How many hours of unpaid overtime have you worked this week? What's your job?

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Yet another weekend has gone by and I've spent the majority of it playing catch up with work instead of spending time with my family. Getting very fed up of it and again day dreaming about retraining. My friends (secondary teacher and care worker) assure me their jobs are the same.

So...

1. What's your job?
2. How many hours are you paid to do each week?
3. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week?
4. Why?
5. What are you going to do differently next week to ensure you work fewer unpaid hours?

I'll start
Speech therapist
Paid for 32 hours a week
I've worked an additional 12 hours unpaid this week
This is because we are extremely short staffed so I'm covering some jobs I'd usually delegate or share out within the team. Also, I need to catch up on training which I haven't been able to complete in my usual working day.
Finally, I'm going to speak to my manager next week about being unable to see any more children/clients for initial ssessment as I need to block off my diary to session plan and write reports and do training for my current kids instead. I wont be taking on any more children onto my caseload for the foreseeable future and my manager needs to accept this means we will fail to see them within our usual timeframe. I'll try to make my manager understand I cannot do my job alongside jobs usually completed by 2 other staff members and they need to think of a longer term solution (as I'm not paid enough to sort that side of things out!).

Ianyone else care to share/rant? I'd love to see the jobs and careers you have where you are able to do the hours within work time and leave the stress of work behind until the next day (so I can come and work with you!)

Admin for a charity.
Zero overtime unpaid or paid. (There's nothing in the budget for it). I do flexitime and have "banked" enough hours to take a day off next month otherwise it will expire on 1st December.

1. Tax advisor
2. 37.5 a week
3. No extra hours last week
4. Quiet at the moment, so no expectation to be 'seen' staying late if nothing to do
5. I will work longer hours if needed, but refuse to be in the office for the sake of it. Luckily my work isn't like that and my manager is fab at telling me to go home (sometimes even early if I have travelled to work in her office for the day)

I appreciate I am extremely lucky, but there is the expectation if something urgent comes in (I.e. a transaction happening in the next couple of weeks) then it is really all hands on deck to get it done. Just means that the rest of the time is chilled out.

With the new restructure I can't claim TOIL, but I never claimed it before anyway and the extra holiday I am getting instead is a bonus.

I’m a medical copywriter.
Paid for 30 hours.
I’ve been off most of this week but worked a 20 hour day on Monday and 7.5 on Tuesday. last week I worked 48.5h across 7 days.
We’ve been travelling and pitching for new work so I’ve had to do the slides and research outside of normal hours.
I’m absolutely on the brink with stress and anxiety after non-stop travel for 4 weeks so I’m working to rule this week. I’m taking my lunch hour and finishing on time. Hopefully this will be possible and I won’t have to travel anywhere at short notice.

1. Civil-Structural Engineer.
2. 40 hrs
3. I have never worked beyond my paid hours - yet. Been graduated 3.5 years.
4. Why - because if it can't be done in the designated hours then something is going wrong with resourcing. Hours get billed to the client, so working free overtime is a waste all round - it would mess up the billing and is effectively doing work for free.
5. Next week I'll do the same as I always do - my hours and nothing more. Fortunately I work for a company who don't have a culture of 'staying overtime.' It's not a healthy way to work.

My hours are officially 37.5. My actual hours vary widely. Eg,

Week before last I worked about 15

Last week I worked about 60.

I don’t get paid overtime but I can take unofficial TOIL when I do a long week.

My work is wholly dependent on the cases we get and legal timetables (I work in construction law so everything from small claims on a private house development to tens of millions of pounds claims on major international construction programmes. When an adjudication lands there’s a very intense 2 weeks to get our case report out)

It suits me fine, I have no kids, work are very flexible so if I don’t need to be in the office I WFH, if I work crazy hours one week, I can take days off the next when things are quiet.

I’ve been at my work over a year now. I don’t think I have actually done a normal 37.5 hr week. We do have working parents in our team who work much more structured hours to allow for nursery and school pick ups etc, but I am happy to do the peaks and troughs

Student vet nurse - no extra hours last week but average 2-3 hours unpaid due to emergencies or poorly organised vets we have leiu time but not at a time of our choosing

School Admin Bod. 25 hours a week. 7 hours unpaid overtime.

