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I would have thought that most people in the private sector work less than 50hrs a week and have approx days holidays.
No one I know in a small to sized medium business that gets more than 20 days off a year. Most of them don’t get sick pay either. None of them can take career breaks and most of them work more than 50 hours a week.I would have thought that most people in the private sector work less than 50hrs a week and have approx days holidays.
...A lot of the companies outside Dublin only give 20 days a year hols & do not pay sick leave & have long hours, even if the employees are relatively senior. You seem to think that most people get paid more if they do over the 39 hrs....
The majority of the time (in my experience) extra hours/unpaid work are a crutch for bad managment, and can be avoided through proper planning. No one minds helping out in a crunch. But if it becomes normalised to work like that, its a bigger problem and points to other issues.
I agree with you, but poor management is the norm whether in the private sector or the public. In the public sector it seems to be characterised by inertia and incompetence; in the private by frantic activity and incompetence. It's not realistic to move from one to the other in the hope of something better.
(Sorry to any managers out there - you must do better).
Working a 10 hour day is hardly "burning the candle at both ends"!You can't burn a candle at both ends and expect it to last.
What do you base that sweeping statement on?Most employers/managers are happy to take a few hours/days from staff. But its a rare one that lets you have the same time back when you need it.
Just for the record, not all public sector jobs fit this description.I also understand how difficult it must be to do a job that in boring and/or unrewarding and feel that you have no control over what you do.
Just for the record, not all public sector jobs fit this description.
Working a 10 hour day is hardly "burning the candle at both ends"!
Very few people I know only work 39 hours a week, be they public or private sector. Try being a junior doctor working every third night on call (in other words working through the night or 36 hours without rest) for years at a time. To be honest I think I have it handy.
What do you base that sweeping statement on?
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