Yeah I’m sure you’re getting a lot of creative productive thoughts out of an engineering that is probably too tired to remember their own name. Ridiculous working practices.
I’m working 7 days / 12 hours down here which is just about my absolute limit. Thankfully just for a few weeks but there’s a few more of these trips planned
In the rail industry in the uk, there are fatigue regulations that are written in blood, that prevent people from working such ludicrous shifts. Since their introduction weirdly as well as accidents going down due to people not working huge hours and making mistakes/falling asleep behind the wheel etc, but also productivity has gone up. Because shattered people don’t actually make good efficient workers who make good decisions.
I’m obviously with you on this issue, but the US will skirt around any labor laws that are the norm globally that it can.
It’s also one thing that SpaceX engineers are working 20 hours at their desks or occasionally going on site, etc. compared to the work I do which is more physically exhausting manual labor and sometimes outside in 100 degree heat all day. Both obviously shouldn’t be happening.
The longest I’ve worked is about 17-18 hours in steel mills or back in the day on industrial solar farms for grid power. The solar work also played real loose with things when it got up to 120+ degree heat and we weren’t able to work so they’d send us back to the hotel to come back later for night shift. So imagine working like 6am to 12 or 1 pm, going back to the hotel to “sleep”, coming back after the sun set at like 8 pm, working until 2 or 3 pm the next day. That happened all the time.
This is more of a problem with heavy industry in the US than it is a SpaceX specific issue however.
Yeah I’m sure you’re getting a lot of creative productive thoughts out of an engineering that is probably too tired to remember their own name. Ridiculous working practices.
I’m working 7 days / 12 hours down here which is just about my absolute limit. Thankfully just for a few weeks but there’s a few more of these trips planned
In the rail industry in the uk, there are fatigue regulations that are written in blood, that prevent people from working such ludicrous shifts. Since their introduction weirdly as well as accidents going down due to people not working huge hours and making mistakes/falling asleep behind the wheel etc, but also productivity has gone up. Because shattered people don’t actually make good efficient workers who make good decisions.
I’m obviously with you on this issue, but the US will skirt around any labor laws that are the norm globally that it can.
It’s also one thing that SpaceX engineers are working 20 hours at their desks or occasionally going on site, etc. compared to the work I do which is more physically exhausting manual labor and sometimes outside in 100 degree heat all day. Both obviously shouldn’t be happening.
The longest I’ve worked is about 17-18 hours in steel mills or back in the day on industrial solar farms for grid power. The solar work also played real loose with things when it got up to 120+ degree heat and we weren’t able to work so they’d send us back to the hotel to come back later for night shift. So imagine working like 6am to 12 or 1 pm, going back to the hotel to “sleep”, coming back after the sun set at like 8 pm, working until 2 or 3 pm the next day. That happened all the time.
This is more of a problem with heavy industry in the US than it is a SpaceX specific issue however.