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How many hours do you work each week?
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| 5% | 15 votes |
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 14 2016, @04:42PM
I went with the last option but that bastard never does what he's told.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @08:21PM
I asked Mighty Buzzard to post this poll for me, but he screwed up and posted it twice (1 [soylentnews.org]
2 [soylentnews.org]).
Just goes to show, if you want something done right, do it yourself.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 15 2016, @11:27AM
Dude, polls went epically wonky yesterday. It kept showing the old poll unless it got posted twice for some insane reason.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday February 22 2016, @08:12PM
He's obviously working extra time this week then to change his polling score
(Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Monday February 15 2016, @03:33AM
How much work I get done.....20 - 30 hours.
Side note; why do the categories overlap? 20 - 30; 30 - 40.....what if I do exactly 30 hours a week?
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(Score: 5, Informative) by bart9h on Monday February 15 2016, @01:07PM
They do not overlap. Note that the intervals start with [ and end with ).
It's a specif math notation for intervals: [ ] mean a closed interval, that is the extremities are included, and ( ) means an open interval, that is, the extremities are excluded.
So [20-30) means >= 20 and 30.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @02:32PM
html fail much?
use html entities (e.g. ≤ and <):
≤ 20 and < 30
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @06:01PM
Math fail much? Surely ≥ would have made more sense.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday February 22 2016, @03:23PM
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday February 25 2016, @10:26AM
GTE (a.k.a. the Great Telephone Experiment) have been defunct for years while GE are still going strong, so I think he did mean GE.
(Score: 2) by tynin on Thursday February 18 2016, @10:12PM
I noticed that linux command line partitioning tool, parted, does the same. If you want to have 2 partitions use 100% of your disk space, and you are using unit %, you have to mkpart the start at 0% and the end at 50%, then the 2nd partition, start at 50% and end at 100%. Otherwise 1% of your space goes unallocated. I've been trying to wrap my head around why that would be for a while now...
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday February 19 2016, @01:02AM
50% means the exact point of 50%. It does not mean the interval from 50% to 51%. Unless you've got some *seriously* weird hardware the exact point of 50% is going to be between two bits, so it includes neither.
(Score: 2) by tynin on Friday February 19 2016, @05:16AM
Either all vendors have an even number of sectors on there drives, or parted knows to discard the last one in case of an odd number (not exactly a challenge to accomplish). When I was initially presented with it, I went with 0-50 as partition sda1 and 51-100 as partition sda2, and then noticed partition size diff of 1%. It isn't obvious from the man pages or the help flag how they treat percentile boundaries. From how things read, 50% meant the entire part of the first 50%, all the way to the end of the first 50%... not some floating point where the remainders made both of them fall on the closer to 50% range. I suppose this is a function of how percentages work that I am having trouble grokking? Alas, my high school level math is likely failing me.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday February 19 2016, @02:34PM
It looks like your common sense didn't fail you though. 0-50 covers 50 points. 51-100 covers 50 points.
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(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday February 19 2016, @10:27PM
Say your hard drive is 100 bytes. So each percent is a byte, meaning 0-50% is bytes 0-50 and 51-100% is bytes 51-100.
Now suppose that hard drive is 1000 bytes. Now each percentage is ten bytes. 0-50% is bytes 0-500, 51-100% is bytes 510 - 1000. Bytes 501-509 must go unallocated. In that case you'd need to use 0-50% and 50.1-100%
With a terrabyte hard drive, you'd need a LOT of zeros after that decimal point... :)
(Score: 2) by tynin on Friday February 19 2016, @11:50PM
Thanks! That makes perfect sense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 25 2016, @02:05PM
You mean terabyte. It's monstrously large (Greek "teras" = monster), but not quite earth-sized (Latin "terra" = earth).
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday February 19 2016, @01:03AM
Are you *sure* you weren't one nanosecond over or under? ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @06:10AM
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Says so when I vote. (no js, cookies) Don't like the sound of it. :-/
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday February 15 2016, @10:06AM
I don't either: i'd ask Rick or Daryl... Maybe Carol if you want nightmares.....
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday February 15 2016, @10:40PM
Exactly 40 hours :)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Tuesday February 16 2016, @09:35PM
There should be a second poll how many hours do you put down you worked... not the same thing as hours worked for sure :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 20 2016, @11:37PM
and overtime.
Ever worked with people who vanish at 2pm, arrive back at work at 4 to 5pm, then "have to work" overtime to get their work done?
Contractors. Keep an eye on their work and their time.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jelizondo on Tuesday February 16 2016, @12:41AM
As the saying goes, "Time is money" so you exchange your time for money and then find out you have lots of money and no time to enjoy spending it.
So, years ago due to various external factors I was forced to ask myself, how much money do I really need?
The answer was a lot less than I could make working 60+ hours a week, so currently I work about 20 hours a week and I have time to read, study and go have a drink with friends...
YMMV
(Score: 2) by timbim on Wednesday February 17 2016, @08:27PM
Exactly my friend :)
(Score: 2) by mmcmonster on Thursday February 18 2016, @12:16AM
True.
But another way of looking at it is 'time spent working now can buy me an early retirement'.
