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Longest work shift

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  • #152
    The_Captain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    The hours junior doctors work in this country is insane


  • #153
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    11:30pm to 3am followed by 9am-9pm, when I was working for GAME the day the PS3 was launched.


  • #154
    the_monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    beks101 wrote: »
    I started work at 7.30am Friday morning.
    I've been on-shift for 18 hours.
    That's 18 hours with no lunch break, one coffee break where I got pulled back to my desk because of another work crisis, and two toilet breaks.
    I need sugar, alcohol, sleep and to punch a wall very hard.

    What's the longest shift you've ever worked and why?

    ETA: I did get free hula hoops though. BBQ beef flavour. I ate three packets.
    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    Worked 3 days and nights straight at silage one year, was a bad year and the weather came good for a few days so time was precious.
    Frosty McSnowballs wrote: »
    Regularly do 24hr shifts. Mostly just trying to stay awake than actually doing stuff though.

    Most iv gone without a day off is about 4 months.

    Most iv stayed awake because of work is 10 days. Active all the time for that though.



    Surely this is illegal ?? :confused:


  • #155
    Steodonn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Steodonn


    Where do some of you people work ? Employment law clearly has never touched there aside from the self employed


  • #156
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,846 ✭✭✭take everything


    Lol at the piddly 16 hrs/17 hrs crap here.
    Try 80 hrs for surgical NCHDs in the not too distant past (ie Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday until 5).
    Fortunately I've never done anything like that bull**** but have done 56 hrs as a surgical intern (years ago now).

    Utterly ridiculous. No more than 24 hrs now. Still fcuking ridiculous tbh.


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  • #157
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,846 ✭✭✭take everything


    polydactyl wrote: »
    You obv have no idea in reality. Junior docs only earn biggish wages due to the ridiculous number of hours they work. The strike last year we were begging to work less hours and therefore take a wage cut but have more if a life and be safer for patients but the HSE has not allowed it. It's people like you who actually believe what the HSE spin ppl say about the hours we work that makes it even harder to change to be honest. An intern salary is 31938 for standard hours week. Not the 100000 the HSE would have you believe. We could easily get enough training with 48 hours a week if it was done properly. No need for the 100 plus we sometimes are forced to work to keep the service running.

    Apparently they're unilaterally breaching the contract and slashing some spr salaries by 10k in CUH now. Appalling how NCHDs are treated in Ireland


  • #158
    scamalert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭scamalert


    how the f is one able to even stand after working like 24h straight :confused:
    Now i know surgeons med staff sorta signs it,when they choose such qualifications due to works nature.

    But in average job id tell people to Foff after doing my shift,as its clearly a breach of rights.

    On the other note i work terrible hours,luckily its part time,but had weeks where it would be full weeks almost 12h+ and one day on the bus back home after such week i said hell ill close my eyes for a minute,since its around 20min journey from one town to another,next thing bus stops i wake up 40miles away from home :pac: ,was sitting couple seats behind the driver and guy didn't even notice me,took me good few minutes to realize where i ended up.best sleep ever thou :)


  • #159
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,629 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    scamalert wrote: »

    On the other note i work terrible hours,luckily its part time,but had weeks where it would be full weeks almost 12h+ and one day on the bus back home after such week i said hell ill close my eyes for a minute,since its around 20min journey from one town to another,next thing bus stops i wake up 40miles away from home :pac: ,was sitting couple seats behind the driver and guy didn't even notice me,took me good few minutes to realize where i ended up.best sleep ever thou :)
    I know a guy who used to get on the bus down the country and sleep for the hour and a half duration of the trip to Dublin every morning. One morning he woke and looked out the window only to realise that he was on the bus but going the wrong way. He had slept the whole way up, for the entirity of the time the bus was a stopped in BusÁras and for about twenty of the journey back down the country. Needless to say he started setting alarms after that,


  • #160
    trixiebust
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭trixiebust


    6.30 am till 1.30 am ( 17 hours ) Then a one hour drive home, to do paperwork that was at home.
    Got 15 mins sleep at kitchen table, and back to work again for another 6 am to 6 pm shift.
    No overtime, time in lieu or anything like that, paid for an 9 hour shift.

    Worked at one of the German discounters, and plastered all over the canteen at work, was signs declaring " we care about our staff " !!!

    All that cheap stuff they sell has to be paid for someway, and its not by paying their staff properly.

    No, I'm not bitter!!!!!


  • #161
    Littlekittylou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    riginally Posted by polydactyl viewpost.gif You obv have no idea in reality. Junior docs only earn biggish wages due to the ridiculous number of hours they work. The strike last year we were begging to work less hours and therefore take a wage cut but have more if a life and be safer for patients but the HSE has not allowed it. It's people like you who actually believe what the HSE spin ppl say about the hours we work that makes it even harder to change to be honest. An intern salary is 31938 for standard hours week. Not the 100000 the HSE would have you believe. We could easily get enough training with 48 hours a week if it was done properly. No need for the 100 plus we sometimes are forced to work to keep the service running.
    Agreed. I think interns and junior docs don't really have a choice of where they go and are so forced to take the job regardless of abnormally awful working conditions.The fact that they have no choice reduces competitiveness amongst hospitals resulting in lower salaries across the board and for other professions within them and worse working conditions for everyone. There is a lot of arm twisting on the part of the HSE.
    take everything wrote: »
    Apparently they're unilaterally breaching the contract and slashing some spr salaries by 10k in CUH now. Appalling how NCHDs are treated in Ireland
    There are all sorts of issues about NCHD overtime pay,I think they are meant to get time and half or something but they don't get it.


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  • #162
    leanonme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭leanonme


    Started work at 12 noon on Sunday, should have been finished at 01.00am, to be oncall from 1-8 (staying in work), but didnt get to finish untill 5, got to bed untill 07.30, and worked untill 5pm on Monday, and then had a two hour commute home.

    In residential work we always work sleep overs of 24 hours twice ever six weeks its 48 hours shifts, where you are meant to sleep, but you are oncall from 1am-8am, and you have to get up to residents if something happens, which it often does. We get no official breaks, we eat with residents when we can.

    Whats worse is that from 1 untill 8, we do not get an hourly rate we only get a night allowance, even tho you could be up tha whole time they sill refuse to pay for it.


  • #163
    huey1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭huey1975


    Kevwoody wrote: »
    Huh, 18/20 hour shifts, that's nothing!

    I've been working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since last January.

    The boss is a prick from Mayo and the wage is €188 a week

    And what exactly do you have to do in order to collect this €188?
    Who is the prick now?
    Tl,dr: lazy sponger


  • #164
    JaseBelleVie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    Worked a few summers as a glorified night security guard at building sites. Regularly would be on from 5pm until like 8am. Great money, but I would never do it now.


  • #165
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    huey1975 wrote: »
    And what exactly do you have to do in order to collect this €188?
    Who is the prick now?
    Tl,dr: lazy sponger

    Look, it's Enda's mammy.


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