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!)

I am a project manager and my contracted hours are 40pw, but the job role says hours to undertake duties or some such nonsense, salaried and have yet to see a bonus in 3 years.

Used to work all hours, staying late, in the evenings and weekends to get project ready for launch barely got a thank you and any requests to discuss pay or lieu days was ignored. Also worked out that whilst some colleagues were putting in equal and more hours many were not yet often they were the ones getting the praise whereas it was seen that I would just do it.

I now happily work 8-9 hours a day in the office, always taking a lunch break and then I strategically review my emails during the evening so I respond when I want and if it makes me look good but that is it. I tend to switch off at 6pm each day and live my life even if that is vegetating in front of the TV

We are very busy at work and won’t be able to meet agreed targets without resources from somewhere, but as we are a commercial organisation and not hitting targets is not going to adversely effect individuals, cause harm or anything else bad I have decided to leave the problem to senior management to resolve.

This is very enlightening and whilst I still have stress and anxiety it is manageable.

Secondary teacher just back from a school trip. I've worked 7am-11pm for 5 days there plus a stint of 24hrs straight either side due to flight times. Technically on call over nights but the kids slept well. It was over half term so the whole time was extra. No extra pay, obvs, and not somewhere I'd choose to go on holiday but totally worth it cos the kids learned absolutely loads and had an amazing time.

1. What's your job? - I’m in L&D for a global company
2. How many hours are you paid to do each week? - 36
3. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week? - 36
4. Why? - Big training course to deliver last week, and average amount of extra hours is probably more like 5-10. I manage to take a couple back every Friday usually.
5. What are you going to do differently next week to ensure you work fewer unpaid hours? I’m off a couple of days next week, and I’ve made a resolution not to work in the evening for the rest of the year. It had really become a habit with some big deadlines. I’m hoping to cook well or run instead.

I am support staff for our global sales team (software company)

I work 3 days per week / 21h and other than having lunch at my desk most days, I don't work outside of my office hours. Quarter end always involves overtime though (probably an hour a day? If it falls on the days I work)

If I work from home I will be online for an hour extra. Just to show I am pulling my weight

Public health consultant
37.5
At least 15 extra hours
Just the volume of work and I am v specialised
I wish I could do it differently... the on,y good thing about next week is it is half term here and so more people off so less requests / email traffic

1. What's your job? Support staff at a school, Jill of all trades sort of thing,
2. How many hours are you paid to do each week? 27.5 hours a week across 3 contracts at different times of day.
3. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week? 3 and a half.
4. Why? Because of bitty hours I needed a block of time to get a display done.
5. What are you going to do differently next week to ensure you work fewer unpaid hours? Will probably do 4 or 5 hours extra next week in bits and pieces. When you go in and out three times the bits here and there minutes add up.

I’m a community midwife. Before I had DS, when I was working full time (37.5 hours), I would regularly do 3-5 hours (or more) unpaid overtime. Now that I have a small child, and only work 24 hours, I do my best not to do any extra if I can help it. I probably still average 1-1.5 hours based purely on the fact that I work through my unpaid lunch usually so that I can definitely leave on time!

Police officer.
Paid for 40 hours a week. We start every shift 30 min early unpaid to give the previous shift a half hope of getting off on time.

Frequently stay hours late - overtime is paid though after the first half an hour.

Nothing will change, starting early is the culture at my station and if we didn’t all do it then these 2/3 hours overtime would turn into 3/6 hours overtime for the previous shift. Long hours and late finishes is something you need to accept in order to do the job.

1. Senior Policy Manager in a University
2. 25
3. None
4. I did however come in on a non-working day for 2.5 hours to deal with a critical issue. Took the hours back later the same week. I gave up working for free a few years ago. I get better appraisals now than I did then.
5. Nothing.

Special Needs Education Consultant for the Local Authority.
Contracted 37.5 hours but probably worked 35 ish. I work through my lunch breaks as used to be a teacher and i am not used to having them, so I build up flexi time. I have lots banked up and can have a day off whenever I fancy as I manage my own diary.

