Are you a bit too busy?

[Al R]

I've always felt so long as the work got done what odds does it make what hours people work? It is also why I've always said farmers should try to invest in bigger kit than they might have originally planned- bigger parlour or other machinery gets through work faster.

Then you find a bit of spare capacity and take on more land/work look at many contractors

 

[M-J-G]

Some of the comments on here are pretty rich coming from farmers who invented "working from home"--in the house for a cooked breakfast, quick (half hour) for a coffee mid morning, lunch followed by "catching up on paperwork" sat in your favourite armchair with your eyes shut.

Why do people think it's a good thing to work all the hours God sends anyway?

1. Smart people work "clever" not hard. If you're doing 60+ hours a week, you're either too tight or too poor a businessman.

2 The longer people work, the less efficient they become, concentration goes, fatigued people make more errors etc. etc. That's why shorter working hours, 4 day weeks etc don't actually mean a loss of productivity. Not to mention making the job more attractive in the first place-how many "can't get staff" threads are actually "can't get anyone to work 12 days/fortnight or 12 hour days?

I recall a member on here telling us they didn't have the internet on their phone, yet they posted something like 5 or 6 thousand times a year at all hours through the day, I wondered if they were ever outside.

I do tend to agree that there should generally be no need to work 100+hrs every week, it just means you end up taking 3 hours to do 2 hours work.

I tend to work 6 to 5, with 45 min for breakfast and similar at lunch, Saturday and Sunday are kept to a minimum but with stock s couple of hours usually disappear most mornings, but I'm usually back in the house for 8am.
That all goes out the window at harvest and calving/lambing but I'm happy to work long hours for a condensed period, but sod doing that all year round, I have a family that I enjoy spending time with.

 

[Whitewalker]

They must be going to scarva

Well that’s an in joke if ever there was one

 

[ARW]

Humans need a certain amount of struggle in life to survive
We also need a certain amount of conflict to get over to be content

life is so easy now conflict and struggle comes in different forms, like struggling with work and getting your conflict by watching eastenders
Living a soft life betrays our bodies and our minds, making us wobbly and depressed

Simple exercise is the key to a happy life

 

[Kevtherev]

A bloke once told me the ‘best job I ever had was a part time job 1til 2 with an hour for dinner’

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Local bearing/oil pipe family run firm I’ve phoned up at 4:30pm in the winter asking if I can use a press for a few hours. Left at 2am one night pressing bearings for a beet cleaner and harvester. Fantastic service! Their big customers get the mobile numbers of all the staff so if something major needs fixing like combine or mower bearings/ pto shafts out of hours they’ll get the part out for you

The banks are useless, the staff wonder why their losing their jobs yet they put in a machine to take cheques Went to the bank last year and they directed me to the machine although the woman(fatty) that pointed me there was doing nothing, tried inputting the cheque via machine and it wouldn’t work, fatty then waddled from her desk over to the cheque paying in machine and tried to put it in. She then looked at the cheque and said it was to much to go in via machine, well I could have told her that hence why I went straight to her cashier desk

2 bank branches we used shut locally so have started using the post office to bank business cheques, went 8 miles last week to find a note on the PO door saying it was shut for the day due to staff shortage's.
Can't win sometimes

 

[tr250]

Aye up,

We have just opened an email from a supplier telling us that they will be closed on Wednesday because the staff have worked hard lately and need a day off for the good of their mental health.

What a complete load of feckun horse shite.

Surely if they were that busy they would employ more people?

If we ran a business like that then I would expect to be out of it pretty soon!

I understand that mental health is very important, but this is just claptrap.

I think I am so far out of touch with the world there’s no way back.

Recon you ought to try it in middle of august the day before it rains.

 

[A H N]

What do they do for the other 5 days.

That's what I was wondering.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Then you find a bit of spare capacity and take on more land/work look at many contractors

No. You go do work that earns more money.

 

[toquark]

It’s just a consequence of full employment. It’ll change quickly enough once we’re in the teeth of a recession which we will be soon if we aren’t already.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

I see there are 4 day week trials going on because apparently people are more productive in 4 days than 5. How did they work that out? It won't be productive for me when i ring for an urgently needed part on a Friday only to get an answerphone message telling they're shut until Monday.

Most folks only work a frickin 35 hour week anyway. And loads of companies now finish on Friday lunchtime. What the hell do folks find to do with all their free time? Drive down to their nearest KFC and stuff their lazy arses?
As far as I can tell folks have never had so much free time. Everything in the house is electric or automated, they drive everywhere, they don't even need to leave the house to shop as they can order anything online and have it delivered. And most of them can't even be arsed to cook a meal, relying instead on the likes of just eat.

