How Many Days And Hours Do You Work?

[Holdfast]

I can't actually remember what my contracted hours are meant to be these days.

I do know I'm contracted to work a basic 40 hour week. But on top of that I get a 40% bonus on my monthly salary for the on call work I do (which I generally do from home, going in only when needed), which I reckon probably averages out to an extra 10 or so hours per week of being available on the phone but can't remember what it actually comes to. Of that, I probably do an hour or two of actual work on those on-calls per week.

Even in terms of hours that I work per week out of the basic 40, it's a fair bit less than the headline figure because my days aren't exactly hectic, most of the time.

 

[Warp Coil]

The generic 8 hours a day, 5 days a week = 40 hours. I also have a part-time job and I'll put in anywhere from 8-12 hours a week, depending on how busy we are and how motivated I am. However, I have decided to phase out the part-time job and will give it up entirely after the summer. Until then, I figure I'll work maybe 7-8 hours a week there just to keep earning a little money and to help them get the work done until they can hire someone new in the fall.

At the moment, I don't have a single day off during the week. On days when I'm not at the full-time job, I'm putting in a few hours at the part-time job. It will be nice to have some more free time.

 

[Servo]

I was working 37.5 hours a week (mon-fri) at a call centre until recently. I came into a bit of money, so I quit that shithole and I'm taking the summer off, before I put my degree to good use and set up the video editing business I've been wanting to set up since I left Uni.

At the call centre, I did my set hours, and refused to pull any overtime. I would never have done a 7-day week for them. I'd do 7 days for a film project or something, but it wouldn't feel like work, so it wouldn't bother me too much.

 

[Lindley]

80 hours every 2 weeks. Although, I'm currently authorized for EWW, so that means I have the option of working 48+ hours every week instead (no flexing hours between week 1 and week 2 for that though). I may do that occasionally.

Software engineering, incidentally.

 

[StolenThunder]

Bleah. I'm waiting on my rota for August onwards. We think there'll be 56 hour weeks, working 12 out of each 14 days. Variable though - I think 48 hour weeks too. Aren't they kind?

 

[erastus25]

37.5 hours per week of messing about on the internet.

Glad I'm not the only...
/types from work

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

4/40 most weeks. When OT kicks in it may be 48 to as much as is required to do the job. I remember a time I was working 5/12s and 2/10s which was a long 3 months.

 

[TerokNor]

I mostly worked 38,5 or 40 hours/ 5 days or 35 hours/4 days. Sometimes also 6 or 7 days in a row, but with 1 or 2 free days after that.
I find it very important to have free days.... a long time without any free days I think is a risk for the own health. And health just is a really important thing to have.

TerokNor

 

[tomalak301]

Right now, I'm an on-call sub, but I've been pretty busy putting in 40 hours a week, 5 days. Not sure when that's going to end (It's a Custodian job), but it's providing an Income and getting me out of the house. Hard finding jobs, so I take what I can get, even though I'm leaning more towards business as a career (And got a Business Degree).

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I mostly worked 38,5 or 40 hours/ 5 days or 35 hours/4 days. Sometimes also 6 or 7 days in a row, but with 1 or 2 free days after that.
I find it very important to have free days.... a long time without any free days I think is a risk for the own health. And health just is a really important thing to have.

TerokNor

My old boss had a scare with his heart because of how hard he worked and the fact that he never took vacation, and I saw him get really close to a breakdown, too. Thankfully the district manager had a word with him (at least, I think he did) because suddenly after a long, long time of never taking vacation, he started to actually take vacations like a normal person, and it really helped him.

 

[DBR]

Usually five days 8:00am-4:00pm. Sometimes I take off after lunch. Sometimes I've stayed as late as 7:00pm. Last Friday of every month off.

 

[Holdfast]

Bleah. I'm waiting on my rota for August onwards. We think there'll be 56 hour weeks, working 12 out of each 14 days. Variable though - I think 48 hour weeks too. Aren't they kind?

Lie back & think of the banding; 80% bonus? It sounds a fairly heavy rota though; didn't think there were many of those 56hr ones left (are they even still compliant?).

 

[StolenThunder]

Bleah. I'm waiting on my rota for August onwards. We think there'll be 56 hour weeks, working 12 out of each 14 days. Variable though - I think 48 hour weeks too. Aren't they kind?

Lie back & think of the banding; 80% bonus? It sounds a fairly heavy rota though; didn't think there were many of those 56hr ones left (are they even still compliant?).

Word is 50% for 8 months next year. 40% for the lighter 4 months.

We're not entirely sure about compliance. We get an extra couple of weeks of holiday, and there's a rumour that an extra non foundation programme JHO will be hired to make things better. It's still up in the air just now. The West of Scotland has still got a lot of highly banded jobs and they're taking time to disappear.

On the flip side there's little to do in Dumfries, free accommodation and no commuting so I can't complain too much! We'll get a rota through in the next month or two - we'll find out then.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I work 40 hrs a week
By the way why do you think you will get double time on a Sunday?
If you take on a weekend Job you will probably get paid the same has the week crew.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I'm supposed to work a 37.5 hour week, but I seldom put in less than 45, and sometimes it's closer to 50. I'm a web developer, and I'm one of those people who can't just drop everything and go when it hits 5 o'clock - I have to finish what I'm working on, or at least come to a logical stopping point, or I waste too much time the next day trying to figure out where I left off. I don't usually get home until about 8 PM as a result.

Yesterday, for example, I put in about 10.5 hours (and didn't actually get home until 9). I often have to set the building's alarm system when I leave, because I'm the last person in the building.