How many hours do you work, at work?
Posted by rookburger@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 185 comments
I’m a teacher at a small alternative school. My hours are 7:30-3:00. I teach four 45 minute classes, so I actually work about three hours each day. I have a 45 minute lunch and a few planning periods.
Crystalraf@reddit
Sounds about right.
VecchioDiM3rd1955@reddit
If you exclude phone calls, Teams meetings, compiling various forms on different programs online, making powerpoint presentation and ecel files, answering mails and IM, I think I work half an hour a day if I'm lucky.
PleasantAnimator7741@reddit
I spent 20 years active duty doing the whole “Salute the flag and physical training at 0630, and salute the flag at 1700 the go back in to knock out a few more tasks before going home.” When I was young in Infantry units before 9-11, we would spend a month in the field and then a month in garrison. Garrison days 10-12 hours, field days 14-18, some times up for a few days straight. The Army would be nice enough to throw you a 3 or 4 day weekend to help make up for it. During deployments I would put in 14-16 hour days, but you are always on call. Would work a “normal” day shift and the come back in when the task force guys would roll out to do their thing at 1-3 am. Now I Am a DoD civilian. I arrive to leave the office within 15-20 minutes of my scheduled time and do 8 hour days. If I stay late or work weekends I get comp time. It has been a strange adjustment.
OldHead1776@reddit
For the first time in my life, I work a normal 40 hour work week. I've been an engineer going way back, and I've always had 50 to 80 hour weeks at times, and some worse. My current company is 100% "go home, we'll work on it more tomorrow." It's been a huge life changer for me. I even started going in at 6am, just to get off early enough in the day that it's like I get a whole day to myself. I work hybrid, two days a week in office.
HiOscillation@reddit
Varied WILDLY. Sometimes 10 to 12 hours a week. Sometimes 80 to 100.
I worked for 45 days straight, 12 hours a day, in 2019, for reasons that made sense at the time.
Admirable-Currency89@reddit
Two times in the halcyon days of the early 2000s, I worked 105 hours a week for 7 weeks straight...because you know, it had to be done.
HiOscillation@reddit
Yes, sometimes that's how it is.
After my 2019 45-day insanity, I worked from home about 2 hours a day for a month. It all evens out.
ejabean@reddit
Depends on what you mean by 'work'. My job is a split role. I am a supervisor, and a system admin and a front line tech, in no particular order.
Some days work is on a ladder pulling cable, mounting hardware, or troubleshooting issues. Some days im doing paperwork and answering calls, and some days im mentoring junior staff.
I put in between 40-70 hrs a week on my timesheet, but some days look more 'work-y' than other.
ClarkKent0072@reddit
12hrs a day, 6 days a week @ 32/hr. But in reality it's 8hr/day after taxes. Lol
Physical_Ad5135@reddit
Accountant. Ranges from 45 hours a week to 70 hours a week.
TeacherLady3@reddit
Dang, I'm a teacher and it's a non stop onslaught from 7:00-2:45. Then on Sundays about 4 hours of work.
EducationalRule1425@reddit
Same. I was working about 12 hours a day at school! Finally retired and tutor online from home now! I work T-W-Th, 4 hours a day! 😁
TeacherLady3@reddit
I'm retiring soon and will do nothing that involves children
acciocalm@reddit
After many 60-80 hour weeks before I had kids, I’ve moved into a new role, consulting in the public sector, which doesn’t pay amazingly but the benefits are great including very flexible timing. I travel for work monthly and that’s 100% “on” but when I’m not traveling I can more or less make my schedule. So maybe 6 hours a day of true, extremely focused work.
TexCOman@reddit
I am remote so I guess zero hours “at work”
enginerdsean@reddit
57 here. Engineering consultant for 33+ years. First 5 or so years was 45 hours per week, next 10 years was probably 50-ish on average, next 15 years probably close to 60 hours average as I managed major projects and became a VP. Last 3 years I am just exhausted and while I am “working” probably 10 hours average days I am only productive to probably a true 40 hours average week. Ambition is gone and I am exhausted. Makes it even harder as the weeks tick off to retirement in 46 weeks!!!!
Ok-Temporary@reddit
Ditto (different field tho) - except in my 20s I actually worked 80-120 hours a week. I was laid off at 56-ish and decided to take a (perhaps permanent) break. The relief I have felt from the constant cortisol and stress can not be adequately explained. Enjoy your retirement!
