Thread: Rant time!

Perhaps the find on eBay thread is telling you the answer . One down and many more to go. Could be a stimulus to the economy. Create extra work for undertakers and the like , free up housing etc. Remember it is for the good of the nation.

Originally Posted by rick130

Retirees.....

They're at home all week, just cruising around, but early Sunday morning out come the whipper snipper, blower, etc at 9:00am after I've got to bed at 2:00am from work....

I'm sure that's mitigating circumstances, isn't it? A jury would let me off?

I did night shift for 15 years and i could tell you how many neighbours , council workers , Garbos , door knockers , id like to have killed
My neighbour is a highway cop he works a lot of nights but his wife is a nazy for noise .

My whole opinion has changed with her next door

Yes im considerate but you get paid extra to do the hours to compensate you .

I my self now work alot of hours during the week and what i cant do during the week i can only do on weekends .

So i pick my time and try and be considerate but when this nazy next door appears ranting and raving i let loose with he gets a paid extra loading for night shift and i ask her when would you like me to finnish my weekend work 3.00 am ! now **** off end of story not ever a word from Hubby.

Mate all i can ad is in 15 years of nights you never get used to it , You get used to not sleeping

We do crazy hours when on call, so you can work all day and most of the night.
It's not scheduled, they are emergency breakdowns.
Bloody Supermarkets.....

I'm not even on call this week/weekend, had just got to bed and my workmate rang.
He got smashed yesterday, he started at 8:30 and hadn't stopped.
He was at Mullumbimby trying to get a CO2 rack going and a call came in at Lismore.
We look after Woolies, Coles after hours, Aldi and IGA.
One week not too long ago I did 30 hours OT, most of that were night/early morning callouts.

It keeps me off the streets....

Originally Posted by trog

Perhaps the find on eBay thread is telling you the answer . One down and many more to go. Could be a stimulus to the economy. Create extra work for undertakers and the like , free up housing etc. Remember it is for the good of the nation.

I like the way you think...

It sounds like your company doesn't have a fatigue policy either. Hopefully for all concerned no one has an accident while on the clock after doing those sort of hours. Assuming you get a 10 hour break between shifts or someone will probably end up in the clink if one of you are seriously injured on the job. ☹️

I to used to work stupid hours but even the smaller companies I've worked for won't let us do the 24 or 30 hour stints we used to (14 hours max now including travel - if you look like you'll go longer they will replace you with someone who has hours to spare anyway) or allow anyone at work who hasn't had a 10 hour break.

Hope you get the sleep you need soon. 👍

What do the local bylaws say for noise on Sunday morning? I thought they were 10am.

Originally Posted by Homestar

It sounds like your company doesn't have a fatigue policy either. Hopefully for all concerned no one has an accident while on the clock after doing those sort of hours. Assuming you get a 10 hour break between shifts or someone will probably end up in the clink if one of you are seriously injured on the job. ️

I to used to work stupid hours but even the smaller companies I've worked for won't let us do the 24 or 30 hour stints we used to (14 hours max now including travel - if you look like you'll go longer they will replace you with someone who has hours to spare anyway) or allow anyone at work who hasn't had a 10 hour break.

Hope you get the sleep you need soon.

They're pretty good about making sure we have stand down if you've done an all nighter, but there's only three of us working out of this branch and so we tend to back each other up when we need to, then tell head office about it after.
There's been a few mornings where I've been flicking emails and making calls and get "why aren't your still in bed?"

That last week I got smashed the Service Manager made it known to everyone in head office I was not to be contacted at all on the Friday afternoon or over the weekend
Regardless of what was happening, I was going home at beer o'clock.
We'd had a major Woolies breakdown that day, they pulled one tech back from Brisbane and they got out of there near 11:00pm that night.

... and I thought you went up there just to go surfin'