We did it for two years straight in the early 90's (Reply #28)

In the discussion thread: Do you think a laborer who makes $150,000 a year with overtime is being overpaid? [View all]

Mon Dec 26, 2011, 11:50 AM

NNN0LHI (67,190 posts)

28. We did it for two years straight in the early 90's

They took our afternoon shift and split in half. Half of us worked 7AM to 7:30PM. The other shift worked 7PM to 7:30AM.

Then they got some kind of waiver from the state so they could break state law and make us work 7 days a week with no day off.

Used it to pay our house off. Does take a lot out of you though.

When we went back to a regular shift and workweek it felt like we were on vacation.

Don

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Do you think a laborer who makes $150,000 a year with overtime is being overpaid? [View all]	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	OP
If a laborer is making that kind of money...	trumad	Dec 2011	#1
I stated 12 hours a day and 7 days a week in my post	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#2
I'd be pretty unoffended by a labourer working those hours getting that kind of pay	Posteritatis	Dec 2011	#9
This message was self-deleted by its author	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#16
Wouldn't be offended. (nt)	Posteritatis	Dec 2011	#17
Sorry I misread your post	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#23
Where does a laborer make $150,000? I can't find it anywhere...	rfranklin	Dec 2011	#45
$25.76 per hour	krawhitham	Dec 2011	#47
Thanks, I was working on the math.	freshwest	Dec 2011	#59
$34 per hour	eomer	Dec 2011	#87
Roughly about 112 hours of pay per week for working seven twelves with overtime premium	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#94
I think it greatly depends on where this laborer lives as well	justiceischeap	Dec 2011	#3
That is just part of the scam that many people have been brainwashed into believing too	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#6
yeah, I am sick of that argument too	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#42
Depends on what you do for a living...	justiceischeap	Dec 2011	#44
You are 100% right - $29 vs $45	krawhitham	Dec 2011	#48
Well since I happen to be one of the Kochs of the world	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#54
The top 20%?	Warren Stupidity	Dec 2011	#70
so you are worried about the Fab 400?	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#77
"the fab 400" run the goddamn world.	Warren Stupidity	Dec 2011	#82
they have tremendous amounts of income, wealth and power	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#93
well said	limpyhobbler	Dec 2011	#4
I think it would be overpaid because it could not last.	former9thward	Dec 2011	#5
That is all well and good until no one can afford to purchase the products made using alternatives	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#10
No one has to make 150k a year to live well in this society.	former9thward	Dec 2011	#15
You would like people to believe that if someone gets 150 grand their finances are out of control	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#21
I'm not buying what you are trying to sell.	former9thward	Dec 2011	#34
arguing for lower pay for people again?	CreekDog	Dec 2011	#24
Read the post.	former9thward	Dec 2011	#37
Guys in my trade can make that kind of money.	Edweird	Dec 2011	#55
You don't mention the trade so it is difficult to respond.	former9thward	Dec 2011	#65
Friend of mine works in forestry, his working conditions are like Edweird describes. (nt)	Posteritatis	Dec 2011	#66
Linework.	Edweird	Dec 2011	#67
I'm not sure that would fit the definition of "laborer" which the OP was about.	former9thward	Dec 2011	#68
Whatever. I work a blue collar labor intensive job that cannot be replaced by technology	Edweird	Dec 2011	#69
And you'd be wrong	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2011	#73
Not at all.	former9thward	Dec 2011	#89
"Labour" and "unskilled labour" do not perfectly overlap. (nt)	Posteritatis	Dec 2011	#76
150,000 workers are not "keeping everything going for us"	Enrique	Dec 2011	#7
Do you think it is the Walton family and hedge fund managers who keep everything going then?	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#13
do you agree that farm workers are absolutely vital to our economy?	Enrique	Dec 2011	#18
I think farm workers should make a lot more than they are currently making with overtime pay	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#22
Anyone who enters into a voluntary agreement for labor cannot be overpaid by definition.	Abin Sur	Dec 2011	#8
I learned on DU that I should congratulate him for things going 'swimmingly' for him	Bluenorthwest	Dec 2011	#11
