How many hours a day are we expected to work??

[Sungirl]

This is a serious question

.I would like to know how many working hours (to the minute) are expected of you TO STAY at your place of employement. I would like to hear from both points of view. From the Managers and from the people that do the work.

[vavavah]

8...non-mgmnt......

[JRandomFreeper]

Whatever the job requires. If you don't like it, you can do what I do when I get fed up. I vote with my feet.

I will never forget the look on my boss's face when I told him: "You know that raise you said I couldn't have? I got it anyway. Wanna walk me to the gate and collect my badge?" LOL!

/john

[gcruse]

Usually eight hours for hourly people.  Anything over is
why time and a half was invented.  If you are on salary,
however, thinking of yourself and wanting to be thought
of as a professional, you stay as long as is necessary
to get the job done.

[breakem]

do you have a specific situation we can respond to?

[Leroy S. Mort]

Self employed - until the job gets done or I feel like taking a break.

[spectre]

You seem to want specific information to a non-specific post. Do you have a personal example/agenda that you need clarified?

More info might help.

[jwalsh07]

I work until the job is done or I go golfing, depends on the mood I'm in and the weather.

[Revelation 911]

From the Managers and from the people that do the work.

The shop works 4 - 10 hrs day - I work 4 -9's and a 4. The office works 5- 8's

when we are busy -

Work is slow lately - all are on reduced hours. 30 to 36 hrs depending on position. There will be a small bonus despite the past 3 mos being unprofitable. Orders nosedived after 911.

[EdZep]

"You know that raise you said I couldn't have? I got it anyway. Wanna walk me to the gate and collect my badge?" LOL!

I was in an unfulfilling job situation. I was headed back to college, by way of a summer working in Alaska. In my resignation letter, I stated the facts, and ended with, "I'm going to Alaska to gut fish."

Socialists in Congress? Click on the zeppelin, Grasshopper.

[Gadsden1st]

Until the curds seperate from the whey.

[Senator Pardek]

From the Managers and from the people that do the work.

Shouldn't this be posted at DU?

[Jimmy Valentine]

I am in banking [commercial/real estate lender] My people don't care. It's all about quality production, yield and fees. If I make my bones, I am o.k. if I don't it doesn't matter how much time I spend there. I work for purely bottom line people.

Regards,

[codebreaker]

Self Employed-At least 15 hours a day..because I love it!

[sinkspur]

In sales, one works as long as it takes to make the numbers.

[strela]

Our "official" policy at my place of work is that we must remain at work, working, for 480 minutes a day (8 hours). We are alloted 60 minutes for lunch and two 15-minute breaks, which we may or may not take. Our "unofficial" attendance policy (and the one that gets enforced) is "Leave whenever you like, as long as you're 8 hours-worth-of-productive when you are here."

However, if I only work for 8 hours a day, I'm slacking off. Meetings sometimes run long, I "Secret Shop" from time to time to record product info about the competition on my own time, I sometimes do work-related strategy with co-workers here at home, and I log on to, check, and adjust the work server from home at times.

[Hemlock]

Eight to nine hours, depending on how busy I am. I will not stop a project after eight hours if I think I can finish it within the next half hour. I hate leaving things undone.

[muggs]

As a manager, on salary, I work as long as required. During a time of crisis, that could be 24-36 hours, with no sleep and only a few minutes to grab a bite to eat. Thankfully that doesn't happen often.

[Happygal]

I'm a salaried journalist. I get paid for a 39 hour week.

Some days I go in...and am unproductive because...``I write the news, I don't make it!!!'. And I leave early after pushing in maybe five hours.

Next day, story breaks....I work 24/7
Happy to do it, because it's my job (nay, vocation) and it's a buzz...and it's...well, it's what I do!

....and I'm damn good at it too :-)