I just couldn’t be ar5ed to cook anything the other day so rarely went to McDonald’s, and couldn’t believe the amount of people that weren’t even going into the place to order/pick up food, drive through was rammed on both lanes and the spaces outside for people who must’ve ordered online/app and sat in their car for someone to take the stuff to them now that is as lazy as it gets apart from home delivery

 

[ollie989898]

I just couldn’t be ar5ed to cook anything the other day so rarely went to McDonald’s, and couldn’t believe the amount of people that weren’t even going into the place to order/pick up food, drive through was rammed on both lanes and the spaces outside for people who must’ve ordered online/app and sat in their car for someone to take the stuff to them now that is as lazy as it gets apart from home delivery

You park outside a McD's on a Sunday and see how many families have swapped in their Sunday roast for one!

 

[Lofty1984]

You park outside a McD's on a Sunday and see how many families have swapped in their Sunday roast for one!

And then Chuck the rubbish straight out of the window

 

[Pushdyke]

One of mother's old stories her dad was telling his sister

"The kid's will be allright I've tought them all to work"

Great Ant replied

"Wouldn't it be better if you had tought them how to earn a living without working"

 

[T Hectares]

You park outside a McD's on a Sunday and see how many families have swapped in their Sunday roast for one!

My Daughter did a 2 month sports course over the winter on a Sunday
Every week when I took her without fail the punters were queuing around the place and spilling out onto the roundabout, and it was packed inside, crazy

 

[Exfarmer]

I posted elsewhere i had an issue with a water softener, needs resin replaced. Discovered since my post, they are just down the road.
So I thought, be fair give them a chance, rang this morning and asked for a quote, £300 engineer to come out. I know it is an hours work
So I asked, how much just for the resin?
What model was the response, , gave the model. Then you will need 14 litres and that is £150 + £10 haulage
.
Oh I said that is wrong as it only takes 12 litres ( i had actually checked this and it was posted on their website )
No said madam it is definitely 14.
Rang Wrekin water completely different , yes 12 litres £61 including haulage hopefully will turn up tomorrow.
Some companies deserve to fail

 

[Skintagain]

Humans need a certain amount of struggle in life to survive
We also need a certain amount of conflict to get over to be content

life is so easy now conflict and struggle comes in different forms, like struggling with work and getting your conflict by watching eastenders
Living a soft life betrays our bodies and our minds, making us wobbly and depressed

Simple exercise is the key to a happy life

This is very true

My dad says hard work cures a broken mind

 

[kiwi pom]

Not trying to start an argument but how many of the posters on this thread employ staff and how many are employees?

 

[kiwi pom]

I see there are 4 day week trials going on because apparently people are more productive in 4 days than 5. How did they work that out? It won't be productive for me when i ring for an urgently needed part on a Friday only to get an answerphone message telling they're shut until Monday.

Most folks only work a frickin 35 hour week anyway. And loads of companies now finish on Friday lunchtime. What the hell do folks find to do with all their free time? Drive down to their nearest KFC and stuff their lazy arses?
As far as I can tell folks have never had so much free time. Everything in the house is electric or automated, they drive everywhere, they don't even need to leave the house to shop as they can order anything online and have it delivered. And most of them can't even be arsed to cook a meal, relying instead on the likes of just eat.

4 day weeks don't have to mean a business is only open 4 days though.

 

[ollie989898]

I posted elsewhere i had an issue with a water softener, needs resin replaced. Discovered since my post, they are just down the road.
So I thought, be fair give them a chance, rang this morning and asked for a quote, £300 engineer to come out. I know it is an hours work
So I asked, how much just for the resin?
What model was the response, , gave the model. Then you will need 14 litres and that is £150 + £10 haulage
.
Oh I said that is wrong as it only takes 12 litres ( i had actually checked this and it was posted on their website )
No said madam it is definitely 14.
Rang Wrekin water completely different , yes 12 litres £61 including haulage hopefully will turn up tomorrow.
Some companies deserve to fail

Don't get me started on companies/trades overcharging home owners. Bad karma, in fact, I've put curses on anyone who has tried or done it to me on the past. I'll be buying up Voo doo dolls next. Pishes me off, bad workmanship or price gouging. People talk about 'British engineering' and 'British companies should be supported' blah blah blah, yeah, right, not everything British is good.