And people learn outside DU to resent the well paid laborer rather than the Top One Percent.	Overseas	Dec 2011	#29
I'd be happy if the entire 99% got $150,000 annually for only working 4 days a week.	firehorse	Dec 2011	#12
firehorse for president of the world! (nt)	Posteritatis	Dec 2011	#14
Yeah, uh huh. A laborer getting an annual salary the same as a month's hedge fund salary	Overseas	Dec 2011	#30
There was a mechanic in our local transit system that made over 110 G. (200 Gs in today's money)	Stuart G	Dec 2011	#19
It's the one addiction we reward people for	customerserviceguy	Dec 2011	#39
And salaries have been flat to lowered, he'd be really fortunate to still be allowed to pull OT,	bettyellen	Dec 2011	#49
Nope.	Brickbat	Dec 2011	#20
Nobody can keep up a schedule like that for very long	tularetom	Dec 2011	#25
We did it for two years straight in the early 90's	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#28
No...	Tikki	Dec 2011	#26
No, and anyone that thinks so has never been in the trenches.	Ikonoklast	Dec 2011	#27
200 of us hired into a Ford stamping plant in 1973	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#31
big deal, I worked a temp job at a door plant	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#35
for perhaps the hundreth time, $150,000 a year is NOT middle class	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#32
I don't support raising the FICA cap	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#36
I'd like to taise the cap and lower the percentage.	krispos42	Dec 2011	#41
so you oppose plans that benefit me	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#53
What would benefit you and just about everyone else would be if you made more income	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#57
no what got us into this predicament	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#61
I have plenty of laid back friends who "thought", they had plenty to retire on	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#63
boy is that a sad statement	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#78
Putting words that aren't there into another persons mouths is a dirty thing to do	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#81
"I'm a dirty skunk? I'm a dirty skunk?" Daffy Duck	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#95
It is middle class	spinbaby	Dec 2011	#84
Someone wants us to forget that is the way it is supposed to be don't they?	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#91
oh bull crap	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#92
I grew up in the 50s and 60s	spinbaby	Dec 2011	#96
A household income of $150,000 puts you just short of the top 10%	starroute	Dec 2011	#33
I will try to explain the difference	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#38
you are supposed to put a comma after every THREE zeroes	hfojvt	Dec 2011	#51
If it's skilled labor with lots of overtime... no.	krispos42	Dec 2011	#40
given the vastly bloated paychecks of the 1%	magical thyme	Dec 2011	#43
Our enemy is the person making over a million a year...	hughee99	Dec 2011	#46
My best bro from high school	guitar man	Dec 2011	#50
The only people on this planet who are overpaid are Wall St. CEOs.	Initech	Dec 2011	#52
I'm looking forward to making that kind of money at my labor job.	Edweird	Dec 2011	#56
No	Marrah_G	Dec 2011	#58
They are being paid what the market will allow	fujiyama	Dec 2011	#60
Think you missed my point	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#62
I think people should have the opportunity to make	fujiyama	Dec 2011	#64
Shh, over here... see Adam Smith, if there was ever a CAPITALIST (I mean he invented it for god's	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2011	#72
I am not offended	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2011	#71
No, I would be okay with that.	jwirr	Dec 2011	#74
I think two laborers, each making $75,000, would be better.	boppers	Dec 2011	#75
Corporations really like that idea too	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#79
So do people who like their family.	boppers	Dec 2011	#80
During the Great Depression, labor unions recommended breaking up jobs.	ieoeja	Dec 2011	#90
I think time would be better spent not whining	B Calm	Dec 2011	#83
Raising wages has to be done collectively or it turns into every man for himself	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#86
Frankly, yes. With a Master's+18, I never saw $70K in 30 years of teaching.	WinkyDink	Dec 2011	#85
We had a suburban public schoolteacher who made $191,214 in his last year before retiring	NNN0LHI	Dec 2011	#88

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