Old-Chocolate-5830@reddit
Every job I've had since I was 18 have been 10 hours a day, 5,6 or 7 days a week for 38 years before I retire at 56 from my last job I had for 22 years. I'm 61 now and a few companies I've worked with or around before still call and ask if I'd be interested in filling in on occasion when someone is out.
FAx32@reddit
Physician, first patient is scheduled at 7AM, last at 4:30 PM. No scheduled breaks except lunch 11:30-12:30 which is when I answer calls and chart while eating. Usually get out of the office at 6PMish. Today was a particularly bad day and I didn't leave until 7:30PM (and still wasn't done, but I am going in early tomorrow to get some things done before my first patient). So usually somewhere between 10 (on the best day) and 12 hours.
When I cover the hospital it is often 12-18 hours then on call all night getting woken up and sometimes having to go in for emergency procedures (about 25% of the time) and that goes on for 3 or 4 days in a row (depending on if covering F-Su or M-Th).
JEG1980s@reddit
I WFH as a project manager for a large engineering firm. Usually log on between 8-9 and work until 5:30-6 on a normal day. If I get a chance, I’ll run upstairs and grab something to eat at my desk for lunch. Then I’ll usually check my mail in the evening. If it’s a busy week, I’ll log back in in the evening to try and catch up.
demona2002@reddit
After 25 years of 50-60 hour work weeks I am quiet quitting and putting in about 25-30 hrs a week. Doing Rest & Vest until they lay me off.
purplishfluffyclouds@reddit
Substitute teacher here. Anywhere from 0-7 hours a day. Lots of half days. Tomorrow is a 2 hour shift for which I’ll get paid for a half day. No prep, no lesson plans, no parents or meetings, no grading papers. Can pretty much choose when I want to work or not. I will, however be in school FT (AGAIN) I’m a couple months, and I am also a notary as a side gig.
H-is-for-Hopeless@reddit
Teacher here. 10 classes a day of 30 minutes each. 2 planning periods of 30 minutes and a 30 minute lunch. Add in some sidewalk supervision at bus drop off and some meetings and I'm booked solid from 8:30-4:00. There's very little down time. In the summer I drive a CDL delivery truck with longer hours and less down time.
AldruhnHobo@reddit
My hours are supposed to be 7:00 am to 3:30 pm M-F, but I work as a machinist/fabricator so many times my hours are fluid. Depends on the job and time constraints. I have worked many, many doubles and a lot of Saturdays and Sundays.
Admirable-Currency89@reddit
Clock wise...I'm available about 10 hours a day, a little on the weekend. I'm WFH, so will do a thing or two and not be focused on the job.
HighSeasArchivist@reddit
I put in a solid 30mins of actual work everyday, but I'm on call 365. In my line of work uptime is everything, so it's normal to not have much to do daily, but when the shit hits the fan that's what I'm payed for.
MountainTomato9292@reddit
I’m a college professor who teaches 1 class a week and coordinates practicums, and I moonlight a 12hr shift every 2 weeks. In a given week aside from my 12hr shift and 2hr class, I do, maybe, 5 hours of actual work? And today I did 2 hours of that from a restaurant with a beer. Obviously I did not have to be in front of students/patients today. But to be honest, my most productive non-contact work is done from a busy restaurant. I think it’s my ADD, I need constant indirect input. No one actually speaking to me, just external noise. I wrote my whole final today, in about an hour.
dcamnc4143@reddit
Depends on the day. Some days it's literally all day long. Some days it's a couple hours. I have to be here for 12 hours, so so I'm still not doing what I want during that 12 hours, even if I'm not physically working. That's draining, watching the clock with nothing to do.
PerpetualRestart@reddit
I work from home and have automated my job. I'm down to 3 hours a month.
shuanm@reddit
9 every week day. I'll never work a weekend again. It's known that if I get scheduled for a weekend, that's my notice, and I'll be sick that day.
tequilavip@reddit
Here are my hours for each workday.
Full_Mission7183@reddit
This makes me sick, and is in no way typical of a public school teacher. My wife, who works, and those she respect are doing 55-60 hours a week during the school year. It doesn't stop. Weekends, I am alone because it is report cards, Sunday evening, figuring out intern placements.
Maybe you should take some pride and responsibility in teaching and actually put in an honest effort, it is only children that are losing.
middlingachiever@reddit
It makes you sick that a teacher actually gets adequate paid prep time?
