I voted 9-5, but I work 9-5:30. I took on a job responsibility that requires me to be here later because this particular responsibility is normally handled by our east coast office. So I’m here for when that department is already closed for the day.
I really, REALLY miss the 8-4 timeslot I used to have. I’m a morning person. I’m typically in the office by 7:30 anyway. And I loved getting out and having my afternoon and evening ahead of me. Of course, when I worked 8-4, I used to get home at 5:30 because of my commute. Now I live a mile from work and get home at 5:45. So it’s not too bad.
8:30 - 4:30. We get 4 hrs of time off during the week for lunch/errands, so it works out to about .8 of an hour a day for lunch. We all take an hour and no one counts.
6pm to 6am fri-sun, and every other thursday, with 1 hour of paid breaks taken whenever you feel like/get a chance. We have 4 shifts to keep the factory up and running 24/7.
Love the shift though. Keeps me out of bars, hence out of trouble, no suits around with special projects or special orders, and a sizeable extra chunk of pay for being on the crap shift.
We’re a 24-hour office and few people work normal hours. I’m currently 11:30am-noon to some point a minimum of 8 hours later.
I could come in earlier, but the nature of my job skews the workload later in the day, and coming in earlier never means leaving earlier, so there’s no point.
And I think this is a point that needs to be made. For a lot of Dopers in the Midwest, 8-5 is the standard because their workplaces sync up with their companies’ operations in the East.
My sister, who lives in California hated her job as a stockbroker because her clients expected her to be available when the NYSE opened; they expected her to be available when their business day started; expected her to be available at Noon (Pacific time); when the NYSE closed in the afternoon; and, of course, at the close of business (again Pacific time.)
I have 3 part-time jobs, all of which pay me to do nothing at all if there’s nothing to do. At the moment, my schedule:
Mon: 1 hour at my convenience
Tues: ditto
Wed: 1pm-8pm
Thurs: 7am-12 at one job, 1pm-6pm at another
Fri: 9am-6pm
Sat: 4pm-2am
Sun: 12-4pm or 9 pm, depending
Variable. In my classification, day shift is either 7-3 ( the great majority ) or 6-2 ( my small work unit ). This is 24 hr ops, paid lunch, so straight 8’s.
8:00 to 4:30, because I have a mandatory unpaid one hour lunch, but at the same time, my work days are only 7.5 hours long. And it even works out so that I get overtime for anything over 37.5 hours in a week.
Edit: Oh, and I also work 5-10PM on Fridays and 4-10 PM on Saturdays for my second job…so yeah, my Fridays are long…
I’m thanking the powers that be that I’m not forced to be in the office at some ridiculously early time like 6am or 7am or 8am. Seriously, if I had to work starting at those hours, I’d be fired. I’m technically 9 to 6, but as often as not it seems to be 10 to 7. I’d go even later, but my boss wouldn’t tolerate it. Stupid morning person-geared society
My dad works from 6 to 4 (with 2 hours total off-the-clock breaks). Mom works from 7:30 to 3:30, and Sis works from 8 to 3. I as I have mentioned before, am housebound.
Neither. Standard “office hours” around here are 8 to 5. We don’t get paid for the lunch hour.
I personally work a 9-80 schedule. In two weeks, I work 80 hours. One week is 36 hours (9 hour days M-Thursday, with Friday off - and one week of 44 hours, working 9 hour days M-Thu and 8 hours on Friday.) It’s very nice to have every other Friday off for Dr appts, servicing your car - crap like that.
