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April 3, 2025 12 mins
The worst work schedules
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
Hi, everybody, good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I had read this article and now I feel like
it's stuck in my head and I can't get it out.
I was talking to Santi a little bit about it
in the gym forum. But and I don't know if
maybe you feel differently about this, but the article basically
said that we as people should try our very best
mentally to not live for the weekends, like try to

(00:43):
force yourself to live and be excited about each and
every day.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
And I do.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I understand the mentality.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I myself do feel like I live each day being like,
all right, it's Wednesday, it's almost Friday. That comes from
a place of our schedule. And I mean that wholeheartedly,
because you know, we we don't have the luxury of
like going out on a Monday or Tuesday night.

Speaker 5 (01:09):
We don't, and if we do, we pay for it
the next day exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
And I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's not worth it to me. I've done it where
I've tried it and been like I'm going out tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
But then the alarm clock hits at three thirty and
I'm like a zombie of a human and I can't
do it. So I just think our schedule is so hard,
and I put it this way. It's created such real
estate in my brain that I brought it up to
the fireman last night and he's like, honey, you like,
you have to get that out of your head. It's
okay that you're excited for Friday because you get to

(01:39):
sleep in three hours. You know, like it's it and
it's again. I think when I was reading the article,
it made me feel like, I don't know, am I
like a bad mom because I'm not. I know I
went down this path of being like well because on
Mondays it's not like I'm thinking, oh, let's do something
like I'm taking them for a walk or I'm taking

(02:00):
them to the playground.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm doing something, but I'm not doing weekend types.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah. Yeah, we watch the time.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
I do watch the time, which is something I hate
because somebody tells me, yo, show up at seven. I'm like,
you're crazy, Like.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh, you want to bring her to this really fun
kids thing that starts a five.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm like five six, SI, Nope, can't do it.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
We watched time like hard, I do you know the weekend?
You just you don't worry about nothing.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
To My family is on the same thing because they know,
like we could never ask him to do this, that
and that, because now by default everybody is on this
awful schedule that we kind of have.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
He literally will get in bed with me between eight
and nine, like he just you fall it. I would
if my house was running this way.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
There's a point of the article which I understand because
like five out of the seven we're just looking for
the weekend, or four of the seven, right.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
You're making the five days miserable.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yes, if we change our way of thought, maybe the
experience would be better.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
But it's same time.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I don't think people are wired like that, Like the
weekends are a good thing and it's like good payoff
at the end of the week.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
And I don't know if you guys feel like this too.
But once I'm here.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
I'm cruising.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Ye, it's done.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
The day has begun. We're doing the show.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
We love what we do, so that helps, because mind you,
if we didn't, I don't even know I would.

Speaker 6 (03:19):
I don't think I do this schedule, this is unique
to us because we get out of what ten eleven,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (03:24):
We get out.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
But like I told some people, like even my parents
will be like, all right, so wait, so you going
because my dad saw her first hand when he came
here a few months ago and he's like, oh, so
you leave the crib by four thirty seven and you're
back even before noon.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's like, yes, it all depends on the day. Yes,
when you say it like that.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, when you break down the math of how many hours,
that's like the positive and people don't understand. But the
schedule is really daunting and also physically it's not good
for us. We are dying more and more every single
day because we don't sleep.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, And so many people have written us and been like,
how do you do it with the schedule? Because there
are so many people that are like, I don't care.
I could be home by noon, that doesn't matter to me.
I'm not getting up through because there's a lot of
people that have a firm belief that we get up
like in the middle of the night, which we kind.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Of do too.

Speaker 7 (04:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
But there's a positive though, like I have always experienced
being home with the kids when they get off the
bus and being home with them like lost.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
So there's a positive to that end the things.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
And I feel like fortunate for that because I know
a lot of parents work until five, then they're home
by six o'clock and it's a fast turnaround.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
That's what makes me emotional is because anytime I think
about this and the whole like living for the weekend thing,
I think, actually, there's for the kids. For the little
girls that I have in my house, there's no better schedule.
They get to see me and spend a big chunk
of their day with me every day.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
But I had different schedule and BO do that.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
But I think I've always been the type of person
that lives for the Friday feeling.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I just that's it.

