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I voted "other" for the simple reason that there is no way I could have all work done and prepared for the next day putting in only 40 a week. At 50/week I can keep my head above water.
Anyone can get their work done in a reasonable amount of time. They just need to come up with a process to simplify everything so things can get done quicker.
Well said, House Stark...ready to become the King's Hand?
Usually I don't work more than 40. However, during month-end close week (I work in finance), some days I exceed 8 hours so I can close the books. I work 37.5 hours all the other weeks so it balances out.
50 hours a week is the easiest way for me to make six figures reliably. I'm not a lawyer so working on a salary makes me far more than hourly. If I did not make this much I would take an hourly rate. I might be able to swing that when my kids get a bit older.
Anyone can get their work done in a reasonable amount of time. They just need to come up with a process to simplify everything so things can get done quicker.
But if you want a promotion you need to take on more whenever you get near 35 hours a week. So you can eventually retire.
This poll is for exempt, salaried employees who choose to work significantly more than 40 hours per week as a lifestyle, but are not paid extra for those hours. Before you answer, let me explain who this poll is not intended for:
1. Not intended for people who are paid overtime for working more than 40 hours per week, since it is obvious that money is a motivator there. This poll is for people who are not paid for overtime.
2. This poll is not intended for people who generally work 40 hours per week, but occasionally work extra in order to meet an especially tight deadline, to deal with an emergency, or to cover for a coworker who is sick or on vacation. That is all generally expected of professional employees. This is intended for the people who, as a lifestyle, always work significantly more than 40 hours per week, regardless of workload. The people who consider their start time to be something earlier than what is in the company handbook; the people who consider their end time to be something later than what is in the company handbook; the people who consider Saturdays and/or Sundays to be working days; the people who choose to work on holidays listed as days off in the company handbook.
3. This poll is not intended for people who work about 45 or so hours per week. I'm thinking more of the people who work significantly more.
4. This poll is not intended for people who work long hours but for fewer than 12 months per year.
Anyway, I'm curious to see what options people choose here. I included "Other" since there may be other options that I haven't thought of yet. Be sure to post your thoughts here. Thanks!
I have no idea why I did it. I choose other. I was not appreciated or paid. I guess it is my work ethic. All they do is add more responsibilities to my duties. I am not learning what I need so I decided to stop. I have been running out at 5. I actually set my alarm to remind myself. I have been doing pretty well with it. People say things but I ignore them. Unfortunately, I had to stay yesterday to almost 7 because I was trained on yet something else. I could not get out of it. I will be leaving prompting at 5 today. Screw them.
Why? Because professional, salaried jobs aren't measured by hours. It's measured by production and getting the job done. 40 hours is a meaningless number to someone in this type of career/job.
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Not all exempt people have to work more than 40 hours. For me it would be rare. A manager with a good staff should not have to work long hours, and fortunately we are not one of those employers that takes advantage of exempt employees to get free work done. I did work over 40 some when I had a person gone on maternity leave while in the process of implementing a new system, but that was only for a few months 5 years ago. Since then I have for the most part been able to leave early to make up for staying late the day before for some meeting or urgent problem. As a manager, no one including my boss is watching me come and go, the work is getting done and I get great reviews. I do expect to have some extra hours in the near future with two openings to fill, considering the hiring and training process, but a few months every 5 years isn't bad.
Because they have piled on so many responsibilities and different job roles to our simple jobs. I would have never applied to this job to do the roles they have us doing now. E.g. I applied to sell "tea pots", not design tea pots, train tea pot salespeople, paint tea pots, teach people how to make tea, discover new methods to harvest tea leaves, and invent new tea flavors and drive trucks carrying tea to stores. Yet, they refuse to hire people who are trained to do these things.
We get graded on completion of our jobs and publicly ranked against each other every week. Simply ridiculous. If we don't complete according to arbitrary goals they have set, we get a crappy rating and/termination at the end of the year. Our sales are hard date driven also, so there is no room to not complete
Did I mention we are required to be on the road all day! So, when do you do all of these other things plus paperwork, expense reports, etc? According to our boss...on the weekend! So, during peak times this 37.5 hr a week job is 60+, 7 days a week.
Coming in to a salaried job with an hourly mindset will lead to disappointment.
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