Ahh. Nice relaxing ride home! 🙂
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What would happen if you were sick or on holiday?
The boss covers me. There is no-one else
As regards the 48 hr week – you are probably there already as it does not include most break time – you need to check carefully on that but I think it is the case
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. That's the 'shooting myself in the foot' part. But it's rare I gat a break every day. I'll have had 2 lunch breaks this week. Again, no cover….. But that's the way of the real world sadly.
what happens if someone's off sick? Does your place grind to a halt and stop work?
Yep. That does happen. If we get notice, we get a contracor in. But contractors aren't allowed to do my job. Only Hanson employees are allowed access to the computer system
But having it planned into the working week has got the be just bad management
Anyone that works in a 'normal' job in an office simply doesn't understand the construction industry. 55 hours is a standard working week. End of story. Our supervisor does 65-70 every week. That's just what you do. That's how you all get your houses and offices and roads built. Remember that then next time you see a bored bloke in a hi-vis jacket leaning on a shovel smoking when you're sitting in traffic. He does a really crap job with really crap hours.
I've done well getting Saturdays off. Any more will be seriously pushing my luck. It's nothing at all to do with bad managemnet, it's simply the world we work in. It's not a 2 bit outfit I work for, Hanson has 6000 employees in the UK alone, and it's a big multinational.
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Anyway, I had a quick chat with one of the oter blokes before I left and he donesn't care about me taking Saturdays off, which is what I wanted to hear – I don't wanna piss my workmates off. Our quarry doesn't have long left to run (Months not years) so we all need to be careful…..