Speaker 6 (04:49):
Feels awesome part of me to become like the norm,
right that everybody's like, Damn, Monday sucks. Like I've seen
people try to be like to try to make Monday
like mall of a positive thing, as opposed to be like, yeah,
it's Sunday, Monday is going to be here.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
There's Sunday scares. The Sunday scary set in because you.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Know, I will say to send the article a little
bit also as Americans, Like America is different where like
we're handcuffed to our jobs and careers are big. If
you go like overseas, the art's like like this work
is like third on the list here as Americans, I
feel like it's number.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
One to test to that. And again people go to
work overseas. By here, it's like it's a machine.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
It's like you have.

Speaker 6 (05:28):
If you don't go to work, there's something wrong with
you and you're not paying your bills overseas, Yes, people.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Kind of you can't pay it.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
You can't.

Speaker 6 (05:35):
People are a little more or less have less overseas.
But it's not, it's not. I almost feel like it's
is you're clocking into the machine and you're just making
the American machine just keep turning, and.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
Some people out of it. It's weird.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Some people think that cars of metal coffins just slowly
dying on the highways like we're in a metal coffins
and all that stuff. Yeah, it's crazy, but.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Killed us in this conversation. I got to commute now
I'm dead.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Well no, but that's what the thing.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
We're just driving to our death, like like every single day,
wasting more time.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
We don't have another option. We don't pair Bill.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
No, But that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
It's like, yes, you do, and just in a sense
of like work doesn't have to be the most important
thing in your life.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
It will be there if you balance it out. And
that's the thought process.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, I think you you do have to, which is
not easy sometimes because you're made to feel a certain
type of way. But I've really like in this job,
you know, I've said no more things.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
That's exactly I used to.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
I used to be like, yeah, I'll go, yeah, I'll
do it.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah I do. But my life is different now and
my priorities are different, so I've had to say notice
and things.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's the thought. That's the thought there instead of like
back in the day. And I've dealt with this too.
It's like, yeah, I'll do any event, anytime in Boston
and like, wait, what am I doing?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Right?

Speaker 7 (06:50):
No?

Speaker 4 (06:50):
I know, I know.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
When I was bringing this off to him though, there's
an eighties song Foreign that's literally about this.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
You're gonna do that song?

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, I love that song.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Everybody is working. Fuck, it has not changed, It has
not changed.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
It's so true.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Five o'clock on a Friday, for most people, quitting time,
quitting time, and then it's like the weekend.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
It's like, if you really think about it, it's a gimmick.
Bro out of seven days we look for to only two.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I know, But and how do we create a Friday
Saturday feeling on a Tuesday unless I don't have work.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
The next day holiday?

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Certain countries in Europe will take August off, four weeks
of holiday off.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
They have.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
They have siestas. Literally, yeah, I would, but then this
is the way by works. I'd keep your siesta, I'll
work through the two hours and get out earlier. It's weird,
like your mind. Our minds are just different. But yeah,
this article made me feel a type of way about
the fact that Thursdays I'm a little more relax. Like
if the fireman, for some crazy reason was like, let's

(08:10):
grab dinner tonight, I'd be like, I can do it, yes,
because it's Thursday and tomorrow's Friday.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
But you Monday, you asked me that, are you ill?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, Like it's offensive to us, But the thing is like, listen,
we're not going to change like overnight. But I think
it's just just reminding us to have balance on all
levels and that's the important part. Yes, yes, which I've
gone in the past. Why I've not had balance and
the schedule is the most important thing, and this and
that and it wasn't good for my partners.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah. Yeah, And with that being said, there's people who
work even crazier schedules to lead to and we know
that because during twenty twenty, you guys would call us
and that's why we do the check in now because
other people have these just insane.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
Days, fourteen holi days. Some people work three four days
a week just to have the rest of the Yeah,
it's like, it's weird.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Somebody is listening right now in that car, in their
car and a hundred present saying, hey.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Shut the hell up.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
You're pissing me off because my schedules were way worse.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
And I get it if you, but you know what,
I don't care what anybody says. Friday's hit different. Friday's
hit different. Hi everybody, good morning. It's actually in the
Jamie Morning Show. I was just saying I had a
feeling there was going to be somebody who's like, listen,
you guys have a tough schedule, because listen, there's people

