Go home on time day

Linda_D_2

James_B. wrote: »

It's not gullible. I work over when the job needs it, and in exchange, have ended up doing far better at work, and earning far more money (per actual hour worked) than I believe that I would have had I insisted on walking out at five.

I think that if you are a clock watcher then it tends to often be career limiting.

Of course you're gullible, you're working for free to make them richer.

Podge52

And sometimes the only option you have is unemployment, if you refuse to work extra for free.

If I were to go in tomorrow and say I wasn't prepared to start until my shift started, I can guarantee I would be signing on on Friday.

Linda_D_2

Podge52 wrote: »

And sometimes the only option you have is unemployment, if you refuse to work extra for free.

If I were to go in tomorrow and say I wasn't prepared to start until my shift started, I can guarantee I would be signing on on Friday.

Why do you want to be ripped off by employers using your services for free to fill their own pockets while they laugh at you?

You should have more respect for yourself than working for these cowboys. There are plenty of real employers out there who will pay you a fair wage for a fair day's work without trying to rip you off by making you work for free.

Podge52

Linda_D wrote: »

Why do you want to be ripped off by employers using your services for free to fill their own pockets while they laugh at you?

You should have more respect for yourself than working for these cowboys. There are plenty of real employers out there who will pay you a fair wage for a fair day's work without trying to rip you off by making you work for free.

Where did I say I wanted to do this?

The reality is I work in a call center and have to be ready to take calls at the start of my shift. This means I have to log into all the systems before the start of my shift and this can take up to 15 minutes some days.

Also we have to be available to take calls up to the end of your shift, so a call at 1 minute to can put you over by up to 10 minutes depending on the problem.

I feel as strongly as you that the working man in this country is getting shafted left, right and center.

However, I got this job after a long spell of unemployment and if that is the only other option then I would much rather work the extra time without pay.

Prothet_of_Doom

I work freelance. The current contract has an hourly rate, a 'suggested' 38 hours a week, and a maximum fee payable.


If you divide the max fee payable, by the hourly rate, and divide that figure by 26 weeks it works out at 40 hours a week. Now I've tried to average 40 hours a week, whilst still taking a few days holiday, and arriving late on a Monday and leaving early on a Friday (Home is 201 miles away), so I end up trying to hit 11 hours on Tuesday to Thursday because more than half way through the contract I'd now need to do 45 hours to hit the Max fee payable. I'm not that productive if I do too many hours so I'm booking 41 to 42 most weeks.


And then the hiring manager starts to complain that I'm booking too many hours. There is work to be done, I'm struggling to compress it all into 42 hours as it is, so I don't see the issue.


The great thing is that I only work if you are paying me. Too many years where overtime was unpaid but VERY expected.

Linda_D_2

Podge52 wrote: »

Where did I say I wanted to do this?

The reality is I work in a call center and have to be ready to take calls at the start of my shift. This means I have to log into all the systems before the start of my shift and this can take up to 15 minutes some days.

Also we have to be available to take calls up to the end of your shift, so a call at 1 minute to can put you over by up to 10 minutes depending on the problem.

I feel as strongly as you that the working man in this country is getting shafted left, right and center.

However, I got this job after a long spell of unemployment and if that is the only other option then I would much rather work the extra time without pay.

it is your choice to work like this, surely you are worth more than that and have enough self respect to realise it.

Podge52

Linda_D wrote: »

it is your choice to work like this, surely you are worth more than that and have enough self respect to realise it.

I know exactly what I'm worth and in today's employment market that's what I'm getting.

Does it make me proud-No
Is it better than being on jsa-Yes

James_B.

Linda_D wrote: »

Of course you're gullible, you're working for free to make them richer.

I don't know if you are being insulting just to be provocative, or if that's just the kind of person that you are, but I'll try to explain in terms that you can hopefully understand.

You probably choose to work for about £20 per hour (just an estimate, you don't come across as someone on muuch more, I'm happy to be corrected though) for your 38 hours per week, and feel smug that you don't work a minute longer. You believe that this makes you less gullible than me.

I work for £100 per hour for my eight hours contracted work per ay, but actuallly put in nine hours per day, so I'm working an hour for "free" in your way of thinking.

Are you honestly trying to claim that your way is better, and that I'm the fool here, even though I am being paid more foor my work?

Personally, if you really do feel the need to class people as "gullible", would that not better fit the person who works for so little becauuse they are a clock watcher?

pinpin

Wayne Rooney gets about 2k per hour.
We just need to win the lottery and forget about this 'work' stuff

devilivus

James_B. wrote: »

I don't know if you are being insulting just to be provocative, or if that's just the kind of person that you are, but I'll try to explain in terms that you can hopefully understand.

You probably choose to work for about £20 per hour (just an estimate, you don't come across as someone on muuch more, I'm happy to be corrected though) for your 38 hours per week, and feel smug that you don't work a minute longer. You believe that this makes you less gullible than me.

I work for £100 per hour for my eight hours contracted work per ay, but actuallly put in nine hours per day, so I'm working an hour for "free" in your way of thinking.

Are you honestly trying to claim that your way is better, and that I'm the fool here, even though I am being paid more foor my work?

Personally, if you really do feel the need to class people as "gullible", would that not better fit the person who works for so little becauuse they are a clock watcher?

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