Anyone else feel like they're being worked like a sled dog?

[marmar]

In these days of crushing unemployment, I'm truly thankful to have a job, but this is getting crazy. My department at work, 2 employees strong, is doing the work of about 10-12 people. It's been about 3 straight weeks of 10-12 hour workdays. And the stress on people in the other departments is rather apparent.
Is anybody shocked that worker productivity is so high? There's no one else left to do any work.

Cube rats of the world unite!!! Workers of the World Unite!!!

One day they're going to push us too far and :nuke:

[Skittles]

1. don't get me started

sample: time change night - 14 hours straight, no breaks, no lunch and even to go to the bathroom I have to shout to coworkers to listen for my phone and put 'em on hold - and I had to take a sizable pay cut

[lib2DaBone]

2. I feel more like a rented mule....

The floggings will continue until the morale improves.

[alphafemale]

3. And unless you're the "Lead Dog?" The view never changes. nt

[Skittles]

5. no the view has changed a lot

work did not used to suck this badly

[alphafemale]

31. I'm referring back to actual "Sled Dogs" all but the lead dog runs 6" from a dog butthole.

And if they fed you cabbage and beans for breakfast it will be a particularly bad day.

[janx]

13. Good One!

:rofl:

[robinlynne]

29. I don't think that was meant as a joke.

[alphafemale]

32. Actually, it was.

And an old one at that.

[Brickbat]

4. You need to decide what "too far" is and be ready for that day.

Because it's sure as shit coming.

[lunatica]

6. I just got laid off from one job

Only to be lucky because I got rehired to do the exact same job only with less people in another department for a lot more work. Yeah. Same pay. But a bunch who got laid off with me are going to be unemployed. Lucky us.

The enraging thing is that all the staff are still needed but a good third are let go.

[rucky]

7. I'm looking for hourly work.

not that I can be too picky.

[stray cat]

8. Not those who are unemployed or underemployed

[Blue_In_AK]

9. From what I've observed,

most sled dogs are treated much better.

[janx]

18. No shit!

For what I'm doing, I get a decent dog house, a new bowl, a chance to pull to my heart's content, and a promise of reward. But the reward doesn't come. I'm still going night and day, but the run/rest ratio is grim, and they keep promising me a reward. I get about half the food that other dogs do. Snacks on the trail? Forget it! This has gone on for years now!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. the bosses still make a profit

while the workers suffer

[Robb]

11. Sled dogs tend to love their work, and would rather pull than do anything else.

Hang in there. :hi:

[janx]

20. . . .up to a point.

If you exploit them, they won't pull anymore.

[etherealtruth]

12. Tell me about it ...

My employer's attitude seems to be pretty clear: If you don't like it leave, there are 100 people that would gladly have your job. Here in metro Detroit that is true .... so what does one do?

[mmonk]

14. I don't know. Sled dogs actually get somewhere.

[janx]

21. They do if you have a decent number working in the team.

If you don't, you're not going to cover too much distance.

(I love this metaphor...:rofl:)

[mmonk]

22. They get food and water.

And are taken care of if they get sick or become injured.

[janx]

23. EXACTLY!

:rofl:

[mmonk]

27. And like you said, it's in the numbers

unless some of the dogs don't know which direction to go.:)

[OutNow]

15. Yup - it always happens in a depression

A couple of years ago when the economy started to tank someone on DU said - well at least it's not a depression where no one has a job. The thing is, even at the depth of the depression the majority of people had a job. The problem was that the other 30/40 percent did not have a job and would take any job at any pay rate. This had two repercussions: 1. the average pay declined (sound familiar?) and 2. every worker with a job was worked "like a sled dog" least they join the ranks of the jobless, happy that they had work.

This will continue until organized labor feels that it's time to organize again, with mass picket lines to keep out scabs and the will to sit in until they win. While we all are thankful that people can get unemployment payments and other assistance, we should remember that these crumbs are doled out to keep folks hanging on by their fingernails and off the picket lines.

[bbinacan]

16. I'm not being worked like a sled dog

and we just began a push to finish a project by the end of the year. Hell, I'm happy to have something to do.

[donco6]

17. We used to have eight; now down to 4.

It's impossible.

[janx]

24. Good one!

:hi:

[natrat]

19. good thing they are giving trillions to the banks and won't account for it

change you can believe in

[GCP]

25. +1

:thumbsup:

[RagAss]

26. I'm doing 60 hour weeks and I will die at this pace soon..... and that really doesn't upset me.

[montanto]

28. Sled dogs ain't even in the race.

[mmonk]

30. Nobody manufactures sleds here anymore.