Just got off a phone interview for a utility finder job. $17/hr, company truck, you spray paint grass where the electric/water/sewer/internet lines are for a digger's hotline. It honestly sounds like pretty decent work, something that could be a chill walking around with headphones job.
10 hour days, 5 days a week, plus every other weekend. Meaning 70 hours of work every other week (and I can only bet that they'll illegally combine overtime hours so you only get paid time and a half for 20 instead of the 30 you're entitled to)
They say there's “on call” work. Of course you don't actually get paid for being on call, but lucky you, you get to “clock in at home before you leave for a call”. On a rotation you bring the company truck home and answer any emergency calls. This means showing up to a sewage line leak in the middle of the night for $17/hr.
The worst part is I asked if he'd still be hiring more people so that there wasn't as much overtime. He said that it was “ideal” to be working 50 hours a week. There's no plan on making normal work weeks at all for these jobs. Overtime is literally designed into the job. It's a permanent 60+ hour week. Then he had the audacity to say he was having a hard time finding people to work. I'm single with no kids, and I think that's too much just because I want to have free time. How in the fuck do they expect someone with a family to do this sort of work? Dipping out in the middle of the night because some doofus hit an underground power line who's watching your kids?
People fought and died for the 40 hour work week and the 8 hour work day just so these idiots could shit all over it 100 years later.