(09:23):
that are on our schedule, but they hate their job,
and I think that would be the ultimate right because
at least when we get in here, we love what
we do and we have a good time and we
love talking to you guys. Because I couldn't imagine doing
this for a job that I hated. I couldn't. Yeah,
I wouldn't be able to maintain.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
I actually did it.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
I woke up this hour to go to a radio
station that I hated and despise, and that's a lot tougher.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, it got to the point where you would drive around, yeah,
just like and then go back in when it was
going to start. That's like lunacy, Christina, you used to
wake up at three point thirty.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
What job were you working?

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (09:59):
I was what I mean. I went to Pass City Hospitals. Wow,
and the first shift was like four thirty, and you
wake people up, you're the first person and then waking
them up, Yeah, I'm here to draw your blood. Yeah,
like mad, but you know you're here to do a job,
and you got to put on, like, you know, a
happy face even though you don't want to be awake
and you don't want to wake them up.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
And what was that shift? Four thirty in the morning.

Speaker 7 (10:22):
To four thirty two, one thirty.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Okay, and you don't work that shift anymore?

Speaker 7 (10:29):
No, I don't, and God bless everyone that still does.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
What's your shift now?

Speaker 2 (10:36):
No?

Speaker 7 (10:36):
Right now, I'm just doing TCA work. So I'm like,
okay pretty much all day. But yeah, it doesn't even
starting at three thirty.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
I was gonna say, did you did you hate that
that alarm clock so much that you would take any
other shift?

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Honestly, it started to become muscle memory, like I would
just wake up like three o'clock ready to go back
to thirty.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
I actually did wake up three fifteen today, fifteen minutes
before my alarm. I actually despise when that happens, because
I'm like, then I just stare at it and wait
until the time. But no, the getting up in the
threes is, uh, it's not. It's certainly not for the week.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's it's it's a lot.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
It's not you think different, you sleep this wring, you
eat it.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, so money this thing. Yeah, we'll have a problem
with that. But Christina, thanks for the calling it.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Anytime I think about this our schedule, you have to
think about the news anchors too, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
They're up in the twoes.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I know that for a fact because one of my friends,
she works on the morning news shift and she's up
I think she said two twenty.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
And then they have to be uh full makeup, yes,
do it themselves, which thinks how long?

Speaker 2 (11:41):
And now, Plus if you're doing your hair and your
glam let's just say at minimum you're looking at forty five,
maybe thirty if you have some sort of trick. But yeah, yeah,
if you're doing a full face, like, that's crazy.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
That time you have to go to bed to wake
up at two in the morning.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
My system was a news anchor for a while, but
you still go to that like at seven and she wow.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
But and that's the thing. Your day completely shrinks, right.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, absolutely, like and then you're also off by the
time you want to hang out with people like they're
they're at work.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, and then when they want to hang out, you're
in bed.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
And that's why I value so much. So my schedule
with the girls in the sleep with people are be like, god,
you're just sycho about the sleep, yeah, bitch, because if
I don't get them down around six thirty, then I'm
going to have zero time with my husband, like literally.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Zero vacation is like so easy going, just go with
the flow. Santi now doesn't go with the flow and
he has it's right.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Like you look at the CLOCKT three four.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
I hate it.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, when my wife says at eight thirty, hey, do
you want to start like a brand new show much?

Speaker 5 (12:46):
Are you crazy?

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Are you okay?
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