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anyone ever worked/currently work flexi?

Garrincha [Edit] [Delete] 22 replies 14:19, 15 October '13

I did for a while and had good intentions at the start.

Plan was to do 8-6 mon to thurs, then have half day friday.

By wee two, I was rolling in at 9.59 and leaving at 14.31, with an hr for lunch.

Ended up owing loads of flexi to them. Was up in front of the flexi beak on some trumped up charges of flexi abuse.

Got anothrr job.

Flexi tales...

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    Garrincha | 15 Oct '13, 14:19 | X
  • Yep fell miles behind too

    so i just didn't go in anymore after a pay day so they couldn't take the money off me

    safebruv | 15 Oct '13, 14:20 | X
  • I've never had it but i know myself well enough to know how it would work.

    I would turn up between 9.30 and 10 each monring but stay till 7 or 8 a few times a week so as to pay for my long lies and give me an early finish one day a week.

    I would fucking LOVE flexi.

    PickledOeuf | 15 Oct '13, 14:21 | X
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  • Yep

    It's good to have the freedom. Where I work it's capped at something like 21.5 hours - you can't build up any more credit, or fall behind any more than that - so you can use it to get a couple of days here and there, but no risk of owing weeks.

    DaisyFlower | 15 Oct '13, 14:22 | X
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  • i like how the 'trumpted up charges' are totally legit

    :)

    chris-budget | 15 Oct '13, 14:24 | X
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  • I enjoyed "up in front of the flexi beak"

    ohgood | 15 Oct '13, 14:25 | X
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  • :D

    deadonthestairs | 15 Oct '13, 14:26 | X
  • I enjoyed "up in front of the flexi beak" a lot

    ohgood | 15 Oct '13, 14:27 | X
    • well I think I've made it clear how much I enjoyed it

      ohgood @ohgood | 15 Oct '13, 14:27 | X
      • tell us again!

        PickledOeuf @ohgood | 15 Oct '13, 14:28 | X
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  • yea,

    had about 50+ hours last year which was nice, and it got traded in for AL so was pretty happy about that. Used to struggle but due to a number of shitty reasons am always at 20/30hrs credit at least so can pretty much come and go as I please, although it seems I come more :-(. Ours is also capped now so no chance of falling too far behind.

    Love it!

    moff | 15 Oct '13, 14:28 | X
  • one hour extra mon-thurs (1/2 hour taken from lunch)

    half day friday

    Jordan_229_2 | 15 Oct '13, 14:31 | X
  • if this is real

    you probably ended up landing the person who hired you in trouble for picking a dud

    brusma | 15 Oct '13, 14:35 | X
  • i would be so rubbish at flexi

    not having to be at work and staying there? that's hard maaannn

    harru | 15 Oct '13, 14:36 | X
  • yeah i used to, i did 8ish until 6ish for ages

    ended up being paid over a week's extra work when i left as i had about 50 hours saved up.

    pieces_of_reece | 15 Oct '13, 14:40 | X
  • yeah I got to choose when I worked in my last job

    never recorded my hours but most days I did 11-7

    DarwinDude | 15 Oct '13, 14:41 | X
  • sort of

    I was on a shift schedule so I had to work certain times, something like 9 - 5.30, but if I came in earlier or worked later this would be added to my flexi-balance and if I accumulated enough I could take additional time off work.

    In practice I almost always struggled to take all my holiday, to the point where my boss forced me to take a certain amount of time off a month in the run-up to Christmas </workaholic).

    wewerewerewolvesonce | 15 Oct '13, 14:41 | X
    • if I had this in my last job

      I would have accrued so much flexi time fo realz.

      wewerewerewolvesonce @wewerewerewolvesonce | 15 Oct '13, 14:42 | X
  • Used to have this when I worked at The NHS

    Was good - would roll in around 10ish with a hangover, work to 7 with a 20 minute lunch and build up enough flexi for every other Friday off. I miss those days.

    My missus works it at The MOD and given the multi-site nature of a lot of her work, the scope to take the piss is incredible. I swear that some of the folk she works with actually have second day jobs...

    Pentago | 15 Oct '13, 15:18 | X
  • I'm on it at the moment

    but we're only supposed to accrue 4 hours a week or so maximum, so none of this having whole days off malarkey that some people on here are chatting about. It is quite useful to have a bit of freedom to lie in/finish early etc, but in practice I don't use it that often, and tend to just do 9-5ish anyway. Maybe I would use it more if I could take whole days at a time off.

    Also, other people on flexi-contracts; what's the procedure for yours? We just have to give a form in which has recorded our hours to our line manager at the end of every month. As a result, it would be ridiculously easy for me to abuse flexi by lying about the hours I've been putting in, as there's no way she'd remember. I know a mate who works in another department has the whole *manager goes home at five. He cracks his knuckles and loudly declares that he'll probably be ploughing on with a piece of work for at least another hour. Leaves at 5:05 and puts down on his form that he's stayed for an hour* routine down to a tee.

    BobRickerton | 15 Oct '13, 16:39 | X
  • technically I do, as it's in my contract

    But the office culture is such that nobody uses it, and there are some nonsense hurdles which have been put in on place to keep it that way.

    A former colleague got bollocked for sometimes not being in by 9. He pointed out that flexi was in his contract and he always made up the time, on the same day.

    His manager's response was "well we can always change your contract"

    Lovely.

    Epimer | 15 Oct '13, 16:48 | X
  • Most places have limits, though, don't they.

    I have a 1.5 hour window at the start and end of each day when i can work from and until. If i don't hit my minimum contract hours then i have to make them up on the weekend. That motivates me to be a grown-up about the whole thing. It's good because some days i don't mind working, say, nine hours, whereas others might feel tired/stressed and so would rather work six or so.

    fluffycloud | 16 Oct '13, 08:43 | X
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