Project Delivery Manager.
Paid for 7 hours a day. Work more like 9 hours a day.
The company don't pay overtime, but in theory I can take TOIL. Except there's never any time to.
I've asked if I can formally change my contracted hours to do a condensed week: 10 days in 9, as I'm doing the hours anyway

I work in corporate governance for a large FTSE 100.

Paid for 32 hours, probably worked about 37 last week. Not because we're particularly busy, but there's nowhere to go at lunchtime so I end up working most of my lunch break, and there's a culture of getting in slightly early and leaving slightly late. Not my favourite but I'm on probation for four months so I'll toe the line for now.

1 - Deputy Manager in a shop.
2 - Paid for 37.5 hours per week.
3 - Off on Annual Leave this week, but all overtime above a 37.5 hour week is paid at time and a half.
4 - doesn't apply to me.
5 - I never work unpaid. I'm paid from the moment I clock in to the moment I clock out (minus 30 minutes for lunch). If I have to come in early or stay late, I get paid for that.

OK when I was a child minder
worked paid 55 hours a week
all training in own time paid & sourced & sometimes organised by self
which worked out at about 4 hours per week
records & B### tax average 5 hours a week
preparing & buying food for dc X amount
preparing art craft & activities at least 5 hours a week
other things I have forgotten???
ringing up HMRC because they screwed up again - several hours a year!
Now retired (though I loved childminding & the dc)

I work for a large national charity. I am in a 30 hour post. Last week I probably did 32 but only because we had big events on so I didn't get a lunch break as such. (I got to eat my lunch, but still at the event and surrounded by colleagues so that doesn't count for me, as its not 'my' time.)
I have worked in plenty of places before where it is the norm to work unpaid overtime. When I took this job, I promised myself I'd only do my paid hours. It has raised a few eyebrows, as there's a bit of a martyrish culture of 'ooh I'm far too busy to take a lunch break but good for you!' but I get out every day for a walk. Life is too short to give so many free hours to your employer.

Seven. Warehouse Controller.

I'm a Specialist Nurse for child and adolescent mental health. I'm contracted for 37.5 hours a week, I've probably done about 10 hours extra plus worked through my unpaid lunch break every day. This is pretty standard.

Oh, and I won't do doing anything different next week. I can hardly walk away from my patients when there is not adequate cover. I will raise how understaffed we are to my manager at supervision once again but it will make no difference.

What's overtime?

None. I'm an admin assistant for a small business working 20 hours per week.

Any overtime I do is paid as I'm on an hourly wage rather than a salary and it is only needed during the busy Christmas period.

I work 34 hours a week. Do an average of 10 hours overtime a week. Did about 12 this week. All of it I either convert into Flexi leave or get paid overtime (at usual hourly rate) for.
I could choose to do full time hours but prefer the flexibility to have an easy week if I want to/workload is light.

(forgot to say - am a senior in-house lawyer )

Hotel General Manager
Contracted 40 hours, last week worked 58 hours at the hotel plus 2 hours yesterday on my day off reading CV's and arranging interviews for next week. I also work though every lunch break.
My weekly hours average about 60 as standard, so 20 hours unpaid each and every week

LSA - work 30 hours PW probably worked an extra 1.5-2 coming in early/staying late!

1. Registered Nurse (Matron)
2. 37.5

3.About 5

1. I get in early as travel a long way but the shit’s usually already hit the fan so I dive and start, I never get lunch and I stay until everything is safe
2. I have started trying to do things differently by not taking my laptop home with me every day.

Corporate governance for a medium-sized firm. No paid overtime. Salaried for 35 hours FT. This week wasn't too bad as it topped out at 45hrs. Last three weeks prior has been 55-60hrs (big project).

ebay assistant for a cat charity paid for ten hours a week but do around four hours extra at home unpaid, as in ten hours wouldnt get many listings up and the admin that needs doing so do some part listings at home so i can finish them quickly in the office, more listings means more money for the charity, answering messages leaving feedback i do it because they are a charity that is close to my heart and home as i have three cats all adopted from them

Secondary teacher. I work 3 days per week. I do about 12 hours extra work each week. More at really busy times like mock exam marking and report writing. I plan to work for a couple of hours each evening over half term.