Banking interns worked round the clock

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dellzeqq

pre-talced and mighty
Location
SW2
I've worked around the clock a lot. At one point Monday morning to Tuesday evening was par for the course. I've done a lot of Thursday mornings through to Friday evenings and those were pretty standard stuff about ten or fifteen years ago. There are still offices where it's expected, and while I find long hours much more difficult than I used to, I can foresee going back to allnighters if a particular job comes off.

The FNRttC owes its existence to the years I spent not sleeping very much. Once you cut sleep out of one part of your week it becomes second nature to sleep less for the rest of the week. Some of the 2007 and 2008 rides would be in weeks where I'd skipped Monday night.
 

asterix

Comrade Member
Location
Limoges or York
Used to work in shipping. Then they started putting beds in the offices so I left and went into IT.

I'm pretty lazy but putting beds in the office was going too far.
 

colly

Re member eR
Location
Leeds
Well it's pretty awful but they have a choice don't they ? OK they want the job I know. Even so.
Besides working like that means there comes a point where it is completely counter productive. Literally. I've worked days, nights and then days again and I know for sure what I was doing in an hour at the end of those shifts I would be doing in 10 mins if I was fresh.
 

Brains

Legendary Member
Location
Greenwich
Used to work in shipping. Then they started putting beds in the offices so I left and went into IT.

I'm pretty lazy but putting beds in the office was going too far.

I work in IT for a shipping company.
In my previous job (same sector/industry) They gave you you over time back in lieu.
we spent 3 months travelling on the time owed.
 

Archie_tect

De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
Location
Northumberland
I've worked around the clock a lot. At one point Monday morning to Tuesday evening was par for the course. I've done a lot of Thursday mornings through to Friday evenings and those were pretty standard stuff about ten or fifteen years ago. There are still offices where it's expected, and while I find long hours much more difficult than I used to, I can foresee going back to allnighters if a particular job comes off.

True D, I think every architect learns that all-nighers are necessary very quickly unless you want to turn up to meetings without any drawings. It happens all the time but whether it's down to bad management or laziness.....
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
I've worked 90+ hour weeks in horticulture and retail and still found time to go clubbing though the seals proved to be pretty elusive.
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
Some of my younger teaching colleagues with career enhancement ambitions put in 90+ hour weeks. I do my best to persuade them that there's more to life than bureaucracy for its own sake. Who needs three separate quality assurance monitoring policies, procedures and data with a lot of the data being duplicated and most of the duplicated data serving no useful purpose other than demonstrating that quality assurance has taken place?

One or two old hands insert gibberish in their reports to the senior management team and they have yet to have it challenged or queried.
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
Some of my younger teaching colleagues with career enhancement ambitions put in 90+ hour weeks. I do my best to persuade them that there's more to life than bureaucracy for its own sake. Who needs three separate quality assurance monitoring policies, procedures and data with a lot of the data being duplicated and most of the duplicated data serving no useful purpose other than demonstrating that quality assurance has taken place?
It's what they're taught at college (or were 15 years ago). Every lesson must be planned in detail, from conception to delivery to execution, and must be reviewed afterwards. No career enhancement ambitions required, just an over-active conscience - and teachers tend to have one of those (at least when they start) as a requirement of the job.

As a newbie in any job, you do what you're taught. You don't know whether older colleagues persuading you to cut corners are a devil or an angel on your shoulder.
 
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I've never worked round the clock, and wouldn't do so now, but when the kids were small and I had a mortgage I averaged a 56 hour 6 day week for about 2 years, I was working in a stores in a large factory and they were very busy, but I got home one night and the youngest was still up, he would be about 3 and normally in bed when I got home, and he asked who I was, at this point I stopped most of the overtime and started to spend more time with my family.
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
It's what they're taught at college (or were 15 years ago). Every lesson must be planned in detail, from conception to delivery to execution, and must be reviewed afterwards. No career enhancement ambitions required, just an over-active conscience - and teachers tend to have one of those (at least when they start) as a requirement of the job.

As a newbie in any job, you do what you're taught. You don't know whether older colleagues persuading you to cut corners are a devil or an angel on your shoulder.

They don't get taught in college any more. Schools of education are folding as more and more teacher training takes place in schools. In order to satisfy OFSTED inspectors senior managers promulgate the notion that if it isn't documented in triplicate, observed by three independent witnesses, quality assured by two line managers and verified by a 'mocksted' inspection then it hasn't taken place. There's lots of dissonance between the promised consequences of teachers taking risks as instructed and the consequences of what happens when what they are told to do doesn't work. Believe me it's not an over active conscientiousness, it's the feeding of an over complex bureaucracy which focusses almost entirely on policies, procedures, templated methodology and the insistence that everything is documented in sufficient detail to leave an audit trail which is never audited in full.

I'm witnessing young staff buckling under the unrealistic and often pointless demands placed upon them. I'm fortunate enough to be old enough and financially secure enough to be able to withdraw from the maelstrom of pointless demands that does more for keeping managers in their jobs than it does for raising educational standards.
 
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