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I am usually in the office 9-6 M-F. I have a blackberry and I can remote in to my work laptop from home.
When I'm out sick, I usually just work from home rather than be fully out. I respond to e-mails from home, on weekends, and on vacation (if I get service).
I just never want to be the bottle neck that would hold something up.
Also, I will often stay at work late (until 7/7:30) if I have a project to finish.
I work from 8 - 4:30 and forget about it when I get home. Sometimes I even forget about it when I'm at work....
I'm always early for work though!
Normally I just work my 8 hours and go home. But I work for the Canadian Red Cross and times of disaster, hours can be long, and we might be asked to work on the weekend. We are anticipating this for the Japan earthquake. I also volunteer with our Disaster Management team, so those things can be after hours if called out.
I actually only work 30 hrs a week technically. But I do monitor my work email on nights, weekends, and rarely ever take time off. I also deal with calls from board members on my off hours quite a bit. I stay late every day and usually come in a bit early.
I am at work from 6:30-3. I'm only a unit secretary at a psychiatric setting, so I don't have to be dedicated in the sense that my work comes home to me. I'm always early. I would stay longer if it was allowed, but they're strict about that. I work every other weekend. I would prefer to work every weekend though for several reasons. It's so much more calm. Hah.
I’m as dedicated as I need to be, lol. I have a work laptop and I get work email on my iPhone but I rarely do much outside of the normal M-F 8-4:30. On occasion I’ll answer some emails on my phone during the weekend or on vacations but I almost never open my work laptop if I’m not actually working from home (it takes like 20 minutes to get onto the network).
I definitely could be more dedicated but I do more work than most of the head honchos and I get paid peanuts compared to them. Pay me what I’m worth and I’ll be happy to care more.
I definitely could be more dedicated but I do more work than most of the head honchos and I get paid peanuts compared to them. Pay me what I’m worth and I’ll be happy to care more.
I could not have said it better. I am in the same situation! One of the head guys (who is on month - 2 month vacations throughout the year) yea, he got a $50,000.00 dollar BONUS. PFT.
i work from home full time so i have to seperate work and home. so i am deciated for 40 hrs a week and it has to be something important for me to work on the weekends....tho i am getting laid off this year (they are laying off our remote employees) i am using up all of my PTO time since we cant cash that out, so i am taking off more than usual.
I work 8-4 Mon to Thurs and 7-3 Fridays. However my job requires me to be on call over evenings and weekends about every 5-6 weeks so those times I can/sometimes do work all hours of the day. I do sometimes check my email from home by my own choice, and occasionally have to work weekends besides my on call when there are special installations/projects going on.
I try not to think about it too much at home but sometimes I am known to worry if something big is going on. On a normal day I don't think about it too much after hours.
I am "on" 24/7 for work.
I do love it though, on paper it's 8:30-4:30, but I bring it home with me, and between events, student contact and travel, I am working all the time! I have a blackberry and laptop with me pretty much at all times.
I am taking a month off this summer, we'll see how that goes!
I voted for two: "work when I'm sick" and "have laptop so I'm always working".
I work Tuesday-Saturday 11a-8p (sometimes much later if there's a party). I operate my own store - I'm the CEO, the secretary, the janitor, the security, the accounting, purchasing, customer service, store operations, IT, marketing departments. I'll hire a second person for summer and holiday, but this is usually a one-woman show. I can tap into other locations' staff if I'm super sick, but for the most part it's all me, baby. And I freaking love it :)
Before this I was a corporate retail rat working 12 hour days and stressing about it for all of my waking hours. Vacations were spent on laptops, responding to emails and putting out fires. I had several levels of management breathing down my neck, hours of mind-numbing meetings. The pay was great but everything else sucked.
@.twist.: We have about a dozen directors who EACH get a $50,000 bonus every year. Don’t even get me started on the exec’s and their bonuses (um, hello $400,000)! It’s really sad that we had to close almost 100 of our retail stores which in turn cost over 1000 people their jobs yet we’re handing out bonuses like candy.
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I can relate to the bonuses, ladies. In my company our CEO made $3million a year and got a bonus of $1.2 million even though our comps were in the toilet, we laid off 20% of the staff, and our product sucked. It was depressing beyond belief.
I'm a teacher....my job never stops. I'm always correcting and lesson planning at home, and right now we're doing report cards, so I will be working all weekend. No time off for me!
Even when I don't have anything to do per say (which rarely ever happens), I'm always thinking of my students and activities we can do the next day or the next week. I've even dreamed about school.
I've been told this is normal...that teaching really does take up a good chunk of your life. Especially the first year. That's why it's good that we have our summers off! We need them to stay emotionally stable! :)
@KatNYC2011: I have pretty much the same work schedule.
I'm super dedicated and competent in my career, but unfortunately that doesn't get someone ahead. Networking and connections do. I feel like I'm always working my ass off only to get overlooked for a promotion or raise. I haven't stayed at a job longer than about 2 years in the last 5 because of that (have to move jobs to actually move up the ladder). I've passed the 2 year mark at my current job and am chomping at the bit to get a raise or promotion one way or the other.
@UpstateCait: Totally agree.
@UpstateCait: That place sounds like where I used to work, before I got layed off after a "merger/buy-out" of two national chains. I worked my butt off there, often to 10pm at night. Never ever again.
