A couple hours, 2 maybe 3, I was asked to fill in at a crab shop when I was a teen. I already worked in my grandfathers shop boiling, backing, and dressing crabs. So I thought sure I could use the extra $$$ but when he dropped the 1st boiler out, turned the boiler off, and made sure the crabs were cleaned and put away before we ever started the water for the next, I said “Hey, we could get the water hot while we back this batch” but he wanted to have a 30 minute break between each to smoke, drink a coke, and to call his GF. I left at midnight, told him if that’s how he was going to continue that he’s on his own, he said that’s how they do it, so I left. We would’ve been there till morning and I had school. I could have had that whole 2,500pound done in 5-6 hours, he waisted so much time that we had 500 pound boiled/dressed at midnight when we started at 5:30.
I heard from others that he often waisted a lot of time but come on man, you get paid by the pound, not the hour.