Your working hours per day???

China
September 4, 2008 9:30am CST
The legal working hours in my country are 8 hours,from 8:30am/9:00am to 5:30pm/6:00pm,with 1 or 2 hours lunch times.However,the actual situation is entirely different.Most of us work 10 or more hours,say spending over time in office.It'll be unusual for some one to leave office before 6:30pm,say most of us here will have 9 hours more working hours per day.It's not good`~How about you guys?Thanks for sharing~
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@Serath (86)
• South Africa
4 Sep 08
I work from 10am till 6pm (No lunch hour...work as you eat)
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• China
4 Sep 08
Wow,10am~It's my dreaming start time,if so,I can have a good sleep till 8:30am~`if...Thanks for sharing~
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@Serath (86)
• South Africa
4 Sep 08
It is kinda nice in that respect...but I only get home at aroun 7pm. The main reason for the working hours, is that our head office is in the U.K. so we need to adjust to their time for the customer's sake.
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• China
4 Sep 08
Ok,I see~
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• India
24 Apr 09
I don't know what the legal working time of my country are, and I'm not working either, but I see people working 12 hours at a stretch and I don't know how they tend to pull it off. They are worse than the military and they keep working like lab rats all the time without a break for fun or leisure. I hope I do not get into such a company which will make me work like that. bourne
• India
24 Apr 09
Exactly. They work to survive, but then again, their work becomes their life. They fail to realise that there are so many things that can be enjoyed. bourne
• China
24 Apr 09
Well,this is the true!!Without a work,how to survial?So then,everybody works harder and harder,even most of them don't know exactly what they're doing and where is the destination!!!! Thanks for sharing~
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
5 Sep 08
lol =D MY working hrs will shock most ple, only 7pm-11pm, for 7 days a week.. lol =D ANd my job?? A freelance instructor, responsible for fitness, and most of my trainees are students or working personnels, so i can only conduct my lessons in the evening ^_^ lol
@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
5 Sep 08
Nothing much to be jealous about.. Though i have my day time free, but i also have got things to do.. ANd night time should be the time where most ple are relaxing, but i'm working outside ^_^ hehe
• China
5 Sep 08
That's cool of your job.And you have all the daytime do whatever you like,I'm jealous of you so much``
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• China
7 Sep 08
LOL,You should have a good sense in time management coz you've the free day time which you can do other things~~
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@INGA832 (1114)
• Russian Federation
4 Sep 08
I work from 8:30am till 2:30pm. But sometimes I can stay for 1 or 2 hours longer.
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• China
4 Sep 08
2:30pm,that's cool for your working times..Then,there'll be still half day time for you to do something that you like.
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@jinxky (2248)
• Philippines
5 Sep 08
i'm working 8 hours too from 8:30 to 5:30 or 9am to 6pm. sometimes when i'm waiting for my cousin to go home, i will wait for her until 5:30 or 6pm hehehe..
• China
5 Sep 08
Well,it's nice to get a accompanier when going home from work~To kill the boring time in the bus/metro/car~~Thanks for response.
@jinxky (2248)
• Philippines
5 Sep 08
yeah that's why i'm alyways waiting for her hehehe..
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@mizstress (719)
• Philippines
19 Mar 09
my work starts at 11pm-8am from thurs-tues. so tuesdays and wednesdays becomes my weekends
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• China
24 Apr 09
wow~~amazing~I thought I were you~ Thanks for sharing~`
@nengs10 (3180)
• Philippines
5 Sep 08
I stay in the office from 2pm to 11pm. That's 9 hours all in all. My break time is already included there and that's an hour of free time. Sometimes, I go over time. I mean, I still work after 11pm, finishing some important things to do.
• China
7 Sep 08
So,my friend,you're working at night as well.I knew some guys around me who also working at night.They're working for some stock information agents which have to report the stock markets in USA as the time different~lol
• Malaysia
7 Sep 08
i work monday to friday, starts at 8am to 5pm with an hour lunch break. but of course, if i have loads of work i dont get to go back home at 5pm anyways
• China
9 Sep 08
Yea,loads of work ......I don't like it anyhow.Thanks for your response~
@saundyl (9783)
• Canada
4 Sep 08
My scheduled hours are 8:30 to 4:30 I generally dont take a lunch break so i dont have to stay in town for the extra half hour. Lots of times I end up being at work until 5:00 anyways because people don't know how to read signs that say CLOSED.
• China
5 Sep 08
Wow~Thanks for your response.
@fwangaa (3057)
• China
24 Apr 09
I will working for whole day, because I always playing computer, I think playing computer is a work that I must to do. So I also like that work that will let me know a lot of knowledge out of the book, i always work so many times also have a lot of fun, that support me to work so many times. I like this work , I can find what I want in this work . I need it to begin my new life. I want to be a worker for foreigner, that must be know English, so I can learn English in here, and can also earn some extra money that will encourage me to go on my job.
@angelia286 (2029)
• Singapore
5 Sep 08
9am to 6pm for me here (as stated on my contract with the company ). But in actual fact, I usually stay till 6.30 almost everyday, and the best part about it? We don't get overtime pay for this additional half hour unless we work overtime until after 7pm. Our overtime pay only starts from 7pm onwards. So that is 1 hour of free overtime for the company. Smart eh? So, us employees are even smarter. Lol, we come in at exactly 9am, but we won't start work exactly at 9am as we know definately most of times, we would have to stay back to work overtime, but yet this overtime would never ever exceed 7pm, so we don't get paid for that additional 1 hour of work. Hehe, so we come into the office at 9 am and only start work at 10am. During that 1 hour of time where we are 'working', we are actually drinking tea, surfing the internet and just doing our personal stuff. And when the boss comes in at around 10am, all of us would be dilligently working by that time! Lol. The company thought that they had us, but in fact, it is the other way round!!
@corngrass (727)
• Malaysia
7 Sep 08
My office working hour is from 8:30am to 5:30pm. But i usually will be in the office at around 7:45. Because if i reach late, there'll be no free parking for me and i have to go for the "pay" parking.
• China
9 Sep 08
Wow,you're good at saving and definitely diligent~~Thanks for your response~
@clorissa123 (4926)
• United States
1 May 09
Same as you, but 8 hours a day is official. We have to leave after 8 hours work is done. That is our working condition here. If I have to stay over time, they have to pay me the over time money. That is said under the clause of laws. No advantage is taken.