Do you work your proper hours?

I'm supposed to work from 9-6 but usually end up putting in 10-16 hours each and every day plus an additional 4-6 hours over the weekend.

Then again, I own part of the company and we're really trying to get it off the ground.
 
As I said, someone tell that to her, because whenever I mention it she just brushes it off - so I agree, it is her fault.
She stays because she's fairly senior in the team, so if others are staying she feels she has to stay - even if the work being done has nothing to do with what she is responsible for.
At one point when the product the team was developing was behind schedule (again, all the work she was assigned and was in charge of supervising other people doing was done ahead of schedule) she ended up working 8:30 till 8/8:30 :(
 
I'm contracted 8.00am - 5.30am (despite a 90+ minute commute) and normally arrive on time and leave on time. I always check my emails from home and quite frequently work when I get home as well. Work is nearly always on my mind, I find hard to drop it.
 
My hours are 0645 to 1700 Monday to Thursday with Friday, and the weekend, off. I don't get paid overtime if i ever go in on a Friday. I have been "lumbered" with doing all risk assessments for every single bit of kit where I work, I'm a manager in a production factory, and I just spent 4 hours at work this morning unpaid.

I have brought a huge wad of paperwork home with me as I couldn't be bothered to sit at work constantly getting distracted, well I was brought up not to be rude if people chat to me :D, whilst trying to get the latest risk assessment I've done typed up (H&S law makes it a little over complicated but thats the way things are) so I can work on it whilst sitting here drinking a beer, doing the work on my secondary monitor whilst watching various programs I've "acquired" on the main monitor. And I won't be paid for this.

Whats really annoying is that this year there has been a group wide no pay rise policy so i won't even get a nice surprise come year end when i would have had my pay review :D

nvm, I'm sure plenty would rather be in my shoes than on the dole.
 
I only work weekends and I should work 8 hours over the 2 days instead I do 9 - 5.30 on the Saturday and 10 - 4 on the Sunday, I do get paid though ... we had our first stock take on Wednesday so worked from 3.30 - midnight. Don't know if this will be paid but I should hope so
 
As long as I work the hours in my contract, deliver reports at the required time and am on calls that I'm needed I can work whenever I want. I can also work from home.
 
I'm contracted Mon-Fri 9-5.30. Occasionly I have to work Saturdays if there is work that needs to be done and offices can't have downtime in working hours but I'm always paid extra for this. Theres no way I'd work extra without being paid for it though! :)
 
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So let me get this straight, you usually leave 5 minutes early yet you think it was unreasonable of your manager to give you a "massive" trolley to process a couple of minutes before your end of shift? I shop, regularly, a massive trolley load must take all of 5 minutes, maybe 7 to process? Quite frankly I am surprised you still have a job and am very glad I am not your colleague.

Granted me working over my contracted hours is my fault but to take your attitude is appalling. Bet your customer service is outstanding :rolleyes:
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No I would have been leaving a few minutes late had i done the whole trolley. And why should I have to?
I regularly get compliments on my service, but that I'm being paid for, I refuse to even talk to customers out of hours. And why should I listen to my manager, I'm probably more qualified to be a manager, working in tescos since you left school does not entitle you to give me ****.

A big trolley can take 10 minutes to load, proccess, pack and pay for if you're caning it through sometimes.

You'd be surprised how much i get away with in tescos, I really don't take my job seriously at all. Can you blame me? It's not a serious job, it's a last resort of a job.
 
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No I would have been leaving a few minutes late had i done the whole trolley. And why should I have to?
I regularly get compliments on my service, but that I'm being paid for, I refuse to even talk to customers out of hours. And why should I listen to my manager, I'm probably more qualified to be a manager, working in tescos since you left school does not entitle you to give me ****.

A big trolley can take 10 minutes to load, proccess, pack and pay for if you're caning it through sometimes.