No public school teachers should be working unpaid hours.
I’m a public school teacher. I work my contact hours.
chopper5150@reddit
Your wife probably teaches 6 classes a day and that's all the time she has at school. OP teaches four 45 minute classes and has multiple planning periods, where they probably do the stuff your wife does at home. Way to jump to conclusions and tell people they don't give a shit about their job though.
spintool1995@reddit
It also depends a lot on what level she's teaching. I high school English teacher has a lot of essays to read and correct. A 1st grade teacher has little to no homework to grade and when she does, it's 2+2 and spell "cat". Both have lesson planning to do, but once you've done it for a few years, you can recycle most of last year's lesson plans.
chopper5150@reddit
Definitely, my mom taught elementary and my brother teaches High School and he definitely spends a lot of time doing work at home.
rookburger@reddit (OP)
That was my experience for a long time. Meetings. Coaching. Staying late tutoring, and take kids home when their parents don’t show up to dances. After 25 years in education, I decided to seek out a slower pace at a smaller, specialized school with kids who have been expelled from their school division.
chrispd01@reddit
Note that OP is at an “alternative” school. Probably some charter or private BS ….
oogabooga1967@reddit
I get to school around 7:45 and generally leave around 4:30-4:45. I get a half-hour for lunch. I also spend at least 3-4 hours in my room on either Saturday or Sunday. So, about 46-47 hours a week.
used2B3chordguitar@reddit
Typical 40 hours per week remotely of which I actually work about 20 of them. I get a lot of shit done around the house during the week.
GoinMinoan@reddit
you need to include your class prep and room prep into your work days.
rudolf_the_red@reddit
12 hours a shift. seven day shifts a month. seven night shifts a month. 14 days off every 28 days.
SorryHunTryAgain@reddit
So much. I am on call from 6am-10pm every day, so I could work any time. I am in person from 7:30-3:30 with no breaks. But I have lots of holidays and vacation time.
TheJokersChild@reddit
I'm scheduled for a solid 40. Although as a supervisor, it varies depending on what I need to do by day. Yesterday and today were kind of worky, and I'd say 4-6: big event yesterday...today, did Windows updates on a crapful of PCs, did schedules, wrote some stuff, and helped take care of a thing, which of course waited until the end of the shift to happen.
Tomorrow is Friday for this week, so with it being Earth Day, maybe I can be all environmental and conserve some energy.
DeadManAle@reddit
46 usually 4 tens and a 1/2 day
First_Culture8249@reddit
So many. I would say minimum of 7 and 1/2 hours a day, and I generally work 9 hours a day
rosesforthemonsters@reddit
I'm on the clock for seven hours.
I'm about halfway through my shift right now and have done actual work for about 15 minutes.
DustyBottomsRidesOn@reddit
How do you feel about that?
rosesforthemonsters@reddit
Today? Bored out of my mind.
DustyBottomsRidesOn@reddit
Was more meaning having a job that pays you to be bored. Not judging, just curious.
rosesforthemonsters@reddit
Most of the time, I don't mind being paid to do nothing.
Slow days like today make me crazy, though, because the time drags.
thonda27@reddit
40-42
DanaMarie75038@reddit
6-8 mostly, 7 hrs of actual work. Physical therapist in a hospital. Patients needs help to heal
Specialist_Stop8572@reddit
I work like 19 hrs a week, and actually working the whole time!
GnomieOk4136@reddit
I am a special ed teacher. Am I ever not working?
Old_Goat_Ninja@reddit
My shift is 8 hours. Of those 8 I work 6-7 of those. First 4 hours are full tilt boogie the entire 4 (I work in the surgery department). After lunch another 2 hours, sometimes more. I usually get to sit and do nothing for 1-2 hours.
moneyman74@reddit
Just depends, some days the full 8 hours other days not much comes my way
jaxbravesfan@reddit
My shift is 9 hours per day, including an hour lunch break, M-F. My position doesn’t have a lot of downtime during those 8 working hours, which is great. Maybe 30 minutes total per week. So I am actually working at least 39.5 hours out of the 40 each week.
Pristine-Ad-8002@reddit
At my 15 hour a week job I probably do 6 hours of actual work and at my other 20 hour a week job it varies from a lot of down time to busy most of the time.
