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!!

I work from home on a Friday, bliss!

I try but fail although I was out at 4.50 yesterday as the caretaker was closing early (teacher also).

Bit off thread but I notice the traffic is much quieter in the morning ( I’m in the road between 7.00 and 7.45) on a Friday and very busy at 3pm.

Monday mornings are quiet yet Wednesdays and Thursday are rammed. I think part time workers must all do mid week, whereas people like to take Monday and Friday off.

I never understand the comments about the NHS. They didnt just add nights, evenings and weekends last year. It has always been the case. If you were teachers youd have been told repeatedly on mumsnet that as you chose the job, suck it up.

There are many benefits of not working office hours mon to fri. Or nobody would do it.

Ive couple friends who are both nurses and they very rarely use wraparound childcare for their children because of how they plan their shifts.

Anyway, friday finish means nothing to me as i car share. I leave at 5.30 every day. But friday afternoon i often feel like i must be the only member of staff left in the building by 4. No sounds around apart from the cleaners and a deserted carpark.

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.

You are speaking only for uk teachers there @fishfingerface, us Irish teachers get our breaks. 15 mins in the morning and a half hour lunch (exact same as the children) we set up and tidy up on the children’s time not on our break times!! I think I have “worked” through 2 lunch breaks this year (excluding my duty) and one of those was when a child had an accident just before break. The other was when the secretary had an emergency so I stepped into the office.

Common in Germany for schools to have a half day on Friday (many schools are half days all week anyway, but even for those which are not) and offices to have either a half day or finish an hour early.

I agree that with certain jobs that involve rotas covering every hour of every day you know what you are letting yourself in for when you apply. Very often your hours are chosen for you though. Doesn’t stop you feeling a bit from time to time of people with jobs that have set hours and can plan ahead.

@TartanMarbled dont be that dick. Ive not had a lunch without supervising children since the tories were elected, budgets got cut and paid lunchtime supervision of children on a rota basis abruptly ended. And because i did some days paid lunchtime supervision before that i also, as well as now losing every lunch break to looking after children while i eat, had an actual £100 a month pay cut. My morning break is getting a cup of tea in a room supervising children.

When I worked in school all the staff left once the last kid was out of the gate.

I wad at work till 4:30 yesterday, we all usually leave at that time but with my workload I could have stayed much longer.

@Lipperfromchipper i work with a lot of irish members of staff who just couldnt get jobs in ireland as they were like hens teeth. And one who lasted one term in england before quitting and going back to ireland saying teaching in england was ridiculous!

@CalleighDoodle yes i work with several teachers who ran back from the UK!! I don’t blame them to be honest. It just baffles me why UK teachers don’t stand up to the ridiculous expectations put upon them! A lot of them are unnecessary imo.

It varies depending what work is on and the timeline. I really dislike people putting phone calls or meetings in late on Friday afternoon as I like to leave the work in a tidy state, administratively.
Most of our staff do compressed hours, so work a nine day fortnight and have alternate Fridays off anyway.

Yep, I am out of the door at 4pm on the dot on Fridays. I have Mondays off too, so a nice long weekend. After years of working long, unsocial hours, I’m enjoying every bit of my downtime now. DD finishes school at 2pm on a Friday (3.20 on the other days), so she gets a nice start to the weekend too.

TartanMarbled As others are saying, just to clarify, there are 15 mins in the morning when the children are having outdoor break- two days a week I am “on duty” outside with them, the other three days I will be tidying up from previous lesson and setting up next lesson, I leave classroom to go to toilet but I don’t see any other colleagues to chat to and I don’t make a coffee or anything. Then the children have lunch time 12.00-12.50pm. Two days a week I will have a “lunch duty” ie in the dinner hall supervising from 12.00-12.30, so on those days I have from 12.30-12.50 to eat my own lunch, tidy up from morning lessons and set up afternoon lessons. One day a week I run a lunchtime music club which is 12.30-12.50 so on that day I have 12.00-12.30. On the other day I have 12.00-12.50 so I can eat my lunch and maybe make some phone calls to parents, or any of my own and then tidy from morning and set up afternoon. No afternoon break time. Obviously during the hours I am with the children I am not able to leave the classroom to go to the toilet or get a drink. I teach Year 1 (5 and 6 year olds) and do not have a teaching assistant (budget cuts). Obviously when the children are not there ie before 9am and after 3.30pm I can go to the toilet, make a drink, chat to colleagues as well as marking books, planning lessons, putting up classroom displays, writing letters to parents, updating my page on the school website. One day a week we have key stage meeting 3.30-4.30, one day a week we have full staff meeting 3.30-5.00.

I am not complaining btw, I love my job. Just trying to explain. If you want to detract 20-30 mins per day from my timings then go for it.

I leave so early on a Friday that I actually finish on a Thursday

I leave work as soon as possible every day!

My normal finish time is 4.30 but often the boss tells us to go early on a Friday, usually around 2.30.

In retail here - so 6pm for me. Back in at 9 on a Saturday... except...

Got in early today to clear the sick and urine off the step. An unpaid 20 min, but rather that than be paid to stand smelling it all morning when customers traipse it in to the carpet inside. The joys of weekend retail in a street with clubs and pubs.

We have a half day on a Friday; unless you're on shifts you leave at lunchtime. Mass exodus! Love it. If we didn't have it I would find it very hard to do any errands e.g. doctors/dentist/post office. I've been a teacher in the past and the extra unpaid hours are quite frankly ridiculous.

Depends if I have marking to do for Monday. I'd rather do it at work and walk out with nothing than leave early with a bag of books.

As it happens I had data entry to do yesterday so I did that until 4.30pm and still walked out with a bag of books, or else i'd have been there another hour!

Anyone who says teachers have it easy is an ignorant tosser.

Anyone who says teachers have it easy is an ignorant tosser

they don't have it easy, they have it different, all jobs are different, hard parts, easy parts, disadvantages, advantages - so they have it just like everybody else

No, I don't think they have it just like everyone else.
Why are thousands of teachers leaving their jobs in their droves?
there's reasons for that.

BeyondMyWits nah, teachers definitely have it harder than a lot of people.

I work in an office. I work office hours only. I don't do any extra unpaid work at home or in my break. I don't have to deal with budget cuts, irate parents, difficult children, government expectations. My job is a piece of piss compared to a teacher's job.

Nope, I work shifts so Friday is the same as any other day. It is often the first day of a set of shifts, so more like a Monday, with the added bonus of the rest of the world being all excited about the weekend.