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I don't think he went home after working that long. He'd probably just collapse to the floor and sleep until it was time to ruin himself for the company's profit.
I get that some jobs require certain attention (like you said, heavy industry. You don't cool down that chimney once it reaches temperature), but in his case? What on earth could justify that?
And even in your case, that's a failure of planning. If one person has to work THAT MANY hours it's obviously not a one person job.
You’re not wrong, but in the commercial/industrial building trades, we welcome it from time to time. I made about $3500usd that week. After taxes. The contractors count on the fact that we want some crazy overtime here and there, it’s the reason most people in my line of work have boats and shit.
In banking? You’re right, there’s no justification. You’re not going to flood an entire suburb or have a steel plant go kaboom if you stop crunching the numbers at the bank.
Yeah, I've been there as well. But the older I get the more I hate companies counting on their staff to pull them out of their failed strategy. It's great if it's a once every few months event, but bosses tend to get too comfy with it, at least it was like that for me. And in my first job they didn't even pay that much.
Yeah. I hear you. But, when you’re already making $40+ an hour, time and half makes it $60+, and Sunday double time makes it $80+.
I’m sure you can see the allure. You can make a lot of problems go away with that kind of money.
And that’s really the key. It should cost them a lot to put us in those scenarios. That’s why you need a good strong union.
100% agree.