Your Job

[Bazile]

What type of job do you have

1. Fixed hours - do your tasks and finish for the day/night

2. Job where you are "expected " to work ' all ' hours
Arrive home from work - jump on the computer for X amount if hours
Putting hours in over the weekend

[Ken4155]

Self employed, work when i want and for how many hours i want. I have been known to stay a couple of hours to finish a job (rather than return next day) and i have also been known to down tools a couple of hours early and return next day, even though i have billed customer for just the day's work.

[ummmm]

No fixed hours. I just have to meet deadlines which is very easy at the moment as there is hardly any work.

[Bobbisox1]

very happily retired for 15 years from my job as A Customer Service worker for a large store

[barry1010]

I'd be happily retired if I had spent my working day listening to customers moaning, bobbi

[Jackdaw33]

Which store did you work at, Bobbi?

[davebro]

Was "1. Fixed hours - do your tasks and finish for the day/night."

With flextime - early start/early finish & some weekend overtime.

Now retired.

[Bobbisox1]

the now defunct BHS and Boots on photographic before that , my younger days were spent at BT ( hence the private pension)

[Bobbisox1]

Barry you would not believe some of the stuff haha

[Hopkirk]

I'm not allowed to go home until I get the lorry back.

[-SharonA-]

Spent 5 years wfh before I retired. No fixed hours, no one checking up on me.
I loved wfh.
Even better now retired, I love doing nothing!!

[woofgang]

I am now retured but when i did work I worked 18 hoursover 5 days between 9 and 5. Sometimes I needed to do longer in a week or, rarely, work in the evening or at night to liaise with the public or catch night staff and then I got lieu time.

[Bazile]

Anyone have a job where you can't shut off after a fixed amount of hours each day otherwise you wouldn't get tasks completed / projects completed that's on going .

The above would be working for an employer .

You don't get paid any extra . Your salary is a fixed amount irrespective of how many hours you work .

[ubasses]

That was me before retirement.

[Prudie]

I have to do 37 hours a week over Mon to Fri. Any less would be flexible or normal leave. Any more I'd have to claim as flexi. My normal day ends at 1630 except Fridays. Unfortunately many of us are issued with work iPhones and there is a bit of a culture of checking emails in the evenings without getting the time back.

[shoota]

As a copper I was supposed to work fixed hours, rarely got off on time and even when I was 'off' I was 'on', like a coiled spring.
More like a bent spring now, though, still can't relax fully.

[AuntPollyGrey]

3. job where you are expected to be there 24/7 putting hours in over the weekend/ public holidays/ middle of the night if need be and find little time to even have a weekend off let alone a week's holiday .

[Bazile]

Are you self employed AP ?

[piggynose]

Im on my 6th job now.

[tiggerblue10]

Pretty much the same as Prudie. I start at 7.30 and finish around 4. Build up flexi as well. I work what we call a legacy contract but the majority of the workforce I provide support for work annualised hours which means they work some weekends and evenings.

[emmie]

before retiring i spent my time on fixed hours, but often these went over the time we were paid for.