What time do you start work ?

[hindle8907]

I really need to find a job where i start at 9.
starting work at 7am getting up at 5am is bit by bit killing me lol.
Im so tired all the time. :smt022

Any once else start at stupid o'clock?

[metalangel]

Yeah, I started 7am today too, but only had to be up at 6am. Still sucks!

(if I do the late shift, I don't start until 2pm but then I'm not finished until 9pm!)

[600+]

stop moaning :) I started at 5:45 cause I couldn't sleep anymore......this happens pretty much daily

[Talya]

I work at a call centre! 9-5.

But some people do shifts... ick. 8-4, 9-5 and 12-8.

[TheRamJam]

8am start for me but am lazy so i get up at 7.30 and then bike it to work. Normally get into work at 7.55 and then i'll have some tea and breakfast. It aint to bad 37.5hr week and off every weekend.

[Bluepete]

I start at 7.00am, 12.00pm, 1.00pm, 3.00pm, 4.00pm or 9.00pm depending on the shifts. I've just arrived home, halfway through a week of nights.

Pete ;)

[Neeja]

I work 9.00-5.45 Mon-Thurs, and 9.00-4.30 on a Friday. Good times.

[pmapp]

Go to bed earlier? :-)

[Gazza77]

8 start for me. Up at 5.45, leave the house about 6.20.

[Essex of Essex]

Last Saturday 03:30, yesterday 13:00, tonight 20:30.

[Tara]

when i was working i started at 7.30 finished at 4pm. falc starts at 6.30 finishes at 3.30 late nights are a thing of the past for us

[Quedos]

contract terms 9-5 normally start at 8.30ish - well i'm in the office for that time when i start work is entirely dependent on my mood!!!
used to work 7.30-3.30 - great hours complete carp job though

[robh539]

I work from 6:30 most mornings, although start time 7:30. there good days, My working days can be 16hours.

[Von Teese]

My shifts vary and we have to be there at least half an hour beforehand to get uniform on and kit into the car and briefing out the way.

So...

Earlies: 07 x 17
Lates: vary from 12x23, 13x23,14x00 or on weekends 17x03 (usually 04)
Nights: 23x07 on weekends 20x07

4 on, 2 off except nights where we finish on the same day so we kind of get 3 then.

[carty]

08:15 til 16:45 in general. Never start earlier but sometimes finish later depending on workload.

Could be worse

[husky03]

self discipline-early shift i start at 06:45, but i'm up at 04:45 and in the gym for 05:15.

[fizzwheel]

Anyhwere between 8 - 8:30... depends...

If you are getting up at 5am to get to work for 7am.. how far do you travel to work each day ?

Your solution might well be to get a job closer to home if you a travelling along way everyday...

[plowsie]

2 hours before you get to work! :shock:

I get out of bed, 8.30, get showered and ready, do the 12 mile journey down the dualie to be in at 9.

[suzsv650]

8:30- 4:30 Ish

[Littlepeahead]

I start work at 9.30, but always get up at 6am to make my husband a packed lunch as he starts work at 7.30. But in the summer my hours can be 6.30am to 9.30pm if it it a Test match day, and that includes the weekends.

[RichT]

My hours are a little flexi. Officially it's an 8:30 start, but if I get in at 9 I simply have to leave 30 minutes later that day. I quite like my 8 - 4:30 Fridays.

[JamesMio]

8am for me, which sucks all the ass going (I'm not a morning person).

Up at about 7:20-30 ish, leave by 7:40 and I'm here by 8 - the beauty of being up here is the ability to drive / ride for 20 mins and actually be somewhere else.

[mkz9876]

mine varies official start time is 8.30 some days im in the van ready to leave at 5 am other days it can be 10 or 11 ish all depends on where im going to the first job that day, its not very often i get home after half 4 though,

[Foey]

My shifts are Monday to Thursday 8 - 4 (my boss lets me work right through instead of having to take lunch) & Friday 8 - 1.30, don't work weekends or bank holidays & get 33 days holiday, suits me just fine.

