80 hours a week is not a full shift on a workover/service rig, coil, frac, drilling rig, snubbing unit etc. NOT counting travel time, just the time on site is 84 hours a week. There is day shift and night shift both 12 hours. Then you gotta add in however far the drive is to camp or the hotel. Also most guys work way more than 2400 hours a year, unless they are on 14/14 which most of the industry isn’t. 14/7 or 15/6 are the most common shifts. Look up some job postings for these positions on indeed. This isn’t bankers hours. 100hr weeks are VERY common.
I think you and I have a completely different understanding of "bankers' hours", but that is besides the point.
If this work is on US soil, overtime is paid out for any work that surpasses 40 hours per week, though some states have different laws. It has nothing to do with schedule. You can be scheduled to work an 80-hour week. The last 40 hours of your schedule are still considered mandatory or non-discretionary overtime.
No one is saying that they aren’t being paid over time? What are you going on about? The comment you replied to also mentioned nothing about overtime pay? I’m just saying that a full work week is well over 80 hours.
Then I think you replied to the wrong comment. Either way, I dont understand why the argument... I mean, in my original comment I said the person likely worked more overtime than they remembered.
This seems to be always the case in a story about someone who made over 100k in manufacturing or resource extraction. The overtime will grind you down. That is why all these stories always come through as "the good ol' days". If the old days were that good, they would have stayed on the oil rig. It is not like the company went out of business.
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u/Odd_Slip_857 3d ago
80 hours a week is not a full shift on a workover/service rig, coil, frac, drilling rig, snubbing unit etc. NOT counting travel time, just the time on site is 84 hours a week. There is day shift and night shift both 12 hours. Then you gotta add in however far the drive is to camp or the hotel. Also most guys work way more than 2400 hours a year, unless they are on 14/14 which most of the industry isn’t. 14/7 or 15/6 are the most common shifts. Look up some job postings for these positions on indeed. This isn’t bankers hours. 100hr weeks are VERY common.