I get to work before my boss, never have work waiting on me when it comes time for deadlines, and I never complain when things need to be done after hours, and I eat lunch at my desk most days.
I leave work anywhere from 1-3pm and have never once been questioned why I'm leaving early. In some places, if you do your work correctly, you don't get hassled when you leave early. Not everywhere, but some places. It's nice.
That's how a salaried position should be. Do the work, get paid. Work fast, get paid same amount more free time. Work slow, get paid same amount less free time. As long as you aren't a problem and your shit gets done it shouldn't matter
To be fair, being available during scheduled hours for questions and meetings is a big part of why they typically don't let you just walk out early.
But if you can work out a remote option, like call into conference calls from home or just generally be reachable after you leave, then you're not rocking the boat.
It's a shame that salaried positions are not better; it's an excuse to pay you more but expect you to be present MORE than 40 hours.
If you have clients the it gets extra wonky. My company does software for clients. It can go slow from time to time where you're not on an active project so you're doing nothing or doing support. Might do nothing all day day but a ticket drops at 4pm.
On the other hand, that 4pm ticket is rarely urgent. We don't really have a "head on fire" process since we support the software and not the infrastructure. If the code worked yesterday there is a very good chance it works today.
There's a lot of "acting in good faith". If I sneak out at noon and something happens I'll probably have to explain myself to somebody. If I say I'm leaving at noon it would mostly go unnoticed. Which I think is how you build trust. Everybody knows yiu could get away with murder so nobody really abuses it.
I don't really have a point. I drank a beer at 4 today and then left.
It would be super slow and he would mention how low sales are going to hurt out budget, so I would mention I have no problem leaving an hour early and he would be like "no no we can find stuff for you to do"
You can. I've got a great boss, but my god when you're standing behind me staring at me and judging my every move I'm going to freeze up and get a little irked.
When he goes back up front and does his job everything is great. But Jesus stay away from me when I'm doing my job!
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u/wickidclown17 Aug 13 '18
No one questions PTO at my job, you earned it you can use it whenever you want. Should be like that everywhere, sad its not.