Absurd Working Hours!

   I work 10 hours six days a week for the average salary in the country. No, it is not normal, but as you say, there is unemployment, and there is no one to complain to. I'm tired of living in this damn country!

   Yes, no doubt other people are. You know, it depends on how you look at your work. If you fail to adjust, sooner or later you will leave. For example, I couldn't work like that ... I think. :) Maybe I would only do it if the company is mine. Yes, it is definitely important how much they pay you. I would definitely be more motivated than that. And no company wants unmotivated employees. Ralph

   You didn't write important things. 1. What you do - there are professions that are forbidden to practice over certain hours of the month because they are dangerous to health and can lead to serious accidents. By the way, each legislation specifies the maximum working hours. 2. In which country and how much do you receive - different countries have different employment relationships, and salaries are quite different. 3. What working hours are written in the contract - normally it should say: 7 hours and 30 minutes + 30 minutes for lunch. 4. How is the issue of overtime and work on weekends resolved - normally overtime and work on weekends are paid separately at a higher rate, at least + 40%, and in total all hours should not exceed a certain amount (for example here in Norway are 200 hours per month, with many reservations and a little more). Ie if you leave home at 8 and start work at 9, you close the office at 17 and you come home at 18:30 you have 8 working hours, which is completely normal. But if you start work at 8 and finish at 18:30, then you work 10 hours and 30 minutes a day, which is more than is normal in most European countries. If the time you work on the agreed - overtime - is not paid, I advise you to seek your rights. For the honor, glory and cup of the Soviet army there is no point in working. Do not be bound by slogans such as "let's give" and "for the homeland, for the company", if you are asked to stay longer than the normal working hours, you must be compensated. And the fact that you do not have time for fun - welcome to the world of the working class! The entertainment is for the weekends, the movie (game) in the evening, eating, a few pranks under the sheets (if they both have the strength) or a few pages of a goodnight book and we repeat tomorrow. For me, for example, the situation is such that I work 12-16 hours a day, but then I am compensated with long breaks (and of course extra pay). Grandpa Torbalan

   And why should it be anonymous? Don't you dare stand behind your words? As long as you are afraid and tremble for the places, so be it. They rely on just that, they are welcome. It's not just you, it's in many places. And it's your fault that you agree. No amount of money can compensate for giving your health, time, energy and nerves in this way. I personally only work a job that is 8 hours 5 days a week and not a gram more. There are such places, but not many. most are wild, inhuman and enraged employers who exploit you ruthlessly and ruthlessly, and rely on your fear. They rely on you not being able to come together and stand up for your rights as one. I've heard a lot of people say, "And say something, and they'll tell you if you don't like it, come through the door, someone else will come."

   Okay, my friend, and does this seem normal to you - from early in the morning / like you / to 20.00 or 21.00 / depends on the volume of current work /. Plus EVERY Saturday and EVERY Sunday from noon to 18.00. Since the beginning of the year I have not had two consecutive days off. Sometimes / rarely / I only rested on Sundays. So there are other people like you. Well - Bulgaria.

   And in which branch do you work, what job?

   I don't work, but I will share how my mom is doing :) She has a managerial position, she used to work in a company, just like you. Early morning to late evening. + Saturday. She didn't mind, but it was not good for me not to see her. And he was getting tired. He soon left and is now working elsewhere. In the morning from 8 (I think) to 17:00 in the evening. He rests on Saturday and Sunday. For the same salary. And the company offers much more than in the past. Her colleagues are nicer. But he has been at his current job for about 3 years. I don't know what you do and how normal it is. I hope I helped with something. Good luck :)

   At least they pay you until they gave my mother money, I don't know when, not to mention the working conditions. It's up to you, you know the answer!

   I also worked 13-14 hours ... But this is the situation for now

   In Europe, they work if they pay well. They work in Bulgaria. If they pay - well.

