How can someone work 200+ hours in two weeks

[Mill]

These foreign workers at work... One had 186 hours before he clocked in today, and the other had 150. The 186 guy probably worked 14-16 hours today, so he is going to hit 200 hours. How can anyone possibly do that. Sure they are here on a tourist/workers visa from Turkey and/or Bulgaria, but how can anyone work those hours? I'd get burn out so bad that I'd have to kill myself. I could pull a 60-70 hour week, but not 100 hours. That's just absurd and possibly crazy.

 

[Anubis]

thats only 14.5 hours a week, not that bad, and if you need money you can do whatever you need

 

[kalster]

I am a foreigner (on a work visa), I find your post very offensive :frown:

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Anubis
thats only 14.5 hours a week, not that bad, and if you need money you can do whatever you need

But they don't even get benefits or overtime.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Mill
These foreign workers at work... One had 186 hours before he clocked in today, and the other had 150. The 186 guy probably worked 14-16 hours today, so he is going to hit 200 hours. How can anyone possibly do that. Sure they are here on a tourist/workers visa from Turkey and/or Bulgaria, but how can anyone work those hours? I'd get burn out so bad that I'd have to kill myself. I could pull a 60-70 hour week, but not 100 hours. That's just absurd and possibly crazy.

Need for $ and dedication Mill

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Anubis
thats only 14.5 hours a week, not that bad, and if you need money you can do whatever you need

But they don't even get benefits or overtime.

are they forced to do it? if not then let it be

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Anubis
thats only 14.5 hours a week, not that bad, and if you need money you can do whatever you need

But they don't even get benefits or overtime.

are they forced to do it? if not then let it be

I'm not complaining because I think it is wrong. I find it surprising more than anything. The wages they make are well above what they need for where they are living in Birmingham. They are incredibly nice, efficient, trustworthy, and awesome people, but I can't see working that many hours.

 

[UNCjigga]

hmmm...insourcing sweatshops into the US? That's new.

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Anubis
thats only 14.5 hours a week, not that bad, and if you need money you can do whatever you need

But they don't even get benefits or overtime.

are they forced to do it? if not then let it be

I'm not complaining because I think it is wrong. I find it surprising more than anything. The wages they make are well above what they need for where they are living in Birmingham. They are incredibly nice, efficient, trustworthy, and awesome people, but I can't see working that many hours.

maybe they have more commitment and/or need for extra money than you do

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: kalster

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Anubis
thats only 14.5 hours a week, not that bad, and if you need money you can do whatever you need

But they don't even get benefits or overtime.

are they forced to do it? if not then let it be

I'm not complaining because I think it is wrong. I find it surprising more than anything. The wages they make are well above what they need for where they are living in Birmingham. They are incredibly nice, efficient, trustworthy, and awesome people, but I can't see working that many hours.

maybe they have more commitment and/or need for extra money than you do

Risk vs Reward, IMO. 200 hours a week would have to have me making over 100k. Getting paid 6.00 an hour simply wouldn't cut it. Sure it is a blessing for them because the money will help sponsor their trip and give them cash to take back home. However, I'd at least want to enjoy my time here. Trust me, their rooms or apartments are very cheap and they are making tons of cash. I just couldn't see working that much and basically being a slave. 75 hours a week? Sure. It'd be tough but I'd do it. 100 hours a week? No way in hell.

 

[bigalt]

you have to do that for some time on the way to being a doctor, pretty much. at least a 100 hour week every now and then.

how can people do it? they're made of different stuff than i.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: kalster

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: Anubis
thats only 14.5 hours a week, not that bad, and if you need money you can do whatever you need

But they don't even get benefits or overtime.

are they forced to do it? if not then let it be

I'm not complaining because I think it is wrong. I find it surprising more than anything. The wages they make are well above what they need for where they are living in Birmingham. They are incredibly nice, efficient, trustworthy, and awesome people, but I can't see working that many hours.

maybe they have more commitment and/or need for extra money than you do

Risk vs Reward, IMO. 200 hours a week would have to have me making over 100k. Getting paid 6.00 an hour simply wouldn't cut it. Sure it is a blessing for them because the money will help sponsor their trip and give them cash to take back home. However, I'd at least want to enjoy my time here. Trust me, their rooms or apartments are very cheap and they are making tons of cash. I just couldn't see working that much and basically being a slave. 75 hours a week? Sure. It'd be tough but I'd do it. 100 hours a week? No way in hell.

For you Mill, it's not worth it, for them it is seen as an opportunity IMO

 

[PHiuR]

they work because the pay here is alot higher than what they would be getting at home...ALOT more.

 

[Feldenak]

I've done it. Working 100 hrs in a week fellates a beast of burden. I was a summer worker at a steel mill and was saving money to head back to school in the fall. We were having a massive maintenance down cycle and the hours were there for the taking (they sent you home when you hit 20 hrs). We were replacing concrete shop floors, rebricking furnaces, relaying railroad tracks in the scrap yard, etc... Since my dad worked at the mill, he'd leave after he had his fill of overtime for the day and then bring me back a change of clothes from home when he came back to work the next day. I was sleeping in my car or the locker room since I didn't want to take the 40 minutes to drive home before sleeping.

 

[amdskip]

When the outages come around at the nuke plant my dad works at, he and everyone else works manditory 12 hour/7 days a week shifts. These usually last 30 days and happen a couple times a year.

 

[kalster]

Its a matter of choice, some people look at it as giving up the comforts and social activities and for some people its trying to make sure their kids (and family) back home have a better future, which is what drives them.

 

[dighn]

to them they are making a killing so they are probably enjoying it.

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: kalster
Its a matter of choice, some people look at it as giving up the comforts and social activities and for some people its trying to make sure their kids (and family) back home have a better future, which is what drives them.

pretty much. If you were sent to a foreign country to make what, to you, seems a ridiculously large amount of money, and knew you could only be there so long, i think you would work just as hard

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I've worked over 100 hours in one week before, (I got a week off after that weeks madness) it's really not that hard, but doing it week after week, there'd be no way I'd keep doing the same thing that much.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

eh, I've done 60, and that was plenty for me. no way I'd work 100 at the job I'm at now. I like my job and I want to keep it that way.

 

[StageLeft]

I guess working your ass off in the US is better than not having any job and eating ants in Bulgaria

I've yet to work more than 50 hours in a week personally. It was probably more like 45 anyway.

 

[Koing]

When you work for a year in your native country, and when you can work a month in another country and get paid more that tends to make you work more. They probably don't intend to do this for 5yrs but they just want to make the most of it now, while they can.

Koing

 

[MikePanic]

i know several people who work 80+ hours in 5 days... which means they would be doing more then 100 over 7

 

[beer]

Our 'contractors' (from India) at GE pretty much do the same thing. It's INSANE. Last week they were working 19 hours straight, 8 AM to 3 AM! I was like....okay. I ducked out at 10 PM and I felt bad. Screw that.

 

[KDOG]

We have a guy like that where I work. 16hrs a day 5 days a week, and a 12 on one of his days off. Insane. And he makes the same as the rest of us. 13.65/hr!!! I work 12hrs 3days a week and thats enough for me. One time that guy tried to work a 24hr shift on his last day of the week, and the bosses yelled at him, I guess the company would get into trouble if they let him do that...