When was your last 8 hr day?

[Brownslave688]

Without having to use an 8 hr request. I ask because I remember not all that long ago going out pretty regularly with the type of day that if I busted it I could get done under 8. Now I would have to bust it to stay under 9.5. Why? What's the point? If I'm out that late I've missed dinner and family time and I'm making bank might as well make it 10.5. Also I can't even tell you the last 8.0 I had that I didn't either bring stuff back to get it or just run around nuts all day to get it. Honestly I used to get 8 hrs all the time by running and gunning and I took 8 hr requests as sort of a break like a day off it was easy to get your 8.0. Now they send you out with 9.5 hours of work hope u just kill it to get off or that you won't bring the stops back.

 

[Catatonic]

I think it was about 2 weeks ago ... things are slow and I have only been working 6 - 7 hours a day.
That includes lunch ... right?

 

[brownmonster]

1992

 

[cachsux]

Tuesday. And tomorrow. And next week.

 

[Jackburton]

July 4th.....before that May 28th...next one should be Sept 3rd.

 

[Buck Fifty]

8 hr day, hmmmmm....... What were we talking about.

 

[toonertoo]

I got done at 630 and thought I was gettin in early. We are so brainwashed. Every other company in the world makes allownaces to help their people in extreme cold, heat and storms. Not ours.

 

[Cementups]

1-3 times a week I get a 8.5 hour day. If I could take an hour lunch I could possible be an 8 hour day but I am an approved 1/2 hour lunch. So 8.5 it is. Just knowing I can be done at 5:30 sometimes is good enough for me

 

[UnconTROLLed]

Today.

Here in NE, you can request every day an 8 hour day, as a 22.3.

 

[Backlasher]

Just remember guys,

Safety 1st!

Whats the most important stop of the day, because , running & gunning don't pay !!

Runner gunners helped make this happen, Learn frome history.

 

[toonertoo]

Should hit 101 today. With 100% humidity.

 

[over9five]

I had 4 days with less than 8.5 hours during the last 3 weeks of June. None were 8 hr requests.

 

[speeddemon]

The average paid day at our center is usually 9.0 or higher.

 

[over9five]

Should hit 101 today. With 100% humidity.

Yuck, be careful out there.

 

[rod]

I could probably count the 8 hr days I had in 30 years on one hand. Always 9+. 45 to 50 hours a week made for a great paycheck with some left over for "toys". Anything over 50 was too much as far as I was concerned.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Should hit 101 today. With 100% humidity.

When I first read this I thought that 100% humidity meant rain but that is not necessarily the case. 100% humidity means that liquid water at the same temperature as the air will no longer evaporate.

Be safe out there today.

 

[HEFFERNAN]

If I run and gun, I can punch out at 8.25 half the week. But, then my green light comes on and tells me to go help people or grab air.

Now I'm over 9.5 every single day by my choice.

 

[Indecisi0n]

Drives me buts when i hear people say "I had to take a 15 min lunch to get in with my air by 8:00pm." Take your full lunch and let them worry about everything else. If you keep fixed their problems nothing will change.

 

[Catatonic]

If I run and gun, I can punch out at 8.25 half the week. But, then my green light comes on and tells me to go help people or grab air.

Now I'm over 9.5 every single day by my choice.

I never saw a split or a pickup I did not like.
I averaged 54 hrs/week the last year before I went into management.
It took me 4 years in management to catch up with my take home pay as a driver.

 

[oldupsman]

In my 32 years in package car I only had a handful of 8 hour days. Always remembered when I got hired by a big old Irishman by the name of John McGee. He leaned over the desk at me and said "Why are you here?" I said I wanted to work. He said "You remember that. You signed up to work." He was right.