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ScreaminE
ScreaminE HalfDork
10/24/14 11:50 a.m.

Just found out I'm working long days Saturday and Sunday after getting my butt kicked all week. Grading companies stop for no one.

Any weekend plans gone. Wife is pissed because she gets no break from being home with 2 kids under 2.

Berk-lee.

/end rant.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
10/24/14 12:04 p.m.

Look at the bright side - some of us have to spend the weekend with our wives and children.

yamaha
yamaha UltimaDork
10/24/14 12:07 p.m.

In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:

And some of us have to operate large machinery while lacking sleep and choking to death on soybean particulate so those bastard vegetarians can have their tofo.

neon4891
neon4891 UltimaDork
10/24/14 12:31 p.m.

Work retail. Weekends are a fevered dream.

ScreaminE
ScreaminE HalfDork
10/24/14 12:34 p.m.
neon4891 wrote: Work retail. Weekends are a fevered dream.

Worked every single weekend from 10-12th grade in high school. It motivated enough to choose a degree that wouldn't require me to work consistent weekends.

patgizz
patgizz GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
10/24/14 12:45 p.m.

don't feel too bad my $2014 entry form is still pinned up in the kitchen and my car is in pieces in the garage.

stuart in mn
stuart in mn PowerDork
10/24/14 12:59 p.m.

I've worked about 50% of my weekends this year; I don't like it either, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

Swank Force One
Swank Force One MegaDork
10/24/14 1:06 p.m.
patgizz wrote: don't feel too bad my $2014 entry form is still pinned up in the kitchen and my car is in pieces in the garage.

You too, huh?

I'm just going to work on it all winter. Screw this last minute bullE36 M3.

Toyman01
Toyman01 GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
10/24/14 1:07 p.m.

I do weekends, evenings and holidays, 24/7. At $145 an hour. Needless to say, it doesn't happen often.

novaderrik
novaderrik PowerDork
10/24/14 6:12 p.m.
yamaha wrote: In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker: And some of us have to operate large machinery while lacking sleep and choking to death on soybean particulate so those bastard vegetarians can have their tofo.

look at the bright side: you are pretty much a farmer that actually makes a decent profit for the time you put in..

one of my cousins works for a company that does what you are doing. he was bragging about how much money he's going to be making over the next few months working pretty much 24/7 until all the crops are in... i did some quick math in my head and pointed out to him that i was going to be making almost as much as him over the same period of time, and i will still get 3 day weekends..

fasted58
fasted58 PowerDork
10/24/14 6:32 p.m.

Been working 3-4 weeks in a row before a weekend off.

One of our supplier plants had a fire so production was cut back... and no weekends.

I am not complaining.

ScreaminE
ScreaminE HalfDork
10/24/14 7:13 p.m.

I guess I shouldn't complain. I'm blessed with a great job that has no end in sight.

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/24/14 7:32 p.m.

I work entertainment for a living.. I work so the rest of you can play..

The Canadian
The Canadian New Reader
10/24/14 8:52 p.m.

atlleast you could have weekend plans. I work weekends, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night from 11pm-4am. driving drunk people home. some days it is crazy slow like working Canadian thanksgiving weekend, and other weekends is really busy... i'll trade some of you for sure.

Ian F
Ian F UltimaDork
10/24/14 9:25 p.m.
neon4891 wrote: Work retail. Weekends are a fevered dream.

Yep... I worked retail for enough years to appreciate my M-F job now.

I have to work next Sat. It'll be the first time I've worked on a weekend in... I don't know how many years. I'll live. And since we really don't have budgets to work O/T, it just means I'll comp a day during the week.

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/24/14 11:50 p.m.

Working this weekend too. The way this month's schedule fell I'm working ten straight days but so far it's all been nights so I can't complain. The last few weeks I'd been bouncing from shift to shift.

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/25/14 8:31 a.m.

we have Motley Crue in at the Borgata This weekend.. did 16 hours yesterday and will do another 10 or 12 tonight for Show, out, and restore.

Gotta love a place that does not mind paying OT for a good cause

patgizz
patgizz GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
10/25/14 8:35 a.m.
mad_machine wrote: Gotta love a place that does not mind paying OT for a good cause

i wouldn't exactly call motley crüe a good cause

moparman76_69
moparman76_69 SuperDork
10/25/14 10:45 a.m.

Today is one of the local pick n pulls half off day. I planned on playing hookie from work for an hour and looking for seats for the Daytona. Instead I'm at home achy, sore, and expunging something from my nose the color of the beigest of camries.

yamaha
yamaha UltimaDork
10/25/14 12:39 p.m.

In reply to novaderrik:

The 3mo or so I do this pays my rent/utilities for the year. And thanks to prices being artificially suppressed again, fertilizer and seed at all time highs, we're probably going to see a bunch of people in the hole this season. When corn spiked a couple years ago, and everyone screamed bloody murder about ethanol driving up prices.....that was due to the department of Ag flat out lying about yields that didn't exist. They do it every year.

yamaha
yamaha UltimaDork
10/25/14 12:41 p.m.

In reply to mad_machine:

A friend of mine in FL just worked setup for them down there last week.

novaderrik
novaderrik PowerDork
10/25/14 5:03 p.m.
patgizz wrote:
mad_machine wrote: Gotta love a place that does not mind paying OT for a good cause
i wouldn't exactly call motley crüe a good cause

but it's their last and final tour forever and ever for reals this time...

Ian F
Ian F UltimaDork
10/25/14 5:04 p.m.
novaderrik wrote:
patgizz wrote:
mad_machine wrote: Gotta love a place that does not mind paying OT for a good cause
i wouldn't exactly call motley crüe a good cause
but it's their last and final tour forever and ever for reals this time...

they even, like, signed a contract and stuff...

Unfortunately, Mick Mars (who's considerably older than the other 3) has ankylosing spondylitis which has been getting worse over the last few years, so while he can still play, it's doubtful he'll be able to tour for much longer.

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
10/25/14 11:45 p.m.

Weekend? It's just a bullE36 M3 word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a E36 M3.

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/25/14 11:52 p.m.

Trying to make lemons into lemonade. I had to work a Saturday night but since it was still short skirt weather and lots of halloween costumes were out so I got to take in the sights.

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