You'd be surprised how much i get away with in tescos, I really don't take my job seriously at all. Can you blame me? It's not a serious job, it's a last resort of a job.
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Nothing in your posts changes my view of you whatsoever and I am quite sure you couldn't give a flying ****. My point was that your consistently leaving 5 minutes early should (if you had any self worth) make being asked to process a 10 minute oh my god my life is over trolley, a little easier to accept.

You refuse to even talk to customers out of hours? So you are striding from your point of sale to the staff area and a customer asks you a question en route, you ignore them? Good god......
 
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No I would have been leaving a few minutes late had i done the whole trolley. And why should I have to?
I regularly get compliments on my service, but that I'm being paid for, I refuse to even talk to customers out of hours. And why should I listen to my manager, I'm probably more qualified to be a manager, working in tescos since you left school does not entitle you to give me ****.

A big trolley can take 10 minutes to load, proccess, pack and pay for if you're caning it through sometimes.

You'd be surprised how much i get away with in tescos, I really don't take my job seriously at all. Can you blame me? It's not a serious job, it's a last resort of a job.
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I hope you don't learn the hard way, that attitude absolutely stinks.
 
I work 2 different shifts on alternating weeks,

7.30 to 4 and 10 to 6.30 with half an hour off on a friday,

I never leave on time on the earlier shift, usually at least half an hour but most of the time an hour extra all unpaid.
 
I'm on a salaried job, rather than hourly rate, so no - I don't get paid for extra hours.

It's the nature of the work though. Depending on what's happening, some weeks I could work under 30hrs. Other times when deadlines are near, or we need to produce material on short notice, I could work up to 100hrs (7 day weeks at 14-15hrs). For the most part though what we do is long-term, so my own time management comes into play.

The only time I really get annoyed about it is when things which aren't really my responsibility get dropped on me at short notice, and I have to cancel weekend plans / holidays etc to spend every waking hour working. Can't really plan ahead for that.
 
My hours are 9-5. I usually get in around half 9 and leave around 4.45.

Check and reply to emails of an evening though sometimes and occasionally do an hour or so through the weekend off my own back, so my boss don't do too bad out of me!
 
When I was a supermarket department manager I had a 38hr per week contract and never worked less than 60 :(
It was also salaried so I didn't get paid overtime and time owed was a myth.
I didn't stay for too long :D
 
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Nothing in your posts changes my view of you whatsoever and I am quite sure you couldn't give a flying ****. My point was that your consistently leaving 5 minutes early should (if you had any self worth) make being asked to process a 10 minute oh my god my life is over trolley, a little easier to accept.

You refuse to even talk to customers out of hours? So you are striding from your point of sale to the staff area and a customer asks you a question en route, you ignore them? Good god......
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What so I should not get paid to serve someone I don't know and probably don't even like, a load of shopping?
It's disrespectful for my manager to ignore the fact i'm finishing and shove a big trolley my way even if i ask not to.

And yes, I'm off the clock, why should I answer someones question if I'm not working, I'm not being paid for that service.
Why should I care, give me a store run efficiently and the tools to do my job in an efficient working order, and then I might actually care. Not for customers, but for the managers, as it is, the managers are arrogant and there isn't a single till which is fully functional, they're all knackered in one way or another.
 
I don't have a set hourly week, but I do have a current set shift pattern which is

Tuesday Thursday Saturday and Sunday.

Normally do 9-3 Tues, 12-9 Thursday, 12-9 Saturday and 9-6 Sunday

+/- 2hours normally
 
Contracted for 8 hours per day, no set start or end time here.
Today I worked 7:45 - 4:15 with half an hour for lunch.

I generally do my hours, may 15 minutes more and that's about it.
I get paid overtime (when they agree to it, which is reasonably regularly if the work needs doing) and will sometimes work a bit extra for that.
At a previous job I used to regularly work extra (average day was 8:30-6:30/7) but I've decided that's a mug's game and refuse to be the guy who works all kinds of hours just to look like a hard worker.
 
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