[Closed] How many of you on strike just worked a 90+hr week like my City team...

but what do you do.

Yawn

Looking fwd to a day out at Glentress tomorrow :D:D:D:D

how many people have rescued from a flat fire and have performed cpr on this week?

I wouldn't do a 90 hr week. I care about my health both mental and physical

I would just like an answer to the question.

Does that make you an "asky person" ? 😉

Do one virgil.

jhw - Member

I would just like an answer to the question.

Why?

Well it is a relief to the rest of us that there are still chaps like you working so hard for the good of [s]society[/s] your own pockets.

I'm really very to the left and am not making a political point here.

I would just like to know, though. Over a third of my salary went to the taxman this month, and I'm actually struggling to make ends meet (despite being City).

What is the moral basis for civil servants/public sector having a better pension and greater job security? (that's not a rhetorical question - I'm genuinely interested to hear answers).

Law.

I manage to do a proper job in 37.5

A lawyer - that explains a few things.

You win the most hours worked in a week award, I sadly for this willy waving competition have a balance between my family, work and reality so can't enter.

Ps what on earth do you do that requires that much time, slave to the pound?

You've chosen to drive yourself into the ground in a (hopefully) very well paid profession - please don't complain about those who have chosen just to be 'comfortable', who have also worked hard to get where they are and just maybe have solid moral and altruistic reasons for choosing a career (not striking - small business owner). Go vent yer spleen elsewhere.

so how effectively do you think someone is working by the 85th hour of a 90 hour week?

As above. If you're not good enough to do your job in around 40 hours...you should consider additional training/coaching.

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Law.

I agree, criminals should work at least a 90hr week!

90 hours a week? You need to take a long, hard look at yourselves.

Get a life sums it up perfectly.

APF

Most of us are not that stupid and most public servants would not be allowed to do that as the consequences of the mistakes they would make being that overtired are that people would die.

This is why doctors are limited by law to a 48 hr week for example.

there is no excuse for a 90 hr week - your productivity will have fallen to virtually zero, your health both physical and mental will suffer.

Must be a very easy job that you could even contemplate that many hours

You are breaking the law as well.

I would choose to do something "comfortable" if I could, in a second - but I can't go public sector because there are no vacancies because all the jobs are occupied by unsackable people many of whom are way less qualified than me.

I'm doing this because I have to, not out of choice. How do you morally justify being insulated from the socio-economic pressures the rest of us are subject to?

TandemJeremy - Member
I wouldn't do a 90 hr week. I care about my health both mental and physical

i'd worry about the mental and physical health of your patients if you did a 90 hour week

jhw ,but what do you do, bed tester, sleep analyser,sperm donor etc

Looking fwd to a day out at Glentress tomorrow :D:D:D:D

I'm glad I'm working, the trail centres will be rammed with workshy fannies 🙄

I only did 39 hrs but 2 colleagues were stabbed, another (female)punched in the face, another had a broken eye socket from another incident, a prisoner covered himself in his own faeces & had to be dragged out of his cell... the list this week is endless.
90 hrs? did it all the time when I was self employed.
Why, are you complaining about something?

Wot is a "City Team"?
Wot does a "City Team" do?

Are we supposed to know?

90 hours a week?

Have you considered getting a life?

Indeed trailmonkey - I would probably have exploded under stress 🙂

70 hour weeks are part of my rota, I used to do 84 hour weeks when I was on a 12 hour rota. How many of your team are getting paid less than 22k?

Cup of tea anyone?

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Bravo for you

that over a fortnights work 😯 and we get a better pension, have a life outside of work, spend time with our loved ones and egta warm glow from helping people an making the world a better place...thanks for making the money that keeps me working and powers the UK economy GAWD bless the City

I know - the hours are obscene - but it's a tough job market out there and I have to take it. As does literally every other lawyer I know.

So why is it one rule for us and one rule for the public sector?

And why is the City seen as not entitled to £££ given the sacrifice we make? (i.e. everything. See my thread last night about asky dudes - do you have any idea how tough it is to score when you're working like this??!)

Sorry, but you made your choices when you started your career, as did your counterparts who chose less money (for whatever reasons) and the promise of a slightly better pension plan. Zero sympathy - and my wee brother's a lawyer too!

Bullshine you are doing it out of necessity and utter nonsense you are struggling to make ends meet as a city lawyer.

You are breaking the law.