Job advert for office staff.
9am start. Work for 4 hours.
1pm break for 15 mins.
Work for 3 hours.
4:15pm break for 30 mins.
Work for 3 3/4 hours.
Finish 8:30pm.
Get home, shower and eat tea - 10pm
Take dog for a walk or cut the grass - 11pm
Watch tv and relax, chat with wife and kids - 12:30.
Brush teeth and have ■■■ - 1am.
7 hours sleep and alarm at 8am ready to repeat. (■■■ optional)
Would you go for this job■■?
You’re not leaving a lot of time for ■■■ if it starts at 1 am and you still get 7hrs sleep before the 8am alarm!
Part time job then, should be finishing at midnight three days of the week and 10pm the other two.
Is the dog, for walking, and ■■■ (dogging?) supplied, a bit like a company car and suit allowance.
What’s the pay and what office job works that long a day?
One of our neighbours partner’s works similar hours to that, though I don’t know about the breaks or ■■■ but they do have three kids! 
She leaves home around 8.30 am and often works until 8-9 pm, salaried as well so just gets time off for hours worked instead of OT. She works in reabilitating prisoners back into society on their release and travels about 18 miles each way to work.
Pete.
Yeah the hours are pretty normal for office work, especially in transport. Though 12 hours is more normal as desks are filled all the time then.
Surprised there are set breaks, as usually office is work is fluid so you grab a break if you can.
Depends what money is being offered to be honest
Around £10 - £11 per hour
Im presuming the OP is implying that what normal people (office workers) would work truckers hours if the advert was layed out as he put it. (i.e the 15min brk, then 30min brk)■■
Darkside:
Yeah the hours are pretty normal for office work, especially in transport. Though 12 hours is more normal as desks are filled all the time then.Surprised there are set breaks, as usually office is work is fluid so you grab a break if you can.
Depends what money is being offered to be honest
What offices are those? Ive done a few office jobs (all salaried). ALL set 8 hours. in at 9, leave office on the dot at 5. hour lunch break. Only a mug would work 9 til 8.30 in an office unless hourly paid!
Swordsy:
Darkside:
Yeah the hours are pretty normal for office work, especially in transport. Though 12 hours is more normal as desks are filled all the time then.Surprised there are set breaks, as usually office is work is fluid so you grab a break if you can.
Depends what money is being offered to be honest
What offices are those? Ive done a few office jobs (all salaried). ALL set 8 hours. in at 9, leave office on the dot at 5. hour lunch break. Only a mug would work 9 til 8.30 in an office unless hourly paid!
hey thanks for that…though it depends what the salary is…
Like I said those are pretty normal office hours for transport…
Swordsy:
Im presuming the OP is implying that what normal people (office workers) would work truckers hours if the advert was layed out as he put it. (i.e the 15min brk, then 30min brk)■■
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Job advert for office staff.
9am start. Work for 4 hours.
1pm break for 15 mins.
Work for 3 hours.
4:15pm break for 30 mins.
Work for 3 3/4 hours.
Finish 8:30pm.
Get home, shower and eat tea - 10pm
Take dog for a walk or cut the grass - 11pm
Watch tv and relax, chat with wife and kids - 12:30.
Brush teeth and have ■■■ - 1am.
7 hours sleep and alarm at 8am ready to repeat. (■■■ optional)Would you go for this job■■?
Depends on other factors, like the intensity of the work, and the number of days a week. For a 3 or 4 day week, it might be preferable to 8x5.
If you can play cards for a part of the day in a relaxed environment (i.e. one in which people often laugh and banter loudly), but have to be available to be called on (like a security guard or a reactive maintenance worker), that’s different from relentlessly concentrating from 0900 to 1615 with only 15 minutes break, and then taking 30 minutes break followed by what might be regarded as almost 4 hours overtime.
5 minutes of break per hour worked (usually taken as 10 minutes every 2 hours or so) is generally regarded as the baseline for maintaining productivity, on top the time that is obviously needed to get and eat two proper meals twice in 12 hours.