DjQuamme@reddit
Most days, somewhere between 20 & 40 minutes of actual work. On a horrible bad, no good day it might be 90 minutes or so. The rest of the 8 hours is spent watching you tube, playing on my steam deck, or doom scrolling Reddit.
funsk8mom@reddit
I’m a pre k teacher, don’t get a lunch break. I work 7-3 and when the kids go for rest I’m still working either on lesson plans or doing work for my other job.
VirginiaRNshark@reddit
Monday - Friday, 6:30 AM - 3:00 PM nonstop (I usually walk 10,000 steps at work). My only break (to include bathroom breaks) during my 30 minute lunch which happens somewhere between 1:30-2:00. Be kind to your nurses, my friends!
chrispd01@reddit
Isn’t it better to be super-demanding and rude as fuck to them so that they will for sure treat you nicely and well?
That’s what most people seem to think from what I’ve been able to observe…..
VirginiaRNshark@reddit
Well, that behavior definitely has been normalized over the past several years. And yes, we will continue to execute our job functions professionally, even when we’re screamed at or asked for a lap dance, etc. But I’ve already warned my entire leadership team: on my last day as a nurse, I’m going to say exactly what needs to be said (without swearing). And my 30+ years of experience leads me to suspect that the sentence “I do not respond to that behavior/those words.” will be one of the first things out of my mouth that day.
Shoddy_Bet9619@reddit
4 out of 8.
LazzarilloDeTormez@reddit
Slow down. You’re making me look bad.
archedhighbrow@reddit
My shift is four hours and I work for 45 minutes.
Appropriate_Mail6416@reddit
I’m the executive director of a non profit and I work 24/7. Well. It feels like it. In actuality 50-65
fuzzimus@reddit
Well, you see, Bob. In any given week, I do maybe 15 minutes of real, actual, work.
RevToy@reddit
Depends on the season. Spring and autumn tend to be fairly busy.
Salty-Pack-4165@reddit
That varies with me from week to week. Usually I do around 40h in one job + up to 10 in another job. Sometimes hours drop and at times they can raise although last two years we have recession in Canada so hours are disappearing. Plus I'm getting too old for this.
doveinabottle@reddit
Depends on the time of year. I’m a Change and Communication Consultant and an independent contractor. Anywhere from 2 hours a day to 12.
Sintered_Monkey@reddit
I am at a frantic, but very successful startup. I work 9-10 hours a day nonstop. There is always too much to do. I am also about to retire in 44 days.
On the one hand, it is great to work for such a successful company for once, after a career full of duds. On the other hand, I'm just too old for this shit, which is why I'm so glad I'm pulling the plug soon.
Mitsch25@reddit
My wife and I lucked out and after 2½ night shift, we both work weekends now. Friday through Sunday 12 hour shifts at the same company obviously.
AggravatingPie710@reddit
40-42 on average. Hour lunch. But two hours of high stress, high traffic commuting per day now due to massive population increase in my area and return-to-office orders. Hate it.
MaherMcCheese@reddit
None. I’m on disability for social anxiety and possible autism. My wife works 8 hours a day 5 days a week.
Simple_Finding9309@reddit
There’s nothing you can do from home?
Adorable_Bag_2611@reddit
I am scheduled for 10 hour days, 4 days a week. (My choice) I am supposed to work 8-6. Here is my today: Start time: 9am (drive to meeting, get set up, etc) Meet with student: 9:30-10 10-10:30: do emails & such in car to enjoy the rain 10:30-11: get drive thru & drive to office 11-12:30: paperwork, phone calls, more emails, listen to podcast. 12:30-1: break 1-1:15: more flipping emails!! 1:15-1:30: eat lunch 1:30-1:45: shopping 1:45-2:15: text with a parent about student 2:10-now (3pm): visit with student, feed snack, get student set up on independent work. And scroll reddit.
During all of this I also have 3 ongoing chats going. Friends, exhusband, & my partner. I also made an important but 20ish minute personal call, & shopped online for an upcoming trip.
Yesterday, however… 8-9:30: paperwork, organization, phone calls & emails. 9:30-10: meeting 10-12: lead community event 12:1:30: lunch 1:30-2:15: paperwork, more phone calls, curriculum review 2:15-2:30: look for missing student (flipping candy store!) 2:15-5:30: work with students one on one. 5:30-6: closing paperwork, clean up, prep for meeting today.
So somedays (today) I barely work. Other days (yesterday) it’s non-stop.
Iron_Chic@reddit
Corporate accounting. Sometimes 4 hours sometimes 12 hours. Full WFH though, so I don't mind.
