What hours do you work

[laurafmcdermott]

9:00 am to 5:00 pm, half hour for lunch.  I'm here at about 8:50 am and almost always leave right on time.  There are about 2 times per year that I will have to stay past 5:00 for a couple of nights to get everything done, one time being last week and the next probably in September.  Other than that, to be truthful, I have gotten my systems down so that I am pretty much bored to tears for the rest of the time I am here.  Also I am salaried (exempt) so no overtime for me.

[dedlered]

My hours are 8 to 5 with an hour for lunch.  I am usually here at 7:30 and don't often have to work overtime.

Laura
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[galaxyblue]

Blimey, some of you ladies are contracted to do quite long hours - does it not bother you?

I worked in a position many years ago, 9-6 monday to friday and 9-1 on a saturday and I hated it.

I think I am very lucky with the hours I have got now, even tomorrow we are all allowed to leave an hour early because its a bank holiday monday (leave at four).

Of course, if needs require me to work late one night, or through my lunch etc I would do it, afterall, I think it is good to show flexibility.

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes"

[nolalady]

6:45 to 3:45 with either 45 minutes or an hour for lunch.

Love it, since I can be home with my daughter early enough to watch Sesame Street "Elmo" rules!

[claudiamag]

My official hours are 8:30 to 5:30 with one hour for lunch, but I usually stay much later than that.  I'm salaried, so no overtime for me.  I rarely have to come in on a Saturday but it has happened when there is something pressing to be done.  I really don't mind much.  I tend to be very flexible on the time and so does my company.  They don't care much if I am here exactly at 8:30 (I'm usually not) and whether I take an hour or an hour and a half for lunch (or longer) and I really don't mind staying late much unless I have plans.  Its just a matter of getting the work done on time.  I don't need to cover phones for anyone (voicemail is a good thing) and I work independently, so it doesn't really matter to anyone when I get here or when I leave, so long as my work is done (and it is).  

Claudia

[raindance]

My official hours are 9.00 am to 5.00 pm, with an hour for lunch.  I don't often manage to take a proper lunchbreak, other than a pit-stop to eat, and I have worked a lot of overtime (unpaid!) during my five years with my company.  However, I'm trying to improve on that.  I've just started studying and am being more organized about my time.  Except when I come in here .  This is my coffee-break, only I don't drink coffee much.  

Coffee-break over.

Raindance

[dwreath]

I work 8 to 5 with an hour off for lunch.  I don't get overtime (salaried) but do work a lot of late nights now that we are extremely short-staffed.

I see a lot of people saying they work a 9 to 5 type shift with an hour lunch.  Does that mean you only work a 7 hour day or is your lunch hour paid?

D.

[galaxyblue]

My hours are 9:15 - 5 with an hour for lunch.... The lunch hour isn't paid, I think a lot of work places do not actually pay your lunch hour.

So that means I do a 6 3/4 hour day - which is 33 3/4 hour week. Is that right? Blimey - my brains gone dead



"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes"

[supergirl]

Officially 8 to 4, so that I'm accessible to the parents who come by for assistance before and after school.  In actuality I work a LOT of overtime, some of which I am paid for.  

Supergirl

[ocblnd]

Well, when I started at this company 4 years ago in April the VP said he usually got to the office by 8:30 so anytime between 8 and 8:30 was good and it was an 8 hr day with one hour for lunch.  That VP left end of Dec and then I worked for two National Managers - one of who really wanted me to start at 7:30am....that did not fly for long - I am not a morning person.  Then the Director I went to work for was happy with the 8-8:30 routine.  And even when the new VP came on and I started to work for him the timing was ok....of course the 8 hours quickly became 9+ hours.....at least 5:30, if not 6+.  Now that the VP is the President/CEO and he is an early bird (frequently in at 6:30am)....he has asked me to stretch and make it in by 7:30 so we have time to regroup before each day....of course the tease was 'in early, out early'....yea right....it is still at least 5-6pm each day.  With summer here I am going to really work on getting out no later than 5pm.