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wildernessguru is on his third straight week of work, 21 days without a day off.

You heard that right. He's had no weekends, no Saturdays, no Sundays off for three weeks while the yard is slammed.

They think they might get Memorial Day off.

I've taken over all the household stuff except the shopping. I'm getting really worried. He's so tired. When he gets home he barely has energy to eat. I'm going to shove a bowl of spagetti into his hands as soon as he's home so he can eat it on the way to the bed. He's just... a walking zombie. And they're putting in nine-hour days, too.

I mean, it's all at union wages and the overtime is a lot. This summer he'll probably have months off. But it doesn't matter. It's not worth it.

Can you believe that before unions life used to like this for everyone? Only with less money and 12-hour days?

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Poor WG! And how sweet that you're so concerned. It's a great feeling to care for and be cared after, esp. after a stressful day (or weeks). When the hubby and I have similar bad spells at work, we alternate between lamenting and encouraging each other on "why exactly did we take these jobs again?!" Here's to the slower summer months. Cheers, lis

Can you believe that before unions life used to like this for everyone? Only with less money and 12-hour days?

God, I know; the thought is stunning. People should recall this more often, and hereabouts be more grateful, in your country: further unions.

Can you believe that before unions life used to like this for everyone? Only with less money and 12-hour days?

Oh, baby. We're doing History of Economic Thought this week and next, and it's all "the teeming masses of the unwashed public will not work unless they have the incentives! They are by nature nasty and lazy! Keep the wages lower so that they'll be forced to work 12 hour days just to survive!" and "Humanity sucks! We'll increase our numbers until there is no more food to be had! Fortunately, there's FAMINE and DEATH and PLAGUES..."

I can't help it, I'm going all "oh, come on, I don't like humanity either, most of the time, but give us some credit!"

Can you believe that before unions life used to like this for everyone? Only with less money and 12-hour days?

Yes. Definitely.

That's why I want to hit people with a big stick, when they are employed and say that the neo-liberal-conservative right is correct, unions have too much power and just hinder people. Rrgh

Heck, they're doing that now, with unions. My father works 12 hour days, 6 days a week and they have a union. He gets tons of money, but I don't think it's worth the exhaustion.

Yikes! I hope he gets a break soon. I basically ruined my health in 2004 with a 3-month crunch schedule like that (much longer daily hours, but it didn't involve much physical labor as I gather Wildernessguru's job does) and it's taken me all this time to dig back out of the hole. I trust you're making sure he gets as much sleep as possible?

Unions saved my life. Seriously. I'm a "blue collar" (it is the same thing in the U.S?) and doing those crazy shifts, and if I didn't have the union to back me I'd die!

You don't feel it's worth it? I don't either. I'm planning on finding another job.

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