What do you do: Sales II/PIC/Warehousing and working hard towards a possible Assistant Manager position
How much do you work: I average about 56-60 hours per week. However, next week, while the manager is gone, I need to take over his duties as well as my own, and I’ll be clocking in a definite 72 hour week with the possibility of more. I think I’ll be bringing my futon to work and calling my husband over for dinner! (I’m kidding, I’ll still go home… for all the good it will do)
How much time off do you get: 96 hours sick time, 2 weeks vacation, all major holidays off. More time off is accrued as you either move up/put in time with the company. All benefits grow with time.
For me, one cool thing was that I just put my time in for vacation in July. July is the busy season in our company, and also was the busy season in my old company. Old company wouldn’t allow it unless you were a really high-up person. You had to schedule your vacation times for fall/winter, when things were dying down. When I tentatively gave my manager the dates I needed yesterday (he knew they were coming, he just had to make them official), I hovered near the door to his office, fidgeting nervously. He wrote down my time, looked at his calandar, noticed me standing there, then got a smirk on his face. In mock horror he bellowed at me: “NINE DAYS?! NINE DAYS IN JULY?!” I gave him a week little “Okay?” smile and a meager thumbs up, and he cracked up, turned back to his calandar and said, “They’re your vacation days, kiddo, I say you should use them however you want. **I ** do!” When I bubbled over and asked if they’d really be okay, he just flapped his hand at me and told me they’d be fine.
Geologist with an environmental engineering consulting firm.
How much do you work?
Minimum of 40 hours/week but can be as much as 80 hours a week on rare occasions when the project calls for it. I am salaried, but I get paid for all hours worked over 40. If I didn’t, that would really suck.
How much time off do you get?
Two weeks PTO (paid time off) that includes sick time and vacation and about 10 holidays per year. We can buy additional PTO if we wish, but I dont know how that works yet.
Second Tier Residential DSL tech support - I don’t take the calls, I deal with the tickets after the call is over.
I’m in the office 40 hours a week, usually Monday to Friday 2pm - 10pm, but our shifts rotate occasionally and my department covers 8am-10pm seven days a week. As far as how much I actually work, I can usually get away with only doing five hours of tickets a day to meet my quota. Of course, if we have some kind of service outage, all bets are off. Overtime is always offered in our department, but I generally don’t take advantage of it.
We don’t do any on call in our department. I currently get six sick days and ten days of vacation, plus the holidays. We only require one member of our department to be in the office on statutory holidays (Christmas, Easter, etc.), so if it’s not my turn I get the day off with pay, and if it is my turn I get double time-and-a-half. We really only need to be available in case of service outages on the holidays since those’re usually pretty dead for resi tech support, so ‘working’ usually means ‘logged into the VPN from home with the sound on our intraoffice chat thing turned way up’.
What’s your job?
PT college English professor; also, assessment specialist; freelance writer and editor/proofreader.
How much do you work?
2 or 3 classes of 4 units each per regular semester; many hours unpaid (prep, grading, etc.). About 8 hrs. or so per week actually spent in the classroom.
For assessment, up to 6 hours a week but not every week; depends on demand and we readers are rotated and sometimes on-call. No work to take home, though.
How much time off do you get?
Depends entirely on how much work I assigned for a particular week and how much they or I got done in class. I do quite a bit of work at home.
I do not teach in the winter or summer short terms.
I have all state holidays off. No spring break anymore.
Vacations: my obligation is to teach 32 weeks a year, so I have 2.5 months off in the summer, plus a month-long x-mas vacation and 2-week spring break. However, I usually opt to teach summer session.
I work 38-40 hours a week and get around 4.5 hours of PTO every two weeks (I’ll get more in one more year). I never really take vacations, though- instead I’ll take a day or two off every once in a while. Our PTO is our sick time, vacation time, personal time- everything rolled into one. But at least they don’t take our holiday pay out of it like they did at my last job.
Health care management (Canada, large organization)
8:15 or earlier to 5:30-6:00 M-F
On call 24/7 for my facility, plus one weekend in three for another
Non-working lunch about once a week
6 weeks of vacation and 5 “personal leave” days (to make up for the unpaid call)/year – all school holidays and stats off, but I need to be present for at least part of the summer
Sick time – four months at full pay, then reduction to 60%
Job #1: Preschool Teacher. I work three mornings a week, September through May. I get days off whenever the county schools are off (holidays and snow days), plus the summer, obviously. I also get four paid days off for personal or sick leave.
