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What time should you finish work, and what time do you actually leave !

  • 20-08-2010 9:13am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭Dr.Silly


    I'm getting f*cked off with leaving the office 2 hours after i'm supposed to.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭Johnny Bitte


    Dr.Silly wrote: »
    I'm getting f*cked off with leaving the office 2 hours after i'm supposed to.

    Why do you stay 2 hours?

    Used to be the same here (not 2 hours all the time) but you just have to get up and leave at the right time. Simple as that.

    You'll get **** all thanks for staying late like that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭Dr.Silly


    Why do you stay 2 hours?

    Used to be the same here (not 2 hours all the time) but you just have to get up and leave at the right time. Simple as that.

    You'll get **** all thanks for staying late like that.

    I'll get f*k all thanks alright, but I will probably not have a job either !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I don't really understand why people stay later than they have to, unless the work they're doing can't wait until tomorrow. The work will still be there tomorrow, go home!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Shelli2


    Do you get paid for your overtime?

    My boss made it perfectly clear that we don't get paid for a minute after we're scheduled, so we all leave work bang on time....even if we're in the middle of something it's left till tomorrow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Dr.Silly wrote: »
    I'm getting f*cked off with leaving the office 2 hours after i'm supposed to.

    Ah well, at least you have a job that slowly kills you.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭Dr.Silly


    seamus wrote: »
    I don't really understand why people stay later than they have to, unless the work they're doing can't wait until tomorrow. The work will still be there tomorrow, go home!

    that's the thing, everything has to be done now now now now now now !!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭Dr.Silly


    Shelli2 wrote: »
    Do you get paid for your overtime?

    My boss made it perfectly clear that we don't get paid for a minute after we're scheduled, so we all leave work bang on time....even if we're in the middle of something it's left till tomorrow.

    overtime..lol.....no :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Supposed to finish at 5, usually do, but lately it's been closer to 6 when i'm leaving, strange thing is i get home at the same time!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    Its good to rant.
    Let it all out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭PaddyBomb


    I'm supposed to finish at half 5. I leave at half 5. Simple.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    I'm supposed to leave at 5, I leave at half 4. Simpler.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    Dr.Silly wrote: »
    I'm getting f*cked off with leaving the office 2 hours after i'm supposed to.
    Dr.Silly wrote: »
    overtime..lol.....no :cool:


    Your username seems quite apt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,534 ✭✭✭Downtime


    I finish around 5.10 - meant to be 5.30. I do start at 7.45 instead of 9 though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭Dr.Silly


    Your username seems quite apt

    thx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭eden_my_ass


    There seems to be a concept around most places I've worked that to be seen to do free overtime is the best way to impress the bosses. I see people sitting after hours just browsing the net to make that impression. I just can't understand the logic, I've never done unpaid overtime (well one or two exceptions along the way to hit a deadline) and it hasn't stopped me getting promoted/pay increased etc...who taught these people that this works? Is it a personal admission that their 9-5 effort just isn't going to make any impressions!? All it does is create an pressured atmosphere for others to stay late too, browsing...to keep up the pretense. Silly buggers!


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Zechariah Yellow Dice


    anytime after 4

    ...anytime after 4.

    Flexitime is great


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    You stay 2 hours later after work??








    they don't call you Dr. Silly for nothing...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    leaving on time is actually frowned upon where i work.

    i just leave on time anyway and always ignore the not so suttle hints. my motto is if you cant get your work done in the time given you're not doing your job. if i have a deadline to hit on something i'm behind on, no bother. but the silly git in the top office just likes the idea of people trying to impress him - and i leave on time specifically to piss him off


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,079 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    A girl I work with stays late every day. Sometimes for an extra hour. Sometimes much longer. It's not approved overtime either.

    She just has to finish everything that can be done before she can leave. It's on her mind all night at home if she doesnt.

    Don't know how someone can live like that to be honest. I'm out the door bang on time and everything about the day is instantly forgotten about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,863 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    There seems to be a concept around most places I've worked that to be seen to do free overtime is the best way to impress the bosses. I see people sitting after hours just browsing the net to make that impression. I just can't understand the logic, I've never done unpaid overtime (well one or two exceptions along the way to hit a deadline) and it hasn't stopped me getting promoted/pay increased etc...who taught these people that this works? Is it a personal admission that their 9-5 effort just isn't going to make any impressions!? All it does is create an pressured atmosphere for others to stay late too, browsing...to keep up the pretense. Silly buggers!

    Maybe they stay late because the bus leaves 30 minutes after they finish work, while it is only a 5 minute walk to the bus stop? I would stay behind my desk too if the other choice is waiting i nthe cold/rain for 20 minutes.

