What are your Work Hours?

[Der Helm]

40 hours a week, between 6 a.m and 11 p.m.

I love call centers.

[Murgos]

Looks like second shift ins in the definite minority.

3:45pm - 12:15am.  2 15 minute breaks, one 30 minute lunch.  
"Don't be late, Or Else" attendance policy.

I hate call centers.

At the one I worked at a while back the breaks and lunch were paid time and you could take an hour for lunch if you wanted to but had to have it in your schedule.  Otherwise you were chained to your desk.  It was similar hours 4pm to midnight.

Fortunately, the job required no mental thought whatsoever.  I often played games through the entire shift while handling tech support problems over the phone.  Calls often dried up after 11pm as other call centers would come online (it was AOL)  and the last half hour was usually mostly just goofing off.

Easy work, paid well (for unskilled labor), full bennies (med, dental, eye, retirement), almost no room for advancement,  excellence or even interest.

[Shannow]

Weekdays: 09:30 - 17:30 (with payed lunch hour...woot)

Weekends: Sat: 5pm till late
                 Sun: 12noon till 4pm.

Yes living costs in Massachusetts are a bitch. (yay for snowstorms no weekend work this week!)

[Margalis]

I normally get to work between 11AM and 1 PM, though sometimes I get to work at 9:30-10 or as late as 2. I normally work until sometime between 6 PM and midnight. Oftentimes I go home and work some more until 2 or 3 AM, and I work weekends from home a lot too.

Basically, I can be working at any given time on any given day other than betwwen 3 AM and 9 AM.

I am a great employee in a lot of ways, I work at a startup company and without me the company would have failed for sure. (I was the first engineer hired and the only good one we had for years) So I get a lot of slack as far as work hours go. I work a ton of hours, just not in the morning.

[Comstar]

Rolling roster 10am to 6pm/1pm to 9pm weekdays with extra shifts on weekends being 8am-4pm/3-11pm.

Being on a rolling roster sucks mind you, no one should ever complain about having to wake up the same time every day.

[DarkDryad]

6:30a - 3:00p

Yep me too. God bless the govt.

[Paelos]

9AM - 6PM with an hour lunch I never take all of while eating at my desk. Luckily my company's perks are insane. PPO for both medical and dental, term life, 401k after one year matched up to 10%. 10 days vacation plus 6 days sick leave. 15 days after three years. Fully stocked fridge with 9 types of soft drinks for free, free coffee and tea, and free breakfast once a week.

[Rasix]

8:30 - 5 (flexible). I telecommute on Friday.  

They have a personal savings plan, ppo, dental, eye care, stock purchase plans, 15 days off starting along with I think 4 personal choice holidays this year,  free coffee, and 25 cent sodas.

Ohh, and my laptop kicks ass.

[Jimbo]

Emergency Room RN here, I have been working the night shift for 3 years straight now :)  7pm to 7am, 3 days a week.  I like to schedule as many days in a row for the 2 week period, so schedule goes like Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun, off, Tues, Wed. off for 7 days!

Those of us who work the night shift tend to be a bit crazy, but we get along pretty good, not like those day shift bitches.

[Sky]

1pm-9pm monday, 9am-5pm tuesday-friday, hour lunch.

I totally appreciate my hours, I've always worked lame hours. Last job (unloading trucks) was 10pm-6:30am, half-hour lunch, variable days. That totally killed what I used to call "social life", which here in buttholeville, ny starts at 10pm and ends at 2am. And then everyone bitches they have to get up early in the morning. Why people can't go 'clubbing' at like 8pm and go home at midnight is beyond me.

[Nebu]

Why people can't go 'clubbing' at like 8pm and go home at midnight is beyond me.

They do in the midwest... but then again, you have to live in the midwest.  Life's tradeoffs are funny like that.

Edit: As a musician you could appreciate this.  I used to play the Minneapolis scene and some of the surrounding states.  At that time, last call in Minneapolis was at 12:45.  So we'd finish, tear down the bear minimum on multi-day gigs and be out of there by 2am.  Made working a job or going to school doable.

[Dark Vengeance]

That totally killed what I used to call "social life", which here in buttholeville, ny starts at 10pm and ends at 2am. And then everyone bitches they have to get up early in the morning. Why people can't go 'clubbing' at like 8pm and go home at midnight is beyond me.

If you get to the club at 8PM, it's virtually empty. Moreover, if you arrive before 10PM or so, everybody knows you didn't have anything better to do beforehand. And you can't have that.

A very small population of folks actually do the routine seen so often on Friends or Will & Grace. Namely, having dinner at a new overly pretentious restaurant with a small group of friends, then getting together with yet more friends for some random social event that doesn't extend past midnight or so. What these are, I have no idea...on TV, it often ends up including museums for some strange reason, and you know the average 20-something isn't doing that.

But what I'm getting at is that you've got a small group of people that does that sort of thing, and everyone else kind of emulates it like sheep....not wanting to get to the club "too early" and such.

It's fantastically retarded, which is why I find myself avoiding clubs, and sticking to dive bars where young people are there primarily to get piss drunk, or corner pubs where old men are there to avoid their wives and bitch about football.

Bring the noise.
Cheers............

[Tebonas]

7 hours, 45 minutes from monday to Friday. Everybody has to be there from 9:30 to 3pm. Lunch break from 12:30 to 13:30.

Usually I come early (around 7 to 7:30) and go home around 3 to 4pm. Gives me the occasional free Friday afternoon.

