Twelve hours a day is ENOUGH!!!

I get up at 6… and then get ready for work, i count that as work time. I go to work, work for ever, with almost no breaks at all (about 30 mins for lunch… at my desk). And then at 6 I’m still here. Add to that the amount of time I’ve spent dream­ing about work late­ly and there real­ly aren’t pay­ing me enough.

38 thoughts on “Twelve hours a day is ENOUGH!!!”

  1. You get 30 mins for lunch? Per­haps I should move stores! Sounds like a dream.

  2. Hmm… I’ve been found out!
    It would be more accu­rate to say I ‘take’ 30 mins for lunch, 15 of which is walk­ing up the street, doing the bank­ing and get­ting my food, the oth­er 15 is sit­ting at my desk, try­ing to shove my food down while answer­ing the phone.
    Any­way, mail me… I’d love to know who this is that I’ve been found out by. 😛

  3. Ah! But that would take all the fun out of this 😉
    15 stores, 90 staff… I’m sure you can fig­ure it out…
    You already know my gen­der, and by now you should have fig­ured out that I don’t work at Bal­main, so that’s going to cut the num­bers down a lit­tle.
    And to make this eas­i­er, I’m not a direc­tor or a store man­ag­er.

  4. Well… then I’ll just have to spend Mon­day morn­ing hav­ing a good long look through the staff list…
    So lets see, I know your a guy, so that rulls out the four girls that work in the com­pa­ny. And yeah, I know your not at Bal­main… so that rules out the oth­er two guys I work with. Still leaves about 80 staff… this could take awhile.

  5. I hope that you’re not going to be look­ing when you should be doing clean­ing!
    I was stuck doing the loo today.
    Hmm.. now, that should nar­row it down to about 15 peo­ple 😉

  6. No, I was clean­ing when I should have been clean­ing… most­ly.
    So I’ve nar­rowed the list of 117 staff down to 36, and now with your com­ment about clean­ing the loo… i’m think­ing I should cross off a few more names, but I don’t know the staff well enough to know who has been here the longest. 🙂
    I aslo have a seek­ing feel­ing your not in NSW… that would drop the options down to 22.

  7. Cor­rect! Not from NSW. That’s anoth­er 5 stores down!
    Ah, but clean­ing the loo does­n’t just get done by the new­bies… (Although that *would* be nice!)
    You’re get­ting warmer…

  8. So, the list is down to about 20 names now… and based strick­ly on prob­a­bil­i­ty chance are you in VIC…

  9. You’re get­ting very warm now! You’re on the mon­ey with Vic­to­ria. I guess that cuts it down to some­where like 19 peo­ple 🙂

  10. Cuts is down to 11 peo­ple actu­al­ly. 2 Stores. Hmm, how to nar­row it down from here…

  11. 11 Peo­ple ? Hmm.. You *must* have some ideas.. I’d be hit­ting the organ­i­sa­tion chart on Bytee cen­tral ’bout now 😉

  12. I’ve already been look­ing over the list in great detail, but aside from giv­ing me a list of names that I don’t recog­nise. Trac­ing the IP address­es from your com­ments has­n’t helped either 🙁

  13. Ok, the IP address *should* give you the store num­ber 😉

  14. I’ve already tried the IP address, but to be of any use I would need to know which store has which address, and I don’t think I can access that info any­way.
    So… tell me… how did you find my blog any­way?

  15. Each store’s ip address should con­tain the store num­ber — I’m not sure what IP is show­ing up, but should be xxx.xxx.31.xx (31 being the store)
    So, I’m at Eliz­a­beth street 🙂
    How did I find your site? I was doing a google search the oth­er day for “Next Byte”. Makes for inter­est­ing read­ing — to see what’s been said about the dif­fer­ent stores on forums etc. and your site came up.
    Oh, and what hap­pened to my quiz!

  16. Actu­al­ly the IP address’s that I’ve been get­ting have been no where near that help­ful… odd… but noth­ing I can do about that.
    Any­way, now that I know which shop your in the list of pos­si­ble names is down to 7 which is good i guess. I won­der if I could get hold of ros­ter details for the store in some way… try and nar­row it down fur­ther. 🙂
    As for your quiz, you got a pass­ing mark, which isn’t all that bad real­ly… maybe we should arrange to catch up when you come up for the xmas par­ty… 😛

  17. Defi­nate­ly look­ing for­ward to the xmas par­ty! But I don’t know if I’m just going to be a dis­s­a­point­ment 😉

  18. Hmmm, it all makes for inter­est­ing reading…maybe we should all catch up… 🙂

  19. Hmm, now this is get­ting inter­est­ing… I’ve picked up anoth­er one… now I’ll have to start my hunt all over again! Actu­al­ly… scratch that… already nar­rowed it down to the same shop!!! Too many more find this and I may just have to edit a few entries…
    Me also thinks I should prob­a­bly write some­thing that is at least half pos­i­tive about work… if I get some time I might.

  20. Oh…don’t both­er writ­ing any­thing pos­i­tive, it would be a waste of space…lol
    There’s only two of us that know…
    Hap­py hunting…see u at the xmas par­ty.

