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!)

OP I just wanted to support your decision. One of my relatives was a speech therapist in your situation. She did have to completely stop taking new patients for several months so that she could catch up, then after that she only took on as many patients as she could cope without working ridiculous hours.

The waiting lists are not your fault - they're the government's fault.

1. Financial Controller
2. 35
3. 15-20
4. To survive, if it wasn’t recognised as a decent bonus I wouldn’t do it
5. Use only one leg of my commute to work rather than both. I can work on my 1.5 hour train commute so part of my working day (although the unpaid part!)

School admin. Only about an hour unpaid overtime this week. My choice, I got to work early a couple of days and thought I'd go in and help rather than sit in the car wasting time. I did leave on the dot most days though, usually I leave when I'm finished what I'm doing however much later it is.

I work in university senior management/governance

I am contracted for 35 hours per week.

Last week, as with most weeks, I worked 20 hours unpaid overtime.
I should only have worked 28 hours last week as I took a day off to attend a close friend's funeral. It was a hard, devastating day - yet still I came home and worked for 5 hours until 1am because there was so much to do and I couldn't lose the time.
I do this because I genuinely have no option. There is just too much work, not enough resource and for about 90% of what I do, the consequences of letting it slide are too great. I use toggl to track my time and can demonstrate that I consistently work around 55 hours every single bloody week and yet still my team and I get constantly criticised for not doing enough. My boss doesn't want to know. My mental health is suffering, are relationships with family.

Next week I will do no different. I will continue to work these hours and I will put my toggl reports to my boss yet again. I will also look at job sites and hopefully find something to which I can apply but I do worry that I won't find any different situation elsewhere and that this is just the way of the working world now.

I'm an academic and have probably done about 25-30 hours unpaid

There are no extenuating circumstances for this, this is pretty normal. I couldn't physically fit my job into anything less than a 50-hour week.

Can't fucking wait to retire.

I work 24/7 and get paid £1.96 an hour!!

I'm an academic and have probably done about 25-30 hours unpaid

So am I but we have no hours. Some weeks I work 70 hours, some weeks 7. Swings and roundabouts.

Teaching assistant (special needs).
Paid: 26 hours, worked an extra six hours + (don’t time it exactly). More if you include working most breaks.

Paid 37.5
Worked 37.5
NHS

So am I but we have no hours. Some weeks I work 70 hours, some weeks 7. Swings and roundabouts.

Actually, I've just sat and thought about that for a bit and realised that the only time I do 7 hours a week is when I am on holiday.

Extra hours for: planning meetings, writing reports to social services, and trying to make the curriculum genuinely accessible in an engaging way.

1. What's your job? Accountant specialising in Financial Governance

1. How many hours are you paid to do each week? 37.5hrs

1. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week? I think I've worked about 5 hours extra.

1. Why? One long day, had to go to London, and then a few days where I stayed to finish sorting something out. A few days where I only took a short break to eat. Fairly normal.

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

I'm probably not: I'm paid well for what I do and part of that is sucking up a few extra hours most weeks. The other side of that is that if I need to leave at 3 on a Friday to go on holiday then that's also fine. If I have to do major overtime (over about 7 hours) I'd usually get a chunk back in TOIL or paid overtime.

Senior local government (all I am prepared to say ). I usually work an extra week a month, so 40 hours over a month on average.

Contracted for a 37 hour week. No chance of bonus or overtime, sometimes I manage a day off in lieu.

I do it because despite the hours I love my job, it suits me and my situation, is flexible and close to home and I am good at it - it is rewarding.

Editor
Paid for 40 hoursa week
Work 40 hours a week - if I do something for work out of hours, manager says I can take off time in lieu and I usually do - it's often handy for school events
I appreciate I'm very lucky I haven't worked in any jobs that expect out of hours work - I am really rubbish at doing anything working outside of usual hours.

General manager- hospitality.

