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Currently working eight days a week because the company I'm employed by doesn't like to say no...

(BTW the above is based on an average working day of 7.5 hours - so there are 8 working days in a week)
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Erudite wrote:Currently working eight days a week because the company I'm employed by doesn't like to say no...

(BTW the above is based on an average working day of 7.5 hours - so there are 8 working days in a week)
European working hours directive any help to you?
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markfiend wrote:
Erudite wrote:Currently working eight days a week because the company I'm employed by doesn't like to say no...

(BTW the above is based on an average working day of 7.5 hours - so there are 8 working days in a week)
European working hours directive any help to you?
I signed a waiver some years back - doh!

I am at least being paid for the OT, which helps.
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Even with a waiver, you can't be made to work more than a 48-hour-week on average averaged out over a 17-week period.

And you can give 7-days notice to cancel the waiver unilaterally.

(Source)

Bear in mind, I am not a lawyer, do not treat this as legal advice blah blah blah etc.
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Yeah, my understanding is that waiver be-damned, it's the law and if your employer tried to enforce the waiver they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
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CPOB being kept awake most of last night by some of the finer specimens of inner city youth having a fight on the street outside.

It started something like this:

Scumbag 1: "Don't come near me, I swear on me ma's grave!" (remember that phrase, it's important).
Scumbag 2: "I swear on me ma's grave I'll bleedin' burst ya!"

This goes on for about half an hour, each of them swearing on their ma's grave that XYZ. Whether their mothers are actually in fact alive doesn't seem to matter much here, by the way.

Roundabout then Scumbag 3 joins the party. There's some muttering and vague incoherent yelling, then we get:

Scumbag 3: "I'd even swear it on your ma's grave".

At this point Scumbag 2 goes - for want of a better word - utterly ballistic.

Scumbag 2: "You've got some neck! You've got some bleedin' neck! Swearing it on my ma's bleedin' grave! You've got your own bleedin' family, swear it on your own ma's bleedin' grave! You've got some neck!"

Scumbag 1 and Scumbag 3 seem to drift off, leaving Scumbag 2 hollering "you've got some neck" into the darkness.

After a short while there's the sound of crying, with the sobs punctuated by the words "swearing on my ma's grave".

After another short while Scumbag 2 obviously makes a phone call, and can be heard saying "yeah, come in and pick me up". But that obviously isn't enough, as he then tells the joyous recipient of the call "do you know what yer man did? He swore on my ma's grave! He's got some bleedin' neck!"

And to finish it all off, he starts hollering into the darkness again.

"YOU'VE GOT SOME NECK!"

So half of me was laughing my head off at this, the other half just wanted to take potshots at them with an air rifle. Ended up completely zonked all day.

I hate Paddy's Day. :evil:
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sorry for yer grief our man Michael but I rather enjoyed that tale and shall be using the term "you've got some neck" at every opportunity :lol:
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Erudite wrote:
markfiend wrote:
Erudite wrote:Currently working eight days a week because the company I'm employed by doesn't like to say no...

(BTW the above is based on an average working day of 7.5 hours - so there are 8 working days in a week)
European working hours directive any help to you?
I signed a waiver some years back - doh!

I am at least being paid for the OT, which helps.
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@mh You poor bugger. Hope you get a better sleep tonight :/
Amusing story tho :lol:
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James Blast wrote:sorry for yer grief our man Michael but I rather enjoyed that tale and shall be using the term "you've got some neck" at every opportunity :lol:
Really? I put it to you sir, that you, without further consideration have yourself, so to do, got some neck..




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Failing to notice Motorhead are playing Aberdeen - event is now sold out! :(

Guess I'll just have to go down to Glasgow instead...
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Erudite wrote:Failing to notice Motorhead are playing Aberdeen - event is now sold out! :(

Guess I'll just have to go down to Glasgow instead...
That's if we'll have you :P
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boudicca wrote:
Erudite wrote:Failing to notice Motorhead are playing Aberdeen - event is now sold out! :(

Guess I'll just have to go down to Glasgow instead...
That's if we'll have you :P
Like you, he just keeps turning up :wink: :kiss:
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boudicca wrote:
Erudite wrote:Failing to notice Motorhead are playing Aberdeen - event is now sold out! :(

Guess I'll just have to go down to Glasgow instead...
That's if we'll have you :P
Don't worry, I've learned my lesson after the last time. :lol: :wink:
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Truly, I must have sinned terribly in a former life!

