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Title: 40-Hour work week
Post by: deestafford on August 07, 2015, 09:33:47 PM
So, you have a 40-hour work week?

I remember my first part-time job too.

Dee
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: drholly on August 07, 2015, 09:54:52 PM
So true. I like to say - it's Friday, only two working days left this week!
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: tailfeathers on August 07, 2015, 09:55:59 PM
No kidding. What I wouldn't give to have a 40 hr work week. It WOULD seem like part time! Only 43 months and 7 days to go. (Not that I'm counting) ::)
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: smokeasaurus on August 07, 2015, 10:19:52 PM
I used to have 40 hours on the books by mid-day Thursday......still had Friday and Saturday to go............
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: Smokin Don on August 07, 2015, 10:54:44 PM
Starting out in Homestead AFB Fla. I was in the USAF, managed the Apts. I lived in and worked part time at a gas station pumping gas and washing and waxing cars.
30 years at Ford Motor Co. working 10 hour days and a lot of 6 to 7 days a week. When I started there I worked 12 hour days for 90 days before I got my first day off.
Been retired for 12 years now and just getting into 40 hour weeks! Don
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: muebe on August 08, 2015, 08:56:51 AM
I usually work 55 to 60 hours a week so yes 40 really is part time!
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: smokeasaurus on August 08, 2015, 12:27:19 PM
I usually work 55 to 60 hours a week so yes 40 really is part time!

Heck Muebe, you are so busy we haven't seen one of your most excellent cooking pics in a coons age............. ;)
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: drholly on August 08, 2015, 01:19:38 PM
I usually work 55 to 60 hours a week so yes 40 really is part time!

Heck Muebe, you are so busy we haven't seen one of your most excellent cooking pics in a coons age............. ;)

Always wondered - how the heck old is a coon anyway???????
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: smokeasaurus on August 08, 2015, 03:26:39 PM
I usually work 55 to 60 hours a week so yes 40 really is part time!

Heck Muebe, you are so busy we haven't seen one of your most excellent cooking pics in a coons age............. ;)

Always wondered - how the heck old is a coon anyway???????

hickbilly slang used to descibe a long period of time; roughly 8 and a half years
Well tarnation! I havent seen Jethro in a coons age
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: drholly on August 08, 2015, 03:45:44 PM
Good to know - thanks, Smoke!
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: IR2dum on August 09, 2015, 02:55:43 AM
You guys are just killing me with your stories of 50 and 60 hour work weeks. I think y'all have applied for the wrong jobs. You're making me feel guilty. This week, I will have worked a total of 4 hours. One this afternoon and three tomorrow night. And I get to work inside with air conditioning and no heavy lifting. Sometimes life is just hard.
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: Saber 4 on August 09, 2015, 02:09:35 PM
40 hours does sound real nice as I type this at work while taking a few minute break to relax after working all week, Saturday and now I'll be here most of Sunday....

Can't wait to get our part timers fully trained and functioning so I can get down to a 60 hour week. :)
Title: Re: 40-Hour work week
Post by: TwoPockets on August 10, 2015, 06:58:08 PM
I worked 50+ hour weeks for 30 years, and then pretty much 40 hour weeks for about 12 years. Now I do about 20 hours a week as Asset Protection (glorified greeter) at Academy Sports, mainly for the employee discount.
Title: 40-Hour work week
Post by: Pappymn on August 10, 2015, 07:31:14 PM

I worked 50+ hour weeks for 30 years, and then pretty much 40 hour weeks for about 12 years. Now I do about 20 hours a week as Asset Protection (glorified greeter) at Academy Sports, mainly for the employee discount.

You get to be armed?

My daughter works at a kids clothing store. They get to watch shoplifters walk right out the door.....can't say anything. Just crazy.
Title: 40-Hour work week
Post by: tailfeathers on August 10, 2015, 08:05:36 PM


I worked 50+ hour weeks for 30 years, and then pretty much 40 hour weeks for about 12 years. Now I do about 20 hours a week as Asset Protection (glorified greeter) at Academy Sports, mainly for the employee discount.

You get to be armed?

My daughter works at a kids clothing store. They get to watch shoplifters walk right out the door.....can't say anything. Just crazy.
So us honest folks can pay 2x what stuff aught to cost to cover their shoplifting losses. Sounds fair to me!


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