i've been working for almost 2 years to get my company to allow flexible hours and a month or so ago i finally got our cto to okay a 9x80 schedule where you work 9 9 hour days per pay period. huge win, arguably the only thing i've done in 6 years as a middle manager... definitely the only thing that matters. the cto decided that whatever an individual's plan is that it has to be okayed by their team.... now i wish i could explain to you guys how difficult it has been for me to convince people to work 26 fewer days per year without it cutting into their eto. you would think people would jump at the idea but i've been met with obscene amount of bullshit. most objections are from people saying that they wouldn't know what to do. you get a month back from your year and you don't know what to do. can you imagine.
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Maybe a hot take but 9x9 isn’t some crazy benefit over 8x10. You’re working the same number of hours and while you get a day off, some may not want to sacrifice an hour of the other 9 days (especially those with childcare commitments). That being said, I’d take the 9x9 and try not to work the extra hour in hope that no one really notices.
I honestly don’t know how I could do a schedule like that. I totally get how awesome it would be but from a mentality standpoint I don’t think I could do it. We always have work to do and are service oriented. Just not working a weekday feels weird. I’ve worked no less then an average of 53 hours a week over the last 10 years.
bro i have gotten this response so much. "i already work 9 hours a day" SO LOG YOUR TIME CORRECTLY AND GO BE WITH YOUR FAMILY YOU FREAK
I agree- especially at those jobs that are time sticklers. Add in a one hour lunch. Working 8-6 sounds miserable. Normalize five hours a day, four days a week.
I’d also only agree to a 4x10 or 9x9 arrangement if I was working from home full-time (which I wouldn’t want anyway), since it’s a lot easier to be online and do other things at home for the extra hour(s) than it is to sneak out of an office early when other people know you’re supposed to be working.
Same - I'd lose my mind doing less than 70/week. But I used to be a psycho working 95-100 hour weeks so it honestly feels like a relaxed schedule to some degree comparatively.
2018 and 2019 I was 65 hours a week avg. Then covid it and I cut back some and have rolled that knot this year. 2020 and 2021 are like 53 hour weeks avg. I still get 1.5x OT so it never feels like I’m working for free.
I work no more than 40 hours a week. If I need to work extra any day I take comp time. I did the work all the time thing until my early 40s. Never again. Now I work to live. I don’t live to work.
exactly I’m not giving up time for my family for my work, they get 40 a week and that’s it………my kid and wife are way cooler then sitting on my laptop doing some bullshit
I've always worked 4 10's, with occasional extra time during outages. It would be tough to adjust to not having Friday's off.
Only time I’ve had 9-80’s were ruined because of Asshat. Asshat always left at 3:30 everyday to beat traffic because he claimed he came in at 6am (he did not). So when it got switched to 9-80’s he just continued to leave at 3:30 everyday and just say he’d been there since 4 or 5am (he had not). They pulled his and another’s guys badge ins and got rid of 9-80’s because they were just lying about working 80 hours.
Boss told me he's 50/50 on the earth being flat and that the push to call the earth round was intended to disprove the Bible. Apparently Antarctica is an ice wall and the reason scientists are allowed there is to keep the secret. This was a 15 minute conversation. I just sat there dumbfounded for awhile.
So is the earth flat with one continuous edge that is Antarctica or is it a rectangle with 4 separate edges?
Work fridge drama is the best. One of my coworkers once head-butted another over a stolen energy drink
Because if they fired her she would tie them up in wrongful termination lawsuit. I imagine the partners don’t think the juice is worth the squeeze at this point
From what he said, it's a circle and the ice wall is the border around it. Or some shit. He also showed me some interview with an admiral from the 50's that he was saying proved it. I sat there and watched it. The guy said Antarctica has a lot of strategic value due to oil. Literally nothing else. One of the weirder conversations I've been involved in.
I watched this video the other day that briefly went over where modern flat earthers originated. Not sure how factual it is but it was interesting.
There’s no way I wouldn’t encourage someone who believed this. I’d fully act like I was on board just to hear their rants.
How do seasons work on a flat earth? If Antarctica is a wall around a flat circle, I assume the belief is it is always cold, so then how does the temperature change inside the walls, and be so drastic between continents?
I had a coworker that had enough of his lunch getting stolen out of the fridge and yelled that he was going to start putting rat poison in his food.
My wife left her job about 3 months ago to take a better paying job and working for someone she knew from college. She largely left because the place has NO strategic plan; the board operates entirely by the seat of their pants so something you’ve spent 2 months working on is thrown in the bin and you have to start over. They’re also pretty inflexible about working from home during the pandemic (only doing it when the govt made them) and her boss’s boss’s boss was pretty misogynistic. She’s much happier at her new job. She was chatting to one of her friends from her old job and apparently three other women have left since she did, all because of the same manager being a dick (asking a woman with 20 years experience to go make coffee for the sales team for example) and now they’re advertising the jobs as “flexible working hours/WFH” on LinkedIn with no intention on following thru on it; it’s basically a bait and switch.