[Von Teese]

My shifts are Monday to Thursday 8 - 4 (my boss lets me work right through instead of having to take lunch) & Friday 8 - 1.30, don't work weekends or bank holidays & get 33 days holiday, suits me just fine.

Lucky you, what the hell do you do for a living??? I want those hours!!

[LK-SV]

8.30am - 6.00pm ........ which is a result - before the credit crunch it used to be 7pm finish !!!

No breaks as such now though .... lunch at the desk, etc ....

[Foey]

Lucky you, what the hell do you do for a living??? I want those hours!!


Work for Theatres & Anaesthetics in the NHS, helps to have a boss i get on well with though.

[dizzyblonde]

stupid hours for me.

Either 6am or 6pm depending on night or day shift....and thats for 12 hrs.

Right now I feel the need for a holiday in the sun, I'm turning into a mole, I haven't seen proper daylight for ages!! Go to work in the dark, come home in the dark :-(

[suzsv650]

stupid hours for me.

Either 6am or 6pm depending on night or day shift....and thats for 12 hrs.

Right now I feel the need for a holiday in the sun, I'm turning into a mole, I haven't seen proper daylight for ages!! Go to work in the dark, come home in the dark :-(


**** that!

[Bri w]

I start when i want, and finish when i want. Most days at my desk for 7am, downstairs at the end of the dining room - its a long walk from my bed. Always have my phone with me, and take calls day or night 24/7.

Today is a nice day, so I'll take the bike out for xx. But I'll work thro' Corrie/emmerdale etc, when Mrs B is glued to the tv.

When I started the job it was upwards of an 80 hr week but it a whole load less now.

[dizzyblonde]

**** that!

and the best part is its on a weekend too=;
Not much chance of playing out with my mates on my tricycle!
Mind you I do stay at home between Jan and Easter and get paid:D

[suzsv650]

Mind you I do stay at home between Jan and Easter and get paid:D


Sounds good but a lot of work for it!

[Sally]

Offically 8.30.

But you can come in when you like, as long as you owkr 8.5 hours a day.

So I could come in a 6am, and be finished at 2.30.

I come in between 7.45 and 8.45..

5 days a week, weekends off.

Can't be bad.

[Sir Trev]

Flex for me. Usually get to my desk for 7:30 just to miss the traffic and try to head out of here by 16:30 to miss the worst of it going home. That goes out of the window of course every time I'm invited to a conference call with my US colleagues, none of whom have mastered the art of allowing for time zones...

[TheOnlyNemesis]

i start whwenever i drag my lazy ass out of bed, lectures aren't that important

[BanditPat]

I never start :( but a few weeks ago when I did it was 7:30 start woke up at about 7:05

[Milky Bar Kid]

It depends on my shift but 8am for days, 4 or 5pm for backs, 8pm or 11pm for nights.

[BBadger]

use to be 8-5 maybe 8-8 for late opening hours some weekends
but now as im the only compitent one i have to build all the christmas stuff so 6-8 ( double pay for 5 hours though wooooo )

[tigersaw]

I start at 6, unless I go in early

[G]

I have to be up at 6am everyday to get to work for 08:30... I dont finish until 17:00 and rarely get home before 18:30 :(

Like you its slowly killing me and I hate it.

Just applied for a job 20 minute bicycle ride from my house which would be amazing if I got it.

[Girth]

I'm up at about 8am, set out for work at 8.20am, get to work at 8.50am and start at 9am.

I finish at 6pm and get home at about 6.30pm.

I work saturdays 9-5pm too.

[lily]

If catching the bus:
Up at 7 to half past (depending on how much i can be bothered)
Out the door by 7.55 to get the 8am bus.
At work for 8.50 following the 20 mins walk once off the bus

If using the car:
Up at 8am, out the house for 8.40 at work for 8.50!

Both finish at 5.30 drew will either pick me up or I will drive if have the car and home for 5.45-6 depending on traffic

[dizzyblonde]

Like you its slowly killing me and I hate it.

