Does everyone leave work ASAP on Friday??

[Lipperfromchipper]

I’m home already with cuppa after work (im a teacher and we all ran out of school 🤣) and just had a phone call from a friend who was on her way out the door of her workplace. Is this common practice? Who else leaves work early on a Friday!! It’s bliss!!

Lipperfromchipper are there any vacancies at your school?!!

AlexaAmbidextra Well they certainly work more unpleasant/unsocial/family unfriendly hours, ie. evenings, nights, weekends and public holidays.

I've a feeling they'll be a lot of teachers on the way to dispute this!!

I love staying late on a Friday. Shift some stuff before the weekend.

AlexaAmbidextra yes I realised what she meant once she explained

I actually tend to stay later on a Friday as DH covers pick up, and I find that because everyone else goes early, it's lovely and quiet and you can get things done without idiots colleagues interrupting you. I can then go early on a different day potentially.

Yep gone by half two.

Any later than that (in our office) and you’re just waiting around for something to go wrong

I had a rare blissful “early dart” this morning after my night shift.
I finished at 7.45 instead of 8 as I handed over to the nurse who was on the day before and handed over to me last night!
I skipped out of that ward!
Lovely 😊

Can you believe it though, our trust are tracking staff movement via ID badge use and some staff have been interviewed as potentially defrauding the NHS by finishing earlier than 5 minutes before their official shift end.
It’s fabulous for morale ....

I didn't used to rush out, was there til around 6pm ish when everyone else finished at 4:30pm. It took me to have a baby to get wise and now I leave with everyone else.

Now I work to live not live to work, and if I do stay I make sure I mention it ever so subtly when I think it's necessary

If I work Fridays I work 12 noon til 10pm, on call on site 10pm to 6am (but allowed to sleep) then Saturday 6am - 10am or 12 noon depending. I'm off today though, doing that shift Saturday to Sunday.

I like being able to get my hours in in concentrated blocks and have larger blocks of time off though, and we get enough weekend time together whilst maximising the time a parent is home with the children so we don't need childcare for the youngest as they're not home alone too much in the week.

I've a feeling they'll be a lot of teachers on the way to dispute this!!

I’m well aware that teachers don’t work from 9 to 3.30, Monday to Friday for just 39 weeks of the year. My mother was one and I saw the preparation she did, meetings she attended etc. However, no teacher I have ever known has worked seven 12 hour nights in a row, three weekends out of four or Christmas Day.

crosser62 if you're interviewed can you just tell them they can set it against the accumulation of hours you're doubtless owed for all the compulsory unpaid 30 minute breaks you've doubtless worked through?

We just chip in and out, so we can start early or late and get paid for what we do (over the year though - in practice due to no excess staff to cover sick leave we have to do extra shifts and we all tend to accumulate overtime which is paid once per year, but theoretically we could be underpaid if under hours) - therefore if you leave early because your colleague is ready to take over early it's fine!

Nope. 5pm for me is just when headquarters is getting going so I often have meetings at 4/5/6 on a Friday

our trust are tracking staff movement via ID badge use and some staff have been interviewed as potentially defrauding the NHS by finishing earlier than 5 minutes before their official shift

That's outrageous, given that I would assume staff can evidence that they regularly do unpaid overtime at the end of shifts!

Yes we do finish promptly on a Friday.

I work from home fridays and finish by 12 😎

You don’t see us for dust on a Friday!

I have to work my normal hours on a Friday, but you can see dust on my departure. My colleague asked if I was doing any (optional) overtime and I told her to behave. She then asked if I wanted to go for a drink, my response was the same, but a bit politer. I need to forget the shitty week and put as much distance between myself and any reminder of the place.

Unfortunately I start work at 5pm every Friday and work all weekend. Don't ever have that Monday feeling though Monday and Tuesday are my Saturday and Sunday !

The opposite for me. I work in retail and work past my home time on a Friday to make sure my store is ready for a busy weekend. Not because I have to or it’s expected but because I want to.

Five days a week here too.

13 hour day on a Thursday means I feel hungover for a 9 hour Friday shift. Leave about 6 pm but am in again on a sat from 8 till 5 so no Friday feeling here.
Just bed early 😂

I finish work at 6pm on Fridays and back in to open up at 9.30am on Saturdays.

Bah!

@Lollypalooza Ah, you've answered a question for me. When I hear teachers moaning about their long hours, I always knew they were exaggerated, but now I see part of what's happening. You are counting being at your workplace from 7.30-6.30 as "11 hours" of work. Whereas actual workers only count the hours we work. So we subtract faffing about making a cup of tea and chatting in the morning time, lunch break, tea breaks. So when I'm "in" from 8-7 pm, I would count that as a prob 9 hour day. Makes sense now with the inflated hours.

Unless of course you worked 11 hours straight with no tea breaks, chatting or without eating lunch.

“Unless of course you worked 11 hours straight with no tea breaks, chatting or without eating lunch.”

They only get the same break time as children, so in primary here it’s 15 minutes in the morning and 45 minutes for lunch... secondary it’s 20 and 50...but they are last to leave the classroom and first back and if anything needs moving or put out they need to do that, as well as drink tea, eat, go to the toilet, whatever else needs doing.

I mean sure they might make tea before or after school to drink while getting on with work, but I’d have thought it was pretty obvious teachers don’t get to go off for breaks with a class full of children sat there?

So when I'm "in" from 8-7 pm, I would count that as a prob 9 hour day. Makes sense now with the inflated hours

Eh? What on earth are you talking about?

If I'm logged into work for eleven hours then that's an eleven hour day, regardless of whether I've taken five minutes here and there to make a cup of tea

It's not like I've swanned off for an hour to get my hair cut or get a massage. Work has had eleven hours of my time so it's an eleven hour shift!

Teachers prepare resources for the next lesson when the children are outside at play and lunch. Not sitting around chatting. It's basic common sense. Always so many stupid comments in threads like this.

I don't leave early on a Friday because I mark books (x120) and get lessons ready for Monday morning.