JimTheJerseyGuy@reddit
Information Technology. Similar feast or famine types of hours. Days of doing nothing but fixing around online, weekends living onsite.
Marigold1976@reddit
I’m available to my employer 40 hours/week.
calmnutz@reddit
Good way to put it.
GlobalTapeHead@reddit
About 50 hours a week. Deadlines are deadlines, they don’t care about the hours or my personal time. Sometimes I have to work weekends to meet the deadlines, so it can be more than 50 hours.
Somethingclever1313@reddit
I work a 48 followed by a 36 hour week. 12 hour shifts but actual work varies from 4-6 to the whole 12. Just depends on what’s going on.
SamePhotographs@reddit
When I was younger, I worked any and all available over time. It was factory work, so it was work.
Now, I work 9-5 with an hour lunch from 1-2. While I'm at work, I am mostly always working. There are conversations, but work doesn't stop because we're talking. It's not 'hard' work, but brain power is needed.
Sea-Painting7578@reddit
I am available 8 hours a day but actual work maybe 3 hours and a bad day 5 hours.
NihilsitcTruth@reddit
40 to 50 hours a week. Depends on what happens.
Parking_Exit2297@reddit
60-70
Aromatic_Location@reddit
At work from 9am to 4pm then on calls with Asia team from 7pm to 1am. Usually work Sunday evenings too. Probably 70 to 80 hour weeks.
SeaRayDav@reddit
As a railroader I’m away from home about 90 hour a week! 😕 4 years to retire and I can’t wait!! Wish me luck!
chrispd01@reddit
You know - some of us dream of a job like that …..
PS Sturgill Simpson was a railroad worker …
Ricochetpinecone@reddit
I am a nurse, and I work 3 12h shifts on nights on a behavioral health unit. I usually work about 2 hours each shift, and the other 10 hours is usually a lot of down time, unless I get an admission. With that said, there are shifts that are complete madness for the whole 12 hours.
DilbertDilbert1011@reddit
Work from home 7 hours a day (8 hours with an hour lunch break) 4-5 days a week. We are all salaried and work half days on Fridays, but after 18 years I have accrued a lot of time off and I use it ALL with no guilt. I traveled 50+ hours a week with this company in my younger years to earn this and I am so grateful.
KalistoCA@reddit
I have office space in my head
I probably work 15 minutes in any given day
Own_Internet9120@reddit
I'm reading this at work if that gives you any idea. :)
Robviously-duh@reddit
I am a consultant.. so some days zero... some days 10 hours... so when I work, I get paid for every minute... sometimes in my pajamas
ONROSREPUS@reddit
My boss better not be watching!
7am to 3:30pm. It can vary from week to week but right now I am kind of slow and I put in maybe 3-4 hours a work a day. I am efficient enough at my job that I can do most of my work in the morning and slack in the afternoon.
deleted_by_reddit@reddit
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GenX-ModTeam@reddit
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Dramatic-Ad-1846@reddit
As little as I possibly can. 3 hours or so daily.
LayerNo3634@reddit
Retired teacher. I easily worked 60 hour weeks minimum. Kids ate in the classroom, so I didn't even get a lunch break. Sure, it was on paper in the schedule, but didn't actually happen. On paper, my schedule was 7:30-4:00, but I usually worked 6AM-6PM. Sometimes came in on Saturday, but did not take work home.
grimlock75@reddit
Maybe 3 out of 12 hours.
CTurtleLvr@reddit
Teacher here, so about 90-hr work weeks. It doesn’t matter if I am just there for my contract time (6:45-2:45), I still am constantly researching and fine tuning my work from home.
dbrmn73@reddit
About an hour to an hour and a half most days.
automator3000@reddit
I’m a brewer at a small brewery. I have my schedule down pretty well to be in an out within 8 hours. But that means I’m basically working and moving non-stop. Really makes the day fly. I spent 25 years doing office work before making a career pivot — I do not miss those days where it feels like it’s been an eternity and when I look at the clock I see that it’s barely past 10am.
Alternative-Law4626@reddit
I’m an amateur brewer with a full rig brewing all grain. I can completely see how a batch could take at least 8 hours. I have semi-automatic set up an if I’ve milled may grain and have the water in the brew pot, a timer will kick off heating the water. I mash in when I wake up at 6 am. I’ve pumped over to fermenter and going through the cleaning process by 11 am.
