Bang goes that idea

[ailbhe]

Well, Rob and I aren't going to get to go out. He worked late last night / this morning so will have to get to bed early tonight, and tomorrow he's scheduled to work late again.

Keeping track of his overtime doesn't help much because he never takes the time off in lieu for normal stuff, he just uses it for appointments and similar. So the domestic side of things never gets caught up.

WHY is work the ultimate priority for everyone? Even when it's past 1 am and you're expected in work at 8:30 am? It doesn't seem *right* that he can't schedule his TOIL for sleeping in, rather than having to eat into our one realistic chance to go out as a couple since four weeks before Linnea was born.

Plus, I've just discovered that my mother-in-law has a key to my house, without my having known about it.

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[alicephilippa.livejournal.com]

I had one occasion when confronted with the "you'll be expected to work late as required, but we don't pay overtime" situation that I responded (along the lines of "if you don't pay overtime, don't expect me to work late".

They were, to say the least, not impressed. After some umming and ahhing, they agreed to TOIL. Although the implication was there that I was being unprofessional.

There was on incident that caused a storm when I booked traveling time from a site in Scotland to home (Wales) on a Saturday. I was informed that I was not allowed to count it as part of my working week, as I'd had the opportunity to travel back on the Friday night. The obvious fact that it was impossible for me, due to train times, to get home on the Friday was as far as my line manager was concerned irrelevant. Yet this very same manager would only work about 32hrs a week even though he was contracted for 37.5hrs.

Alice.

[ailbhe]

I've asked it in interviews - "what are the working hours? And do people actually go home then, or is it normal to work much later?"