   "This is the situation" and "Bulgaria". SHEEP. This is YOU, not the "situation" and "Bulgaria".

   The French invented it - 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of rest and 8 hours of work. A separate issue is that most people are used to bleating 50% of the time and not working actively! I have websites and I can tell you statistics: on weekdays there are thousands of visitors every hour. Saturday and Sunday traffic drops dramatically. Answer the questions yourself what people do. It is better to work 8 hours at 100% and then rest than to pretend for 12 hours that you are doing something.

   I agree with you, but with those who say sheep - isn't it true, since you are not a sheep, where did you find a job? Well, yes, I will leave BG, precisely because I am not a sheep, but until then? And in my city, both for sheep and non-sheep, the work is the same and there is no choice. They just give a higher salary here (a little higher). And I doubt that, because the working hours are bad. , and I'm wondering if I should start, because I hear conflicting opinions. And it seems that we prefer to be on shifts with a lower salary than to fight for a little more money. I don't know. family and do not go with a rich uncle and such a salary without ties is difficult to find.

   See 5 years I worked at a job that starts from 8:00 to 18:30 from Monday to Friday and from 9:00 to 18:00 on Saturday. 6 days a week, under great stress and tension. For the holidays I went to pray for 3 days as if I didn't deserve it. At the moment I am unemployed for a month somewhere and I feel like I regain my strength and see the other side of life. It is true that I received a good salary for this crisis, but I am also your salary when my health is not good. I don't want to swallow 1 handful of blood pills, etc. when I turn 30 (I'm currently 25). I know that many of you have no choice and the solution is difficult and the crisis stops many of you, but this is the situation.

   Mine is easy compared to yours, but I also feel that way, even though I work less than 8 hours. But 8 hours can hardly be done by a person, I don't think a person has to work that much, see 5 hours a day seems normal to me.

