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Post by herslip98 on Oct 2, 2008 18:31:03 GMT -5
Hey guys just wondering how everything is going in other parts of the country. I see a few of you have been laid of sorry to hear that. I have been averaging about 55 hours a week all summer here in North Dakota. We Have alot of work on the powerplants and have a 6300 yard pour coming up next friday planning on three plants and bring drivers in from Minnesota to help.
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Post by BillyCement on Oct 2, 2008 19:03:53 GMT -5
I've been getting 40 hours straight time and a few hours OT each week for the past few months. The OT is beginning to disappear.  Hopefully, I'll keep the 40 hours. My family depends on it. |
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Post by herslip98 on Oct 2, 2008 19:06:46 GMT -5
Yeah word around the office is we will be slowing down after this big pour, I dont see it happening. Luckily no drivers have been laid off yet since " You make the money" quote from the president although alot of saleried positions are getting laid off.
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Post by gant on Oct 2, 2008 21:00:32 GMT -5
I've been getting 45 for the past few weeks.. this week I only got about 20.. but this winter they are closing all the plants but 4.. There are 2 plants in my county and we have a master seniority list between the two.. one of them is closing..either my plant or plant 12... but one is staying open.. when the one in my county closes we will go to the master list I should be safe since there are only 2 guys at the other plant that are above me I'll only move down 2 spots..
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Oct 2, 2008 21:28:35 GMT -5
I'm averaging 40-50 hours a week. It's getting slow though,
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Post by Mort on Oct 2, 2008 23:46:49 GMT -5
Slow here, too. I was recently able to significantly lower my living expenses, so this winter won't be as bad as I was expecting, but still, I'd rather be working.
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Post by cfconcrete on Oct 3, 2008 9:38:41 GMT -5
35 to 45 hours a week.......
I've got 30 years of senority in, it's 10:30 on a Friday morning and I'm home already.
What does that tell ya?
But it is cold and raining.
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Oct 3, 2008 15:57:37 GMT -5
Up until this week I was getting 40 to 45. This week, however, is another story. Did one 8 hour night pour and got 6 hours today. Good thing my girl drives a school bus. Union job and she's got 11 years in.
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Post by gant on Oct 3, 2008 20:17:18 GMT -5
our Top guys are still getting 40 plus..
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Post by lafargeslave on Oct 17, 2008 22:09:41 GMT -5
they are trying to limit all to 40hours to stop paying overtime. some weeks it works some they cant help but let us get 50 hours. rumors are flying everywhere. One rumor is that we are hoping the company next door fails (they are around 20 mill in the hole) and that way we can take over what they have. Hows that for a company strategy? moved/removed/retitled several managers and brought in the frenchies. hopefully they have more sense than the ones they replaced. doesnt look good for lasting till the end of the year.
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Post by dwfnga on Oct 20, 2008 15:20:08 GMT -5
We are finally getting hit a little bit no lay off but we have to take 1 hour for lunch sometime during the day (off the clock) it could be worse at least they arent talking layoff yet, everybody hang tight it looks like it might get worse before it gets better.
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Post by gant on Oct 20, 2008 16:58:00 GMT -5
I'm probably gonna take a layoff and go on the road this winter
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Oct 26, 2008 12:26:21 GMT -5
These last 2 weeks have been horrnedous I have barely been able to get 40 hrs. I clocked in 31 hrs this week. I think that by early Novemeber I am going to register for unemployment to be ready for the super slow down. Good luck to you all where ever you are
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Post by lafargeslave on Oct 26, 2008 16:26:12 GMT -5
well we do have a 40 hour back up system so we get paid 40 hours anyway but that is half what we are used to earning. generally when I get a 40 hr minimum check I was close to earning the same amount anyway just missing the equivilant by a couple of loads so its not total welfare.
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Post by gant on Oct 26, 2008 20:49:52 GMT -5
I got 12 hours lastweek and 17 the week before..good thing my wife makes good money..
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Post by jeffintx on Oct 26, 2008 21:27:53 GMT -5
Do yall not have a 40 hour guarantee? If not, I would be filing unemployment to get the rest of my hours. From the way it looks it seems like companies in the south mainly texas has a guarantee.
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Post by BillyCement on Oct 27, 2008 7:16:29 GMT -5
Do yall not have a 40 hour guarantee? If not, I would be filing unemployment to get the rest of my hours. From the way it looks it seems like companies in the south mainly texas has a guarantee.