For 3 days a week you can work till midnight.
You get to put a sponge mattress on your desk and are locked out of the toilets.
You get paid £25 for this but the landlord will take £18 back for staying at the property.
You can use the spare money to pay for tea and breakfast and lunch the following day.
Sound tempting??
Darkside:
Swordsy:
Darkside:
Yeah the hours are pretty normal for office work, especially in transport. Though 12 hours is more normal as desks are filled all the time then.Surprised there are set breaks, as usually office is work is fluid so you grab a break if you can.
Depends what money is being offered to be honest
What offices are those? Ive done a few office jobs (all salaried). ALL set 8 hours. in at 9, leave office on the dot at 5. hour lunch break. Only a mug would work 9 til 8.30 in an office unless hourly paid!
hey thanks for that…though it depends what the salary is…
Like I said those are pretty normal office hours for transport…
And there we have the underlying problem with our industry. The acceptance that working nearly twice the hours of most ordinary jobs is ‘normal’…
Honked:
Job advert for office staff.
9am start. Work for 4 hours.
1pm break for 15 mins.
Work for 3 hours.
4:15pm break for 30 mins.
Work for 3 3/4 hours.
Finish 8:30pm.
Get home, shower and eat tea - 10pm
Take dog for a walk or cut the grass - 11pm
Watch tv and relax, chat with wife and kids - 12:30.
Brush teeth and have ■■■ - 1am.
7 hours sleep and alarm at 8am ready to repeat. (■■■ optional)Would you go for this job■■?
It’s not far off what I do apart from I work 7am - 17.45pm. Plus I’m on salary which works out of a lot less per hour than 99% of the people on here.
My rough maths works that out to around about £28,000 a year not bad imo for an office job! I get the OP’s point of would office workers do what apparently trampers do for a living. The point is they are two entirely different jobs so the conditions, length of time spent at work are going to differ obviously 
, personally i think its horses for courses some people are happy being in an office all day some are happy driving , though maybe not many on here it appears 
! Maybe the office bod that the OP seems to be putting down may be wanting to go driving or vice versa!
the nodding donkey:
Darkside:
Swordsy:
Darkside:
Yeah the hours are pretty normal for office work, especially in transport. Though 12 hours is more normal as desks are filled all the time then.Surprised there are set breaks, as usually office is work is fluid so you grab a break if you can.
Depends what money is being offered to be honest
What offices are those? Ive done a few office jobs (all salaried). ALL set 8 hours. in at 9, leave office on the dot at 5. hour lunch break. Only a mug would work 9 til 8.30 in an office unless hourly paid!
hey thanks for that…though it depends what the salary is…
Like I said those are pretty normal office hours for transport…
And there we have the underlying problem with our industry. The acceptance that working nearly twice the hours of most ordinary jobs is ‘normal’…
Unfortunately it will only get worse post Brexit because those tacho laws will be altered…
the nodding donkey:
Darkside:
Swordsy:
Darkside:
Yeah the hours are pretty normal for office work, especially in transport. Though 12 hours is more normal as desks are filled all the time then.Surprised there are set breaks, as usually office is work is fluid so you grab a break if you can.
Depends what money is being offered to be honest
What offices are those? Ive done a few office jobs (all salaried). ALL set 8 hours. in at 9, leave office on the dot at 5. hour lunch break. Only a mug would work 9 til 8.30 in an office unless hourly paid!
hey thanks for that…though it depends what the salary is…
Like I said those are pretty normal office hours for transport…
And there we have the underlying problem with our industry. The acceptance that working nearly twice the hours of most ordinary jobs is ‘normal’…
+1, hopefully one day people will wake up and smell the coffee!! can’t see that happening anytime soon though,never mind its friday night yee haah
I think we maybe closer than we think to working hours being at least examined.
IMHO (regretfully) I can foresee a huge multi vehicle pile up occurring on a scale as what happened a fair few years ago on the M6 (I think??).
I’m don’t really believe it will actually change anything but I do think our working hours will be the focus of both the media and the usual govt departments.