How hard do you work in your job?

[Uncle C]

Please be honest, as nobody can see the individual contributions?

 

[daveinprague]

Not enough to justify my salary, but as much as anybody else in the office

 

[upthealbion1970]

As my job is carer for my mrs I work harder than I did when I managed a fast fit centre, plus it's 24/7 although the perks are better the £31.50 a week I get for my trouble is pretty insulting.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'm paid to do things and do them to time...so whatever it takes to do this.

 

[Questions]

I start about 10 but I do work on to about 3ish. No easy days on the buildings boys.

 

[clippedgull]

As my job is carer for my mrs I work harder than I did when I managed a fast fit centre, plus it's 24/7 although the perks are better the £31.50 a week I get for my trouble is pretty insulting.

I'm also a carer (for my mum). Talk about being under valued by every political party. It's a national disgrace.

 

[upthealbion1970]

I'm also a carer (for my mum). Talk about being under valued by every political party. It's a national disgrace.

You're not wrong. Money is incredibly tight and I hate living on the benefit system but with the disability mrs has got and the fact it is degenerative the only other choice was to let a stranger care for her.

 

[ali jenkins]

It depends on each individual day, sometimes it will be non stop from start to finish and only enough time to eat a quick sandwich, and other days i do hardly anything and read the paper fron front to back. I justify the lazy days because on the busy days i put in the effort so it all evens out.

P.s i went for option 3 but should have voted for 5

 

[scooter1]

A f*** sight harder than people who get paid a shit load more than me...............But i'm also on here in work time so there must be some perks

 

[Trufflehound]

It varies a lot. Can have quiet days (like today, hence I'm on here now more than I should be...). At other times I can be working non-stop from when I wake up until I go to bed.

But since the latter part of my job usually entails eating in restaurants and drinking beer (occasionally to excess), life ain't so bad...

 

[Goring Gull]

Not enough to justify my salary, but as much as anybody else in the office

This - but there are some people who even lazier

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Where's the option for having the day off work today and still working at home?

 

[bhaexpress]

A job like mine has good and bad days. I like to start early but that's because I don't like rushing and I also try to avoid the Rush Hour, especially if I'm working in London. I seldom take a full lunch if at all but that's only because most of the places I work out there's no real point in going out anyway. I don't clock watch but I do like to finish on time bearing in mind that I get paid by the hour. The fact that I never have a problem getting a reference tends to make me think I'm doing an ok job.

 

[bhaexpress]

Where's the option for having the day off work today and still working at home?

Which in fact is getting very common now thanks to people having easy access to their workplace computers via the internet.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Work pretty hard from 8 til 6, but not averse to surfing when time permits - but I do extra work at home for no extra pay, and plan my work / projects mostly in my spare time ..... so, hard enough I think, but then I enjoy it (mostly) and having been made redundant 2 years ago and didn't work for a year, happy to have a job.

 

[Beach Hut]

Depends what needs to done really. If there is a lot then later or in the evening or on the train.

Good example is we have a 4-weekly cycle of customer reporting and it requires preparation by one person and then I complete. He was away the first two week and me the third so they should be sent by end of week 2. I arrived back in the UK on the Friday of the third week, jet lagged but logged on to work and completed them though on leave.

However I am responding to this whilst at work...............

 

[Noldi]

Salaried job that is seasonal. Flat out Nov - April eves and weekends and no extra pay. Summer is a cruise.

 

[Wilko]

I am at work by 7.15am and normally finish around 6.30pm plus I do all my marking on Sundays. Long days but no complaints from me as I get 13 weeks holiday a year

 

[Danny-Boy]

Where's the option for UNPAID work? Like voluntary etc

 

[pasty]

Hours are 8.30 to 5, but as long as whatever project(s) I'm working on get delivered on time, my boss pretty much leaves me alone. Have been known to work unpaid in evenings and weekends, but its all swings and roundabouts as far as I'm concerned. Always allowed to leave early when Albion at home midweek and work from home a bit as well. But then I also get really shitty weeks doing out of hours calls like this week; 1am tuesday, 1.30 am thursday and 4.30 am this morning.