The job i have currently I work 8hours a day, and forget about most of my work for 4hours of that time. I could see putting in the long hours from now on only if it's my small business ... which could happen in the next few years!!
@bellagio: I hear you there. It is SO frustrating. I've been at my current company about 3 years and just made an internal transfer less than 1 year ago.
I am very good at what I do, and have shown loyalty to the company (by transferring internally rather than finding a new job at a new company), yet I am vastly underpaid because of my internal transfer.
Oh well, I will continue to work very hard because I want to succeed both to help the company and for my own personal sense of accomplishment.
It's not unusual for me to work 12 hour days. That said, I don't work from home at night and I don't work on the weekends.
Im not that dedicated. I come in at the same time and leave at the same time every day but so do all the other employees here. But as soon as I get home I forget about my work. We are not supposed to work outside of our working hours. I only work from home on the days I am supposed to - not just randomly.
I go in when I'm supposed to. And sometimes if we have special events I'll work extra hours. However, when I'm home I'm home. I try not to think about work unless I'm actually there. Social Workers have a high burnout rate, and I'm not trying to burnout anytime soon. I love my job though :)
It's taking over my life...I get in around 8:15, and leave around 7, later sometimes. I love what I do. Maybe I should dedicate more time to wedding planning..
@Mrs.H2B: totally with you! I'm in at 7am and usually leave between 5 and 6, then take home more stuff to do. Oh and did I mention going in during vacations, teaching after school, and summer school?
Those teachers, they have it so easy!
I just work 8-5 and nothing more. We're not allowed to come in any earlier or stay later unless we're on a special schedule. But even if we could do it I wouldn't. I dislike my job and there's no way I'm giving any extra time. Now if I had a position in which advancement was possible, I would definitely put forth extra effort. We don't even get pay raises at my shit job so why the hell would I want to put in anything more than average effort?
Well, I am a working artist so I am always working. Always. I keep a sketchbook and a loaded camera with me all the time. It isn't something I can shut off.
I don't work in an office so I don't have typical 9-5 hours or anything that is generally set. But I am pretty dedicated to my job. I'm really working to get promoted and I've been trying to work on some stuff when I get home. And when I'm there I work my ASS off!
I work 10-7, minus the Weddingbee time I put in from the office :) I have a laptop but I never touch it outside of the days I am officially working from home.
I am an 8-5'er and dont worry about it when i am home. I have a BB and have remote access but I dont use it unless my on call week. I read and respond to email about half of my commute (public transportation) which equals up to two hours a day. So techincally I am doing work 730-530. I used to have a job where I was ALWAYS working! After almost 2 years of that I could not take it anymore. i work to live not live to work.
8-5 for me! I work for a company that helps people get disability benefits through SSA. Everything I work with is very private information (SSNs, medical info), so they are VERY strict about when and where you work. I can't even search the bee at work since it's a message board site!
I work with brides - I am ALWAYS working. A few years ago I got totally burned out just giving too much... now I work my 40 actual hours, email/research at home in the evening and stay as long and late or as early as I need to when there are events happening.
But an important lesson learned the hard way is to have at least one totally work free day off each week to recharge the batteries :)
Im connected by blackberry, with email. I work as a personal assistant, so sometimes I am booking things on the weekend. But my boss is very good he doesnt bother me unless its urgent on the weekend and if he does cc me in on an email, he knows that I wont deal with it till Monday, so thats a good thing.
I get there at 8 and I dont leave till about 6 even tho my hours are 8.30-5pm and I hardly if ever have a lunch break, if I do its at my desk. But my job is flexi, as in Im not glued to my desk and I can get a coffee from down the road if I want too as long as my boss doesnt need me.
I like it, but I need another pay rise.
I'm a 9ish-6 worker. We're on a 9.80 schedule (9 hours 4 days a week, 8 hr friday and every other friday off) which is great. I can't really take my work home with me so once I leave, that's it! I dont' mind staying late if necessary or the occassional weekend, but I do get paid OT even though I'm salaried, otherwise I'd be pretty annoyed working extra hours,.
I got in at 4:30 p.m. and leave at 1. Then I forget about work. While there, I'm as dedicated as I feel I should be for what they pay ... which is crap. 2.5 years without a raise. Not cool. I'm making less than when I started because we had cuts in hours. I'm looking to get out ASAP.
@helly: I have similar hours, plus weekends. My worst shifts are when I'm on and I get off the NEXT day. I hate it. Sometimes I wish I could do something else... :(
Not working after your contract time? Sick days? What?? I'm with the fellow teacher bees! I work all the time. I go in early, leave late, and go in on most weekends and holidays. Thank goodness I really love what I do!
I'm a teacher and work from home too. The only time I don't work is for the first 6 weeks of summer vacation and most of the Christmas break.
I am not allowed to take my work home or work from home so I forget about it when I'm not there. Its paper pushing sort of work so is easy to forget :P
Sometimes I do work overtime but I get paid for it.
eh, i go into work on time and leave on time. I never go in early or stay late. I get paid next to nothing so I really have no reason to stay longer than normal. I forget about work when I leave. I'm not that passionate about my job but I do like it if that makes sense
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How dedicated are you to your job? Do you have a work blackberry or laptop you bring home so you can work on weekends? Do you actually call out when you're sick and/or do you respond to email while on vacation?
I am curious because I feel like I might be unusually dedicated to my job. But then again it might be the norm, just curious what is 'normal'.