I am working 6 days a week, 60 hours atleast for $42,000

[La Lioness Priyanka]

who thinks this is ridiculous?

[jpgray]

1. Where do you live?

Hard to judge, otherwise--sounds like a bad deal to me so far, however.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. new york

but when i say 60 hours at least thats what i mean it often goes up to 70

[jpgray]

9. As in the city!? Then you are homeless or in a refrigerator box

:D

But for upstate, that's perfectly livable, I suppose. 70 hours a week over six days is a little extreme, however. :(

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. i live with my wife

so we are ok...i just think i am getting thoroughly overworked

[dryan]

2. Maybe you are better off than you think!

My husband and I are both college graduates and don't make this combined! We also have two home run businesses.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. See my post in the lounge.....

Yes, it's ridiculous. The Europeans are laughing their asses off at us for believing in the corporate lie-dream and working so damn much for so little reward......

Right now, I work 72 hours a week, and earn a combined incoome from two jobs of about 28,000 a year. And that's not enough moolah to save for going back to school, which I wanna do so bad, so I can get my degree and be in your shoes......

[Snow]

4. Does that work out to less than minmum wage on an hourly

basis? The way corporations treat salaried employees is outrageous. This is why we see even university professors getting unionized....then of course the univ. admins get around it by pulling in what my wife calls "back-pack peddlers" - the part-time faculty.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. no it doesnt

but everytime i get a raise my work hours become ridiculous...making my raise null and void

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. If you're on salary, this is what they'll tell you:

You've signed on to do the work for a set $ amount. How long it takes you to do the work is irrelevant, and not protected by law.

[RandomKoolzip]

12. Right, and the OT laws changed.....

So you might even SLEEP at your job, and not get paid for the extra 20 or so hours a week you get paid. It's fucking outrageous, like they want a return to the McKinley era or something.


I DO know that they don't want us to have any free time for ourselves...they remember the sixties, when it was cheap to live, and they don't want another sixties.

[demsrule4life]

7. My wife makes 52,000

doing 40 hours a week. She makes more then I do with my 40 hours and my AirForce retirement pay. But I'm not complaining, I don't mind the woman making more money then me. :)

[librechik]

8. My husband got scheduled 12 days without a break

and it's a union job. Yes, it's ridiculous. The foreman is the union steward!

He wouldn't mind, he says, except that it's ski season!

[arcane1]

13. that sucks

I don't make much more than that, but the hours you are putting in are terrible :(

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. also living in nyc aint cheap

[arcane1]

18. amen to that sister

living in SF can be rough too..

what kind of work are you doing? Do you get overtime?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. constantly working OT

and not getting paid...i manager CS and OPS for a company

[arcane1]

21. oh yeah, I know that gig...

I don't earn OT either, though fortunately I haven't had to deal with going over 40... maybe an hour every other week. Otherwise I would be hating it...

sounds like you could find another gig, with management experience... heck we are usually always hring where I work, though our NY office is kind of small...

if you are thinking of looking for another job, at least you have a great support group here! :)

[tjwash]

14. I quit my last job because of that same BS you are describing.

They took me off hourly and put me on salary.I immediately did the math and found I was losing about 10-15k a year in overtime. Sucks when it happens, but you have no choice but to quit. Update the resume, and start sending, sending, sending, and be patient. It took about a year of hustling to interviews, and filtering out garbage jobs that were exactly the same as one I was currently in. Now I still work six days a week, and am constantly on call, but at least I get paid the dollar and have a few decent bennies.

[Loonman]

15. I'll be right back......

I'm gonna run home and get my violin so I can play you a little tune.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. any particular need for sarcasm?

[dsc]

20. My sister works close to your hours

for around 25k. Though the cost of living here is way, way, less than NYC.

[supernova]

22. Been looking for a job for 1.5 years

Yeah. So, I'd be happy to get anything at this point.

I was just looking at the bills piling up and it ain't lookin' good. :-(

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. i am sorry about the unemployment

but i still think that 65 hours is a bit much unless you are making double of what i am

[supernova]

27. Well, the hours are one thing

but really. I'd give anything to have that problem right now.

Be thankful you have a job. There is very little out there. And it doesn't matter what a stellar employee you are.

[cap]

24. how about bringing back the 8 hour day?????

what ever has happened to us that we think that 60 hr weeks are "normal"?

Women have a problem working 60 hr weeks because they are generally the ones stuck with child rearing. Remember the 8 hour work week was done on behalf of women. Once men figured out that an 8 hour work week was a good thing, they latched onto it, too.

[stanwyck]

25. Employers hold all the cards

these days. Really. I have half the benefits now that I had when I got my first "real" job after college. Plus, I work at least 10-12 hours more a week. The Bushies will make overtime pay (which I don't receive) a relic of bygone evil union days. Productivity is rewarded with downsizing and outsourcing or the hiring of someone "less expensive". My husband lost his job after hitting his company's platinum club and bringing in over 175% of his quota. The reason? After five years of struggling to sell the company's new products, he was finally reaping the benefits of his hard work...so he was entitled to the rewards of the always out of reach quota commissions. Well, he reached it. Here's your platinum club award. Goodbye. Same to others on his team. The rationale was, hey...if this stuff is selling so well, why do we need you? Guess it was just a coincidence he's turning 50 this year and was two weeks shy of the 5-yr. service mark which would entitle him to a paid sabatical plus increased benefits. Yes, I'm bitter. We're disposable now. The Bushies will reduce this entire country's workforce to minimum wage drones.

[DrWeird]

26. I work 7 days a week, 80 hours a week, 5 yrs straight, $18,000.

But then again it's grad school.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

28. yes but i expect that from grad school

[La Lioness Priyanka]

29. what are you going to grad school for?