It sucks.

[Ted Striker]

I believe the Department of Justice now is required to offer their workers the option to telecommute.

DanS might have more info but I think he works for State.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
Yup,

I'm logging 37.5 in my govurnment job

sure I'm probably making 2/3 to 1/2 of what my peers are making, but hey, I have quite a nice life.

Always a tradeoff. Most people don't have to work 70-80 hours, but they want the $100,000 a year salary and drive the BMW. Their choice.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
I believe the Department of Justice now is required to offer their workers the option to telecommute.

DanS might have more info but I think he works for State.

Department of Labor has offered that ("flexiplace") for those who have worked in the Agency for a year, for a while now, I think. It'd be good for other Departments to have such an option... especially since Bush was trying to do away with the GS system (but lost).

[GePap]

Work to live. not live to work.

[Ted Striker]

I'd KILL to work 40 hours a week

Especially actually showing up and leaving the same time every day would rule

None of this on call 24 hours a day bull****

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
What do you do with all the free time if you work just 40 hours a week?

seriously! i only work 40 and i have plenty of free time.

[Dis]

40 isn't bad. i actually found myself getting bored. But once you start getting over 50... But it all depends on how much time you spend on computer games. I don't spend nearly as much time playing computer games as I did in the 90's.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The MrFun project has succeeded!

I hope you're wrong.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
What do you do with all the free time if you work just 40 hours a week?

Spend it with people who matter in your personal life -- in other words, quality time with true friends and your family.

Spending some of the free time just with yourself, doing whatever you enjoy doing -- enjoying living for the sake of living!!

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


You don't know how good it is. I'm glad I didn't go into private practice. I go in for my 40 hours and I'm done. My fellow law students are pulling 60, 70, 80 hour weeks.

I really don't mind 40 hours a week either.

Just so people do not misunderstand me.

I recently switched to full-time hours at Super Target because I need more money to cover living expenses and debt payments.

This is on top of working on my Masters thesis. And if I resume teaching part-time this fall, I will have to go back to part-time hours at Super Target again.


I will enjoy teaching full-time after I obtain my Masters -- what I do NOT enjoy doing right now full-time, is working at Super Target.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What I hate is that I've seen several studies showing that, in the case of office workers, you don't actually get more than 6 hours of productivity out of them no matter how long you force them to stay at work; the rest of the time is just spent screwing around. I, for one, would rather work like a dog from 8-2, then have the rest of the day to myself.

[Ted Striker]

You are correct Rufus

On top of that, the productivity surveys that come out, the top 5 countries, all beating the US, all have less than 40 hours a week workweeks.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
You are correct Rufus

On top of that, the productivity surveys that come out, the top 5 countries, all beating the US, all have less than 40 hours a week workweeks.

And more vacation, too. Which makes sense; the promise of 6 weeks vacation would certainly do wonders for my productivity.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
You are correct Rufus

On top of that, the productivity surveys that come out, the top 5 countries, all beating the US, all have less than 40 hours a week workweeks.

Good to know that my protest is backed with evidence!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
What I hate is that I've seen several studies showing that, in the case of office workers, you don't actually get more than 6 hours of productivity out of them no matter how long you force them to stay at work; the rest of the time is just spent screwing around. I, for one, would rather work like a dog from 8-2, then have the rest of the day to myself.

Just wondering, would you have links or cites to these studies? I love to look at some of them.