   Well, everywhere in the west you work from 9 am to 6 pm or from 8 am to 5 pm. If you are made to work overtime you get paid. The wage for working on weekends is double, but these are the working conditions for low-paid jobs, without the need for special qualifications. If you are abroad on a decent and well-paid, clean job. Your working hours can be official from 9 am to 6 pm, but quite often you work until 8 pm, and when you need weekends without additional payment for the extra hours you have earned, because your salary is high enough, anyway . If these conditions are not favorable for you, you are looking for a new job. It is! Everyone chooses what and where to work. No one is held in power and you always have a choice, but there are also risks. Excessive freedom, fixed working hours, etc. they will let you see the sun during the day, but you will have to deprive yourself of other luxuries that you can now afford, for example, because your salary will be significantly lower. So a matter of perspective and values. If freedom is more valuable to you, to see when the day starts and ends, and not only from your office window, to have fixed working hours and few responsibilities, then you change jobs and your problems are solved. But remember that change and freedom come at a price, and if money is less important to you, then the choice is clear. P.S. Or you may just need a vacation. Go somewhere, rest, relax a bit and go back to work and so on until you get tired of the office to the pain again. The cycle repeats until the holidays start to be unloading, then there is no choice, it is time for a change. Success! Yagi which you can now afford, for example, because your salary will be significantly lower. So a matter of perspective and values. If freedom is more valuable to you, to see when the day starts and ends, and not only from your office window, to have fixed working hours and few responsibilities, then you change jobs and your problems are solved. But remember that change and freedom come at a price, and if money is less important to you, then the choice is clear. P.S. Or you may just need a vacation. Go somewhere, rest, relax a bit and go back to work and so on until you get tired of the office to the pain again. The cycle repeats until the holidays start to be unloading, then there is no choice, it is time for a change. Success! Yagi which you can now afford, for example, because your salary will be significantly lower. So a matter of perspective and values. If freedom is more valuable to you, to see when the day starts and ends, and not only from your office window, to have fixed working hours and few responsibilities, then you change jobs and your problems are solved. But remember that change and freedom come at a price, and if money is less important to you, then the choice is clear. P.S. Or you may just need a vacation. Go somewhere, rest, relax a bit and go back to work and so on until you get tired of the office to the pain again. The cycle repeats until the holidays start to be unloading, then there is no choice, it is time for a change. Success! Yagi So a matter of perspective and values. If freedom is more valuable to you, to see when the day starts and ends, and not only from your office window, to have fixed working hours and few responsibilities, then you change jobs and your problems are solved. But remember that change and freedom come at a price, and if money is less important to you, then the choice is clear. P.S. Or you may just need a vacation. Go somewhere, rest, relax a bit and go back to work and so on until you get tired of the office to the pain again. The cycle repeats until the holidays start to be unloading, then there is no choice, it is time for a change. Success! Yagi So a matter of perspective and values. If freedom is more valuable to you, to see when the day starts and ends, and not only from your office window, to have fixed working hours and few responsibilities, then you change jobs and your problems are solved. But remember that change and freedom come at a price, and if money is less important to you, then the choice is clear. P.S. Or you may just need a vacation. Go somewhere, rest, relax a bit and go back to work and so on until you get tired of the office to the pain again. The cycle repeats until the holidays start to be unloading, then there is no choice, it is time for a change. Success! Yagi then you change jobs and your problems are solved. But remember that change and freedom come at a price, and if money is less important to you, then the choice is clear. P.S. Or you may just need a vacation. Go somewhere, rest, relax a bit and go back to work and so on until you get tired of the office to the pain again. The cycle repeats until the holidays start to be unloading, then there is no choice, it is time for a change. Success! Yagi then you change jobs and your problems are solved. But remember that change and freedom come at a price, and if money is less important to you, then the choice is clear. P.S. Or you may just need a vacation. Go somewhere, rest, relax a bit and go back to work and so on until you get tired of the office to the pain again. The cycle repeats until the holidays start to be unloading, then there is no choice, it is time for a change. Success! Yagi until the holidays start to be unloading, then there is no choice, it is time for a change. Success! Yagi until the holidays start to be unloading, then there is no choice, it is time for a change. Success! Yagi

   Get out of this prison !!! I barely got rid of such a job, money doesn't matter, you spend as much as you have, remember it !!! I will never work such a job every day again, even on Sundays they drove me HORROR !!! If there is a crisis, I will not work for such Byzantines .... Run until you can, if you get used to being crushed, in fact, while you get used to it, your life is gone ... SUCCESS.

   I don't think this is a choice between money and freedom / little responsibility. Rather, the opposition is money / health. I went through such a job, lasted a year and finally chose to stay healthy. At one point you have no choice, after feeling on your back all the consequences of excessive stress and lack of rest - high blood pressure, insomnia, palpitations, the feeling of being poisoned by the monstrous number of cigarettes you smoked ... At one point the fuse explodes and your body just tells you "come on, I can't take it anymore". It is not normal to pray for leave, as if you do not deserve it under the Labor Code, and not be able to rest like people and recover mentally. It is not normal to drag a sick person to work, because hospital stays are an unprecedented luxury. It's just not normal anywhere in the world. Jobs will always be found. I have less money now, but the feeling of not having that deadly stress compensates me twice. But really everyone is free to make their own choices.

   And I'm like 19. I've done such things ... health and nerves with no money you can not pay them. But it's over. I decided that I would not work more than 8 hours 5 days a week, for no money, for nothing. It is written in the contract. At least in the contracts I had, it was written that way. For overtime - optional. This is reflected in their contract, and they are obliged to abide by it. But there is no law for them, no code ... that's how we taught them, unfortunately.

   Thank you for your support, I left, I decided not to dig deeper, I hope to find a more normal job. Time will tell. And, yes, I've worked in America for a long time, and I know what it's like to be satisfied with what you get when you leave work. I also know that it can't be like that forever and people have invented it. But I'm not there now and I have to fight the absurdities here.

