Those of you that are salary do you work your schedule 8 hours everyday and only take your normal lunch and 15 min breaks?
I know getting time off is much easier now I don't have to ask or tell them why but I notice my co workers log on and off earlier and sometimes gone for hours/away without an OOO on. Not sure if im just nervous to not be available at all times but im not busy rn to be sitting in front of my computer all day ever day
While B3 are supposedly allowed "unlimited" vacation. I do not know a single one who takes it. But the Bank sure does take credit for offering it. (more PR b.s.)
We are peer-pressured not to.
So, yea, we are all stupid and this place is sick.
We get 15 minute breaks? I’ve never heard anything about that and I’ve now been here 30 years.
They leave the office at 11:30a and B3 execs get UNLIMITED VACATION TIME… just another way we’re under-paid. Enable try to say that they are on the clock 24/7 but that’s BS- I don’t buy it. Meanwhile I’ve been here for over 10 years and still don’t have enough vacation time to cover all the days. My kids are out of school plus enjoy a little time around the holiday.
I spent 2 decades in the same group. I never left my desk except for coffee and biobreaks. I didn't take my first 1 week vacation until my 12th year. I still average 12 to 13 hour days. I've never taken the 15 minute breaks or lunch. What was the driver behind this crazy lifestyle? Fear.
In the long run it didn't benefit me at all. The harder I worked the less I gained. My health took a nose dive. My anxiety was out of control. Exhaustion aggravated my depression. My sleep was horrible at best.
I followed the rules. I helped my team grow by doing one on one training after hours. Year after year my performance reviews were recycled. To this day I have no idea how to achieve VP status, yet I watched my coworkers achieve VP and higher. I eventually was told that I was one of the lowest achievers in the team. On a yearly basis I averaged 15 to 30 awards and recognitions. Each was attached to my reviews.
The best thing you can do is take care of yourself first. Do what is needed for your job but limit your hours. If you don't finish all the work you set out to do in a given day don't worry it will still be there the next day.
You must do you. I've given so much time to this place that I will never get back or get paid for. But it was my choice. I could have slacked off like others but didnt. Then I had a medical event i contribute to it. Still, hard work, weekends was my choice.
After the event didnt take me out, I adjusted to devoting more to me than this place. Again MY choice.
Take every hour (vac, PT sick), step away for lunch (rarely at noon, but when ever time permits).
ALL HANDS, general informational awareness meetings is break time. check your stocks, plan your next vacation.
I like work. I love getting a check. Bank pays enough to manage my life and invest for the future.
Meet the business/work requirement but think about you daily.
Be intense 80% of the day/10% for planning/10% for you.
Work smarter not harder and you will still produce more than the slackers on the team. Enjoy
I may occasionally trade an extended lunch but it’s more than made up for by ask the worth I do nights and weekends
It varies day by day and week by week. Sometimes I can get my work done in 6 hours with a break in the afternoon and sometimes I work 10-12 hours a day. It usually balances itself out. You put in the time needed to get your work done. With that being said, I literally never take a break and rarely take a lunch.
It usually averages out. I step away time to time for doctor's appointments or errands but I still end up working 40 hours or more a week. I look at it as flexibility. I think it also depends on your role. Some salaried roles such as production still require you to be by the computer or accessible at all times while other roles are more flexible. As long as you get your work done timely and aren't stealing time, no one should bother you. It also depends on your manager! Thankfully I don't have a micro manager. If you do then I highly recommend sitting at your desk.
I don't take a take a lunch break generally (eat a sandwich at my desk normally on a call) so generally work 8-4pm. Sometimes 8:30-4:30 sometimes 7:30-330 depending on my schedule that day. My manager doesn't micro manage and knows how to reach me. I get up through the day and walk around the building or take a quick stroll outside (work in a downtown area) but don't generally look at a clock. It's not good for your health to be sedentary all day.
If I have to work 2hrs on a weekend I look at that as "premium my time" and work a half day on Monday to comp myself since we can't get overtime pay.
I usually stick to the same 8.5 hour work day schedule with a .5 lunch break to ensure I am available for meetings and business partners, but often work beyond those hours.
They claim that we are salary, yet we still have to utilize sick and vacation time while getting no comp time for extra hours so are we really?
I would try to limit yourself to working a standard 8 hour day if possible. Going beyond that just isn't worth it.
Salaried person here. Worked ridiculous overtime (10-15 hrs/day + weekends) for years.
Because I actually believed in and cared about what we were doing in this place. (yea, I'm a naive schmuck.)
When my time comes to depart this life, that will be my single biggest regret.
After 10+ years of no salary increase, I became resentful and saw these leeches for what they are.
Thes days, while I am "available 8.5 hours with a 1 hour lunch", my target is to work superfast to keep my actual active work to no more than 2 hours per week day.
99% success rate year to date.
The work gets done. Manager happy. Internal partners happy. Rated M/M and even E/E some quarters.
Hopefully you are smarter than me and will figure this out much sooner.
Europeans have it right -- work to LIVE.
US model (live to work) is sadly broken.
Don't squander one more unnecessary hour on this place. You can still be successful and definitely happier. Peace be with you.
HR would say you need to be available at all times during your scheduled time. This depends on your manager and workload. My manager doesn't care where I am as long as I get my assignments done in a timely manner.
HR survey question. Good luck
My manager would call me on he phone rather than IM or email, to find me right away no matter where in the house I may be.
I notice a lot of offline (in Skype) is due to the workload. Key people get. Lot of ask during the day and if you are “Available” you WILL get pinged. I try to select busy when I’m busy but a good thing to do is block out your colander for work so that you can focus on a given task or project.
That said, in my team folks don’t micro manage as long as the work is getting done, issues are raised in a timely manner and communication (email, Skype, meetings, etc) are flowing, being away fro the desk seems to be a non-issue.
Personally, I end up working 10+ each day when I’m in the office and 8+ when I’m remote. I log in early and usually do some work after 6/7 PM most days. 50 hours week is kinda my norm since way back in the mid 90’s.
All that said again, if they hard line 8 in the office, then it will be 8 in the office for me. I signed up for 40, work 50+ and don’t mind, but if it goes to the whip cracking, I’m giving just the 40 and my conscience will be fine.
Knowing that folks in my org that I have to deal with day to day and week to week are busy I don’t complain too much if they seem to be unavailable.
What up playaz and 304s
I tend to work about 10 to 15 minutes a day and go for long oil massages during lunch breaks. FYI, I heard mgmt is considering oil massages as a mental health program