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I consistently leave 5 minutes early

Sometimes 10

I do not understand why anyone on salary stays after 5:00.

I left late for like a decade. Changed fields all together about theee months ago and do now.
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Late often enough that people comment on it when I leave on time.
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I left 2 hours late at my old job at Food Basics.
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I have never been able to comprehend working even a second for free

"It looks good to your boss so you might get promoted". Literally working. For. Free. Like a slave. That's not worth anything to me. I don't lift a finger for them unless I'm paid for it.
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I dont really have a schedule. I get in anywhere between 8:30-9:30 and stay between 5-6. Sometimes I work through lunch sometimes I take 90 minutes. Some Fridays I leave at 3 because I dont have much to do. Some Fridays Im here until 6 because Im busy.

I work on average 2 extra hours
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Jaghave posted...

I work on average 2 extra hours

Why.

Sometimes I milk the clock
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I usually stay over 1-2 hours every day. I'm hourly though so the overtime is nice.
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I'm starting to walk out the door as soon as it's time.

545x39 posted...

I usually stay over 1-2 hours every day. I'm hourly though so the overtime is nice.

That's different, at my first job I would milk overtime until they told me to stop, so then I would arrive as late as possible and leave as early as possible for the designated shift. The clock rounded up/down to a 15 minute interval, so 8:07 = 8:00 and 4:53 = 5:00.

Fuck them.

usually, although sometimes at month end or quarter end i'll stay an extra 45 min or so
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clearaflagrantj posted...

I consistently leave 5 minutes early

Sometimes 10

I do not understand why anyone on salary stays after 5:00.

If you do office work, you'd prefer if you didn't walk into a huge problem the next day. People don't seem to understand that nobody else does your job when you work in an office.
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i leave when im done

sometimes that means several hours early and 'working from home' in the afternoon

i have a home office and a laptop set up and i do login, so i am technically working as much as i would be here with zero tasks
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Our parking is awful so I usually give it 15 minutes for everything to clear out.

Tbh it takes 10 minutes to get out if you leave on time anyway.
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Lol fuck no.

Most of the time Im here for 2+ hrs writing notes
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Retail. We leave when most cleanup gets done.

Then we wait at the door until the door gets unlocked so everyone can leave as a group. Its a ghetto as f*** neighbood.

Someone forgot to do a thing, quick someone go do it even though everyone already clocked out.
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Usually 85 hours per 2 weeks, so like half an hour over each day I guess.
But there are those time peiods where I work 90-100 over the 2 weeks.

I don't mind working more than 40 hours a week if it's doing work that helps me in the long run
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I leave whenever I feel like. Every now and then it's 15 minutes later and I have to lock up, but usually 4-5 minutes early.

Friday today, which means I'm leaving at like 3 and going right to the bar.
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Caution999 posted...

clearaflagrantj posted...

I consistently leave 5 minutes early

Sometimes 10

I do not understand why anyone on salary stays after 5:00.

If you do office work, you'd prefer if you didn't walk into a huge problem the next day. People don't seem to understand that nobody else does your job when you work in an office.

I have like 30 minutes of actual work every week

clearaflagrantj posted...

Caution999 posted...

clearaflagrantj posted...

I consistently leave 5 minutes early

Sometimes 10

I do not understand why anyone on salary stays after 5:00.

If you do office work, you'd prefer if you didn't walk into a huge problem the next day. People don't seem to understand that nobody else does your job when you work in an office.

I have like 30 minutes of actual work every week

Tell it to the Bobs.
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Its really rare to leave exactly on time for me, since I may be out on a delivery, or my manager's too busy to cash me out when its time to leave, and that always takes a few minutes. Sometimes I get to leave early because we're not busy. Sometimes I stay for an hour or more after I'm scheduled off because we were busier than expected.
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on my last job I left an hour early every day for a whole year and no one noticed
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I try to leave on time whenever I'm able to, which is most of the time.
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I leave when I'm done. Sometimes it's a bit early, sometimes it's a bit late.
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Yes. The tough part is not leaving later.
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I leave when I get tired of work. Which is usually hours early. This week in particular, I decided to "work from home" and I'm getting as much work done as I did at the office, i.e. not that much. My previous jobs had me working extra time, mostly at my own accord.
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I have an anecdote about this.

I used to stay late for work when I was younger all the time, thinking I was some kind of hard-working martyr for the company. Most Fridays, I'd make plans to meet with my friend Shaun for a beer down at a pub local to my office. Shaun would always be on time, and I'd routinely be 20-30 minutes late because I was just so busy.

One day when this happened Shaun pulled me up on it and I told him I had so much on, and he just said "[pinky], do you really think you're busier than me?"

Shaun was Managing Director for a medium sized construction company of 70 employees and I was a fairly junior account manager of a marketing company and yet he was always on time for everything whereas I was always running late because I was just so busy. Kind of ridiculous to think I could be more busy and have more to do than him.

Made me realise that you make the time, you don't ever have the time.

So no I don't stay late anymore unless I'm really definitely in the middle of some unforeseen emergency I can't put down, and that's rare.
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Sad_Face posted...

I leave when I get tired of work. Which is usually hours early. This week in particular, I decided to "work from home" and I'm getting as much work done as I did at the office, i.e. not that much. My previous jobs had me working extra time, mostly at my own accord.

