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Offline vorticon

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« Reply #30 on: October 09, 2006, 01:02:21 PM »
73, not including the hour before and after work where nothing happened.

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« Reply #31 on: October 09, 2006, 05:11:38 PM »
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Filth,
i belive data they give is time they spend at workplace, not really time they work


I see your point, out of my day depending on the schedule I could have any where from1 to 5 hours of actual down time.  The worse part is the hunger.  When you just pick up the new trainees you are watching them like a hawk when they eat chow and as soon as they are done you step to your next scheduled training event.  The first two weeks we are on the go constantly and when we are not physically with the trainees we have a ton of paperwork and extra dutys to attend to.  SO you are sleep deprived, malnurished and usually sick from being around the trainees and required to be perfect no matter what.

Somtimes it's more than hard not to lose your temper when dealing with these kids in that type of environment.  I've had to be pulled off a kid more than a few times because I was ready to punch him in throat but that's kinda normal around here.  ;)

To top it off we are all perfectionists so we mess with each other alot (rookies, myself being one) catch the brunt of it.  I think they could make a case study out of some of us.  Sleep deprivation induced terretts syndrome.   ;)
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« Reply #32 on: October 09, 2006, 05:42:13 PM »
thank god for log books. 70 hours in 8 days is the most i can work.:lol :rofl

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« Reply #33 on: October 09, 2006, 09:21:34 PM »
I bet it'll get easier Gun. I went through AF basic in '73. We had two TI's assigned to us. A tech and a buck sgt. They swapped off and we rarely saw them both at the same time.

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« Reply #34 on: October 09, 2006, 10:45:54 PM »
As a small business owner I used to bust 100 hours all summer long.  A couple weeks would probably hit 130.

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« Reply #35 on: October 09, 2006, 10:51:01 PM »
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152 hours.  Straight.


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« Reply #36 on: October 09, 2006, 11:32:17 PM »
The desire to not flunk out of college is stronger then any drug... For some people.


7 days and 6 nights of an architecture project.  I can say without any pride, our project kicked ass.
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« Reply #37 on: October 09, 2006, 11:44:17 PM »
Man...You sure left it to the last minute! jk...

Most time I ever spent studying for a single course in college was maybe four hours tops in one day...I was a very good note taker, and was able to retain most of the stuff I was taught, but I have since lost that ability, and now that I have graduated school I am a bum....=( I miss college
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« Reply #38 on: October 09, 2006, 11:47:56 PM »
Ya Ramsey Im a grunt, so usually when Im working its entails running pipe, and stuff, the other hours of planning and billing arent included.

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« Reply #39 on: October 10, 2006, 12:30:06 AM »
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Mine was last week.....worked 126 hours.  0400 to about 2130/2200 (4AM to 10 PM sunday to saturday.  I've been working this since the 26th and I'm pooped.  :(


After 60 hours, you realize your working for free arent you.

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« Reply #40 on: October 10, 2006, 07:01:49 AM »
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I think a lot of military and law enforcement and others like some medical and emergency people would say 168 -- 24/7, way more than they would like, because even their rest is subject to no-notice requirements.  


92 LA riots, that was 4 days pretty much non stop with cat naps here and there.

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« Reply #41 on: October 10, 2006, 07:13:22 AM »
Unfortunately, I had not left it to the last minute.  For about 3 weeks, I had spent roughly 3-5 evenings in the computer lab doing work on it.
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« Reply #42 on: October 10, 2006, 12:48:58 PM »
Back in the 70's I worked for the forest service during the (at the time) worst fire season ever in the US. For 6 weeks we loaded trucks and planes with equipment for the lines. The first week it was 12 on 12 off with a day off every 4th shift. In week 5 every time you finished a load you just passed out right where you were till the next truck or plane needed loading. There is little doubt in my mind that I (nor anyone else who stuck it out) did not get a full 20 hours both eating and sleeping that entire week. I went from 200 lbs down to 175 in that one week ... I do not think that I have ever felt closer to dying just from sheer exhaustion.
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« Reply #43 on: October 10, 2006, 10:29:48 PM »
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After 60 hours, you realize your working for free arent you.


I'm sure if you took the civilian equivilant pay to my salery I'd be working for free after about 20 or 30.  :(

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« Reply #44 on: October 11, 2006, 05:01:40 AM »
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Mine was last week.....worked 126 hours.  0400 to about 2130/2200 (4AM to 10 PM sunday to saturday.  I've been working this since the 26th and I'm pooped.  :( [/QUOTE

im about the same...