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What time do you start and leave work?

RoadHazard

RoadHazard

Gold Member
We have a regular work day, which basically means 8-17 with 1 hour lunch. We have flexible hours though, and I usually come in closer to 9 and instead stay longer. Not a morning person, even starting at 9 is somewhat torturous for me...
 
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Goodlife

Member
I went from about 13 years of working in a place which was pretty flexible with working times, the last 2 of those were working from home so ultra flexible, straight to a VERY strict set hours place (used to call you out if you were a few minutes late)
I lasted 6 months.
Was just shit, couldn't deal with it and didn't see the need for it (wasn't customer facing or anything like that).
 
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KHlover

Banned
Jombie said:
6am-11pm, sat and sun and third shift mon.
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That's a 17 hour shift, are you working in a hospital?

Goodlife said:
I went from about 13 years of working in a place which was pretty flexible with working times, the last 2 of those were working from home so ultra flexible, straight to a VERY strict set hours place (used to call you out if you were a few minutes late)
I lasted 6 months.
Was just shit, couldn't deal with it and didn't see the need for it (wasn't customer facing or anything like that).
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I get you, flexible working times are just the best. Every place I've been to yet had them, I think I'd get fired within the first week if I had a rigid schedule lol. Current place you can come in at 0645 and leave as late as 1800. We have core working times of 0900-1530 Mo-Thu and 0900-1200 Fri, but otherwise you're free to come and leave as you see fit. I wake up early even without an alarm clock, so 9-to-5 would just be a gigantic waste of time to me. I can come in as early as possible and leave as soon as possible, got more of the day, a dramatically better commute and four hours more free time on Friday. Personal heaven.
 
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Memento_Mori15

Member
I went from 9 to 6 to 8 to 5. I changed my shift to avoid rush hour and avoid the crowd of people. Office is very relax and you do everything in your own pace(unless there’s a deadline of course). I love it but thinking about leaving only to face new challenges.
 
Musha_Soturi

Musha_Soturi

Member
My official hours are 9-5 mon-fri with an hour for lunch. I normally get in early, around 8:20-8:30 as I hate being late and like to eat breakfast, check emails etc before I start working. Most days I leave at 5, but if I have to stay later I will, though that doesn't happen often. My work environment is pretty relaxed and my boss is easy going, so if I need to come in late, leave early, take a long lunch or work from home it's never a problem.
 
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Pankratous

Member
Whatever time I want (as long as it's before 9AM), and then work 7.5 hours. Time I leave depends on how much break I take, which I also choose myself (I generally take around an hour)
 
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Captain Tuttle

Member
I usually get to work around 6:30 AM and leave anywhere between 4 and 5:30 PM. I work about every fourth Saturday 6-12. After Thanksgiving things slow down though, 8-9 hours during the day and no Saturdays. This goes through to about May
 
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III-V

Member
Salaried 43-50+ hours per week, relatively flexible. Can wfh on occasion as well. So days tend to vary a lot. Might take a long lunch once per week.
 
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hoserx

Member
My shift starts at 5am but I have to be here at least a half an hour early to write my first newscast. I'm out at 1 technically but rarely leave the building til 1:30...... You never get used to waking up at 330am. It always sucks when the alarm goes off then.
 
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Redders

Member
Standard 9-5 Mon-Fri with 30 minutes for lunch when you like, sometimes a rare 9-12 on a Saturday but then we get those hours back in the week.

The office hours are between 8-6 but 9-5 works out best for me.
 
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Jeffrey

Member
9-5. Billed for 8 hrs. Boss doesn't really care much.


That stuff always interested me about contracting. Some folks are anal about you working the full 8 hrs so like 8-5 with hr lunch, some are fine with lunch being billed time too as long as your work is being done.
 
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Bisnic

Really Really Exciting Member!
7am to 3pm. It's great because traffic is nothing compared to 8am to 4pm, especially at 6:45 where I can drive at full speed on the highway from start to finish.

It's very hard to wake up at 5:30am though, despite going to bed at 10:30pm.
 
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BriareosGAF

Member
Games industry. Whatever hours I want, but a core around 11am-5pm usually, and then round out 8+ hours of work per day around that. Some days in at 9, some days in at 11 (gym days). Probably in every other Saturday for a few hours because we're a remote office and I sometimes need to do our server maintenance and other things.

When I lived in LA I worked 7-4 because I needed to be downtown in the evenings for practice, and the Montrose -> Santa Monica -> Downtown commute is a rough one. Was fun stopping by the OP in the mornings sometimes on the way in though.
 
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Vincent Grayson

Member
I roll out of bed at 6am and head to my basement. Work until 10am, take a 2 hour break and then work noon to 4pm.

On the odd day I go into the office, I get up at 430am though, which sucks. But I still leave 4 hours in and work the back half of the day at home.
 
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Aarglefarg

Member
I work 8:30am to 1:10pm, four or five days a week. I live about a 6 minute walk from work as well which is a good change. But I don't get any breaks except on the occasional slightly longer shift,
even though the law requires them
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DevilFox

Member
9 a.m. - 6 p.m. that often extends to 7 p.m.
It takes me 1 hour to get there everyday, including the average 15 minutes delay of public transports. Meaning I've got no time left to do shit.
 
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Randam

Member
Aarglefarg said:
I work 8:30am to 1:10pm, four or five days a week. I live about a 6 minute walk from work as well which is a good change. But I don't get any breaks except on the occasional slightly longer shift,
even though the law requires them
.
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Why don't you insist on doing your break?
 
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br3wnor

Member
8:30-4:30 with an hour lunch, M-F.

Leave for work at 8, home by 5 and don’t take work home so it’s basically as good as it can get for the field I’m in, can’t complain.
 
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ascii42

Member
Officially, we can come between 7 and 9. We have to work 8 hours, not counting however long we take for lunch. I usually get in around 7 and leave at 3:30. But I've come in early and left earlier and my supervisor doesn't care, as long as I get my 8 hours in. We also get paid overtime.

Work environment's pretty casual, I guess. I wear jeans and a polo or a t-shirt most days.
 
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privitsan02

Member
Regular 9-5. I usually come in at around 8 and leave around 4:30 at earliest depending on the work load. I work from home at night sometimes anyway.

Best wishes.
 
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blazinglord

Member
We're allowed to do whatever hours we like at my office, but I generally tend to stick with starting at 8:30 and finishing at 4:30, with 20 minutes for lunch.

However, sometimes I do 7:30-3:30 in the summer or 9:30-5:30 in the winter.
 
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