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Hazards of Working too Hard

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  • #2
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    I've worked 15 hour days (with about an hour and a half of breaks throughout the day) whilst earning less than 20,000 euro per annum. It was unbelievably exhausting. Once I finished work at 11pm having started at 8am that day, and was to be in at 9am the next day for a meeting. I think technically it is legal, but I was completely exhausted and slept it out. :o Got in for around 11am, and told them I couldn't continue doing those hours. Cue work and responsibility being taken away from me. They seemed totally nonplussed that I had complained! That job didn't end well, and now I have the unenviable task of trying to find a new position with that as my last reference. Le sigh. Fun times. :(

    Rant over. Feels good to get that out!


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That's crazy.

    We've all worked long hours from time to time but I couldn't even contemplate that never mind try it.


  • #4
    gustafo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭gustafo


    Try working on a fishing trawler then you will know what long hours and hard graft is all about, 7-10 day trips with about 3 hours broken sleep per day.


  • #5
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    Junior doctors and hotel staff work kerazy hours too. Well, junior doctors work crazy long shifts, and hotel staff often don't get the legally required rest period between shifts. It's not right!


  • #6
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Junior doctors and hotel staff work kerazy hours too. Well, junior doctors work crazy long shifts, and hotel staff often don't get the legally required rest period between shifts. It's not right!

    It's doubly stupid when you consider that junior doctors are making decisions about people's lives.

    Unfortunately as long as people are willing to be exploited, or think 'ah that's just the way it's always been', it will never change.

    Stop letting your boss exploit you.


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  • #7
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    TwoShedsJackson wrote: »
    Stop letting your boss exploit you.

    I didn't. Read my post again. :) But complaining affected me in other ways. Welcome to the delightful world of third level research, where exploitation is rife, but people strangely seem to feel honoured to be exploited for some reason. And lawd help you if you point out that it's bullshít.

    How much do junior doctors get paid, out of interest?


  • #8
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    April O Neill wrote: »
    I didn't. Read my post again. :) But complaining affected me in other ways. Welcome to the delightful world of third level research, where exploitation is rife, but people strangely seem to feel honoured to be exploited for some reason. And lawd help you if you point out that it's bullshít.

    How much do junior doctors get paid, out of interest?

    Sorry I wasn't referring to you explicitly with the 'stop letting your boss exploit you' comment, I was advising people in general :)

    Currently a junior doctor starts on around €35,000 as far as I know. They do get paid overtime, and they can rack up a lot of money because of that, but at what cost to their own life, and possible impact on lives of others?


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