Reply to: Timekeeping

[Advocate]

20 1/2 hours a day? I hope you're on an hourly rate...

[Pondlife]

I work 6:30 or 7:00 to 03:30 or 04:00

At the moment I am 07:00 to 03:30 - I intend to try to keep to it!

fook me that's a long day BP.

[BrilloPad]

I work 6:30 or 7:00 to 03:30 or 04:00

At the moment I am 07:00 to 03:30 - I intend to try to keep to it!

[original PM]

yeah -watching peoples timekeeping is ideal for managers whose only skill is being able to tell the time.....

as an aside do any of you lot on here put any thinking time to whatever you are working of for client co in the evenings when having a drink and listening to some tunes? or do you turn off..???

[Advocate]

11AM start for me...I don't function well in the mornings!

[chris79]

At current client, they're insisting that I get paid according to the clocking-in/clocking-off, despite the fact that they know I'm working in parallel for another part of the same company, while clocked in, and charging them seperately. Boomed.

Some people get all the luck.

[NotAllThere]

At current client, they're insisting that I get paid according to the clocking-in/clocking-off, despite the fact that they know I'm working in parallel for another part of the same company, while clocked in, and charging them seperately. Boomed.

[VectraMan]

Couldn't agree more. Especially doing software development where progress isn't necessarily proportional to hours, yet some managers seem to care more that you're in the office than what you actually acheive. Also why I hate being paid per hour, and would much rather be paid per day.

In the 3 months of working at home, I haven't set my alarm, but I still seem to wake up around 7.30-8.00 (doesn't seem to matter if I go to bed at 9pm or 2am), and typically start work between 8.30 - 9.00 anyway. However I do often stop mid afternoon, and maybe do a bit more in the evenings, something you can't do in an office environment. I hate the way you feel obliged to hang around until 5.30, even though you know you're not going to get any more done.

[Beefy198]

I believe in Japan they find our obsession with timekeeping quite odd.

Maybe we should go and work over there?

[Old Greg]

Someone let me sleep. Please please please.

[oracleslave]

most odd. ( For the hard of thinking, formerly I was working 8 hours - half hour for lunch -, latterly 7-7.5 hours ).

Thanks. I had no clue what you were getting at until that crucially important explanation

[NotAllThere]

I remember the days when a lie in went till after 9am. Then two kids came around and changed my nocturnal hours forever.

When they're teenagers, you'll be able to lie in as long as you like. But they'll go to bed after you.

I worked in one company, and would arrive at 7:30am to beat the traffic. I'd then leave at 4pm, to much tsk tsking. So, I started arriving at 10-10:30am, and would leave at 6pm. I was applauded for always working late.

most odd. ( For the hard of thinking, formerly I was working 8 hours - half hour for lunch -, latterly 7-7.5 hours ).

[snaw]

I remember the days when a lie in went till after 9am. Then two kids came around and changed my nocturnal hours forever.

[Churchill]

At the time of posting, the "Featured article" on Wikipedia's home page is History of timekeeping devices.

As a hard worker who has been happy to slave their guts out meeting the overpromises of people who didn't even know what they were promising (in permy days, obviously) only to then be castigated by the same people (small company, one of the owner/directors) for being "late for work" after being held up by a multiple collision on the M1, am I the only person to think that the world would be a better place if people abandoned their obsession with timekeeping - particularly those who positively enjoy getting up at half-past-five in the morning, and despise the rest of us who don't function according to their particular body-clock?

Yeah Nick, I'll see you in the pub sometime next week... <---See? Flaw!!!

[ThomasSoerensen]

Yes, get out of bed at a reasonable hour you lazy git

WHS