Do you work overtime?

cleanbluesky said:
Do this pattern disturb your social life at all?

Also, I hear air traffic controllers often suffer from stress... how are you finding this?
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Aye it's quite unsociable as I often work weekends and find myself sleeping during the day a lot. We get an extra £5k a year as "Unsociable Hours Compensation" though, it makes it all worthwhile ;)

Stress...that's a word I hate. Most of the time I'm under a healthy amount of pressure when working, it only turns into stress if I'm fatigued or if it gets too busy/complex. I get the feeling that my stomach is tying itself in knots and I sweat buckets. However the joy about the job is that once I unplug my headset I can just forget about everything. The stress can put me in a bad mood and I come home a right grumpy eejit but that's once in a blue moon.

I deal with it by being cynical and sarcastic to strangers on the internet as you may have noticed from my various posts throughout these very forums :D
 
emailiscrap said:
I'm contracted to work 35 hours a week. In reality, I do close to 50-60 depending on my workload. I don't claim for the excess, it's just expected of me.
If I have to do anything at weekends, I claim it, but my OT rate is marginally less than my normal hourly rate.

On top of that, I also commute 3 hours each way per day.
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What do you work as?
 
emailiscrap said:
I'm contracted to work 35 hours a week. In reality, I do close to 50-60 depending on my workload. I don't claim for the excess, it's just expected of me.
If I have to do anything at weekends, I claim it, but my OT rate is marginally less than my normal hourly rate.

On top of that, I also commute 3 hours each way per day.
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You seriously spend 6 hours a day travelling? With a 10-12 hour day inbetween? Do you find it's even worth going home?

EDIT: Ah, so the 6 hours travelling is classed as working time too? That's not too bad at all then.
 
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I'm a senior manager for a council and am at present trying to improve a recently reorganised IT service. Hard work, but fun. Tends to blow the myth that Council workers do nothing all day out of the water. I don't even drink tea or coffee!

It is proving difficult to balance the work against homelife at present, but I'm coping.
Sometimes it doesn't seem worth going home, and once or twice I've not bothered.
 
35 hours a week on my contract

however on average I do somewhere between 45 and 50. I get paid for it as I should (1.5x or 2x depending on what day or time it is).
hoping to get the on call contract sorted this week. its not much, something like £5 an hour, if i get called then it goes back to my normal hourly rate (at the overtime rate for the day/time).
 
Never done a months work without overtime - ended up doing 100hrs in December; 60hrs in January and this month it will probably be around 50hrs...

Sad thing is if I dont spend more time at work the stuff just wont get done...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
With work being busy busy busy i'm basically offered an open cheque book.....Do as much as i please but since i hate OT, i only do about 6-8 hours during the week.......Haven't done a weekend in 7 years and won't do them :)
 
ps3ud0 said:
Never done a months work without overtime - ended up doing 100hrs in December; 60hrs in January and this month it will probably be around 50hrs...

Sad thing is if I dont spend more time at work the stuff just wont get done...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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I feel your pain;)
Been back at work since May 2006 and until today I've had approximately 16 days off including Public Holiday and weekends, pretty much non-stop working;).
but when you get an etra £500-£600 extra a month you get used to it;)
 
37 hour week, which i generally do in the uk

When abroad its as many hours as needed to get the job done, 3 weeks of 70-80 hours are normal.
 
mctiny said:
I feel your pain;)
Been back at work since May 2006 and until today I've had approximately 16 days off including Public Holiday and weekends, pretty much non-stop working;).
but when you get an etra £500-£600 extra a month you get used to it;)
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Hehe cheers, already had a conversation at work on Friday and my time off until mid-May has already been decided against my workload. So no more days off for me until then :/...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
during summer just gone. In the time between 6th form ending and uni starting I would work my normal 14hour shift at tesco and anything up to 20 more hours overtime. Some days I did 14hour shifts. Car/pc/uni won't pay for itself!!
 
mctiny said:
I feel your pain;)
Been back at work since May 2006 and until today I've had approximately 16 days off including Public Holiday and weekends, pretty much non-stop working;).
but when you get an etra £500-£600 extra a month you get used to it;)
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indeed, if i was to keep up what im doing in terms of overtime then it would see me another £10k or so (net). im loving this :]
 
I'm a student working at a DIY store. Have a contract for 16 hours over the weekend, so I do 8 hours per day. Never do Overtime and looking to cut the hours shorter as I find that I don't have much free time.

SideWinder said:
Mm, yeah i work it. Obviously it's a lot more common at a supermarket and what ever overtime i do, it's always recorded (Clocking in and clocking out system). This week i worked a 9 hour shift on checkouts on monday and on wednesday i worked a 10.5 hour shift. I work 12.25 hours for my contract. (Excluding breaks).
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What's supermarket wage like?
 
I work Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:30pm and i'm either on every weekend on standby or I get out there and work it (the latter pays 1.5 saturday and double sunday)
 
I did a lot of overtime in my old job, in fact I pretty much relied on it to many any real money. It's really common in high turn-over jobs though, like retail or call centres.
 
I work shifts and i do 40hrs a week

I get overtime quite a lot as i often get held on and there is always overtime going anyway.

Its usually time and a third but if less than 5days notice its double time

I got held on an hour and a half last week, as it was my last shift before i was on annual leave i got 8hours double time for it :D
 
In my current job I haven't done any overtime (excluding travelling which was unpaid), it has to be signed off in advance and there hasn't really been any need to as yet.

I used to do overtime for my previous employer as it was pretty much expected that you would due to the requirement for certain things being done outside of normal business hours.

Around 5 years ago I used to do loads of OT as it was always 1.5x rate. However my employer then changed it so that the first 5 hours per week were only paid at 1x, unless you were on a 40hr contract.
 
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