I'll try and keep this as brief as possible:

Customer asks for job for May 25.
About four weeks ago, well into said job, customer realises that they require a different mod to the database which requires to be done prior to mod already under way and delivered for May 13. To add insult to injury, they would also like a third mod delivered about a month after the original one.
Database is rolled back, work begins afresh and about a week into it customer decides that they would like the new mod combined with the original but delivered, of course, for the earlier date.
Being the department "expert" in said system, shit naturally rolls in my direction and many evenings are spent at work trying to pull latest rabbit from hat.
Five to five this evening, customer phones to inform me that they will not be ready for the combined mod and would now like to go with the first variation.

Great big hairy arse biscuits!
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that's just business as usual for me, especially at 'year end'
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Erudite wrote:Truly, I must have sinned terribly in a former life!

I'll try and keep this as brief as possible:

Customer asks for job for May 25.
About four weeks ago, well into said job, customer realises that they require a different mod to the database which requires to be done prior to mod already under way and delivered for May 13. To add insult to injury, they would also like a third mod delivered about a month after the original one.
Database is rolled back, work begins afresh and about a week into it customer decides that they would like the new mod combined with the original but delivered, of course, for the earlier date.
Being the department "expert" in said system, shit naturally rolls in my direction and many evenings are spent at work trying to pull latest rabbit from hat.
Five to five this evening, customer phones to inform me that they will not be ready for the combined mod and would now like to go with the first variation.

Great big hairy arse biscuits!
That sounds about normal Don. Customers. Can't live with them, can't encase them in 2 tons of fast drying cement and deposit them in a festering cesspool.
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Erudite wrote:
Great big hairy arse biscuits!
sorry, didn't quite catch that :lol: :notworthy:
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mh wrote: Customers. Can't live with them, can't encase them in 2 tons of fast drying cement and deposit them in a festering cesspool.

F*ck yeah to that. I do not miss working in retail :urff:
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weebleswobble wrote:
Erudite wrote:
Great big hairy arse biscuits!
sorry, didn't quite catch that :lol: :notworthy:
:lol: :lol:
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mh wrote: That sounds about normal Don. Customers. Can't live with them, can't encase them in 2 tons of fast drying cement and deposit them in a festering cesspool.
Ours, having to control a great big chunk of the national electricity network, are normally less fickle and a damn sight more responsible.

At least they were until someone thought they should be divided up into four regional alliances who, naturally, don't talk to one another. :roll:

Little wonder I'm rapidly going grey...

Still, the weekend approaches and methinks the doctor will definitely be in!
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Erudite wrote:
mh wrote: That sounds about normal Don. Customers. Can't live with them, can't encase them in 2 tons of fast drying cement and deposit them in a festering cesspool.
Ours, having to control a great big chunk of the national electricity network, are normally less fickle and a damn sight more responsible.

At least they were until someone thought they should be divided up into four regional alliances who, naturally, don't talk to one another. :roll:

Little wonder I'm rapidly going grey...

Still, the weekend approaches and methinks the doctor will definitely be in!
That's mild, believe me. :evil:

Mine would be a waste of a good wall. And good bullets. Someday I'll tell you about the full horror, when the pain is a little more distant... :lol:
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I've long maintained that the revolution will have to be held in China - it's the only place with a long enough wall! :lol:
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I'm supposed to be building a shopping website on top of a pre-existing products database. Due by the end of next week. I haven't even got the db schema yet, never mind any actual data.

Nor have I got the client's bank details (to integrate online payment) or all sorts of stuff.

I'm going to be busy next week...
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