What's Your Typical Workday like? (sample, highest, job, company)

[wisconsin woman]

This might be a little boring for some, but what is your typical day like? Do you spend a lot of time on your feet? Do you toss paper clips at each other from one cubicle to another? Maybe you work restraunt and taste test the customer's food before bring it out to them?
Im putting in a typical day at my job, the 2nd one pretty much relates to just about anyone who works for a company like the one Im with. But I like it there, we get to have our share of fun. Gonna film some more later this week, the good stuff!




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[brightdoglover]

Please remember that not all workers are cube inhabitors who work daytime, Monday through Friday.
My typical work"day" begins at 11:15p at night, and ends at 7:15a in the morning. Given the shiftwork (and I work in a psychiatric hospital), there is a lot of down time, if all is going well. People converse, read the Internet, read, study.
On the other hand, a bad night in psychiatric is a bad night INDEED.

[KevK]

I arrive at my office at 0800 and I sit down and pull automated failure and alarm reports for the 230 cell phone sites I am responsible for. The reports indicate the serverity of the failures and alarms and I prioritize my work according to the report. A site that is completely in failure or has a smoke alarm is the highest priority followed by lessor alarms such as RF reflection, high temperature, door open, T carrier errors and failure and other things. I then make up my route and submit it to my first level supervisor for his approval. It is then sent to the regional NOC work manager so he can cordinate my route with the other field techs so that we don't go to the same places. Both my supervisor or the NOC supervisor may alter my route and they do sometimes and then by 0815, it is transmitted back to me. I then go to the parts and cards (called plugs) storage room and get what I need for the day's work and scan them out and load them into my work van. By 0840, I am on the road en route to my highest priority trouble and, as the day progresses, I work down my route until I am finished. I then go into my center and do my paperwork and parts accounting (every part I use has to be logged to a site number and ticket number- such as if I replace a fan in the equipment at site 2041 it must be logged as such so that accouting can accurately keep track of the maintenance cost at each site and, if one site shows a high maintenace cost, they can look into why things are failing so such there. I then check out and go home. If I have standby duty that week, I will take my work van home for call outs.

[Sunnydee]

I get to work between 7:15 and 7:45 and prepare for the day. Lots of times there are meetings scheduled during this time. At 8:15 the students start to come in. Most of them want to chat a little bit or get a hug (they're in third grade) while they turn in their homework and then they begin their morning work. At 8:30 we listen to the announcements, take attendance and the lunch count, check reading sheets and assignment sheets, and do the pledge. I then start teaching and teach until 12:30. I walk my students to lunch and then go use the bathroom, wash my hands, and get my lunch. My students return at 1:10 - 1:15 and we do ten minute math. At 1:25 they go to specials: art, music, p.e., or media center until 2:10. (While they are at special I grade papers, run copies, answer emails and phone calls, fill out forms and reports, and do whatever I need to do. There's always more work than I can accomplish at this time.) I teach from 2:10 until 3:10 and then walk the students to the bus. I clean up the room, grade papers, make phone calls, organize my papers to take home, answer emails, etc. and typically get home between 4:00 and 5:00. If there are meetings scheduled after school I get home between 5:00 and 6:00. I make supper, eat with my family, and then do my homework. My homework typically takes from one to three hours. If I have to type up a test, studyguide, or worksheet it can take longer.

[pushkinswife]

I get to work when I feel like it but no later than 8am. I am salary. I get there (after swiping my ID like 10 times) and check my email and make sure I don't have a meeting that I am late too LOL. If I am not working on anything from the previous day I go over to the "sample bin" and pick up a sample. It could be a sunscreen, some sinus/allergy tabs, powder, nose spray, etc. We have a list that tells us what is coming over but I never look at it. I pick up my sample, print the "recipe" (we call them testing standards) and the madness begins. Normally one sample has at least 2 different assays (tests) but I do one a day. I usually get the samples that have 4 or even 5 different tests. Sometimes a sample is hot-which you will never know in advance. Normally my fabulous mgrs know the day of and they are running around the lab trying to see if the sample has been tested or not-clueless. Normally it has been or is almost done. And lawd forbid me or the whole lab take off because the managers there don't know an HPLC from a balance. I normally prep my solutions and such on my feet. When I am almost done I equlibrate my baby (my HPLC normally, sometimes I have to use a UV-Vis or AA) and get her ready to analyze my sample(s). I normally sit down only when I am doing calculations and inputing results. If there is a drought (no smples) I try to make sure the laboratory is hazard free and neat and all expired stuff is dumped per OSHA/EPA standards. If thats all done I read some of the various Chemistry journals at my disposal to keep me up to speed on whats going on in the industry. Lately I have been quite busy as its sunny and people are using tons of sunscreen. And I will be training 4 people on a method this week (including my supervisor-imagine tha). I leave at 4 30pm if I get to work at 8am.