I'd fire you

I'm 35 years old and have worked most of my adult life. I've only take 4 days of work off that entire time, and that was because I wasn't allowed to show up since I worked around food
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Bad_Mojo posted...

I've only 4 days of work that entire time,

You sound like a terrible employee.
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DrizztLink posted...

Bad_Mojo posted...

I've only 4 days of work that entire time,

You sound like a terrible employee.

No, just terrible at typing, lol
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Right on the clock.
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Due to traffic. I'll get home the same time if I leave on time, or a half hour late. So i'll usually just stay over anyway.
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I think this is highly job dependent.
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I typically leave 15-30 minutes late which usually gets me yelled at by upper management. I just refer them to my manager and tell them I was asked to stay over
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Bad_Mojo posted...

I'd fire you

Dude, I straight up told all my superiors that I'm a bad fit for the job and wouldn't mind if they looked for someone else. I've slacked off on timesheets and skipped out on what amounts of at least $3K worth of pay. I even told the founder of the company I applied elsewhere and find the job dreadful. The thing is they know the job is boring as sin, and tedious, but someone has to do it. The pressure to get the job is still there, but it's not do or get fired for me.

But this isn't to say that this is my mindset for work in general. This lax attitude and lack of motivation is the product of the type of work I'm doing (data collection). When I was cooking, I always made it to work on time. I had to climb up a basically a mountain to get to my job and I didn't even have my license at the time. I still made it up there, drenched in sweat, on time. I had a job as a radio broadcast engineer where I had to be the station for 6 AM. I had no car at the time, and once again, I still made it on time. And I worked my hours I've allotted and more if they asked me to.
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Bad_Mojo posted...

Sad_Face posted...

I leave when I get tired of work. Which is usually hours early. This week in particular, I decided to "work from home" and I'm getting as much work done as I did at the office, i.e. not that much. My previous jobs had me working extra time, mostly at my own accord.

I'd fire you

I'm 35 years old and have worked most of my adult life. I've only take 4 days of work off that entire time, and that was because I wasn't allowed to show up since I worked around food

I wouldn't hire you because your work ethic is delusional and detrimental to team productivity

Sad_Face posted...

I leave when I get tired of work

This. I usually left around 30 minutes early. The only times I would stay over would be because I was really involved in a project and wasnt keeping track of time.
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My entire professional career, I've almost never worked past 5PM. It's only been on very rare occasions. Probably only a handful of times in the ~10 years I've been working professionally. I would never work for a job where I was expected to consistently be there past 5 or for more than 8 hours. The ONLY way I would be ok with doing that is working for myself.

At my current job, I am generally expected to be there between the hours of 8 to 5, but no one is there counting to make sure that I'm actually there. I almost always show up 10 to 15 minutes late and almost always leave 10 to 15 minutes early. I also run most of my errands on company time, including but certainly not limited to getting haircuts, dentist/doctor appointments, car maintenance, going to the gym, etc.

I also leave work 2-3+ hours early most Fridays, if I show up at all. I usually try to "work from home" on Fridays, which pretty much just means I have my computer on, check emails, but don't really do any work. Hell, today I'm "working from home", but I'm not even really doing that because I'm getting ready to meet up with a flight attendant friend that I met a few weeks ago because she just so happened to have a layover in my city last night.

Should also add that because of the above, I don't usually take a lot of official vacation days, although I definitely could if I wanted to. I prefer to keep them though because when I leave, I'll get it paid out to me.
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Twin3Turbo posted...

going to the gym

Boy I wish I could carve out three hours of my day to go to the gym

clearaflagrantj posted...

Twin3Turbo posted...

going to the gym

Boy I wish I could carve out three hours of my day to go to the gym

I'm usually there for an hour and a half or so total, including time it takes to change clothes and take a shower, and time driving to/from the gym.
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clearaflagrantj posted...

I wouldn't hire you because your work ethic is delusional and detrimental to team productivity

You think me showing up every day to work is detrimental to team productivity? How is that now?
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I don't work set hours so I just leave whenever is convenient for the train

Bad_Mojo posted...

clearaflagrantj posted...

I wouldn't hire you because your work ethic is delusional and detrimental to team productivity

You think me showing up every day to work id detrimental to team productivity? How is that now?

Because only taking four hours off is incredibly harmful for your mental health and you lose productivity without taking time off for yourself. You'd also expect the same from your coworkers and be a negative for their workplace happiness.

My job has a guy that works 6 10 hour days and yells at his subordinates to work as hard as him, he is doing more harm than good.

Yeah, I usually have to to get work done.

I'm hourly though, so it's fine.
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clearaflagrantj posted...

I consistently leave 5 minutes early

Sometimes 10

I do not understand why anyone on salary stays after 5:00.

Then you're not on salary.

Your ass would have been canned quite quickly.
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Lord_Wombat posted...

clearaflagrantj posted...

I consistently leave 5 minutes early

Sometimes 10

I do not understand why anyone on salary stays after 5:00.

Then you're not on salary.

Your ass would have been canned quite quickly.

?
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Lord_Wombat posted...

clearaflagrantj posted...

I consistently leave 5 minutes early

Sometimes 10

I do not understand why anyone on salary stays after 5:00.

Then you're not on salary.

Your ass would have been canned quite quickly.

I hate this mentality since it doesnt breed any sense of loyalty or motivation. Its just a sword of Damocles that makes you prioritize your job over life.
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