   Well done, you acted boldly. Good luck finding a better job :) Ale

   That's right, you'll find we haven't died to them for the damn levs with which they trick us into giving ourselves health, after all we are a democratic state, we won't allow them to trample us! Is there to look for someone to work for them for no money if the state, fuck them to get better. I wish you success !!!

   Good luck from me too! When I left I was told that I was crazy, in the midst of the crisis it was very difficult to find a job ... Well, yes, but after two months I started the new one ... Almost a year has passed since then and now I am extremely happy that I decided then. I'm even sorry I didn't do it earlier. By chance! From number 19

   BRAVO to the author and to the others who pulled one for them and LEFT the damn job. And I did so, WE WILL NOT ALLOW THEM to be trampled and exploited. I wish you success from the bottom of my heart

   I think that in general, it is high time to introduce a mandatory 6-hour working day. After all, the 8-hour working day was also introduced after a hard struggle of the workers. If it weren't for these people, we would now be working 10..12 hours quite legally. Thanks to Uncle Henry Ford and his workers, the work week is now 5 days. If it weren't for their struggle, we would be working legally on Saturday as well. Besides, I'm very happy to see such smart people in this forum. I CONGRATULATE YOU ALL. Until now, I thought that only I was crazy to think about such topics. Years ago I had a modest job of 6-7 hours, but I was calm, happy and happy with my life. Of course, the patch was also embarrassing to me. However, every morning I woke up with joy for the new day. Now I am well paid, but I work 9-10 hours every day. For a long time, however, I go to work smiling. I grin and happy. Everyone wonders why. Guess what. Only I know. I will issue a notice.

   I am lucky, I work from 9 to 17, 30, 5 days a week, but the salary is nothing special. However, a few years ago I worked from 8:30 to 19:00, and on Saturday I worked from 9:00 to 15:00 and the salary was downright ridiculous. So I understand you very well! It is not normal for me to work 10-12 hours, but for the Bulgarian employer the rules do not apply. In the Labor Code he can write things about maximum working hours, vacations and overtime, but this is still Bulgaria! Personally, I would hardly agree to work so much, at least because I want to have some time for my family, not to mention that whenever I happen to work I feel extremely tired and make many mistakes. So I try to stay in the office after 5:30 pm only in exceptional circumstances. The same goes for working on Saturday. Yes, it has happened to me, but rarely, and I've always been compensated by the bosses for that, but as I said, I'm happy to have come across people and now things are going great because we have mutual respect. So you know, but I wouldn't work that hard unless the salary is really cosmic.

   Globally, there are so many unemployed ... and those who managed to get a job work too hard. The working week should be 4 days, 6 hours a day ... And it is not that in their free time people will be lazy (there are and always will be) but they will have the opportunity to be useful to themselves and others without pay. . Sooner or later this will happen when people realize what kind of sheep they are :)

   to 29. You are right. Absolutely true. I hope you're right. We live in a conformist world. That is why I am not optimistic. But still people will realize someday. I hope this happens before we retire at the age of 95.

   It's normal, even be glad you have a day off, because I work abroad and I'm without a day off. I work every day because my work is seasonal. This is the case from April to October. Winter is resting. I have been working for over 6 months without a single day off. Getting used to. As a rule, I go from 8:00 to 18:00, one hour lunch break only, but I have to be there at 7:00 because at 7:30 there are customers. And I go home at 19:00 because I still have people until 18:30 at least. So it turns out that I'm at work from 7:00 to 19:00, 11 hours a day, removing 1 hour of rest, 10 hours a day. And every day without a break. Do you think I have time for something? Abroad, this is generally the case. If you are not a seasonal job, you will have only one day off - on Sunday. There is no such thing as in Bulgaria - two days off - and Saturday and Sunday -.

