#21

loads of americans i worked with would choose to do 6am-3pm. so they could get home and “do stuff”

there’s the same hours in the day no matter when you start, just do shit later you mentals

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#22

More time with your kids though, that is why I get in early.

Although having to rewatch Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip last night I’m not always sure it is the right decision. John Waters is in it and they make a Pink Flamingos joke in it.

#23

Time in bed in the morning is worth a lot more than in the evening, especially the hours between 5-7pm which is dead time

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#25

that sounds even worse

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#27

Yeah, this is the thing: the culture in my workplace seems to be “don’t take the piss”, so I (generally) don’t and everything is fine.

It’s much better than working somewhere where they’re really uptight about this shit.

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#28

Time Off In Library?

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#29

We can start any time from 7-10 and finish any time from 4-7. I generally do 8-4. The main reason is that travelling that little bit earlier, the roads are a bit lighter and the public transport if I’m not cycling is not so busy.

#31

I work 9.30 to whenever I have to, really (no earlier than 5.30).

#32

Does the SB on your avatar stand for Shit Break?

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#33

8:40 - 4:55 most days, but this is dictated by trains tbh.
8:00 - 4:30 on Fridays (cycle in, innit).

Probably gonna be working 10 - 6ish from September onwards for childcare reasons.

#34

Meant to be 9-5 but I do 9:20-5:20 cos it’s a nicer journey in. How Incredibly mundane

#35

6am for me yesterday @Epimer

#36

my contract says 9:00 - 5:30. i start any time after 7:00, but at 8:00 if i walk to work. i’m generally done before 5:00, but don’t feel comfortable leaving before 4:30 very often, even if i start at 7:00.

#37

Our office has fucked around with hours a fair bit recently, I think it was 9.30 till 6.30 when I started which they boasted about how great it was everyone could come in “late”, but the reality was you still had to get up and commute, but evenings were terrible, everyone watching the clock and being pissed off because every other fucker was out of their office doing shit.

They they made it more flexible and said you could start anytime between 8 and 10 and finish at the appropriate time in the evening, but after six months the managers deemed this to be a failure and tightened it up.

Anyway, I tend to get in any time from 8.30 to 9, and leave any time from 5pm to 6pm. Given that I spend all my time fucking about on here or playing ping pong, I can’t really begrudge spending slightly more time in the office than my contract says.

#39
  • I take work home with me.
  • Fuck that shit

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#40

Contract hilariously says 9:00 - 3:30 Mon - Fri.
I do 7:45 - 4:45* ** and then do an hour or two’s work at some point later in the evening. And then another six or seven hours work over the weekend.

(*) Apart from Friday’s which is my Planning, Preparation and Assessment time (AKA Cinema Fridays) so I finish at 1:00.

(**) Unless there’s a World Cup - in which case I’d be out the door at 3:31 to get back in time for the second half of Australia vs. Peru.

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#41

My employer is a bit weird as it’s public sector but doesn’t have proper flexitime. Can be semi flexible and work late some nights and leave early others so long as the hours are done, but in terms of taking days off with accrued flexitime it’s rare, needs formal approval and you only get back half the time. Also there is this vague contractual requirement to work longer during busy periods. Think they’ve just got in a situation where they are reliant on people working more than their hours so cannot really address it without losing a lot of capacity

#43

There’s that similar expectation here to work 10-15% of your contracted hours for nothing. Never done it, never will. They can start paying me overtime if they want that

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#44

Only when absolutely necessary, and usually when I’ve got a hearing coming up. But that’s not so much from external pressure as it is out of a fear of having my pants pulled down in a room full of judgemental Germans.

#45

Worst kind of Germans IMO.

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