    Never worked a minute over time that wasnt paid. Current boss doesnt pay over time so i dont do over time.
    Why would i work for free? Working isnt exactly an hobby of me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Usually at like 5.15 because im always a little late in the morning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    9am - 5pm and I 'work' those hours!
    Don't stay any longer cos I don't get paid for it. I'm not one of those people who like to sit at their desk for an extra hour or two just to 'impress' senior management!
    Get in, get it done, get the fook out!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    There seems to be a concept around most places I've worked that to be seen to do free overtime is the best way to impress the bosses. I see people sitting after hours just browsing the net to make that impression. I just can't understand the logic, I've never done unpaid overtime (well one or two exceptions along the way to hit a deadline) and it hasn't stopped me getting promoted/pay increased etc...who taught these people that this works? Is it a personal admission that their 9-5 effort just isn't going to make any impressions!? All it does is create an pressured atmosphere for others to stay late too, browsing...to keep up the pretense. Silly buggers!

    Well said than man!
    I have a term for those people who you refer to.....losers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    When i was younger i always went above and beyond with work, not just doing the bit of upaid overtime, ive grown a little more bitter with age however - Sometmes im busy working on other things so i simply cant stay late, because i could have another 6 hours of work lined up after 5 at home or on a project im at.

    However, if i need to work after 5 and it rolls on into 6 i do it. Put the head down and get the job done

    Ok, so ive done some unpaid overtime - i might have to go to the doc, or take a few hours off next week and i can do so without feeling obliged to my employer.

    Its a matter of give and take


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    sometimes I start late or finish early
    but I don't leave until what ever I'm doing is finished.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Should finish at 5.30

    Usually leave at 5.28.

    I live life on the edge!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I worked for an obnoxious twat a few years ago, who moaned at me one day because I apparently always went home when 5 o'clock arrived. The fact that the working day was 9 to 5 seemed irrelevant to the fuckwit wanker.

    He was one of those people who referred to the "team", and sent people on team-building exercises. He only ever mentioned "employee" once, and that was probably by accident, the tool.

    I decided to work for myself after that job, because I was putting up with none of that sh1t. The only problem is that I seem to work longer hours now.:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭changes


    I finish work at 5.30 and i leave at 5.30 and not a second later.
    If someone was still chatting to me or asking questions at 5.30 i would be talking to them over my shoulder.... then they would see the back of my head and then the door closing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I worked for an obnoxious twat a few years ago, who moaned at me one day because I apparently always went home when 5 o'clock arrived. The fact that the working day was 9 to 5 seemed irrelevant to the fuckwit wanker.

    He was one of those people who referred to the "team", and sent people on team-building exercises. He only ever mentioned "employee" once, and that was probably by accident, the tool.

    I decided to work for myself after that job, because I was putting up with none of that sh1t. The only problem is that I seem to work longer hours now.:(

    I know that guy.

    Always uses the phrase "going forward" when speaking at meetings.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭cabrwab


    We work 8 til 6 everyday minimum.
    And overtime ain't paid but happens all the time in the busy 'time'.

    And the odd sat or Sunday too.

    So 50hours min a week little or no lunch most days.

    So when I can ill make sure to fook off early.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 572 ✭✭✭cowhands


    Suppose to finish at 4.30 dont leave till 5 or 5.15 sometimes.
    Then again it is a small company and if I dont do it no one else will
    We have let alot of people go recently and theres alot of extra work to do
    I dont mind doing it really, I dont get paid but my boss shows his appreciation in other ways, recently he gave me a cheque to buy my wedding dress , its all give and take here, pretty nice place to work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Supposed to finish at 10. Really finish at 10.20.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭eden_my_ass


    inforfun wrote: »
    Maybe they stay late because the bus leaves 30 minutes after they finish work, while it is only a 5 minute walk to the bus stop? I would stay behind my desk too if the other choice is waiting i nthe cold/rain for 20 minutes.

    Trust me, I know the people I'm referring to and there is no other excuse...as someone else mentioned once an atmosphere is created of unpaid overtime you do actually get little comments about "ducking out" at 5 on the dot, its really quite sad.

    Even stranger is my manager (who has never said a word about my prefect attendance) now makes us all fill in extra hours in the reporting tool used for upper management (I religiously filled in the exact hours of my contract every week, nothing more, nothing less)...so even if I do 40 hours, I'm expected to spoof an extra few over the week so that we are seen in his words "to look busy". Pathetic approach to work anyone???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    snyper wrote: »
    I know that guy.

