it's my last day at work before 2 days off
although i am going to be in tomorrow morning now. so how am i making the most productive use of this time?

panicking on here, that's how.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:14, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Doing anything on your days off?
Other than going in to work, which sounds stupid.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:16, Reply)

i am working tomorrow morning and working sunday
so really it doesn't count as 2 days off...

i can whinge about it, but actually i don't mind working sundays, no phone and no emails makes me 10 times as productive.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:17, Reply)

Nice dodge there.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:25, Reply)

ssssh, that's what lawyers do!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:28, Reply)

Out of interest
What are your contracted hours?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:25, Reply)

9.30-5.30 or "such hours as the firm may require you to work"
then there are chargeable and non chargeable targets (about 150 hours chargeable and 40 hours non-chargeable a month, i THINK)
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:29, Reply)

But but but
Assuming you have 8 hours per day down time, that only leaves 112 hours in a week! Do you work in some kind of extra-temporal space?

EDIT: never mind. I am a mong.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:33, Reply)

*pssst*
She said a month
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:34, Reply)

I got that (eventually)
but I figured I'd leave the post there, as everyone already knows I'm a tit.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:36, Reply)

So 7 contractable hours a day (assuming an hour unpaid for lunch)
Which is on average 140 hours a month (4 weeks x 35 hrs a week). In which you're supposed to fit 150 hours chargeable.

I assume you get paid overtime?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:33, Reply)

Haha!
Overtime is a 4 letter word in here
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:34, Reply)

and here
we're lucky if we get time in lieu after pulling an all nighter
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:36, Reply)

We don't get overtime
But you can take time off in lieu so long as you are in each day for core hours (10:30 - 15:30), and ask the boss in advance if you need to carry hours over to the following month (else they get binned).
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:44, Reply)

Mine are 'as long as it takes to get the job done', I'll bet Swipe's contract has the same small print.


EDIT I am correct, it seems.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:30, Reply)

Just like mine
hence me sitting with the laptop upgrading Watford until 10.45pm last night
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:32, Reply)

Watford needs upgrading big time.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:34, Reply)

I've done my bit

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:34, Reply)

mine is the same
fortunately it doesn't take that much time a lot of the time. Several of my colleagues end up working longer though.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:32, Reply)

Probably picking up after your shoddy mess
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:19, Reply)

Mine says 37.5 hours a week, flexi time (with core hours)
May be expected to work unsociable hours.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:34, Reply)