I work 60+ hour weeks and get paid quite well for it.I have (relatively) little extravagances, but put at least half my post-tax money in investments towards an early retirement. I don't have a retirement date, but it's more along the lines of "when the kids are financially independent".
(Score: 2) by Webweasel on Thursday February 18 2016, @04:33PM
Yup, pretty much what I was going to post.
Paying every pound I can off of my mortgage as fast as I can is my priority.
If I can do the overtime to pay off and extra £1k a month, without impacting myself or my family, then make hay while the sun shines.
For those in the UK, if your starting to hit the higher rate of tax, see if you can pay more into your pension and save the tax. There's plenty of schemes that allow you to do extra payments.
Oh how I wish I could go back and convince my 20 year old self that a pension was a good idea. Shame I had got the impression that it would end up being taken by government and executives. Its hard to have faith in something I read so many horror stories about.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday February 25 2016, @05:52AM
Oh how I wish I could go back and convince my 20 year old self that a pension was a good idea.
If you're going to do that, give lottery numbers instead. It's nice that you won the pension lottery, but that wasn't something you knew back then.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by isostatic on Monday February 22 2016, @08:10PM
But another way of looking at it is 'time spent working now can buy me an early retirement'.
I've seen so many people who worked hard all their life, and die within a couple of years of retirement. I'd rather have a 2 year sabbatical in my 30s and retire 2 years later, YMMV.
(Score: 2) by mmcmonster on Tuesday February 23 2016, @01:46AM
A two year break in your career is likely going to have you retire more than two years later.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 26 2016, @07:43PM
That's great and good for you.
My brother is working 60+ hours a week just to keep his job. His employer kept adding to his plate while they reorganized. Now he's training two Indians on how to do his job and his bosses haven't said where he'll go next. Apply to another job? There's nothing out there. He's shitt'n bricks.
Me? My job was off-shored years ago.
I did very well in my CS classes. I always received excellent reviews from bosses. And enjoyed keeping my skills up to date with classes, reading and FOSS projects.
No one cares.
I take Coursera courses on a regular basis and nobody cares. I don't pay for certs from them because they are worthless.
Here's what I heard:
"If he were any good, he'd have a job." - a response to a friend who asked a friend about hiring me.
"Are you an alcoholic!" - my psychiatrist cousin when found that her cousin in technology couldn't get a job where there is such a "shortage" of workers.
"Sorry, you don't have the skills." - what skills I was missing was never mentioned; even when asked.
"You wouldn't fit in."
There's more.
Do not take your position for granted in this industry. STEM is a field to be off-shored or H1-bs to work.
I'm OK because my wife is a medical practitioner. Yeah, at first she was wondering what my problem was - she NEVER has a problem with employment. As I spiraled deeper into depression, she started investigating. And as more and more articles show how we in tech aren't as set up as everyone thinks - everyone who says there's a shortage of workers is a liar - she started to relax.
Thank my personal god (who is demanding to be fed right now) that she is brilliant.
Enjoy your lifestyle now, but remember it will go away.
(Score: 2) by rob_on_earth on Tuesday February 16 2016, @08:12AM
the real question is how many hours a week are you Paid/Contracted to work.
Not to mention are breaks/lunch considered paid.
(Score: 2) by Webweasel on Friday February 19 2016, @11:53AM
35 Hours.
But I can work as much overtime as I want, got about 3 years worth of projects lined up as well as BAU.
So, I typically do 3x 60 hour weeks then 1 x 35 hour as a rest week.
My choice, the work is there but if I want to do just 35 hour weeks I can.
But as I say above, I have a mortgage to pay, so make hay while the sun shines.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Valkor on Tuesday February 16 2016, @09:52PM
I figure the world gets about 3 solid hours of work out of me per day. The rest is just fucking around.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday February 25 2016, @04:10AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16 2016, @11:54PM
Some people can only do anti-work
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 19 2016, @06:57PM
Some people can only do anti-work
Oh yeah, familiar with those guys. Spend more time trying to get out of work than it would have taken to just do the work in the first place.
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Saturday February 20 2016, @03:13AM
Or they just work, but end up breaking things so others have to longer to fix those mistakes than to get original work done.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday February 20 2016, @02:40PM
Sounds like when i was using Windows :)
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(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Sunday February 21 2016, @10:04AM
As they say in 1950's comedies:
It all depends what you mean by "work".
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Sunday February 21 2016, @07:24PM
For my official job? Plus computer stuff for my wife's company? Plus more computer stuff that is useful, but I'm actually doing for fun? Like - I set up my first LXD container yesterday, just to see how it all worked. There's a whole spectrum, and I'm not sure where "work" stops and hobby starts. Yes, I'm a computer nerd through and through...
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 25 2016, @02:50AM
Today, I only work 40 hrs/week, and tend to cheat a few minutes each day. After the shift change meetings, I lock my stuff up, and head for the door - anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes before official end of shift. I never stare at the clock, waiting for those last seconds to tick by. For most of my life, I've exceeded 60 hrs/week. 100 hrs wasn't terribly unusual.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 26 2016, @06:52PM
When I was working, it was anywhere from 60-200 hours per week.
How do you work over 168 hours a week you ask?
Lets see who figures this out. There was no time travel involved here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 26 2016, @06:54PM
And overtime has nothing to do with this.