[ComputerUser000]

Originally Posted by Livewire

This might be a little boring for some, but what is your typical day like? Do you spend a lot of time on your feet? Do you toss paper clips at each other from one cubicle to another? Maybe you work restraunt and taste test the customer's food before bring it out to them?
Im putting in a typical day at my job, the 2nd one pretty much relates to just about anyone who works for a company like the one Im with. But I like it there, we get to have our share of fun. Gonna film some more later this week, the good stuff!

Well, at my new job.. my daily schedule will be something like this...

Ok, so this is really detailed, but this is about what I'll be doing and when I'll be doing it!

8:15am Get up
8:20am Take shower
8:40am Make Breakfast
8:45am Eat Breakfast while checking emails, reading online news sites, doing some show prep.
9:45am Get dressed
9:50am Walk dog
10:10am Bring dog home, make lunch, grab my notebook and head out the door
10:20am Leisurely walk to work
10:30am Arrive at work
10:35am Ask the boss what Commercials need to be recorded today
10:40am Record client commercials and station promos
11:45am Do some last minute show prep
11:58am Walk into the studio
12:00pm Go on the air
6:00pm Get off the air, walk out of the studio
6:05pm Check on the days events, see what went on, check and see if any town council or school board meetings need to be covered
6:15pm Do a tiny bit more commercial production and show prep for tomorrow
6:45pm Hea dout and walk home
7:00pm Arrive at home after stopping to get a soda
7:05pm Put the mail on the desk in my living
7:06pm Play with my Beagle dog for a few
7:10pm Feed the dog and give him water
7:15pm Head out to walk the dog
8:00pm Come back after walking the dog tp the park, aorund it a few times and back home
8:05pm Cook dinner
8:20pm Eat dinner while reading emails, Chatting, surfing the web and watching TV
12:30am Get ready to go to bed

Ok, so you asked.. and I answered

[cottonwood2420]

Originally Posted by Sunnydee

I get to work between 7:15 and 7:45 and prepare for the day. Lots of times there are meetings scheduled during this time. At 8:15 the students start to come in. Most of them want to chat a little bit or get a hug (they're in third grade) while they turn in their homework and then they begin their morning work. At 8:30 we listen to the announcements, take attendance and the lunch count, check reading sheets and assignment sheets, and do the pledge. I then start teaching and teach until 12:30. I walk my students to lunch and then go use the bathroom, wash my hands, and get my lunch. My students return at 1:10 - 1:15 and we do ten minute math. At 1:25 they go to specials: art, music, p.e., or media center until 2:10. (While they are at special I grade papers, run copies, answer emails and phone calls, fill out forms and reports, and do whatever I need to do. There's always more work than I can accomplish at this time.) I teach from 2:10 until 3:10 and then walk the students to the bus. I clean up the room, grade papers, make phone calls, organize my papers to take home, answer emails, etc. and typically get home between 4:00 and 5:00. If there are meetings scheduled after school I get home between 5:00 and 6:00. I make supper, eat with my family, and then do my homework. My homework typically takes from one to three hours. If I have to type up a test, studyguide, or worksheet it can take longer.

Wow, what a day!

[wisconsin woman]

Lol what a day indeed! My job too, isnt one of those 9-5 office jobs. We work in shifts and schedules change every week. We either work the 6-3pm or the 3-midnight shifts, but those days vary, its not the same schedule every week. Makes it hard to plan anything solid when you dont know from one week to the next what hours you're gonna be pulling. But we try to make the best of those hours, lol.

[missyM]

Originally Posted by brightdoglover

Please remember that not all workers are cube inhabitors who work daytime, Monday through Friday.
My typical work"day" begins at 11:15p at night, and ends at 7:15a in the morning. Given the shiftwork (and I work in a psychiatric hospital), there is a lot of down time, if all is going well. People converse, read the Internet, read, study.
On the other hand, a bad night in psychiatric is a bad night INDEED.

HAH, you too??!!
I don't work in a psych hospital, but I do work in long term care with a dementia unit. NOCs also. It's amazing how one pt with behaviors can really mess all your other work up. OTOH, the other units I work on a lot of times seem to have more behaviors than dementia.

[B.H81]

I get to work. We have a morning meeting to put out any new information. Then the Higher ups have another meeting each Monday. Then we start working. We usually have tasking that comes down from somebody which usually invloves setting up systems in a certain way. I check our LAN to see if anything happend overnight, Check for new updates. I may make accounts if new people have arrived. Check for failed devices. Log on to this site. I always got a few side projects and I spend a hour on each a day. Then the afternoon I'm studying for school. Then I go home or to school depending on the day of the week.