Contracted hours 40

Actual hours on site 57-60

Hours off site c.15

@NeverTwerkNaked

1. Username is a good tip
2. If you don’t mind me asking, what sort of an organisation do you work in eg private / public sector - I have never heard of that sort of arrangement for an in-house lawyer

Thank you!

1. What's your job? Deputy Manager of a Charity shop

1. How many hours are you paid to do each week? 13.5

1. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week? 2, which is pretty typical but can be up to 30 if my manager is on holiday - we get toil rather than paid overtime

1. Why? I like to get to the shop at least an hour before opening time to ensure the inevitable piles of crap that are left on the doorstep overnight are moved and taken upstairs. Sometimes this can take the whole hour and I wish people would stop doing it.

1. What are you going to do differently next week to ensure you work fewer unpaid hours? I have next week off, all toil days

Now ...trainer / assessor for health and social care (new job a week ago) and for the first time in 20 years no overtime. It's unheard of in my world and it's not because I'm new either. No one works overtime, it's a wfh culture and bar a couple of weeks at the end of the academic year no stress.

It's a far far cry from previous roles which were senior ops /consultancy on a goal delivery basis. Tonight I turned my work phone and I'm genuinely not exagge6when i was shocked when there was nothing...not even copied in emails. It's glorious.

Previously though ? Senior manager in social care ? Paid 40 hours , over time a minimam of 20 on top a week and about as much chance of taking that back as toil as a politician telling the truth.

As a service /regulated manager before that?....paid for 40 worked an average of 90 hours a week.

Social care is brutal and it's taken me a log time to get where I am...pay is crap now but I supplement with very very controlled consultancy ( errr well as of a week ago but to be fair I asked someone about sending an email at the weekend about something and they looked horrified and asked why on earth would I do that when I could send it Monday and was I OK? )

@PrincessLouis it is a public sector organisation. I realise it is quite unusual, feel very lucky. The work is fascinating and fulfilling too.

About ten, pretty normal for me. I’m a teacher.

I’m a librarian in a school and I’m paid for 35 hours a week. I’ll definitely do an extra 6 hours unpaid as I do that every school week. I go in early to help manage my stress levels as I can get a parking space, set up for my lessons and have a quick tidy up. I leave fairly promptly at the end of the school day.

1. What's your job?

#1 farm worker #2 gamekeeper

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

Both vary wildly. I stay until all necessary tasks are complete if possible. This week 28 hours job #1, and about 21 hours job #2.

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

#1 None. This week or ever - I am paid to the nearest 5 mins, and I charge for answering work related calls while not at work. #2 About 22 hours. Some phone time, some time mending equipment.

1. Why?

#1I take my wages in cash from the cash box, and leave an invoice. #2 Money varies, hours vary, and there's absolutely NO correlation. Frankly it's a hobby with a weekly mystery bonus. Usually £££, but one week it was a fry up and a puppy, another week I got a work bench. A curry and a chocolate wafer for 4 days work was probably the worst return, but on the other hand I've been given £200+ for doing 3 afternoons.

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

Nothing. To be fair this is a worse than usual week. I'd probably do this for free if I could afford to! I only keep a record as a kind of diary, for HMRC, and to boggle at the lack of method employer #2. I am overpaid occasionally, and get random stuff quite often, also, if the cost to me (petrol etc) gets a bit high I do point it out and then I get another handful of cash.

HR and Payroll Manager
I'm paid for 37 hours but most weeks i work between 45-50 hours. I try not to work on a weekend though. All hours are worked mid week, Monday to Thursday i usually work 10/11 hour days or more. Both at work and at home. I have a short day on a Friday and try not to work at home if i can help it.

Market research. I supposedly work 30hrs a week but did about 40 last week. Some weeks I don't buy we have a lot of deadlines and are short staffed. However the extra work last week was as a result of not being given enough time to complete something.

Part time teacher, paid for 22 hours and I worked four hours yesterday evening so in theory only 18 more to go this week haha.
I am definitely doing nothing tonight and getting some sleep instead, once dc are in bed.