  22. But at least I was the first and orig­i­nal “Anot­er Bytee”
    None of these cheap “Yet Anoth­er Bytee” knock-offs.… There should be enough clues — even around your own store — to give way the bag.
    You’re not try­ing.…

  23. Not try­ing? Bah!
    I have a fair­ly good idea, guess I’ll just have to step up the cun­ning plan then, and see what hap­pens…

  24. I quit Next Byte due too shock­ing work­ing con­di­tions, long hours, crap pay etc.
    The good news is that I found anoth­er job in the same indus­try but it is strict­ly 9–5, has real lunch breaks, and I get $15k more per year.
    Rejoice, there is life after Next Byte…

  25. Yet anoth­er byter found me…
    Good for you for escap­ing from it all.
    So do tell… where are these bet­ter jobs? Do you need a mac guru type guy?

  26. They keep on push­ing us to do more work and so for a return we get shit all. Its the worse work place I ever had worked for and direc­tors are forc­ing some of their staff to work back to 8pm. What a joke.…

  27. $11 an hour what a joke… How can we afford to live. I can’t move out of home because I don’t have a real salary, in oth­er words its a 1970’s salary that most of us are on. No Sat­ur­days pay and I hate those Train­ing we have to do on sat­ur­days for the cus­tomer. FOR NO PAY. Its against the law. DO SOMETHING»>

  28. I was get­ting $26k at Next Byte and now I am get­ting $51k a year. And I have a future to go in my career not like at Next Byte you do. Same pay for the rest of your life. How sad is that.

  29. Direc­tors own like over $400k a year that goes to each of them. Our bull­shit so called no noth­ing nation­al ser­vice man­ag­er makes $100k a year and his wife also gets paid by Next Byte which she has noth­ing to do with the com­pa­ny. Lots of dog­gie shit going around at evil Next Byte.

  30. I recent­ly start­ed at Next Byte. At the start I found pret­ty good to work there until my first pay come in. Man I was in a real shock to find out I’m on only $8.50 an hour. For 24 year old its crap salary. Also nev­er got to sign you even see my job. con­tract

  31. Adam told us sales peo­ple we should be work­ing at least 10 hours a day so that makes it 50 hours a week with no over­time pay. Where the fuck is this com­ing from. Is he brain dead or what… 80% of bytee hate the com­pa­ny and don’t enjoy being there how come there have so many staff changes huh tell me why!!! Because its a shit work place to work for. I rather work in a fac­to­ry and get paid around $18 an hour.

  32. Dude you get 30 mins of lunch very nice. Us over here get only 15 mins lunch. We work like 10 to 11 hours a day for that shit hole.

  33. Well, this is odd, 5 dif­fer­ent peo­ple all post­ing on com­ments on the same day! And noth­ing much I’d dis­agree with either.

  34. The pay is ter­ri­ble yes. My store is awe­some though. Love the peo­ple I work with, were it not for them I would have found anoth­er job ages ago. At this point though, the com­plete lack of funds is forc­ing me to look towards study again to get myself a real job. Which can’t be a bad thing.
    I hate the noth­ing said in warn­ing bull­shit “I’m the direc­tor of a com­pa­ny!” emails we get about the lat­est thing to get up said direc­tors nose… If you can man­age to avoid them though then aside from the slave labour side of things it can be good. I guess we all have rea­sons why we stay.

  36. Fired? I sup­pose they could. Then again I could send them an invoice @ $150 per hour (my cor­po­rate con­sult­ing rate) for iden­ti­fy­ing prob­lems in the com­pa­ny and sug­gest­ing ways they could fix it all.
    I’m only half wor­ried, after all most of the most crit­i­cal stuff post­ed on here about them was not post­ed by me, and I have no idea who any of you guys are, so there would be no point in them ask­ing me that either.

  37. The word is spread­ing, im anoth­er Next Byte slave!
    Yes the pay is shit and i was earn­ing heaps more at my pre­vi­ous job, but i would pre­fer to be at Next Byte than on the dole.
    I dont agree with Michael who wrote
    “Our bull­shit so called no noth­ing nation­al ser­vice man­ag­er”
    Because he does know heaps and is a good bloke, he has helped me on a num­ber of occa­tions. Obvi­ous­ly Michael you have pissed him off and he dont like being pissed off.
    I sus­pect i am from the same store as ‘Anoth­er One’ because my store is an awe­some place, we all get on and have a great time, if this was not the case i too would no longer be at the com­pa­ny.
    Go Bytees

  38. yeah I would say you are from my store Guess What. I would agree with you in say­ing that it’s bet­ter than the Dole. And I would agree with you about the ser­vice man­ag­er but judg­ing on your com­ments you have an added insight as do I. He is a good bloke you just have to nev­er be in opo­si­tion to what he says and he is great.
    I just think it’s sad that we all have to be in this sit­u­a­tion. I hear time and time again “no won­der they went broke!” from the direc­tors with regard to the “opo­si­tion” and the thing I think to myself is “maybe they paid their staff cor­rect­ly!” The joke is that we all are giv­en a direct link to what we are mak­ing for the com­pa­ny per month… it’s up around the mil­lion dol­lar mark col­lec­tive­ly… even the casu­als earn more in GP than what goes into my pock­et.
    I could go on for hours! but I won’t… prob­a­bly for the rest of the year and then I will go vent my frus­tra­tions on the edu­ca­tion sys­tem. That kind of vent­ing could enter in to the area of pol­i­tics and that could get ugly!
    Peace out and GO BYTEES!

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