Flexitime and work

I guess it depends how big the problem was. If that person then can't do his/her job for rest of the day or it needs to be done that day then I'd stay behind. If they have something else to do then I'd go home and look at it next week.
 
My response would be "can you raise that in <insert company IT call/task/incident/change tracking system name here> so we have an official record for it and it gets prioritized accordingly."
And then you leave the building.
 
depends on how important the issue is

Gman said:
Bit more info.

We don't get paid any overtime we do.
Flexi is on a weekly basis so we can't carry over the time, that's why my case was specifically Friday :)

If it was another day of the week I wouldn't mind as I would have built up time and come in later one of the previous day's :)
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do you get a bonus and/or annual pay rise/review?

is your pay individual or are you in some sort of fixed pay band system?


there might still be factors here that the pay by the hour/overtime types are overlooking
 
Can't you 'take back' the hours the next day? As in come in a 30-60min later the next day?

My company lets us do that. We have to do 8.5 hours between 7am-6pm. Some days I have so much on that I actually work a full 11 hours and then catch up on emails at home. Then when I have a quiet day I'll go in at 9am and leave around lunch time to take back some hours. We don't even get policed on that either as we're expected to be honest, therefore we are. Any ****takers get found out very quickly and their company car trackers turned on (they keep it turned off as a symbol of trust).
 
"All job time is booked in for today, however I will put you in the queue and prioritise this monday."

You get to go home on time, recipient thinks they're being prioritised over others, win win.
 
I'd not I work over my shift hours without either being paid for it or getting that time back i.e. come back or leave earlier the next day.

Saying that, if I finish work at 8pm and a job comes in that only I can sort at 7:55 then I've no issues staying til it's finished.

Few years ago now before I properly got somewhere job-wise, I was working for Toys R Us in the warehouse and they (managers/bosses etc) expected you to stay past your shift if there was still a lorry or pallets left to be unloaded despite you not being paid for it unless it reaches 60 minutes over. No chance. Woke up one day and told them to do one for it.
 
I would be out of the door at 3pm not a minute after.

Never worked for free and never will.

My life is more important than the company.
 
My time working over my home time has gone,i never got thanks so im out of the door at my finish time everyday.
 
I have almost the exact same flexi system where I work and am currently clocking out a +30 hours which is pretty much 4 days of flexi.

The bottom line is there is no right or wrong answer and it depends entirely on how you are treated at work. If you are treated well and there is give and take id tend to fix the problem before I left if I didn't have a specific reason for leaving at 3. If you are treated badly I wouldnt even respond to the email until monday morning far less actually look at the problem.
 
Quite surprised at the attitude of most people on this. I've been in both positions. Have had plenty of jobs where no overtime is paid and have stopped back to help get things finished on time without thinking about it. I now own a company where we offer a level of flexi time but no overtime, and I don't think anyone that works for me would just go home if there was a problem that needed sorting. I guess it depends how you view your work place, work friends and how they treat you in general. Whist we don't pay overtime we do pay for lots of other things like friday bacon sandwiches, pub trips, socials etc which I think helps foster more of a genuine team mentality.
 
Sagalout said:
Quite surprised at the attitude of most people on this. I've been in both positions. Have had plenty of jobs where no overtime is paid and have stopped back to help get things finished on time without thinking about it. I now own a company where we offer a level of flexi time but no overtime, and I don't think anyone that works for me would just go home if there was a problem that needed sorting. I guess it depends how you view your work place, work friends and how they treat you in general. Whist we don't pay overtime we do pay for lots of other things like friday bacon sandwiches, pub trips, socials etc which I think helps foster more of a genuine team mentality.
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In my case I work for a local authority so its a faceless boss. I suspect if I worked for you and you treated me well I wouldnt even look at the flexi clock.
 
Sagalout said:
Quite surprised at the attitude of most people on this. I've been in both positions. Have had plenty of jobs where no overtime is paid and have stopped back to help get things finished on time without thinking about it. I now own a company where we offer a level of flexi time but no overtime, and I don't think anyone that works for me would just go home if there was a problem that needed sorting. I guess it depends how you view your work place, work friends and how they treat you in general. Whist we don't pay overtime we do pay for lots of other things like friday bacon sandwiches, pub trips, socials etc which I think helps foster more of a genuine team mentality.
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And if I worked for you I'm sure I would stay over when needed! It entirely depends on the company. When I was younger I used to work hours over for nothing every week, until one day I couldn't do it for some reason and next day got a *******ing for going home (this was after a 12 hour nightshift) From that day on I never worked one minute past my contracted hours.
 
Easiest method would be to just not respond to the email until Monday. Treat it as if you were busy with other jobs, and didn't get a chance to read it until Monday.

Personally, unless it HAD to be done on Friday (in which case they shouldn't have just emailed, they should have called/visited my desk in person), I would leave it till Monday.
 
Gman said:
a problem that someones having testing
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This is the key point. Its testing something friday evening. Sure, if it was business critical or IT critical then I would be staying around

As it's testing something I would say it can wait until Monday, or ask someone to look into it that works 10 - 6
 
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