Using a multi-barrel system, I’m sure it’s orders of magnitude more difficult.
automator3000@reddit
Yup. Sure makes my old homebrewing days seem like a breeze
OddSignificance9742@reddit
I’m clocked in for 10. I work probably 7-8 of those hours. Even if you’re not busy, look busy.
YellowBreakfast@reddit
I'd say in a given week I probably only do about 15 minutes of real, actual, work.
Pure-Sherbert996@reddit
Calaron85814@reddit
Uh Peter, would you just indulge us and tell us a little more?
YellowBreakfast@reddit
Oh yeah! Let me tell you about TPS reports...
bluealien78@reddit
What if...and believe me, this is a hypothetical...but...what if we offered some kind of stock option or something like that? Would that motivate you?
Calaron85814@reddit
I dunno. I guess. Listen, I’m gonna go.
mpls_big_daddy@reddit
I'm the operations director of a production facility. Weekly hours run about 40ish. Maybe a couple hours extra here and there per month.
Out of an eight hour day, I'm running for about six hours, lots of things happening. Two hours of chillness on average. Unfortunately, I am first on the list for security calls when I'm not at work, but that's rare.
Unluckiest-of-All@reddit
9 hour days, 5 days a week. I come in 30 minutes early, and take a 30 minute lunch opposed to the hour lunch I’m able to.
space_wiener@reddit
8-9 during the week days. 3-4 weekend days.
If I include the business I am trying to start add another 30-40 per week.
Traditional-Win-5440@reddit
While working remote, I usually log in around 6:00 AM and log out around 5:30 PM. I may or may not take a lunch. Monday through Friday. Productive time, not counting meetings, is maybe 8-9 hours a day.
While working on site (1 day a week), I work from 6:00 AM until 2:30 PM. No lunch. Productive time, not counting meetings, is probably 4-5 hours.
Sumchap@reddit
I contract and work from home, a mix, in terms of hours when I have regular work it would be 32-40 hrs these days. Less briefly right now but expecting to get busy again
Dusty_Sequins@reddit
About 1-1.5 hours per day. The rest of my time is spent coloring or cross stitching while binging Netflix shows lol
Mugwumps_has_spoken@reddit
Nice to see some people here are honest. I'm a stay at home full time caregiver for my daughter. So my time can't really be measured exactly.
Techchick_Somewhere@reddit
24/7 unpaid labour. #priceless.
Mugwumps_has_spoken@reddit
well my daughter is totally disabled, so I do actually get paid now that she is over 18 and still requires the same level of care as an infant. But she is worth every moment.
Techchick_Somewhere@reddit
I meant that fully from the heart as a mom. As an adult now I can fully appreciate what my mom did and why I always thought she was grumpy all the time.
jseger9000@reddit
Office Space meant so much to me. I was quiet quitting before it was a thing.
LibertyMike@reddit
I quit my job and went back to school after watching that movie. My workplace was very similar to the one in Office Space.
jseger9000@reddit
My workplace is still very much like Office Space. But I am your typical gen X slacker who couldn't be bothered to go back to school. I'm just marking off the days to retirement (I have been good about saving up for that).
rpbm@reddit
I contemplated going back to finish my bachelors about 18 years ago, but didn’t have the money. I can afford it now, but I’m 53 and I don’t want to do homework anymore!
I have a great job, enough money and couldn’t care less about promotions/advancement.
jseger9000@reddit
This much is true for me: I have a ~~great~~ job, ~~enough money~~ and couldn’t care less about promotions/advancement.
OnlyDiscipline9255@reddit
Teletech reminded me of Office Space but it was worse .
jseger9000@reddit
Teletech reminds me of a company name from Office Space.
OnlyDiscipline9255@reddit
Initech
bluealien78@reddit
I'm sat in my home office for 40-ish hours a week. So I'm "present". How much work do I do? Sometimes all of that. Sometimes a fraction of that. Sometimes, if I'm just out of spoons and need to phone it in for a week, it's little more than responding to Slack messages and keeping my status "online".
Alternative-Law4626@reddit
I work 0 hours a week. Retired last Friday.
rpbm@reddit
Congrats!!
CK1277@reddit
I’m a lawyer, so I have to actually track my time spent on everything. I’m physically in the office 40-45 hours/week of which I can specifically account for about 30 hours. Some of the remaining 10-15 hours per week are spent on administrative tasks that I don’t track and some are spent being totally unproductive.
