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 ?

Due to the fact that I have to drop the youngest at school, I currently get to work at about 4 minutes to 9. I would like to get in earlier just to get cracking as we're very busy but for now it's not happening.

About twenty minutes early, and jump right into emails and work.

In my freelance job my start time is "after 10:30 am" I normally get there at about 10:20 am to set up but I'm not paid hourly. I'm paid per client and it works out at about £10p/h so I don't mind getting there early.

In my other job I often start working the second I walk through the door, before I've made it to the staff room, taken off my coat and put my breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/all of the above if I'm on a double shift in the fridge etc because there are always residents sat in the foyer who inevitably want me to do their make-up/take them to their room/fetch their coffee from the canteen etc.

I get £8.30 an hour and don't have set breaks. I have gaps in my rota but if someone buzzes for help on my gap I have to stop eating and go and help. I aim to arrive five minutes before I start.

In my third job I get there 15 minutes early to open up before the customers arrive. I once had a very pushy customer waiting outside the door when I turned up who pushed me aside quite forcibly to get in first despite the fact that I had the key. I unlocked the door. I clearly worked there and without me being behind the till there was no-one to serve her. I decided I needed a fag and to nip to the shop before I started. She didn't look happy when I got back 14 minutes later, one minute before we officially opened.

Depends on shift but for instance if hand over is at 7:30 (official start time) I’ll arrive at 6:30-6:45 to get changed and check in with everyone from the previous shift to get the scoop because I’m involved in the handover in a different way to most other staff.

Depends what time my train in is. Sometimes literally on the dot other times 20 mins early.

I can't do anything until my booked start time though. So I just sit about and chat

I arrive at work at 6:30am for a 6:45am start.

When I started working as a TA I’d get to work half an hour before I started every day and leave half an hour after my finish time. Within the year I realised I was a total mug and had worked all these extra hours, which cost me in childcare, to take home £10k. Not worth it.
As a teacher, I now get in around an hour before my lessons but the reality is my work has to get done so if I’m not there early then I’m there late.

45 mins. I’m a teacher and I’ve kids to drop off on route, otherwise I’d be in earlier. My first class starts at 8:45am. I’m usually in at 8am.

An hour early would seem late to me.

Here were go. The competitive earliness has started. 😂

An hour early would seem late to me
People who go in early make the rest of us (who work to contract) look bad. It also creates an unrealistic employer expectation that people should work for free and sacrifice their own time to get a job done.

My start time is 07.00. I get there at around 06.45. I make myself a coffee and chat to colleagues until precisely 07.00. I don't care if the phones ringing it's arse off, I ain't answering it until I start getting paid....at precisely 07.00.
I leave bang on time too.

If I go in an hour early, I leave an hour early. I'm part-time and paid to work a certain number of hours a day so that's what I work - no more, no less.

In previous jobs it has been different and I often used to put in extra hours, but then I was being paid to get the job done. This one - nope.

I'm expected to be in 30mins before official start time to be given a handover/rundown of things however I don't get paid for this, I don't get away early at the end of the shift and I often don't get any breaks plus I've been fucked over and had a £7k pay cut but no reduction in hours or job description So I now go in 5mins early or bang on time. Nothing can be said as I work my hours.

Arrive at 5 to 9 and leave bang on 5 don't get paid for anything else so definitely not hanging around

Around 8 or 8.30. My team start to arrive around 9 am and I like to get in a good hour ahead of them. I don’t expect (or indeed, want) them in when I arrive. My time!

It would be 10am before questions of a worried nature would start. Unless we were nearing deadlines and then I expect people to be in and working by 9.00 latest.

No one really leaves before 6pm (unless a prior arrangement has been flagged - parents often do a week of leaving at 5 and then their partner does the same the alternative week) and we’re often in till 7-8pm, and frequently much later or overnight.

That said, I always tell people to go home early / come in late when I can and five days off if someone’s done a hefty stint. And I always make sure everyone is out of the door by 4.00pm on a Friday.

It’s a given in our industry.

(We’re not paid by the hour - everyone negotiates their weekly rate but all are on upwards of £900 a week at this level of hours / expectation).

Shocked at how many bowl up 2 mins before
Official hours are 9-530 but usual hours are 830/845- 7pm, no overtime pay or lieu but manager is good w hen I need flexibility
Oh rarely have lunch break

I work to live, not live to work.
I work exactly my contracted hours and I always take my break.
I'm not interested in overtime, only home time.

@FredaFox why are you shocked that people don't want to work for free every day?

For years I went in early to set up and get a bit in front and always stayed late when needed.
Then one time I needed to be 10 minutes late due to a medical appointment, I was told no.
So now I arrive 1 minute before work and leave dot on time

Minimum of 45 minutes early to get a handover from the team ahead of me.

I sort of just appear at sometime during a flexi period but i like my computer on and everything ready have done any talking before i start my work hours

Start time is 9. I am usually in by 8/8.15 outside school holidays. Closer to 9 in school holidays. Reason - traffic.

In school hols drive is 30 mins any time. Outside school hols if I leave by 7.10 it's 35/40 mins. If I leave closer to 7.30 it's well over an hour..
Have breakfast at home, coffee in the car. Am ready to start when I get there. But, I am an iwl by nature and my best work is done between 5pm and 8.30pm.
If I'm really under pressure I might get in for 7.30am.

I'm always 'late' but senior enough that it's not an issue, I do the work that's required and sometimes that includes dealing with issues in the middle of the night or working all weekend. Can't say I particularly worry about when my staff turn up either, we expect some flexibility when the work requires it so that has to work both ways.

Excluding teachers and others working consolidated or annualised contracts why are so many posters doing so much unpaid overtime?