Do you leave work on the dot?

brutus1983

I don't have a start time or a finish time I get a list of jobs the day before plus any callouts in the working day and those jobs have to be done from any installations or repairs sometimes I won't get anything so I'm expected to sit at home for when the phone rings. in the busy weeks I could be out from anywhere between 40 to 80 hours a week in the slack weeks I could only get 10 hours work a week so swings in round a outs

It can be quite stressful to home life when you have kids as I've been called out at around 5pm when I'm sitting down to eat dinner with the fammily and the phone rings for an emergency call out


Worst case scenario was getting called out at 4 in the morning to go to a call out at an ambulance station over a hundred miles away the missis was not best pleased as I was on paternity leave at the time and they rang the home phone

Valli

I usually work long days; I'm only there 3 days a week so can be very late leaving on a Wednesday, as it needs to be ready for my job share.

The holidays make up for it though;)

slowcoachme

Never! I am a NHS nurse and never get off duty on time, and don't get paid for the extra hours I put in to finish my work, which can be anything from patient care to talking to relatives or doing my shift documentation. I also do not get time for a break from lunchtime to end of shift at 19.30. Usually one of the care assistants will bring me a coffee and I sit at the desk working. I retire next year age 60, Yippee!

[Deleted User]

Im a self-employed consultant and get paid per day. Bad idea that is.
Constant fight to get clients to realise that a day is roughly 8 hours....

I usually go over but some clients seem to think a day is 12 hours :-(

EndlessStruggle

I'm on flexi time so I don't worry about when I start and finish as I usually always have about 4 hours time owed back to me

Poq

Really interesting thread!

I also started something similar, asking how to avoid unpaid overtime: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=60138995&postcount=1

[Deleted User]

I work from home, in IT, so.. I never leave work!! It can be quite annoying, but also really good.

Today is rubbish.. i've got my normal 9-5.30 work (no lunch break to speak of) then, i've got an hour's phone conference to the other side of the world tonight. No extra pay, and I wouldn't expect it either really

Mr_Falling_Star

I usually get in earlier than I should but I make sure I leave at five or thereabouts. I don't know why but staying late seems to bring in more brownie points than coming in early?

DCFC79

Always left on the dot at 5 30 in the last job, if i didnt then I would have most likely been collared to do OT on the following saturday.

morganedge

I get out the second I can!
I despise being at work and i'm literally sprinting out the warehouse so that I can actually ENJOY BEING ALIVE for the remainder of the day!
Life sucks, lol