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In my case the nights mess with my head, and take me until weds to get round them, but be then I'm having to think about the early shifts again. Doing three 12 hr nightshifts in a row make you forget which day it is, and your kids think you are some sort of ogre! I see my son Monday to Thursday, and then hes back to my parents house for the weekend so I can work. He see more of them than his mummy, unless its school hols.

In the past I've gritted my teeth and thought the wages keep the roof over my head, and clothes on his back, but now its seriously encroaching on quality family time...you can't do that in a couple of hours after school. But then again, the good point is I am at home in school holidays and if hes ill etc.

I'm seriously thinking of changing career next year. I don't want to be doing another nine months of hell in that place when I'm due back in April. Its no life really, much as its a solution to being a single mum. But what on earth does a machine operator in a chocolate firm change their path to?

[suzsv650]

But what on earth does a machine operator in a chocolate firm change their path to?

Go to college/ night school /open university.

Do what you want!

[dizzyblonde]

unfortunately that doesn't pay the bills!

[suzsv650]

No but if you get in a good company they will train you and send you to college, "Adult Learner" just gotta find the right place.

[pete m]

currently working 11am - 5pm , 4 days a week ...its still a bit tough so i may need to renogotiate it down to a more manageble week..:cool:...course the pay suffers when you get docked 10 hrs a week....:mad:

[Richie]

Monday started @ 10am - 3pm
Tuesday 8am - 4pm
today 8am - 2pm
tomorrow will be 8-4
and friday is POETS day, so it'll be 8-12...


(POETS = **** off early tomorrows saturday)

[sv-robo]

Start at 7am/finish at 3pm...(1pm on a friday) not to bad for get ups as i only live a 5 minutes walk away:D

[urbane1]

8.00am start, which means getting up at 7.50 - the pleasure of working from home. But I often work until 10.00 p.m

[Lissa]

I work 8-4.30.

Pete works shifts, one week 6-2, the following week 2-10.

If he's on earlies I get up at 6 and leave for the walk to work at 7.15. If he's on lates I get up at 6.30 and he gets up to give me a lift to work.

[PsychoCannon]

What time I get into the office and what time I start work don't always match up ;)
Sadly it works the other way round too with going home :(

Technically 10am to 6pm but often get molested as soon as I get into the office about 9ish (not in a good way), then I'm on call 2 weeks out of 3 :(

[dirtydog]

I start whenever I feel like it really, today for instance I did 10am-1.30

[Miss Alpinestarhero]

My job is the standard 9am - 5pm

But in my previous job it was 8.30 - 4.30pm. I prefered starting early and finishing early. We also had flexitime so on some days I could essentially 'choose' my hours as longas I got the work done and let my boss know. Unfortuantely I dont have that luxury anymore :( but I am happier in my new job so I guess it balances out

[hindle8907]

Go to bed earlier? :-)

I do try but i never really get to sleep before 11.00pm

Anyhwere between 8 - 8:30... depends...

If you are getting up at 5am to get to work for 7am.. how far do you travel to work each day ?

Your solution might well be to get a job closer to home if you a travelling along way everyday...

I Use the bike allyear round as my only form of transport.(not at the moment as i am still injured and Waiting for the bike to be fixed but this is my normal routine)
its only a 25-30 minute commute.But it goes somthing like this
get up at 5am then get a shower .... have a brew and just try to wake my brain up i then get ready into my work clothes and then put all my bike gear on.
i then go down into the garage and unlock the bike... move her car out the way .... move the bike out ...then put the car back.....
i get to work for around 6.45 lock the bike up and go and get changed out of all my bike gear .... make a coffe and go up into my office by this time its 6.55-7ish......

so its not so much the traveling its all what happens before and after that takes the most time.

