Do you work overtime?

HangTime said:
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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thats standard for most big companies isnt it, in that overtime payments only increase when you pass the normal full time contractual hours.
 
I do work a fair whack of overtime unpaid, but I pick and choose what I want to do. I only do stuff that will give me good experience and help me get to where I want to be quicker. I will never work unpaid overtime unless it will clearly benefit my career (this does not include getting work finished early / on time to impress my boss), and never to just do more of what I do 9-5.
 
My contract says 37 hours a week, but assuming a quiet week with no problems I normally do around 42, don't normally claim it as I can bank the time as flex.

Week before last was a bad one with things going a bit pear shaped so ended up being 80+ hours for the week, (and yes I will be claim a substantial amount of that!). This, plus a lot of other weekend work recently on projects, (this weekend was 12hrs starting at 14:30 on Saturday :o ), and currently being oncall every other week, means that my pay cheque next month should be 50%+ bigger than normal :D

I work in IT support for a large company so overtime is expected as you cannot take an outage to do work on systems during business hours. I've only had two completely free weekends so far this year, (and one of those was only due to a last minute change freeze).

I don't mind doing some overtime but not if its due to incompetence of others and I expect that the other team members be able to do it to, (which unfortuantely at the moment is not the case). :mad:
 
Morba said:
thats standard for most big companies isnt it, in that overtime payments only increase when you pass the normal full time contractual hours.
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It's the case at my company (Cardinal Health UK) we are all contracted to a 39 hour week, anything over that is 1.5x and 2x standard pay on sundays, soemtimes they put in an incentive program where the offer a bonus if you work 3 full weekend or more in a row and get it all at 2x and a bonus on top, last I did the full package which was 8 full weekends at 2x and got £400 bonus. :) well worth it;)
 
Morba said:
thats standard for most big companies isnt it, in that overtime payments only increase when you pass the normal full time contractual hours.
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I guess it depends how you define "normal full time contractual hours" :)
The majority of people at that company were on 35hr contracts, which essentially mean that you had to work 5 additional hours before getting the increased rate.

It was basically a 'give with one hand, take away with the other' approach they adopted. They (modestly) increased salaries across the board as part of the standard April review, on condition that employees accepted new T&Cs. One of which related to the move to a standard 40h week (hence reduced overtime), the other was the abolition of sick pay for non-management staff.
 
I'm working an increasing amount of overtime recently to pay for a few extra things I want. Anything over 8 hours a day is time and a half, as is anything over 40 hours a week. Sunday is double time. Not bad I guess.

I wouldn't work an extra second if I wasn't getting payed though.
 
I work 35 hours a week and almost never do overtime unless I've got an important deadline to meet and am a bit behind.

Lots of people in my office say "think of all the money you're missing out on" but I value time spent having fun, relaxing and socialising with friends and family much more highly than a few hundred pounds more in my wages each week.

I'd rather get extra time off than cash as a reward which is good seeing as my work opertes a flexi time system.
 
SideWinder said:
I thought 'Contracted' meant you have to work a certain amount of hours?
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all contracted means is that on average over the course of a year i get paid my salery to work 48 hours a week. on average. if i work less than that on average i still get my full wage as thats my companies fault and if i work more then i get OT. i tend to try and pick up any bank holidays going as if its OT it works out to £29 an hour. not bad for 12 hours sitting doing nothing lol.

i get a roster every few months for the near future with my shifts laid out. i do days (07:00 - 19:00) nights (19:00 - 07:00) and what is known as the Assist shift (11:00 - 19:00). now the 12 hour shifts are always 12 hours, there is no way of getting out of them. the 8 hour shifts are pretty much go home when you are done and you get paid for the 8 hours. thats on the basis that if yuou have to stay an extra hour or two one day you dont get OT. OT is only really payable on the occasions when for example we have to stay late because our cover hasnt arrived, or if we book an extra shift. The roster handed out covers my basic hours per week. as i said before sometimes that means 24 hours, sometimes its 60, others it can be 48 or anything else really. over xmas i did from the 20th through till the 2nd with just xmas day off. all 12 hour shifts and took home an extra K to pay off the overdraft lol.

i am fortunate in that i am a relativly well paying industry, with the right training (note that doesnt mean degrees or certificates) you can command £25-£30 an hour as a freelancer or a yearly salery in the region of 30-34k not inc overtime etc. its not going to make me a millionaire but i'll certainly be able to life a life on it. at the moment am just coming up to my 22nd birthday having started as soon as i finished my A Levels. i am the most experienced op in our team and the youngest (sooo sweeeeet!). once overtime is taken into consideration my "salery" probably props up around 30k ATM. ovbiously the tax man gets his gorram mitts on it and sucks me dry but i have enough to live and to pay my car off and rent and save so i'm very lucky.
 
Time and a tenth wont even cover the extra tax payable so in fact you'd be working for less per hour after tax when doing overtime.

One of the best jobs for overtime I have worked in, they increased your total hours payable for that day by 15% plus the normal time and a half for the actual overtime hours. If you worked late you got a free taxi home and another 30% on top of the time and a half per late hour worked.
Hard job though, cast iron open ovens in a bakery. 40c room temp and manual labour. 37.5 hours contracted and the most hours I did in a week was 92

Security guards do the most overtime I think and they arent given a choice I bet
 
Scuzi said:
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
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What do you do, air traffic controaller? Sound's like it is very good pay! What education, courses, certificates do you need to get into this line of work?
 
i worked a year of 60 hour weeks in one of my last jobs, i was able to pay for my car out right by doing it :) now i only work 40 its such an easy working week.

MW
 
Don't do overtime per se, however if working to a deadline which involves staying later than the usual 6:30, I treat myself to a "work from home day". Which means, start later and conduct business, usually in a dressing gown.
 
I work in engineering, as a cnc programmer/setter. Usually do about 5 hours o/t a week. No way in hell i'd do any o/t for free.

Doing 10 hours a week at the mo, to pay off car, and save for new comp!
 
When i first started in IT i worked on a helpdesk. Work week was 37.5hrs per week, split up over M-F 8am-8pm, Sat 8-6pm, Sun 8-4pm. I took a wage drop to start in IT so needed a way of making up the money back to something decent (started on £9k per year), so basically worked 8-8 M-F and both weekend days. Meant i did 78hr weeks on the helpdesk (was allowed to work through lunch also most days and just had my food during break times). Then after a few weeks of doing that i was also allowed to work on another out of hours helpdesk for some banking software, meant i could do 8pm-12am M-F and also 6pm-12am Sat and 4pm-12am Sun. So a total working week of 112hrs minus a couple of hours i suppose for times when i needed to nip out to the shops to pick up some shopping etc.

Think it is still a record at that place. only managed to keep it up for a couple of months then HR found out about it and cut me down to doing 75hrs max per week.

Can't even imagine doing that kind of hours now, i struggle to work the 37.5hrs i am supposed to be doing now!
 
work in IT.

Do the standard 37.5 hours a week any extra i get time and a half.

Normally do a few hours extra unless I have to work weekends ( like i did Saturday for 9 hours !! )
 
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