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Do you give your all at work?

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WorkerBee123 · 10/07/2024 18:15

I work in a highly qualified but very very underpaid company, 100% from home. I have to log the hours worked and so I exaggerate them. This means I work about 2/3 of my hours. I get everything done, exceed targets etc. Anyone else do similar?

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Sleepersausage · 10/07/2024 18:58

Kellyanne555 · 10/07/2024 18:50

I'd be careful op because work can do a lot of things to monitor your performance.

I work from home. I knew work were recording my calls.

I didn't realise that they were also screen recording my screen movements as well until after a while I was there.

They record and see my every mouse click.

That should have been told to me at the start of my job, but it's probably in the small print in my contract somewhere

What organisation would have the time or resource to do that?

Kellyanne555 · 10/07/2024 18:50

I'd be careful op because work can do a lot of things to monitor your performance.

I work from home. I knew work were recording my calls.

I didn't realise that they were also screen recording my screen movements as well until after a while I was there.

They record and see my every mouse click.

That should have been told to me at the start of my job, but it's probably in the small print in my contract somewhere

Willsean · 10/07/2024 18:38

HaPPy8 · 10/07/2024 18:23

Are teachers paid for 7 hours a day then with paid lunch break?

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No, they're paid for 1265 directed hours over 195 days a year, which doesn't include lunch times.

Before school, during lunch, after school, weekends and holidays are all unpaid, but that doesn't mean the planning and marking for 5 lessons a day can be done without working in them.

Kellyanne555 · 10/07/2024 18:37

WorkerBee123 · 10/07/2024 18:15

I work in a highly qualified but very very underpaid company, 100% from home. I have to log the hours worked and so I exaggerate them. This means I work about 2/3 of my hours. I get everything done, exceed targets etc. Anyone else do similar?

Didn't a woman post on mumsnet recently that her husband was getting called into a meeting for gross misconduct, for not working all of his scheduled hours at home

Hillrunning · 10/07/2024 18:35

There's a big difference your title question and what you are doing though. Giving it my all, would be performing well above what I am being paid to do. Your actions are well below what you are paid to do. I dont give it my all, I also don't commit fraud, I work to a sensible level, knowing when the odd occasion requires a touch more.

DarkDarkNight · 10/07/2024 18:35

Give my all, extra unpaid hours. I work hard all day, when others around me are online shopping, talking, generally taking it easy.

It’s to my detriment. I am very aware I am just a number, and loyalty doesn’t pay, but I am a people pleaser and it’s a hard habit to break. I’ve cut right back now, and am trying to ease up on feeling that I can’t take a day off because there are deadlines or it’s too busy.

tulippa · 10/07/2024 18:35

I like my job at the moment so, yes, I do. Hasn't been the case in the past though.

Sleepersausage · 10/07/2024 18:34

God no, I do the bare minimum and get great feedback. I could do better and some days I feel motivated but actually there isn't even that much work to do some days. And I'm in HR so I do hear about the genuinely bad performers every day, managers have much more madness to deal with than just people being lazy

p0pple · 10/07/2024 18:31

Nice try HR

notforonesecond · 10/07/2024 18:31

God no

HaPPy8 · 10/07/2024 18:30

Most of the time I do yes, because I do a job that really requires it, but we are all human so I’m sure some days I’m more on form than others. I always work my hours though.

Thepeopleversuswork · 10/07/2024 18:28

I have to give my job my all or I would get fired. So yea.

HermioneWeasley · 10/07/2024 18:26

Yes. I like my job and I like my boss. My work makes a difference. I give it everything I have.

DaftyLass · 10/07/2024 18:25

I love my job, so yes, I give it my all.
I try to go above and beyond at any job I do, always have done, it's just how I do.
It's served me well, I have progressed steadily, and got more responsibility and opportunities because of it.

Ozanj · 10/07/2024 18:24

When you’re in the office you are only productive 70% of the time, much less if you’re in meetings. My company understands this and provides a 70:30 split for remote jobs too. I’m expected to be away from my screen for at least an hour and a half a day - I usually go for a walk, have a coffee, wrangle ds, or hit the gym. I’m only expected to work to 70% of my capacity (remaining 30% is for learning and development etc).

HaPPy8 · 10/07/2024 18:23

wafflesmgee · 10/07/2024 18:20

I'm in teaching, so I get paid for 8.30am-3.30pm but work 7 30am-6pm, through my lunchbreak and then do marking after my kids are in bed. Yay.

Are teachers paid for 7 hours a day then with paid lunch break?

wafflesmgee · 10/07/2024 18:20

I'm in teaching, so I get paid for 8.30am-3.30pm but work 7 30am-6pm, through my lunchbreak and then do marking after my kids are in bed. Yay.

Dinnerdinnerchickenwinner · 10/07/2024 18:17

So you commit theft then? (Time theft is a form of defrauding an employer).