Fit-Tap7111@reddit
30
Cubbance@reddit
My job is very passive, but as it involves watching a monitor with patients on it, I'm working pretty much non-stop. I get one 45 minute break, typically. Sooo, I'm working around 11.5 hours or so each day.
TripMaster478@reddit
Start at 8:15 most days. Rare that I take a lunch. Leave around 5:45 on average. So the math makes that 9.5 per day, I usually come in early on Fridays, maybe check emails a few times on the weekend, so about 48-50. Seems about right.
EstimateAgitated224@reddit
I am at my desk about 35 hours a week, but here I am on reddit in the middle of the afternoon.
ol__spelch@reddit
Local trucker.
My typical day is 10-12 hours.
6-7 of those hours are spent sitting in my truck while i get loaded or unloaded, like I'm doing right at this moment. So yeah about 4-5h of work.
ancientastronaut2@reddit
Just enough to meet my KPIs and keep the boss off my back. 😉
(I work from home)
moxiemoon@reddit
Um, casual hybrid schedule, in office probably 12/16 I’m supposed to, average 2-5 hours of work a week, 6-10 when there are meetings. My job is not demanding time wise but requires special knowledge and experience. I’m grateful and do more than is expected of me most of the time all things considered.
Phobos1982@reddit
I’m present 40 hours but I rarely do more than 2-3 hours of actual work per day.
R4t4t0skr@reddit
As little as I can, because they underpaid me for years.
garagespringsgirl@reddit
I had to early retire this year at 57 due to my health. Thank God for my small farm.
LibertyMike@reddit
I think you're selling yourself short. Do you do all your grading in those four 45 minute periods? What about faculty meetings and other stuff?
In any case, I work 37.5 hours per week (5 days * 7.5 hours). I'd say 80% of that is pure work, the other 20% mental breaks.
I'll do a lap around the building each hour which takes less than 5 minutes (helps clear my head, get heart pumping), and socializing with coworkers, or checking news, reddit, etc. Those are usually short bursts. I've been at my job for over 10 years now and have gotten the best grade on my work evaluations each year, so these mental breaks seem to help my performance.
DustyBottomsRidesOn@reddit
Crazy how some jobs are so demanding and others paid to do little actual work.
My girlfriend makes a very respectable wage and sleeps for a few hours a day during work hours. Drives me up a wall, but I can't blame her.
RhodeReddit@reddit
It may well catch up to her, tho — within a couple of years or when there are layoffs (because of ‘inefficiencies’, maybe…).
DustyBottomsRidesOn@reddit
Maybe, I don't know. She's always getting her work done, but at nearly six figures, I can't quite be comfortable with it.
Then again, maybe it's because I'm jealous. I've always had pretty demanding gigs.
omfgwhatever@reddit
I work 10 hour shifts, 4 night a week. How often do I actually work? 2 if I feel generous. I mostly go on auto and don't really even think about what I'm doing.
skateboardnaked@reddit
On night shifts only about 2 of the 12 hours I'm there. The other 10 hours we browse the internet or watch shows. Day shifts we have to work a little more, since the boss is there.
brownishgirl@reddit
Scheduled….5.5 hrs, 3 days a week. I might work all of them, but my breaks are long.
kermitsfrogbog@reddit
Maybe 2-4 hours of actual work per day if I'm being honest. I hate it. I'm trying to find a way to become an independent contractor for a higher hourly rate and have more freedom to take on more clients and/or walk away from my desk when I feel like it. But the security in a regular 8-5 is hard to give up. Even if there's not enough work to fill the day.
madtownliz@reddit
IT here and a bit neurospicy. I tend to do my work in short bursts of intense concentration spaced out by slack time and distractions. But my output is comparable or better to my teammates who grind steady for 40 hours, so I don't think it's accurate to say something like "I only work 3 hours a day."
Long-Cockroach-8372@reddit
I’m a restaurant GM. 10-12 hour days. Sometimes I sneak out for 10 minutes to grab a coffee from down the street. I am constantly doing something work related. It’s a labor of love.
in-a-microbus@reddit
Some weeks I put in 60 hours and I'm still not getting it all done. Some weeks I fuck around on my phone for 38 hours and spend 2 hours in zoom meetings (with the camera off and I'm still fucking around on my phone).
antisocialdecay@reddit
I work a normal 40/week and I honestly “work” maybe 8-10hrs? I discussed with a friend who works IT and he said we’re here for knowledge needed at specific times and not an hourly body.
