid) per 8 hrs and 1 15 min break per 4 hr work period.

I also grew up on a farm and never saw my father take a day off, or break.

Fastback86 wrote:Can he even do that, legally? Keep you over that long and require you to be back in 5 hours?

Dunno if it's legal or not. Thankfully back to back close/open doesn't happen more than once a month, still sux. As far as staying that long over, it's part of the deal in a restaurant kitchen, last person on can't leave until everything's clean. MA law is a 15 min break every four hours worked, and a half hour off the clock for every 6 hours worked, but I don't ever get either.
I don't really mind my job, it's just the shortsightedness of an idiot who can't understand that the payroll report that his boss is going to bitch at him about is going to read the same way whether 6 people work 1 hour each or 1 person works 6 hours.

Where I work I have to fight to get paid for overtime, but as long as I get paid for my overtime, I'm satisfied; it helps me get rid of my debt faster.

Where I used to work, I had to fight to get paid at all (boss would never cut a check unless I tallied all the timesheets and found him when he wasn't busy/broke). Usually involved blowing a gasket and yelling at him in the office with everybody present, about whatever bullshit had pissed me off for the last time and pushed me over the edge of potential forcible screwdriver to face application.

... It was the only thing that seemed to work, somehow. :la:

While I really like my current job, in one of my previous jobs, I definitely did want to stab him with a screwdriver on an almost daily basis.
It's probably a good thing that he only very rarely rode with me in the truck...

Never mind that proper tools (like screwdrivers) were nearly nonexistant at the shop, though it was littered with things like 22" chainsaws, a japanese handsaw that had jagged ~1" long teeth and was 3 feet long, razor sharp chisels, hammers, a double bitted axe, a nice 18" bladed machette (with a real 1050 carbon steel blade), and the like.

Then there was the time I came to work with a sword for the sake of humor - though it was on a good day. Looking back, it really *is* a miracle that no deaths occured, intentional, or otherwise... :la:

[edit] Oh, and I have a 2nd job interview on the 1st of April... Hopefully this kicks ass: www.msrc.org

Blue Shift wrote:Hopefully this kicks ass: www.msrc.org

I carry a niosh pocket guide in my glove box, in event of a tanker spill on the highway. Worst I ever had to respond to was a janitor washing a mop in bleech after mopping up battery acid from a forklift. Thats chlorine Gas.

That kinda shit is exactly what my degree is in (The niosh/tanker spills and the like).

It makes me laugh to think I don't want to use any of it.

However I do carry the 2004 Emergency Response Guidebook in my patrol car :scratch:

Kicks ass. Yeah I guess I'll be playing maintenance/warehouse jockey for a bunch of hydraulic equipment, boats, outboard engines, and the like most of the time. Then I'll be on call 24/7 - if an oil spill occurs, it's grab the go bag, and off to an airport or some MSRC installation to help get it mopped up - they were telling me personal stories of being out there 18-24 hour days for a days at a time. Looks like I'll need to get a TSA TWIC ID Card/clearance, which should be interesting in and of itself.

It'll be interesting, if nothing else!

/hijack - back to discussion of forcible screwdriver to face of boss discussion

Aaron wrote: However I do carry the 2004 Emergency Response Guidebook in my patrol car :scratch:

I didn't know a box with three wheels, an electric motor, and huge bold letters that say "PARKING PATROL" counted as a car.

Speaking of tools, how about them screwdrivers?

You're so smart...

Blue Shift wrote: Looks like I'll need to get a TSA TWIC ID Card/clearance, which should be interesting in and of itself.

It'll be interesting, if nothing else!

/hijack - back to discussion of forcible screwdriver to face of boss discussion

Wil they need all of your fingerprints for that?

stimpy wrote:

Blue Shift wrote: Looks like I'll need to get a TSA TWIC ID Card/clearance, which should be interesting in and of itself.

It'll be interesting, if nothing else!

/hijack - back to discussion of forcible screwdriver to face of boss discussion

Wil they need all of your fingerprints for that?

They only ever recorded them for my right hand :la:

I think they need a single fingerprint. And the TSA site says expunged felonies shouldn't count... We shall see.

golf car FTW aaron :afrocool: I only want to stab my boss in the face when hes drunk and promises shit because i know its 0% true. he wont be happy when i tell him im going to work in NY for triple the pay ..

aaron, do I have a for sale ad for you!

Think about it, you could be on patrol on and off the job!
http://forums.780tuners.com/showthread. ... adid=77424

Why, when the Government will buy a brand new one for me, buy the gas to put in it, then pay me to drive it? I much prefer that. And in not too long, they'll one up even a new Crown Vic. Hemi FTW.