[hindle8907]

and i work 7-4.30 every day

[peterco]

Work night shift,
7.45pm to 8am with shift pattern of 2 on,2 off,3 on,2 off, 2 on, 3 off.

pete

[Sean_C]

Mon-Thurs 8-4:30, Friday 7-1. Early fridays suit me just fine :D

[hindle8907]

Mon-Thurs 8-4:30, Friday 7-1. Early fridays suit me just fine :D

my mate works for network rail and doesnt have to go in on fridays. and still gets paid for a full week !!!

wish i could do that :(

[Sean_C]

:o
Strangely, fridays are the slowest days...

[Lozzo]

Any once else start at stupid o'clock?

Up at 5am, leave the house by 6am. Drive for up to 2 1/2 hours before starting my calls, then work right through lunch (grab a sarnie and eat while driving) til I'm done. I might get lucky and finish all my calls before 6pm, then I have up to 2 1/2 hour drive home. Once home I have about half an hour's work to do prepping for the next day before my time is my own.

Mind you, they pay me stupid amounts of money for what amounts to a fair bit of driving (50K a year) and dead easy work when in my calls, so I can put up with it for now.

I'm a surveyor for a cavitywall/loft insulation firm

[starks]

up at 6 every week day for as long as i can remember, start at 7 and then work until i finish my job which is normally a full house worth of carpet and vinyl floor coverings, so it depends how big the house is to wat time i finish, normally around 4:00pm, sometimes earlier and sometimes later, and sometimes really flippin late which is pants

[metalmonkey]

For me its quite nice, right now 9-5 though I could arrange 8-4, or 10-6. I get up around 0730 shower, jump on the bike in for 9.

Shift 12 hour days, 7am-7pm always start on days quick change over to nights 7pm-7am and either 4 or 5 days on. I then get 4 and 5 days off then every few months I get 6 days off. I miss shift:( Though three earlies in a row are rought I'm not an early person. Getting up at 0530 sucks, but it doesn't happen to much.

[jamesterror]

3:30am-8:30am tomorrow, up at 3, quick wash, brew and jog to work :)

I work part-time + flexible shifts, so I chose to work those hours when asked, I prefer it, as I come home, sleep for 4 hours, gym and then uni work!

[Foey]

But what on earth does a machine operator in a chocolate firm change their path to?


Does Pete get you to bring home samples???? :D

[captainsmelly]

Earliest start is 3.46 am, latest finish pretty much the same time. Quite like it actually, saves getting bored always working the same times

[2hys]

I do try but i never really get to sleep before 11.00pm



I Use the bike allyear round as my only form of transport.(not at the moment as i am still injured and Waiting for the bike to be fixed but this is my normal routine)
its only a 25-30 minute commute.But it goes somthing like this
get up at 5am then get a shower .... have a brew and just try to wake my brain up i then get ready into my work clothes and then put all my bike gear on.
i then go down into the garage and unlock the bike... move her car out the way .... move the bike out ...then put the car back.....
i get to work for around 6.45 lock the bike up and go and get changed out of all my bike gear .... make a coffe and go up into my office by this time its 6.55-7ish......

so its not so much the traveling its all what happens before and after that takes the most time.
you put her car back!! if my wife parks the car in any way to block the garage and i have to move it yhen it gets parked down the road in the tightest spot i can find!! shes done it twice, the last time i got a phone call at work cos she couldnt find it!! she hasnt done it again since, that was 6 months ago:smt079

i start work at 4am, 3am wake up call, get dressed, breakie tea, bike gear on 20min hoon to work on emty roads!! then drive an artic the south of the country

[dizzyblonde]

Does Pete get you to bring home samples???? :D


NO!!

and all because the lady hates the chocolate she produces:smt019. I don't like them, they are rubbish, and I would never give anyone them either!!!
I fall out with anyone that even waves them under my nose at xmas!

[philbut]

Whenever I want - PhD stooodent :p

[sv-robo]

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Mind you, they pay me stupid amounts of money for what amounts to (50K a year)

& you ride a versys:p:confused:

[Gene genie]

when do i start work?
when i'm blooby ready.