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Post by Taanz on Jul 22, 2009 20:40:45 GMT -5
Hey all, just lettin ya know i'm still alive, I'll be around some this coming weekend. Since sunday at 5pm til today i've worked 64 hours already... yes, 64 hours in 4 days. *boss holds up a sign that says PWNED!* so yeah i'm gonna be recovering whenever I can, gotta work tomorrow but it's easy stuff BUT after that I snagged me 2 days off so expect me to be online harassing people!  miss yall! |
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Post by SantsDeLaSants on Jul 23, 2009 7:59:38 GMT -5
We miss you too, don't get burned out
cya this weekend
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Post by Koti on Jul 24, 2009 2:17:17 GMT -5
U legally wouldn't be allowed to work that many hours in the uk! Look after you self dude
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Post by Taanz on Jul 24, 2009 10:29:46 GMT -5
its all good, i read the small pring ;p i drive tractor trailers as a part of my job, so after working 14 hours i can't drive anymore until 10 hours off (per day) and after 70 hours in a week i can't drive anymore until i get 24 hours off. Sad thing is, I love my job lol. Like everything else ya just get agitated sometimes. most i've worked is out west 2 years ago at 119 hrs a week, was only there 3 weeks tho.
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Post by Taanz on Jul 24, 2009 10:33:35 GMT -5
a little background on the job tho. such as sunday at 5pm we drove out to the natural gas well they were drilling, hooked up most of what we could then waited for them to finish putting the pipe in the ground (12,500 ft of it) this took them from when we got there at 1030pm until 8am tuesday morning. So that entire time I just laid in the truck (there's a bed the size of a twin bed) playing video games, listening to the radio, and a whole lot of nothing (still on the clock getting paid) So i pretty much camped out in a truck for 2 days. Bad side is no cell signal, no running water, nothing. Then Tuesday morning when they were ready at 8am we finished hooking up did our job and was back at home at 1pm. So out of 44 straight hours we only really worked like 5 hours and drove 4.
in a perfect world we would leave the shop, do the job and be back in 10-12 hrs... never happens, since we moved here in may the shortest day has been 18 hours.
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Post by Koti on Jul 24, 2009 11:36:19 GMT -5
ah i get it now lol
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Post by WormWood on Jul 24, 2009 17:18:47 GMT -5
Getting paid to play games. I don't feel as bad about the hours you work now.
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Post by Taanz on Jul 24, 2009 17:31:15 GMT -5
lol if i had cell signal where we went it wouldn't be so bad, or if i could get on the wifi on the wells... but the companies put a lock on them not to long ago lol. But I have the same mentality wormwood... still our turnover rate we only keep like 1 out of every 20 hires.
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Post by WormWood on Jul 25, 2009 1:47:54 GMT -5
The time away from family would be hard. I can see why there is a high turnover.
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Post by Taanz on Jul 25, 2009 8:43:17 GMT -5
yeah, driving conditions are the worst in the world where we go so that gets alot of people, time away from home really blows and i have the job where i'm home the most. Other guys make way more cash but are gone weeks at a time.
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miss yall!