DarlingTreeWitch@reddit
I am scheduled 8 hours M-F, but typically only work 7:30 hours. Unless we’re in OT, then I work an extra 7 hours per week.
-Granby-@reddit
Medically retired not but when I was working I worked every minute I was on the clock. 8 hours. 10 hours. Sometimes 15 hours.
New_Needleworker_473@reddit
Hee hee. Not answering in case the micromanagers are watching 👀
HatefulWithoutCoffee@reddit
I'm a professor, so it depends on where we are in the semester. This late, I don't have a whole lot I have to do, but there's always something I can do. This week, I'll work about 5 hours every day.
Taxibot-Joe@reddit
40 hours per week. It’s almost always more, but I’m not allowed to admit it. Government is weird.
Mugwumps_has_spoken@reddit
and reading the room here, you actually WORK as in actively doing your job the ENTIRE 40 hours?
Are you a robot?
Taxibot-Joe@reddit
Usually more than 40, yes.
turtle0831@reddit
35 plus I sent back to school part time.
PaLuMa0268@reddit
I’m present for 10 (HR for a manufacturing plant) but realistically probably don’t work the full 10.
GeoHog713@reddit
I work in oil and gas. It's either feast or fmaine. During our busy season, 60 hour weeks are pretty normal. 80 isn't unheard of. 100 is rare.
Right now, things are slow. I'm working 8 hours days but only 1/3 is billable projects. The rest is housekeeping and side projects.
I like being busy. There is no "comfortably busy", though.
Staran@reddit
I am an IT manager so maybe 4 hours a week
Wintermutellm@reddit
3-4 hours. But I also work another 3-4 hours average per day before, after normal work hours etc. so I definitely provide 8 hours worth of 'value' to my employer.
eyeroll611@reddit
Your planning periods are work time too. Unless you just wing it everyday? Watch movies, give worksheets? Never grade or have lunch duty, no meetings or parent phone calls? Not sure I believe this.
trUth_b0mbs@reddit
depends. Like today, it's been pretty slow so I probably worked about 2hrs max lol.
app_generated_name@reddit
7:30 am to 5 pm, non stop
Patient_Character730@reddit
I work 6:45am-2:45pm with an hour lunch break. I love my hours. Up early and home before the schools get out so I don't have to deal with school traffic.
Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit
Usually 10-10.5 hours per day. Sometimes 12. 50-55 hours a week. It sucks. I used to work 80hours a week for the overtime but I’m getting tired of working.
Negative-Appeal9892@reddit
My work hours are 8:00 to 4:30 pm with a 30 minute lunch break. I work about 6-7 hours daily.
JJQuantum@reddit
Like 2.5 hours a day.
Genius-Imbecile@reddit
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.
Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
gbr1976@reddit
Problem of motivation, huh? 😄
Then-Canary-1331@reddit
35 or so. 9 am to 5 pm most days. I'm grateful for the schedule.
Ambitious_Lead693@reddit
The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that i just don't care.
Dank_Strategist420@reddit
Public Education Teacher here...bell schedule is 7:50 - 2:45. Maybe 2 hours of the is actual direct instruction. Depending on the season, I also coach Football, Basketball, Baseball, and Track after school from 2:50 - 4:20. So, 3.5 hours of actual work.
Significant-Dance-43@reddit
Like many corporate jobs, it varies.
Some days, because I’m in a global role, I might start the day at 6:00AM and, if it’s busy, not end my day until 5:00PM. Most of that is meetings. Talking. Making sure folks feel heard. Addressing real challenges with action-oriented solutions. And more talking. I try to give myself 45 minutes for lunch on those days and bake in time for a walk (sometimes on lunch, sometimes during a call where I do less talking and more listening).
Other days, I might start at 9:00AM and be honestly done with meetings and stuff to actually do by 2:00PM.
Ray_The_Engineer@reddit
I backed off to part time, this year, currently working 20 hours a week at an hourly rate to do technology consulting work. Prior to that, I was in a Director position and was working between 45 and 60 hours a week, depending.
In years past, when I was getting my career going, I did the 70-80 hour week thing. I don't have that in me anymore, at least not if I'm working for someone else.
aburena2@reddit
Used to be zero as I’m retired. Now, 20-25 hours a week. Going back to zero next year.