I was going to make the point yesterday
that the "not having hours specified in a contract" is usually directly correlated to "actually being paid a decent amount of money" but I couldn't think of a way of doing it that didn't come across as "ner ner ner I get paid a lot" ... so I didn't. But it's true.

The other point that Captain P massively misses, because he's too busy getting stressed about the negatives, is that "no specified hours" works both ways. If it's sunny and I want to spend the day in a pub beer garden rather than the office, or go to the beach, or nip off skiing for a day in the winter, I can. Without asking permission or taking a day off or lying that I'm ill.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:25, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Quite,
the way it works in that way is, if you've got too much work to cope with then a decent manager will recognise this and get more staff to help, or if they can't afford more staff but the work is still piling up, then your business is flawed in some way and will fail.

Conversaly if there is too little for you to do and you end up being able to take loads of slack days off, then you get made redundant because your job clearly isn't needed.

Most people probably have a balance where some days you're really busy and end up working late, and other days you get to knock off early to make up for it.

Swipe is clearly the exception with her stupid long hours, but she gets paid millions of pounds so she can just suck it up.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:31, Reply)

Couple of my friends also choose, with their jobs
to work 14+ hours a day for 6 days a week for massive reward, with the intention of retiring at 40. Not how I'd do it, but I can see why you might. As you say, it's all about balance.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 15 Aug 2012, 10:35, Reply)