by Richard B
(Atlanta, Ga)
I was drawing Georgia UI and I recieved an offer to come to Jacksonville, Fl (at my own expense) for a 160 hour contract through a temp agency in Florida. I am a software developer and the pay would be more money than UI was paying (after estimated expenses). After completeing the 160 hours, they said they had more work if I wanted. I agreed and 6 months later they still had more work. The job had started at 40 hours a week and had gone to 'as many as you can work' (undocumented and never said by a supervisor) but was known. Contractors that lived in the Jacksonville area were averaging 60 to 70 hours a week. To do that I was leaving Atlanta at 10:00am Sunday morning to Jacksonville (400+miles), working a few hours on Sunday, 11 or 12 hours a day Monday thru Friday, leaving on Friday and getting home on Sat morning around 1. Then washing my clothes and preparing to leave again on Sunday. I am 54 have a wife an 11 eleven year old son that I have barley seen them in 6 months. Couldn't take it anymore one day and got and drove home. This could have gone on forever, I was not going to get laid off or get fired, I own a home that I could not sell.
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