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02-21-2014, 01:23 AM
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If it makes you feel any better, I'm at the AFGA conference in Ft. Mac right now...
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02-21-2014, 01:32 AM
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sitting in my loader atm..... nightshift 6-6 for 4 months straight now...all good.
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02-21-2014, 01:34 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Alberta
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Just got back from a 911 call.
Be safe everyone.
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I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought..... 
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02-21-2014, 01:37 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
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You get to work days OR nights ?
Sweet!
These 135hr weeks kick a guy in the arse after a while
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02-21-2014, 01:54 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Drumheller, AB
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Calving cows 24/7 since January... Could be worse, like an office job maybe.
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02-21-2014, 03:57 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Calgary
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I'm just starting 4:00 -10:30 am.
This have to be the worst kind of shift. 
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02-21-2014, 04:53 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Mt. Lorne, Yukon
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3 more hours than off till Thursday 
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02-21-2014, 06:09 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: red deer
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Omg. Awesome lee. I'm not on nights at moment with newest job. But crew change is at 5 to 5 alberta time. Or 6 here in sask. Also have plenty o 400 s. Fraccing thru the coil. I just recently went back to coil from a drilling rig where more often than not was on nights.
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02-21-2014, 06:50 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Claresholm, Ab
Posts: 4,022
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve07
Calving cows 24/7 since January... Could be worse, like an office job maybe.
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January weren't too bad but February kinda doin' the suction ain't it?
Good luck with that.
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02-21-2014, 09:27 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Stony Plain
Posts: 6,433
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BANG
You get to work days OR nights ?
Sweet!
These 135hr weeks kick a guy in the arse after a while
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You really work 20 hours a day 7 days straight?
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02-21-2014, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kimberley B.C.
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I plow snow with a cat loader and a 12 foot pusher from 2 A.M. till 2 P.M.
I love night shift,nobody around,cruising down the main drag in the dark,heater and radio on.Beats hell out of construction work.I did that for too long.
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02-21-2014, 10:13 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike_W
You really work 20 hours a day 7 days straight?
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He's probably accounting for the OT hours added to the actual hours worked.
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02-21-2014, 01:36 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike_W
You really work 20 hours a day 7 days straight?
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You smelt that too, lol
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02-21-2014, 08:49 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
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Nope thats for real.its not 20hrs a day straight up sometimes 16-17 hrs a day sometimes way more evens out to 135 ish usualy .
To be fair though im on a 7-7 shift so plenty of time to recouperate.
And usualy get to sneak in a nap here and there.
Well worth it to essentualy have half the year off.
Back in the day when i was doing drill pipe/tubing inspection we would do 20hr days for a lot longer then 7 in a row.was well worth the $9 hr.lol
Last edited by BANG; 02-21-2014 at 08:54 PM.
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02-21-2014, 10:35 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Stony Plain
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I thought employers were limited to 15 or 16 hours straight as max shift? Maybe this is only a union thing but I though it was work safety standards.
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02-21-2014, 10:39 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Whitecourt
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike_W
I thought employers were limited to 15 or 16 hours straight as max shift? Maybe this is only a union thing but I though it was work safety standards.
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What it says on paper you can work vs what you actually work are 2 totally different things.
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02-21-2014, 11:45 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Drumheller, AB
Posts: 187
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Taco
January weren't too bad but February kinda doin' the suction ain't it?
Good luck with that.
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Seems to be the pattern the past few years. Feb is set to double down on said suction for a few days it appears...
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02-22-2014, 12:20 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Red Deer
Posts: 4,998
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike_W
I thought employers were limited to 15 or 16 hours straight as max shift? Maybe this is only a union thing but I though it was work safety standards.
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Oops.
I wish someone told me that before I spent 22 hrs pouring concrete in the summer heat.
Or 26 hrs clearing snow in a loader because I was the only operator available.
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02-22-2014, 01:24 AM
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Location: Edmonton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 220swifty
Oops.
I wish someone told me that before I spent 22 hrs pouring concrete in the summer heat.
Or 26 hrs clearing snow in a loader because I was the only operator available.
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Sometimes stuff needs to get done and some men are man enough to stand up and do it.
I've worked 48 hours straight when other have called in sick. The job need to be done.
Ive worked 80 hour weeks to help out the people I work for and they have cut me a lot of slack now that I have medical issues.
You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.
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02-22-2014, 03:58 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Drumheller, AB
Posts: 187
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Quote:
Originally Posted by brslk
You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.
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You forgot what comes after that... Still I ain't seen mine.
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