[Mi_Tes]

Mine is 8-5 with an hour lunch.  However, because I am salaried and want my project to suceed, most days I get in at 7:20am, eat lunch at my desk while working, and stay late (depending on deadlines).

[Grelf]

Family business that I get to at 9, leave at 5, and commute 10 minutes to. Some days I come in at 10, or leave at 4, depending on how busy it is. Only thing that makes it all bearable is the fact my dog comes to work with me everyday, and my boss isn't that big of a pain in the ass, since she's my mom.

And of course the realization that eventually, it'll be my business. And then I get to bring the whips and chains to work and get some goddamn productivity going.

[murdoc]

8am-8pm most of the time, but I work 6 out of 7 nights 8pm-8am one week out of every month.

The 12 hr shifts are sometimes tough, but I only work 27 shifts in 60 days and get a week off every month to make up for the string of night shifts so I can't complain too loudly.

[Fargull]

I am a cubite.  I work 8-5 M-F, with the always option to work over.  I have a vague understanding of where the sun is via distant windows.  The only bonus aside from the paycheck is I do have all the standard benefits and just got a new laptop.

[WayAbvPar]

9AM - 6PM with an hour lunch I never take all of while eating at my desk. Luckily my company's perks are insane. PPO for both medical and dental, term life, 401k after one year matched up to 10%. 10 days vacation plus 6 days sick leave. 15 days after three years. Fully stocked fridge with 9 types of soft drinks for free, free coffee and tea, and free breakfast once a week.

Wow, that sounds damned familiar. Are you in the cube down the hall?

[RhyssaFireheart]

I got a new work schedule for the new year, which makes me a lucky girl.

Monday : work at home (technically 8-5)
Tuesday - Thursday : work onsite at our client (again, technically 8-5)
Friday : work at home (technically - yeah right.)

I've been leaving my work laptop connected from Friday morning through Monday evening when I pack up for the commute the next day.  I usually get to my desk around 9-ish and start packing up to leave around 4:30 so I can catch the 5:16 train home.  I justify this through the simple fact that I can and have taken calls on the train, and that I can and have worked late onsite or at home if need be.  Besides, my commute to downtown Chicago averages 2 hours one way (home-to-desk).  Yes, I spend 4 hours a day, 3 days a week commuting when I go downtown.  It's not so bad, it used to be 5 days a week.

When left to my own devices (aka the 9 months I was out of work a few years ago) I tend to fall into a pattern of going to bed at 2am-ish and getting up around 9am.  I still do that over the holidays and on vacations.  

Oh yeah, morning people need to be shot.  You are not normal.

[Tebonas]

25 paid free days per year are decreed by law around here. Capitalism is fine and dandy, but we have our upsides as well.

[Dren]

6:30 - 3:30 p.m.  
45 minutes commute one way
Wake: 5:00 a.m.
Sleep: 10:30 p.m.

Off days: sleep at ??? wake no earlier than 9:00 a.m.

I'm a forced morning person, but the pay makes up for it.
I get 26 days off per year AND I live in the USA *snicker*

I am also on flex time so I can adjust my schedule however I feel.  I can work from home too when necessary.

[Paelos]

I went to bed at 2AM yesterday, so I'm dragging major ass this morning. Luckily, the boss is out of town, so I'm just going to relax. My job is good.

[Hanzii]

9AM - 6PM with an hour lunch I never take all of while eating at my desk. Luckily my company's perks are insane. PPO for both medical and dental, term life, 401k after one year matched up to 10%. 10 days vacation plus 6 days sick leave. 15 days after three years. Fully stocked fridge with 9 types of soft drinks for free, free coffee and tea, and free breakfast once a week.

If those perks are insane, I'm not going to even mention mine for fear that you'd shoot yourself...

[Paelos]

European perks aren't comparable. That's like comparing my work week to a guy working in Jamaica. Now a European to Jamaican comparison would be cool.

[Samwise]

If we're talking about fun perks: we get massages every couple of weeks, a company train trip each fall (with private rail cars), and our break area contains a miniature theater, a pool table, ping-pong, foosball, an Asteroids cabinet, and pinball.

[Paelos]

Our breakroom has an oven, dishwasher, a nice fridge, and a plasma 42 inch TV that we watch the news on. I'm hoping they'll pick up the ESPN package during March for the Madness.

[Samwise]

Our old office had an oven.  I miss it.  :(  Can't make pie in a microwave.

[Bunk]

Tech Support breakroom in our company includes Pool, Foosball, 50" TV, couches and beanbags, air hockey, PS2.

[murdoc]

We don't even have windows in our area.

[Signe]

I might have to get me one of these job thingies.  I've not had a holiday in ages!

[Hanzii]

European perks aren't comparable. That's like comparing my work week to a guy working in Jamaica. Now a European to Jamaican comparison would be cool.

Apart from the fact that Europe and the US has more in common (like being first world market economies) and that our wages compare.

As to Samwise:
I see the massages and can probably raise you copius amounts of paid time off... but the shartered train takes the pot. That's pretty cool.
We did all go to Cannes for the weekend, though (and Barcelona the year before) but that was on a commercial airline. I still want me own train.

[Samwise]

I still want me own train.

We don't charter the whole train, fortunately, since that'd be ludicrously expensive.  :)  There are a number of private car owners in the country that'll rent them out to you.  Instead of chartering an engine to haul the cars, they get hooked onto the back of an existing Amtrak passenger train, and you're off.  (The owner of the car usually comes along to supervise this process, frequently doubling as a bartender during the journey.)  It's not what I'd call cheap (on the order of thousands of dollars, I think), but for a company-wide trip it's pretty reasonable.