What an interesting question on a Friday, at the start of the weekend.
When a question like this is asked, I always think of the possibility of going out for a night out on Friday night, consuming large amounts of alcohol and/or food, going to bed before dawn and sleeping in longer on Saturday.
Or going to bed in the early evening hours on Friday, so that I could wake up before dawn on Saturday and go on a day trip to nature.
Or simply, do all household chores on Saturday and use Saturday evening to socialize and enjoy...
And on the other hand, the amount of money I could make if I agreed to work over the weekend crosses my mind.
I probably wouldn't be writing this topic today if I hadn't just left the workshop held by HR and in which I was asked by a colleague from HR, "Do I like the work I do?" answered the following:
"Of course I love the job I do. So what do you think, colleagues, what would my mood be like at the job I've been doing for so many years, if I hated it?".
"Then would you accept overtime?" was her next question, which was followed by a slightly longer answer 🙂
The same one I might give in response to one of the topics galenkp set for this weekend:
Leisure or work - Is it ok to work on the weekends or not?
It's all a matter of need and opportunity.
I have signed a 40-hour weekly work contract with the company.
If the company needs my engagement for longer than those 40 hours, to stay after 4 pm or to work on weekends, they can always ask me.
If my private obligations (do I have time or not), my needs (do I need additional income or not) as well as my decision (whether that activity is a priority for the company and what is the risk level if it is not done), coincide with that need of the company, why not.
For every hour that I give to the company over the contracted number of working hours, I expect fair compensation.
The company gets my time, I get the companies money.
OK, right?
How good is that, for a human being, a man who should enjoy the fruits of his labor?
How good is it to exert yourself extra and suffer the same stress constantly at the same job, even when the contracted working hours are fulfilled?
I know it's not, and for that reason, I usually don't have (I don't accept) business activities outside of working hours, and I reduce all weekend work to work outside the company where I work.
It's a different kind of work, which removes from me the excess of accumulated stress and some negative energy that I accumulated in 5 working days.
I treat this work as a hobby.
Last weekend, for example, when I had work on my terrace is one example.
But it is "easy" for me and for those who are financially taken care of, that we can have the option to choose whether we want to work over the weekend or not.
What happens when someone finds himself in a situation where extra income on weekends is the only way to ensure his family's existence.
I was on my way home from work and saw piles of car tires (and van tires) next to a motor vehicle workshop.
And I remember another situation that may require additional work.
Short term.
The guys working on changing tires will have very increased activities in the next two weeks and their bosses will ask them to stay at work overtime, as well as to work on weekends, in order to replace the tires on all company vehicles by November 1 (legal obligation to have winter tires).
They will have to do that work, and I only hope that, like I mentioned above, in response to HR, they will provide themselves with additional income for those activities.
Because if on weekend days (when one should live and enjoy life), time is spent in work activities, that work should be paid well.
And of course, we should strive to avoid it and rest, sit, socialize, read, listen to music...
I have a good friend who works at a busy tire shop and they are used to the busy seasons. They take advantage of the slower times, which happen to fall nicely in the warm summer months and deep winter holidays.
They also reward themselves with a little under the table cash deals with their network of car driving friends by helping out on their lunch breaks and after hours. A smart tire shop will let the guys do this as their own reward during the highly profitable season.
Hard working fun doods for sure.
Only if it is fairly and fairly paid, or if weekend work earns days that can be spent on another occasion, as an addition to annual leave or weekends...