Job #2: EMT for a private ambulance company. I work 40 hours a week, Monday through Friday. I get a week’s vacation, which I can take all at once or a few days at a time. I get a week’s pay whether I take the time off or not. I get a couple hours of overtime most weeks, and could work every weekend if I wanted to - last weekend they called me twice on Saturday and once on Sunday to come in and work.
I work holidays (people get sick all the time, you know), but if I can arrange to swap a shift, I can take certain holidays off. I was off Christmas Eve and Christmas, but worked Memorial Day and will likely be working on the Fourth of July.
M-F (8-5) 35-40 hours per week, depending on my school schedule. My boss is incredibly flexible and allows me to take time off if needed.
10 paid holidays (1 is a float), 10 sick days, 15 vacation days per year.
Vacation days will go to 25/year in a couple of years. (10 years w/the company.)
We also get PTO for jury duty, and the company offers paid sabbaticals, usually if the sabbatical is related to the industry - writing a book, research, etc. I know a couple of people that took 2 or 3 months off.
I typically go in around 8:30 and leave around 5:30 or 6 unless there’s something else going on in the evenings. But I work a lot from home too. I take work home on weekends too.
I can take time off whenever I need/want to. It hasn’t been often lately, but I like my job so it’s not a big deal. I do plan to take an actual vacation in the fall though.
My hours are four ten hour shifts Tues-Fri night, but I pick up a lot of overtime and have a second per diem lab job.
I have 232 hours of earned time a year. Sick, holiday, vacation, it’s all the same. That equals 29 days off, but I recently had to use a week of “extended sick time” when I went >40 hours off due to illness.
I work Sunday to Thursday, 8:30am-5:30pm (by special arrangement, since I have a small child). Normally working hours are 8:30 to whenever the work is done, and no entitlement to overtime, since the salary is pretty good.
I get 13 public holidays a year, plus 30 calendar days annual leave. I am also entitled to statutory sick leave of 15 days @ full pay, 15 days @ half-pay and 15 days unpaid (you need to produce a medical certificate for consecutive sick days, i.e. more than 1 day at a time).
What’s your job?
Call center telephone sales’ representative/internet chat representative.
How much do you work?
Now that I am full-time, I work 40 hours/week. Monday - Friday 8:15 - 5:00 with a 45 minute lunch. During 4th quarter, I will also work 6 Saturdays from 9:00 - 1:00 (yes, it is paid as OT) – only 1 Saturday is mandatory, the rest I choose to work for the extra Christmas cash.
How much time off do you get?
I get 2 weeks of vacation (80 hours) plus 1 “personal” day and 7 sick days. It’s not a lot of time off, but then again, the largest part of my day is spent surfing the web, either on the sdmb or playing Runescape.
I work four 10-hour shifts a week plus, for most of the year, all the OT I’m willing to work.
I earn PTO at a rate of what turns out to be 10 or 12 days a year, which has to cover illness and vacation. I can take 40 hours of unpaid leave a year, also. I work all holidays that fall on my scheduled work days.
I haven’t had a vacation for years, but at least I don’t have to drive anywhere.
Senior Engineer
Hours are kind of hard to characterize. We have major flex time. I usually am in the office from 9 am - 6:15 or so pm, with that varying depending on what I’m doing when 6:15 rolls around. If I have a call earlier than 9 I usually do it from home. I also spend a good bit of time on my work related hobbies (industry groups, my column, book reviewing, conferences) from home.
Vacation. We have a complex formula of vacation accruing per pay period. It is now 6.9 hours per 2 week pay period, which works out to 4 weeks a year, though I have about 6 weeks stored up. We have a max, which I’m going to hit his year unless I get my rear in gear and go somewhere.
We also have between Christmas and New Years off as a paid vacation, which is great since your work email does not accumulate.
Hmm - I feel a lot better about this thread vs. the salary one; few good things come from discussing money.
What do I do? Senior Vice President of Strategy and Development for a small company. Basically I am in charge of any activities related to evolving and growing the company: 1) Keeping our Strategic Plan current and ensuring goals are achieved; 2) Managing any deals in our pipeline - opportunities to acquire other companies or enter into strategic relationships that would fuel growth; 3) Overseeing any large-scale change projects - for instance, we acquired a smaller company last August and I oversee our post-merger integration efforts.
*How much do I work? * I have one of those jobs that will expand to fit whatever time I choose to give it, so I do my best to maintain a work/life balance. I go in early - typing away by 7 or 7:30am - and try to get out at 5:30 or 6pm so I can cook dinner for the kids, help with homework/bedtime and go to mid-life-crisis band practices…
How much time off? about 4 weeks of normal vacation including flex time, but, within reason, I can pretty much manage my schedule as I see fit…