    Always uses the phrase "going forward" when speaking at meetings.

    you need to park that and i'll parachute someone in later to move it to the next level


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    snyper wrote: »
    I know that guy.

    Always uses the phrase "going forward" when speaking at meetings.

    Oh yeh, he had the full range of that crap, and my bullsh1tometer was the only thing working overtime when I was there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    Trust me, I know the people I'm referring to and there is no other excuse...as someone else mentioned once an atmosphere is created of unpaid overtime you do actually get little comments about "ducking out" at 5 on the dot, its really quite sad.

    Even stranger is my manager (who has never said a word about my prefect attendance) now makes us all fill in extra hours in the reporting tool used for upper management (I religiously filled in the exact hours of my contract every week, nothing more, nothing less)...so even if I do 40 hours, I'm expected to spoof an extra few over the week so that we are seen in his words "to look busy". Pathetic approach to work anyone???

    yeah i hate that 'we need to look busy so stay a bit later' ****e - i am busy TRYING TO RAISE A FAMILY YOU TWAT, not sit around like a tool so you look like a crack the whip manager


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭Murphyt


    Pathetic approach to work anyone???

    Yes absolutely pathetic.
    I think when someone, who was once a person, attends a management course they go through a routine of having their soul removed, then they learn to paint by numbers and at the end are given shares in any pharmaceutical company that makes paracetamol. Because they never seem to be able to relate to normality, they only understand results based on numbers and are hell bent on causing unnecessary headaches.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    I finish working at around 9.30 and leave around 5. 4 on Fri \0/.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭fakearms123


    I start at 9 but sometimes I'm in at 8:50, I finish at 5 so I leave at around 4:55, so im technically working 5 minutes over, i have filed a letter of complaint with senior staff :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33 music.babe75


    Working day is 9 to 5 so staff should leave at 5. Don't mind working back very occassionly if something is very urgent but if its just normal work, it can keep until tomorrow!

    If there is too much work, the employer should hire more staff or else pay people overtime. Employers need to realise that people have lives outside of work!!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Finish at 6. Leave at 5:59 - 6:15 depending on how busy I am.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭Irishcrx


    Did this staying late lark for the first year in my job, soon you find out you end up dealing with more crap, getting no thanks or pay for it.I'm out bang on time everyday now no matter what is going on...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    That's exactly it, you do it too often and it becomes expected.
    There's a guy here in the office who leaves everyday 5 mins after the M.D. It's pathetic, i'll stay late once in a while if i have to, as far as i'm concerned that covers me for the occassional day off I might need, but i'll only do it when neccesary and when i have to i'll work fast and get out as early as possible, but i've seen this guy sit at his desk reading the paper, surfing the web etc, i've even seen him order in pizza on occassion and just sit there eating it! Then as soon as the M.D.'s car is gone he's off, it's cringe worthy:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    Working day is 9 to 5 so staff should leave at 5.

    not everyone has a handy office job,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭eden_my_ass


    bazmaiden wrote: »
    not everyone has a handy office job,

    The thread is about those who do have a set finishing time, and whether they keep it though....that doesn't imply office job btw and nor does the comment you quoted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Captain Average


    I'm supposed to finish at 5. I stop working at 4.30 and leave at 4.55


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭eden_my_ass


    I'm supposed to finish at 5. I stop working at 4.30 and leave at 4.55

    I believe in sports that would be called a warm down :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    The thread is about those who do have a set finishing time, and whether they keep it though....that doesn't imply office job btw and nor does the comment you quoted.

    i think you've learned a valuable lesson here


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭Conor OH!


    bluewolf wrote: »
    anytime after 4

    ...anytime after 4.

    Flexitime is great


    oooh burn, my flexi allows me leave anytime after 3.30! which is great:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭AntiRip


    Coming from a veteran of factory work, I leave now on time. Because I drive a long distance to/from work I'm always there early, 20-30mins. I was late once last winter because of the snow and they still docked my pay even though 99.999% I'm always early. So now I clock in on time, clock out on time and take my time.

    I always believe in give and take and would have no problem staying on if I got any thanks but you wouldn't.

    In one company where I worked in, engineers were expected to come in one Saturday a month (for nothing :rolleyes:) When I didn't I was asked why didn't I come in, I told them why not go out into the street and ask somebody to come in and work for nothing! Funnily enough I got on better with them when I showed a set of balls.

    Remember guys, it's a means to an end. Work should always be secondary to your personal and family life. 40 hours a week should be enough but if you work for a nice company and you get appreciation for working extra hours, go for it but don't get ridden


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