Friday, 1st May, 2009

[JonPorobil]

It's the First of May! Yay!

Starting next week, I've volunteered for a $1.25/hr pay cut to work 9-6 again (I'd been on the 10-7 schedule). Not showing up till ten in the morning was nice, but working until 7:00 (and 8 on the six or seven days per month where an hour of overtime is required) was killing me.

Question of the Day: What hours do you work? Do you like them? What are their advantages and disadvantages?

[ujnhunter]

Rabbit.

QotD: Roughly 8:00-4:00 Mon. thru Fri. but it depends. Sometimes I come in at 8:30 so I work until 4:30 etc... Pretty flexible as long as I come in between 7:00-9:00 and work my 8 hours it's all good. I do work overtime as well, and I work most Saturdays whatever time I want to. Pretty good job.

[Henrietta]

QotD: I have the same deal as ujnhunter. No complaints here about the schedule, although the commute adds another 2 hours to my day.

[jimtyrrell]

Roll Call: I'm spending more time on the artwork for the new CD than on the music. But that's just 'cause I haven't had time to get the studio set up right yet. That's a project for Sunday.

QotD: 8-5 mon-fri. very short commute. been at the job since july of '01.

[jack]

i work 10-7 too, and i hear you about the pros and cons (great to sleep in, sucks getting home late). and like henrietta, i've got an hour commute each way. over highway 17. :O

i do it mostly to avoid the sili valley commuter traffic, but with so many job layoffs, i rarely hit bad traffic. but i like to take my time in the morning. i'm not a morning person.

[Paco Del Stinko]

I work 3PM 'til 11:30PM, Monday through Friday, although I'm crossing my fingers to stay weekdays only. I like the hours as far as not having to get up early, I have the house to myself to record in when I am up, many hours before work. I have about a 25-30 minute commute each way, and that's plenty, I feel for you hour guys with the hour long ones. Glad to be working, though.

[Henrietta]

I take the bus about 3 days a week, which isn't nearly as ire-raising or potty-mouth-inducing as driving in rush hour traffic. My bus-tainment right now is an audiobook of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal. Glenn Case's recent podcasts are on deck.

[signboy]

I work on call, and my hours vary. Greatly. There have only been a few 30 or so hour shifts since I started, and usually it's a pretty pimp job. For the last month, I've been getting paid salary to sleep in and work on music all day. It hasn't made me any better, but it sure beats working for money.

[HeuristicsInc]

My bus-tainment right now is an audiobook of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal.

Awesome, that was a good one. I'm a big fan of Pratchett.

My work hours are a little flexible, so I get in anytime 10-11 or so and work until I leave. I really should try to get in closer to 10, though.
-bill

[JonPorobil]

I'm supposed to be paid weekly (every Friday), but last week, they lost my check. Got a double payment in today. I think I'm going to go spend it on a nice digital piano. Fully-weighted keys, 88 of 'em, real-sounding. That would be nice. If there's extra voices (maybe a decent Rhodes imitation or organ voice), that would be nice too.

Within walking distance of my new apartment is a Guitar Center, and a few more blocks south is a nice locally-owned piano shop. I might check them out tomorrow.

...I'm kind of salivating just thinking about it.

[Eric Y.]

Generally speaking, I work from 7:30-4, with a half-hour pause somewhere around 2 (or earlier if I am too hungry to wait, but I try to make it as late in the day as possible so after lunch the day is nearly almost over). One day a week I leave at 3 to get to school, and to make up that hour I sometimes start at 7 or stay until 4:30 various days throughout the week. Also if we are really busy (i.e. end of the month) or there's a holiday (I haven't yet attained a status that comes with paid time off) I might start earlier and stay later some days.

Mostly I am satisfied with my hours -- these days the sun has actually come up by the time I get here, and is still up until after I get home. In the winter, I see maybe about 1/2 or 1 hour of sunlight in the afternoons (and much of that time is spent on the bus).

Any complaints I have don't directly relate to the hours I work so much as the distance I have to travel. I get up around 5, catch the bus at the end of my street at 5:50, arrive in downtown Pittsburgh about 7:10, walk through town and across the river to arrive at my building by 7:25. Coming home, I leave at 4, get to the bus stop and wait (it comes around 4:35), and typically I arrive at the next town up from ours around 6ish when my wife is getting off work, and she picks me up from there and we drive home the last 10 minutes.

I don't mind the walking so much, but Pittsburgh winters aren't so great, especially walking across the bridge from the city ("the golden triangle") to the north shore... I'm really looking forward to moving to our new offices directly in the heart of downtown (and less than five minutes from the bus stop where I get on/off now) on July 27. That will literally cut out about 1.5 miles of walking (total - .7something each way) each day.

If you've just finished reading all of that, I apologize. I have actually bored myself.

[Billy's Little Trip]

My hours are flexible. Like Jack, I'm not a morning person, so I schedule my appointments from noon on and do office stuff in my home in the morning. One thing I don't mind is working late. I hardly ever travel more than 20 miles from my house. But in the past 6 to 12 months I've had to take jobs further away to maintain the cash flow that I've come to be accustomed to. I'm in south Orange County, but I did a pool in Malibu for The Frank's (owner of the Lawry's restaurant chain) which is about a 45 minute drive each way. But it was HUGE money and I couldn't pass it up.

Kind of sad, Mrs Frank died in December just as we were finishing the project. I worked directly with her to do a bunch of really custom things that she was so excited about, like her outdoor fireplace and the fire ring by the pool are electric ignition so all she had to do is push a button in the house, a very custom outdoor bar/BBQ cooking area all built to her hight, etc. She never got to see any of it work.

[fluffy]

I get in by 10 AM and I work 40ish hours a week, where "work" is defined as "being in the office and maybe thinking about stuff and occasionally writing code."

[Albatross]

I get in by 10 AM and I work 40ish hours a week, where "work" is defined as "being in the office and maybe thinking about stuff and occasionally writing code."

Replace "40ish" with "32ish" and you have my job.

[Spud]

Lately, I have been writing code all day and night and no one has been paying me. Oh well.

SPUD

<edit> btw, I am not complaining.

[rone rivendale]

DRC: Toothaches are the worst sh*t ever.

QotD: Usually start at 8 or 9 and end at 4 or 5. I get around 37 hours a week. They give me as many hours as they can without having to pay me as a full time worker.

[Märk]

8 to 4:30, M-F. No weekends. Saaweet! Recently, i was given the key to the shop, and lockup responsibilities, and I have to wait for the field crew to get back, which is ~4:45, so I just work till 5 and charge 8.5 hours. At this point, I'm okay with this.

[Caravan Ray]

QotD: Usually start at 8 or 9 and end at 4 or 5. I get around 37 hours a week. They give me as many hours as they can without having to pay me as a full time worker.

We must have the same job Rone. Except that I do get paid as a full time worker and pretty much come and go as I please.

[Rabid Garfunkel]

I'm not a morning person either. My shift's 11am - 7:30pm, though lately there hasn't been enough work in the plant to keep me on a full 8 hours a day. Combine that with the 9% pay cut a couplafew months back, and this year's insane rise in Kaiser's health insurance rates (which doubled, joy of joys), and well, "Happy Camper" ain't in the vocabulary, job-wise.

Still, it's better than the previous shift I'd worked there at [REDACTED], 4pm - 12:30 am, which sorta put a crimp in the social life, heh. Got to be friends with a lot of bartenders and other workers of the night, though, so it wasn't a total loss .