Is it even legal to work this long?

Sounds like a doddle, if your driving a desk.... ;) :p

EU rules
Driving hours
The main EU rules on driving hours are that you must not drive more than:

  • 9 hours in a day - this can be extended to 10 hours twice a week
  • 56 hours in a week
  • 90 hours in any 2 consecutive weeks
All driving you do under EU rules must be recorded on a tachograph.

Breaks and rest
The main points of EU rules on breaks and rest are that you must take:

  • at least 11 hours rest every day - you can reduce this to 9 hours rest 3 times between any 2 weekly rest periods
  • an unbroken rest period of 45 hours every week - you can reduce this to 24 hours every other week
  • a break or breaks totalling at least 45 minutes after no more than 4 hours 30 minutes driving
  • your weekly rest after 6 consecutive 24-hour periods of working, starting from the end of the last weekly rest period taken
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Don’t worry about driving tired, the roads are already full of very tired truckers....
 
Lysander said:
Sounds like you don't have a boss you feel you can easily talk to @Helen Barber - if it were me I'd bring it up right away. My boss is awesome.



Cybersex, wasn't it? Hadn't he been cybering some woman all night?
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Clearly never been in a Helen barber thread before.

Teachers are all lazy.

Need advice on a DAC. Get given same advice by 20 different posters. Disregard all advice. Call the people giving advice idiots even though one of the guys is a professional installer and then go and buy the wrong thing.

Definitely one to keep an eye on.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Clearly never been in a Helen barber thread before.

Teachers are all lazy.

Need advice on a DAC. Get given same advice by 20 different posters. Disregard all advice. Call the people giving advice idiots even though one of the guys is a professional installer and then go and buy the wrong thing.

Definitely one to keep an eye on.
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My real life stalker boy, life doesn't seem that happy your end
 
Helen Barber said:
My real life stalker boy, life doesn't seem that happy your end
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How so? Am I the one working nights and unable to speak with my manager?

Some of us are adults and speak with colleagues on a daily/weekly basis both formally and informally.

You surely don't work alone. So I'm wondering why you didn't approach any of these colleagues that do the same shifts and had to do the same training? As that is the first thing any normal person would do.
 
Helen Barber said:
Every thread I make you harass me on bringing up my past threads like some weirdo.

Get a life
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Just put him on ignore or report to the mods, he's a strange fish.

@Psycho Sonny - well done on making someone feel so uncomfortable on an internet forum that they have to ask you to stop creeping them out. Who would have thought your real life would be imitated here too!
 
Helen Barber said:
I work nights for a large company. - Healthcare sector.

I work 4 nights Tuesday-Friday, start time 10pm-7:15am

My boss has put me on a 2 days restraint training course this week on Thursday and Friday start time 9am-4:30pm so coming straight off shift on to a course with limited sleep over 3 days

It's going to be absolute hell to fight the tiredness - is that legal?

I just worry being on the roads being really tired... I'm guessing he's thinking I should sleep between 5pm-9pm before I start another night shift
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I'm guessing he's not thinking. Nobody who was thinking would put someone on two consecutive 20 hour workdays unless they were doing it maliciously.
 
dLockers said:
they are/ they're*
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.Lethal said:
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I dunno man they're comes a point in every adults life where the basics of spelling and grammar really should be behind them :p

See how annoying that was to use the wrong instance of 'their' in that sentence?

And that sentence too ^ :p
 
dLockers said:
I dunno man they're comes a point in every adults life where the basics of spelling and grammar really should be behind them :p

See how annoying that was to use the wrong instance of 'their' in that sentence?

And that sentence too ^ :p
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Just pointing out the mistake alone isn't necessarily helpful - people don't always even know the why behind they are using words incorrectly, etc. which is why badgering people over the internet over it is usually just being an arse.

An interesting one for me as certain things like people using a lower case i make me wince but my own spelling and grammar is pretty tragic at the best of times.
 
Rroff said:
Just pointing out the mistake alone isn't necessarily helpful - people don't always even know the why behind they are using words incorrectly, etc. which is why badgering people over the internet over it is usually just being an arse.

An interesting one for me as certain things like people using a lower case i make me wince but my own spelling and grammar is pretty tragic at the best of times.
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Going to jump in on this.

Quite often people are multitasking and aren't really paying attention when typing out a response. Now if I was writing my dissertation, you bet I would go over everything before submitting. This is just a forum, people shouldn't take these things seriously. That isn't to say I don't make mistakes, they also happen :D
 
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