How much earlier do you arrive at work before you start? start?

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Do you arrive 5 minutes before you start or more like 15 mins ?

Anything from 15 mins early to 10 minutes late. DP & I work together and I end up waiting around for him a lot. Neither of us get paid enough or have enough work to do to get in early though.

30-45 minutes before my shift, use this time to catch up with colleagues/managers, check the manning sheet, sign on to the phone, vehicle checks and restock, and most importantly make a cup of tea (that I never get time to drink!)

8:30-5:30 here 40hr week and not a brilliant wage so I work my hours and that's it.
I arrive a few minutes early and work my hours in an office, we don't have a wander off type of work place so when I'm at work I'm working all of the time.....
Over my so far 35 years I've done the starting early finishing late thing, I've done the working in the evenings and weekends to get ahead thing...... you know what I've realised?
Nobody on their deathbed says hell I wish I'd spent more time at work!
I've watched family members and good friends loose battles with cancer, MND and other devastating illnesses and not one said " shit I wish I'd been at work more"
I got to work in a job I mostly enjoy I do my time I pull my weight and support my colleagues but at 5:30? I'm out and home to my family and my life

I meant 35years at work by the way....also....do what works for you, what makes you happy, what reduces the stress in ALL parts of your life not just at work

Life is precious and fleeting enjoy it

I am a GP. I am usually arrive at work just before 8am, 40 mins before I start seeing patients. I would go in earlier but school wrap around care doesn't open till 7.30am. I am usually home around 7-7.30pm. I use the time at end of the day to catch up on paperwork that I don't have time to do during the day. No lunch break, no coffee break and barely time to even go for a wee during the day.

Usually 10 minutes earlier but on a bad day, today traffic was busy so 2 minutes to 9am but was logged on my computer by 9am .

Start 8.30.
Usually arrive 8.15ish. Make coffee, take off coat, put bag away and maybe chat to colleagues.

I only work the hours I'm paid for!

I work as a specialist nurse and if childcare is sorted I get there about an hour before official paid start time so I can get on top of paper work before I start clinical work. If my kids don't have before school club it's timed to perfection and I arrive about 1 minute before 9am start but I never take a lunch and am usually late getting off. This is the norm and I guess why the NHS keeps going!

A colleague is always at least thirty minutes early and has inevitably started work before I even roll up. She then moans all day about how she's taken for granted

I arrive anything between 10 mins early and 10 mins late but I always without fail work at least 30 me be late and more usually 1-2 hrs late

I get in 2 mins before my start time. I work in a school and the minute I’m visible there are pupils bombarding me with requests. I used to arrive about 15 mins before so I could put my lunch in fridge etc, toilet if necessary and chat to colleagues in the staffroom etc. But there was a woman who was paid extra to work the half hour before I arrived, only she would often bugger off as soon as I appeared, to do precisely what I was doing in my own time, cheeky sod, she was getting paid for ME to do part of her half hour effectively. I’m nobody’s fool so I just decided to come in at the last minute eventually, so that she’d have to do the full half hour she was paid extra for.

Wow, look at all the time given away! The GPs and teachers can't possibly keep up if all their time is "contact time". But i suppose the pay isn't for set hours?

I don't have a set start time. I do a role where I flex to suit the workload at the time, so some weeks I do extra hours and other weeks I might get in at 08.30 and be gone by 16.00. Always get tea etc when I get there and don't really worry about the clock.

I retired 3 years ago (not state retirement age) unexpected circumstances meant I needed work.
First paid I got was just over minimum wage retail. They DEMANDED I started work 5 minutes before my shift start. WTF - minimum wage and I'm expected to do free overtime.
I quickly got a management post. I now arrive + or - 10 minutes and leave - 5 or plus 30 minutes - no problem. I'm paid to do do a job and the hours are (almost) immaterial.

I'm totally fucked off with the fact that the less you are paid, the more that it is DEMANDED that you do unpaid overtime.

In a salaried post - you are paid to do the work - under or up to national average = around 37.5FTE. The further over average the more hours you may/should/will be expected to work. Over 6 figures - you make your own rules.

In other words 0 in a management role I am happy to do extra hours as necessary and will expect some leeway when I need it. On minimum wage or close - I resent doing 5 extra minutes.

Arrive 10/15 minutes early, no more. Just enough time to be settled with a cup of tea and set up.
Leave on time or 45 minutes later

I work in an office. Very rarely got to work on time. Usually 5-10 minutes late depending on traffic.

Oh, and I always end up working through lunch and going home 20 mins late so I have no qualms about arriving exactly onnthe dot of my start time. Switching on the computer/printer or opening windows and putting equipment out etc is not something I do for fun, it’s part of work as far as I see it so I don’t see that I should arrive earlier to do it in my own time. Putting my lunch in the fridge is for my own benefit but the other stuff is part of the job.

I used to have this really boring job and a drunken letch for a boss so i did everything around him. He did 9-5 with 1-2 as his lunch. So i pretended to do 8-4 with 12-1 as lunch.

Instead i did 8.50- 4 and my lunch was 12-1.50. I went lane swimming at lunch and ate lunch at my desk.

Start is 8.30am - I aim for 8.15am

Usually so I can get coffee and toast on way in and get lunch in fridge etc.

No earlier I have decided whilst on maternity leave I dont get paid enough to stress myself out working extra I dont get paid for and to address my work/home balance. So I now dont arrive too early, stay late and actually take my lunch breaks.
The difference in my stress levels is immense.

About 20 mins but i sit in the car until about 5 mins before then go in to put my lunch in the fridge and go to the loo and stuff so I'm sat at my desk ready to start dot on 9.

I always arrive at the time I'm supposed to start. If I'm due in at 12 I arrive at 12. So does everyone else including our managers.

Hahah thigh you are a legend! Mine varies as I technically moved my start time later to allow me not to be late if I struggled with DD in the morning (which I often did in the first couple of months). So technically I'm now always early but I just extend my lunch break by the amount of time I'm early for each day (unpaid lunch break ofc). Which is fine as the working hours change was an informal change anyway. When I had to be in by 9 every day pre-DD I arrived anywhere from 8.55 to 9.05. I walked to work. I was paid NLW so Def not doing any unpaid overtime!! I now get paid slightly more but still def not enough to justify working unpaid!

Today? What with the school traffic starting up again and all, about 2 minutes. Last week anything between 15 and 20 minutes.

When I worked on a professional role I tried to arrive 15mins before but invariably rocked up at 9am. Left at 5.30 or just after. Made sure I wasn't the first one to leave for the first few years. However, I would do overtime if it was needed and would take the time back at a later date.

I start at 8am, I live 8 miles away having to take a bus along a very busy road so I get the bus at 6.55am and arrive at work at 7.25/7.30 (weather depending, it changes everything) if I get the next bus I don’t get to work till dead on 8 which is classed as late and I hate being late.