Activity Coordinator 30 hours, I try to stick to my hours and always work through lunch, although I try and leave 15 mins early to make up for it...never really happens.
My job really should be full time hours as there is never enough time to do everything. I am of the mindset that I will not stay later in work and they should be paying for full time and not squeezing it in to part time hours.
I have to do a lot of planning and preparation etc including shopping for materials and resources inevitably it eats in to my time off. It could take over my life if I let it so I am trying to cut back and stick to my guns.

MsRinky, I agree we should not work for free.
I have been off on annual leave and brought a lot of work home with me...however I decided I needed a complete break.

Data manager for the NHS
Have worked 37 hours and been paid for 37 hours. Any overtime I do I bank and take as time owing.

Full time teacher
Worked about 15 hours overtime last week
Unpaid

What's your job?
Teacher

1. How many hours are you paid to do each week?

39

1. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week?

Probably in the region of 60

1. Why?

Open evening until 8.30pm and Last week Monday- Thursday I was away with students so was on call all week. I also drove the minibus there and back etc.

1. What are you going to do differently next week to ensure you work fewer unpaid hours?

Half term! I’ll still work to do the planning etc but probably only 3 hours per day.

I don’t want to say what my job is on here as it’s too outing. But it’s similar to you in that it’s public sector. I work 0 hours overtime (apart from odd 10 mins here and there) because I am 20 hours pw spread over 4 days and I have to leave on time to get to school pick up. Of course I have loads to do but I simply don’t have time to work extra at home because all parenting is down to me due to DH work schedule/issues there.

It’s really hard when you’re dealing with peoples lives but I think you are right in what you’re planning to say to your manager.

My sister is also a SALT and has been writing up at home in the evenings and grumbling about it. I’ve got a bit frustrated with her because she (and maybe you?) is in charge of her own diary and she need to book in less people to allow for writing up. She says she feels bad that they have to wait too long for sessions if she does that. But it frustrates me that people like her are masking the issue. Masking the effect of cuts to the nhs. It’s important that management have an accurate picture of what is acheivable in the time and that will be skewed if people do extra at home. I also got her to think about the fact that if she goes on mat leave and someone is brought in to cover (I know that’s a bit unrealistic anyway!) - she will have stitched them up as management will have a skewed view of what work is possible in the number of hours.

*achievable, sorry. You’ll be glad to know I am not a teacher.

Civil servant. Full time 36hrs . (I work compressed hours so do it over 4 days)

I work fully flexi hours , and am allowed to go 21 hrs up or down over a 3 month period. I can take max 3 days flexi leave at one time.

I work overtime. Anytime I need to work after 6 pm or before 6am. (Frequent)
I claim overtime for every single minute.
I do not work for free . Not would my bosses expect me to thankfully.

1. What's your job? - business analyst
2. How many hours are you paid to do each week? - 35
3. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week? - 5
4. Why? - this is normal
5. What are you going to do differently next week to ensure you work fewer unpaid hours? - nothing, this is normal during quieter times/early on in projects when still trying to secure business resources. Nearer deadlines it will go up significantly.

I'm an accountant, paid for 28 hours per week. This week I took a half day holiday so only worked about 26 hours, usually I'd work 30-32. I don't work at home much tho, would much rather be at work with two screens and a big desk.

I'm paid to do a job not work a certain number of hours. And my boss is really good to work for so I'm fine about it.

Teacher.
Paid an annual salary not an hourly rate, but should be approximately 6 1/2 hours per day plus 'reasonable additional time' to allow for planning, prep etc.

So, based on that, the 'overtime' I did this week in addition to 6 1/2 hours a day was about 16 1/2 hours. It was parents evening this week which bumps it up, but it's half term next week so no weekend prep.

I’m a student occupational therapist so at the moment I work 37.5 hours a week and pay the government £9k

Teacher so 32.5 hours contracted per week.

Regularly work 15+ hours over this per week. Marking, planning, phone calls, meetings etc all add up.

However I refuse to work during holidays so this week is chill time.

Lecturer. Probably did around 15 hours unpaid work. I don't mind as I get loads of holidays so it evens out in the end. Actually prefer it this way and would hate it if my line manager asked me to stop working.

Assistant manager retail. Contract 40 hrs. Overtime this week 1hr, paid. I very rarely work for free and if I have, I make sure to go home early on a different shift that week to claim the time back.