Working Hours

[Xenophon]

Wondering what your practices were on working hours. Do you do your contracted hours each day and then go home or do some of you stay late (unpaid)?

[Lucifer Box]

As I'm working direct from home at the moment, I do whatever hours I feel like, within the parameters of getting the job done.

[Xenophon]

As I'm working direct from home at the moment, I do whatever hours I feel like, within the parameters of getting the job done.

Cool. I had a spell of working from home. By the end of it I had gone temporarily blind and was ejaculating nothing but salt...

[hyperD]

Cool. I had a spell of working from home. By the end of it I had gone temporarily blind and was ejaculating nothing but salt...

Handy while eating chips at the computer...

Must admit, I've often though of getting a rented offices for that very reason. The noise of the servers here and going stir crazy doesn't help, but hey, it's direct and minimal commuting...

[Rebecca Loos]

there is a nice scheme here which I'd recommend for everyone who is paid a day rate

We consider a normal day to be 8 hours - if we do more, we aggregate them and the day when you reach 8 hours overtime, you charge an extra day. So most weeks, I do charge 6 days for example.

This has been agreed with our manager last year and is still going, with no problem. Client happy, agency delighted (of course), and me happy too.

[Xenophon]

there is a nice scheme here which I'd recommend for everyone who is paid a day rate

We consider a normal day to be 8 hours - if we do more, we aggregate them and the day when you reach 8 hours overtime, you charge an extra day. So most weeks, I do charge 6 days for example.

This has been agreed with our manager last year and is still going, with no problem. Client happy, agency delighted (of course), and me happy too.

Good plan. I might try that here. Then I'll eat my own head, build a tower of Stella Artois cans to the moon and find the original copy of the Bible.

[The Late, Great JC]

Good plan. I might try that here. Then I'll eat my own head, build a tower of Stella Artois cans to the moon and find the original copy of the Bible.

Try EBAY, but be wary of bidding too soon.

[Xenophon]

Try EBAY, but be wary of bidding too soon.

Aha! So thats what you were bidding on!?!

[ratewhore]

set the scene

I make it clear in interview I look for flexible working and delivery based work. As I tend to get interviewed by those I will be working with it seems to work. 35 hours one week, 50 the next, as long as I deliver on time they seem to be happy with that.

My back would have to be against the wall to take a contract where I MUST be at my desk for 7.5 hours per day.

[omen666]

there is a nice scheme here which I'd recommend for everyone who is paid a day rate

We consider a normal day to be 8 hours - if we do more, we aggregate them and the day when you reach 8 hours overtime, you charge an extra day. So most weeks, I do charge 6 days for example.

This has been agreed with our manager last year and is still going, with no problem. Client happy, agency delighted (of course), and me happy too.

I've got that agreement too, works well until the agency says it can't invoice outside of its online timesheet system!!!

They are saying they cannot pay an invoice that doesn't directly relate to a working week within the contract start and end dates. So I asked the question how do they pay there contract cleaning company that cleans their offices? Do they fill in timesheets as well?

So I have 8 days owed and am fed up with these guys. They are saying they want to convert my contract to hourly to cope.

I feel a letter from solicitor coming on at end of contract and recovery effort/cost!

They will get their commission on the days so whats the problem