The 8-5 Employee

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Are you the regular employee who has an 8am-5pm schedule? Chances are you’re always looking for the much awaited bell in the bundy informing everyone that it’s 5:00 pm already. I’ve worked for 19 years in 5 companies but it’s not always been an 8-5 work schedule for me as I had jobs with shifting schedule.

I experienced a three shifting work schedule and rounded almost all of the shifts including 6am-2pm, 2-10pm and 10pm-6am when I was in my first job in semi-conductor/electronics Company. I love the night schedule as it seems faster than any shift we have. In the government where I worked in an 8-5 schedule the employees really get out at exactly 5 pm unlike when I transferred in private companies where schedule is more flexible depending on your kind of work. I used to go home past 5pm or later if my boss required me to finish our bidding proposals.

I hate rushing up to go out of the office at exactly 5pm because I don’t want to feel banded by time constraints. I had a very difficult multi-tasking job and before I go home I want to relax a bit, have coffee and tidy all my things and my seatmate’s table before I go out of the office. I don’t want to work the next morning with plenty of due tasks so I end the day with my work completed or updated. When I already have kids I rushed going home but I never beat the 5pm clock. I chose the 9-6 schedule so I have ample time in the morning to arrange my kids’ things in going to school and prepare their food for the whole day.

Now it’s easier to work at home because you have the ability to manage your time, more flexible and perfect for Moms like me. How about you? Do you manage your work time well?

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Time Management

I have tons of online work to do plus the new domain that I’ve been working on but my offline tasks won’t have doing them first. No matter how many tasks I’ll have to do it’s sad to think that writing posts is of second priority as I need some documents notarized, need to attend parents’ meeting, need to check my bank account and many other things. I wasn’t actually expecting that working at home can really be a test on my skills on time scheduling.

It’s alright for the time scheduling as I can do all these work fast but by the time I’m through with the errands and finished with my school check on my kids I feel tired and I can’t work much less write reviews. Oftentimes I do all my works at night when I’m relaxed enough to think of worthwhile things to say. It’s ok even though this week has given less sleeping hours as long as I’m able to attend to my kids and beat my tasks’ due dates.

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Finally A Replacement!

I’m having a hard time arranging my things in my office. I have to put away all unnecessary files so my turn over would be much easier. Three weeks ago I finally found someone who will replace me. I was the one who personally examined and interviewed her so I’ll know if she’s capable of the duties that she’ll be handling. This time we hired an Accounting graduate with few years experience in all accounting areas. I liked her on site and I think she can manage to handle multi-tasking jobs that I’ll give to her.

Now I feel better that soon I can finally get on leaving my work in BT&T and just work on a part-time basis. I can start some renovation on the house and arrange my things like documents, jewelry, photo albums and many other accessories. My work has really limited my time organizing my household so that’s my priority once I started my part-time job. I’ll have 3 days work in the office, 3 days in the house and 1 day for fellowship. I guess that’s good enough.

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Flexitime Sked

Quite happy this evening as my boss approved my request for a flexitime schedule. I've requested this schedule due to the ongoing manila-east road widening in our town which causes a lot of delay on me on my way to work. As anyone can see whenever they passes A. Bonifacio Avenue in Cainta there's a lot of mess caused by the slow demolition and clearing up. Every morning I tried to talk to anyone in the contractors' team to clear up but they would always say tomorrow. I can't actually put the blame on them as they're just a daily wage earner, I should be reporting this to the higher ranks as now I'm fearing for dengue due to new drainage construction which were done amazingly slow.

I appealed to my boss as I'm only extending my stay until they find someone to replace my position. My boss is really considerate as he immediately approved my request. It was a big help on my part as I'll have the flexibility of time to work eight hours a day and completing them conveniently. This is a good evening for me, I learned my boss' reply this night only while I'm doing some posts.

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