   32, and tell her where is this "foreign country" where there is no Saturday? Because I'm in Germany, in a small town, and on Saturdays and Sundays not only is there no work, but there is almost nowhere to go shopping, because everyone has closed the shutters and is resting ... Not to mention that every weekend, especially as it is good weather, celebrations, fairs, performances, picnics are organized. Who did it, brother! I guess with this job you will not become a millionaire, so you are probably fighting in vain for the prosperity of other people :)

   He studies in Italy, works 6 days - until Saturday. I don't like the working hours of the shops, as there is a holiday or Saturday until 14:00. Abe Bulgaria has something positive;)

   I don't know what you mean by a good salary, but for me it's too much. Especially if you have a family. If you're alone, anyway, but if every night someone is waiting for you to come home, and you're always late ... then it's very naughty. I'm not saying that my working hours are perfect and in the summer it's very hard for me to watch the sun only through the office window, but I'm still until 5.30 pm and then I have enough time to walk around and "ventilate" my head from the whole stress and work problems. Look, my salary is small, but on the other hand it is very rare, but really very rare (it has happened 2-3 times in a few years, it has not) I work overtime and if something like that happens, I am always compensated. If I have worked all day (for example, I was called on a Saturday or Sunday), then I get 1 day off. And if it's a few hours, for example, I stay until 6.30 pm or 7 pm, then the next day I go to work later. In general, I'm lucky to have come across cool people. It's just a pity that this is a small company and, accordingly, the profits are small and therefore the salaries are small, but I get my money regularly (or earlier, if the 10th is on a Saturday or Sunday), they provide me with a real salary and most importantly, our relationship is very fair. As I said, when I work overtime, they compensate me, if I have a personal job, then I stay until later or I reduce my lunch break. There is no way the process is two-way, but I am really happy! And I only pray that we have more work to have for higher salaries. So what to do is nowhere perfect and everyone has to decide for himself what suits him. Is he willing to work for more money, but to come to terms with the fact that they will call him at any time, he will work overtime and will always be available at all, or he will choose what I chose - a quiet job, without stress, with hard working hours, but for little money . Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle, but alas, the balance is difficult to achieve.

   Eight hours is full time. Anything over eight hours is ILLEGAL! Report to the labor inspectorate

   Personally, for 7 years I was only involved in programming (I enjoyed doing projects, I did a lot without money, and in the beginning, and now I do it because I like it). I am currently 25, I take 2. 6 net, the work is from 9:30 (actually starts after 10) to 6 and a half, only on weekdays and no one is asking you when you come to work, as long as the projects go according to plan. It happens (rarely) to work and / or weekends, but generally not more often than once every 2 months. For some people, the money seems like a lot, but in reality my salary is quite low for the sector and people with (however immodest it may sound) experience.

   Number 17 - when you don't have time for anything, you are deprived of all luxuries. 32 - to get used to. Even slaves get used to it.

   Number 17 - when you don't have time for anything, you are deprived of all luxuries. 32 - to get used to. Even slaves get used to it.

   I was tired of this stretching of working hours and without pay. If I start telling, I have to write all day. In 20 years of work I have probably changed my job more than 20 times. One day I just got tired. I registered a company and have been working for myself for 4 years. There is no such pleasure simply. I earn more than before but I said that one day even if I earn only BGN 5 a day, I will still work for myself.

   Hello, I work five or six days a week for 10 hours from 9:30 to 19:30 for a salary of BGN 29 per day. I don't have a lunch break. please go out to eat or smoke a butt .. My leave is 14 days. According to the contract, I have an 8-hour lunch break and leave for 20 working days. Do you think it is normal? I live to work and waste my nerves and health for money ... I have decided not to put up with this anymore ..

   n 43, why do you ask if it is normal when you know it is not. Leave, for God's sake! Complete nonsense is your job, sorry - I don't know what made you start such a job at all, but anyway - QUALIFY YOURSELF AND RE-QUALIFY, of course!