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Post by gant on Oct 28, 2008 9:01:03 GMT -5
I've been filing unempolyment... unemployment here is 320 a week.. that doesnt even come close to making up the hours..and when I work 12-20 hours a week and file it asks for what you earned, so you put it in and it gives you the difference to make $320.. so lets say I only make $215 at work.. unemployment will pay me $105 to get me to 320..
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Post by Mort on Oct 28, 2008 18:59:42 GMT -5
I've been filing, but I forgot to do it the week before last, so I've got to start all over again.
Damn it.
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Post by BillyCement on Oct 28, 2008 19:36:22 GMT -5
I've been filing, but I forgot to do it the week before last, so I've got to start all over again. Damn it.  |
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Post by jeffintx on Oct 28, 2008 20:10:50 GMT -5
It is max $398 a week here. It felt kinda good to get that until I started working again. I had to wait 3 weeks for the first check, but I got it for a month. It does feel really good to be back at work though. I like working 10 hours a day 4 days a week. I cant wait until I get my 90 days in so I can get some OT. Right now a lot of the other guys are working 7 days a week. Always voluntary, never mandatory, but they let you get all you want. All these years I thought there was good money in concrete, now I figured out there is better money working in a machine shop.
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Post by Mort on Oct 29, 2008 11:09:15 GMT -5
I've been filing, but I forgot to do it the week before last, so I've got to start all over again. Damn it. She has a relative that is *ahem* quite vocal with her husband, so my wife takes it pretty easy on me. And I forgot after I cleaned up the whole house and did a bunch of projects around here, so I bet that softened the blow a bit. |
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Post by BillyCement on Oct 29, 2008 11:50:27 GMT -5
Sounds like you don't have an ass-kicking wife. If I missed something like that my wife would kick my a s s so hard my ancestors would feel it. She has a relative that is *ahem* quite vocal with her husband, so my wife takes it pretty easy on me. And I forgot after I cleaned up the whole house and did a bunch of projects around here, so I bet that softened the blow a bit. |
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Post by gant on Oct 29, 2008 15:12:17 GMT -5
mine lets me know before I "f" up... shes a yeller.. And it pisses her off because I dont yell or get mad very easy, so when shes yelling I'm like "why are you yelling at me, I'm not yelling.. I dont yell" and shes yells even more.. ahh.. its great sometimes
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Post by cfconcrete on Oct 29, 2008 15:58:00 GMT -5
Yea but doesn't the high pitched squeal that all wives have go right through to your spine?
My poker face is that I lose control of my bowels when I really get yelled at. Then she backs the hell off........
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Post by lafargeslave on Oct 30, 2008 11:54:09 GMT -5
no more hours now. Lay offs today. they got me. then they went and shut down a nieghboring plant and cut all those guys including the yard man and dispatchers with the exception of the 3 senior drivers which will transfer. I knew it had to be coming. 3 buildings that we were going to pour shut down the projects so what little we had to get by with went poof. they gave me 4 weeks severance pay which was a surprise to me. oh well
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Post by BillyCement on Oct 30, 2008 15:25:24 GMT -5
no more hours now. Lay offs today. they got me. then they went and shut down a nieghboring plant and cut all those guys including the yard man and dispatchers with the exception of the 3 senior drivers which will transfer. I knew it had to be coming. 3 buildings that we were going to pour shut down the projects so what little we had to get by with went poof. they gave me 4 weeks severance pay which was a surprise to me. oh well |
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Post by gant on Oct 30, 2008 21:10:10 GMT -5
We are supposed to be combining 2 plants into one..I'll move down 2 spots now.. not too bad considering there are 11 drivers at that other plant..they arent going to lay anyone off.. just give the lower guys 9am start times and call us off by 8 am if they dont need us..
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Post by cfconcrete on Oct 30, 2008 22:04:38 GMT -5
no more hours now. Lay offs today. they got me. then they went and shut down a nieghboring plant and cut all those guys including the yard man and dispatchers with the exception of the 3 senior drivers which will transfer. I knew it had to be coming. 3 buildings that we were going to pour shut down the projects so what little we had to get by with went poof. they gave me 4 weeks severance pay which was a surprise to me. oh well That sucks bro, they need to pass this second bailout plan to give money to states to fix the roads & bridges to stimulate jobs. Like a modern verson of the WPA. |
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Post by lounge on Nov 2, 2008 9:51:08 GMT -5
i am sorry to hear about the lay offs fellas, and the sort en hours. here in Wyoming we are busier than a cat covering up a turd. i am still getting at least 50 hrs a week and working 5 and 1/2 days a week. but we pour concrete even when to snow flies and the Mercury drop way below freezing . it for and irrigation district and the winter is the only time they can do it.
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Hopefully, I'll keep the 40 hours. My family depends on it.
