Do you shop in different stores because the items you want are cheaper that way?

I'll give you the example. I needed Pistachios for a recipe. In one store it was $7.60 for a 60grm packet. In another store. It was $3.50 for an 80grm packet. That's a big difference between the two.

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Starcrossed · 41-45, F

I think if I was a homemaker and didn't work fulltime I'd have more time to do that, I don't right now.

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

@Starcrossed How much hours a week do you work?

Starcrossed · 41-45, F

@Thevy29 40-55.

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

@Starcrossed That's in a week?! That would be illegal in my country,

Alisha233 · 31-35, F

@Thevy29 what's your country?

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

@Alisha233 Australia. Yours?

Neman1622 · 41-45, M

@Thevy29 🤯 why is that illegal? That makes no sense

Alisha233 · 31-35, F

@Neman1622 I'm guessing that comment wasn't meant literally.

Neman1622 · 41-45, M

@Alisha233 working 55 hours being illegal? That was literal

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

@Neman1622 Technically its illegal, (Technically Swearings still illegal, but rarely charged) the law was put in place in the early 2000's. The idea was to stop driver fatigue and the death toll on our roads. It's not really policed as such. What they did instead was declare that any work over 8 hours in a day without 8 hours inbetween has to be paid at; time and a Half. And anything over 76 hours a fortnight is time and a half. Unless your contracted to work 80 hours a fortnight then you get 1 paid day off a month. So employers would have to pay their workers more if they want them to work over the contracted hours. And sometimes they don't. 😅
I think mainly this law was put in place so that the Politicians could get a paid day off.

Neman1622 · 41-45, M

@Thevy29 if you're an over the road driver in the states, that's different. There are laws limiting hours for that

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

@Neman1622 Yep. I work in a hospital. One co-worker had 3 part time jobs and when it was discovered she had already worked 12 hours that day somewhere else. The managers pulled her off the shift and told her to go home.
Another Co-worker. Since he worked for 3 different Agencies. He'd work 2 shifts a day most of the week and 3 shifts each Saturday and 3 shifts on Sunday claiming weekend overtime. He'd take naps on his meal break and a 30 minute nap in the parking lot before starting a new shift else were. Leaving him a 3 hour drive home on Monday, his only day off. Management said they were breaking no laws. But he totalled 3 cars in 2022 and is doing time in jail because of it...

Neman1622 · 41-45, M

@Thevy29 that's not the same as working OT at your regular full time job. I think we're talking about 2 different things here

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

@Neman1622 That's how the agencies got out of trouble with him.
It's happened to me.
The managers of the different sections put me on a Morning shift in the Aged Care ward. An Afternoon on the Nursing Ward and a Night Shift in the Overnight Building. This is all part of the same hospital. Happened on a long weekend with a public Holiday on both Friday and Monday and the managers all took Thursday off as their paid day off. And no one was available or willing to pick up a shift. All I got was, 'You can sleep on the Nightshift.' I was sick as a dog by the end of it. That first night I was attacked by a guy with a knife, so I refused to work that Overnight building ever again. And the tax man took so much tax off me that it wasn't worth it at all.

Starcrossed · 41-45, F

@Thevy29 yes, I'm salaried not hourly. I usually try to keep my hours closer to 40 and times that I put in more towards 50 I sometimes get a bonus day off or two to make up for it.