Boss expecting you to stay back every night to clear work?

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johnna said:
who cares?, more to life than graft mate, not problem with most people if they get plenty of notice ( 24 hrs a least), overtime rates ( ie time x 2 or 1.5) & you want to do it , nowts a bother , the gaffer saying at 230 when you finish at 3 something like " you all need to stay back" fuck that :lol:
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There's more than life to work, aye, but it's canny hard to have a life without work, and I'm not sure I'd be willing to jeopardise a career by coming across to my manager as if I'm work shy. That said, it's pretty out of order for the manager to ask someone to work extra all the time. We don't know the context though, for all we know the company is struggling or someone isn't pulling their weight, etc
 


Frijj said:
It's not really, though, is it? I mean aye they're not going to actually force you to come in or sack you for not, but I'm sure employers won't look favourably on it.
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This came up before I tried to explain that if you work for a company and you're part of a collective effort and you're waiting for someone to pass you the baton you can spend a fuck load of time doing nowt and then when the work needs to be done, it doesn't matter what time it is ffs. As well as that, working freelance/temp/contract/agency work means that if you're not impressing your superiors then it costs them nowt to tell you not to bother coming back into the office tomorrow cos there's always somebody who's out of work and available at a few hours' notice.

I think it was Mackem Moo who said he wouldn't work through his dinner break no matter what. :lol::lol:
 
Sebasaurus II said:
This came up before I tried to explain that if you work for a company and you're part of a collective effort and you're waiting for someone to pass you the baton you can spend a fuck load of time doing nowt and then when the work needs to be done, it doesn't matter what time it is ffs. As well as that, working freelance/temp/contract/agency work means that if you're not impressing your superiors then it costs them nowt to tell you not to bother coming back into the office tomorrow cos there's always somebody who's out of work and available at a few hours' notice.

I think it was Mackem Moo who said he wouldn't work through his dinner break no matter what. :lol::lol:
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Really? I've done that before, I'm sure. Definitely agree with you though, if the work needs doing, it needs doing.
 
Frijj said:
There's more than life to work, aye, but it's canny hard to have a life without work, and I'm not sure I'd be willing to jeopardise a career by coming across to my manager as if I'm work shy. That said, it's pretty out of order for the manager to ask someone to work extra all the time. We don't know the context though, for all we know the company is struggling or someone isn't pulling their weight, etc
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we don't , if its a one off i would work ( paid) i would not & never have, never will work for nowt ;)
 
Frijj said:
Really? I've done that before, I'm sure. Definitely agree with you though, if the work needs doing, it needs doing.
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I'd work through my dinner break, come in early and finish late if it had to be done. As a result of that commitment though, because it's just expected, I can spend most of my time dossing about, can work from home whenever I feel like it, can leave the office early to run errands or what have you without losing any pay, take a two hour lunch if there's nowt to do etc, etc.
 
Sebasaurus II said:
I'd work through my dinner break, come in early and finish late if it had to be done. As a result of that commitment though, because it's just expected, I can spend most of my time dossing about, can work from home whenever I feel like it, can leave the office early to run errands or what have you without losing any pay, take a two hour lunch if there's nowt to do etc, etc.
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swings & rounderbouts mate , nowt wrong with that
 
We don't have the option of turning down overtime it's loosely termed as 'needs of the business' in our contracts, Which they always quote to force us in to anything they want.
 
I'm with Johna on this one (first time for everything). Unless you get paid, flexi time or other benefits then bollocks to it. No-one lies on their death bed wishing they had spent more time in the office.
 
Aye, although not as much as I used to do.

Now it's more just a case of doing more 9 or 10 hour shifts than 7 hour shifts, whilst before I've done 14 hours a day seven days a week for just my basic salary, but then we did have a little emergency or two going on at the time.
 
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