At your job how many hours are you doing “real work” in your shift?

[Sage Ninja]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

In a few days, maybe 0 hours.

yeah seriously. My state has cancelled public schools and restaurants have shut down dining areas and all you do is drive through or take out (for now) everyone is panic shopping because the threat of quarantine is very real in my area. There has even been a confirmed case of corona virus in the county I live in.

[CyberCubed]

I live in NY and my job is business as usual. Nothing has changed. All restaurants/movies/schools/diners are closed though for like 2 weeks.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Sage Ninja

yeah seriously. My state has cancelled public schools and restaurants have shut down dining areas and all you do is drive through or take out (for now) everyone is panic shopping because the threat of quarantine is very real in my area. There has even been a confirmed case of corona virus in the county I live in.

Was that the announced DuPage cases?

[Leo656]

0 hours as of 8pm tonight.

Eh. Nobody lives forever.

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by Leo656

0 hours as of 8pm tonight.

Eh. Nobody lives forever.

Damn. Not the first person I've read that from today.

Good luck to everyone fighting the fight out there.

[Leo656]

The "best" is watching older, upper middle-age folks who've got their retirement money tied up in the markets trying to keep a brave face and a chuckle while they tell you they're not sure how they're gonna survive now that everything they've worked 40 years for is gone in a few days. I can do the ol' Fake Smile with the best of 'em, but that sh*t's just heartbreaking. Lots of tears and uncertainty, today.

Some of the members of my gym work in finance; they're split down the middle between "It's gonna blow over" and trying to find the tallest window to jump out of. More people are gonna die from the panic and fallout and the economic collapse than the virus. Way, WAY more. Mark my words.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

9 hr shifts, and out of all that time, only about 35 or so minutes of it is NOT spent doing actual work. And that is my break time and bathroom breaks if I take one. The rest of the time, I am taking orders, cleaning, making drinks, stocking, handing out food, or running a cash register.

[CyberCubed]

I feel I lucked out where I just started working for the first time in 2009-2010, after the early 2000’s since I was still in school and then College at the time and I never did any part time work while I was in school.

I’ve only been in the work force for about a decade, actually less than that since there were a few years I was out of work in between. But even while working when I was at the airport for 4 years I always had time to look at my phone while I was working. Of course the weather wasn’t good most of the time but that was a different issue.

Now I just sit by a computer desk all day spacing out for 7 out of those 8 hours or more. I have no quotas to fill and no deadlines to meet, so that’s why I enjoy staying relatively low on the totem pole in the job structure. No idea why people want to climb that corporate ladder besides making more money, it’s just too much work.

[CyberCubed]

Well I am officially working from home as of 4/15. Got a laptop/phone to work from home with. So I was only out of work for 1 week basically...missed about 7 days of pay, so no big deal.

Now I am home for the forseeable future, or whenever this ends.

[ABrown]

It's kind of funny. The majority of my time on forums like this are when I'm AT WORK in between customers.

[CyberCubed]

I'm still working from home all this time. It's pretty funny to play videogames during lunchbreak (since I don't leave my house for lunch), and then just browse my home computer while I have my work laptop right next to me.

The amount of money I've saved on travel expenses and buying lunch during the weekday is crazy.

[Leo656]

Yeah, you never really notice how much of your money goes to gas and lunch and other "work sh*t" until you remove it from the equation. At one point I was staying at a place about two minutes from my job and I was keeping almost half of every paycheck in my pocket after that, for a while. Crazy how things add up.

[CyberCubed]

When I was eating lunch out I try to spend no more than $4 a day. I never buy a drink or snacks, just whatever I get. If I start spending $5-6+ dollars a day on lunch I feel like I'm splurging.

[Leo656]

There was this awesome Chinese place next to my gym where I'd get lunch often. Generally just wonton soup and a shrimp egg roll. I agree, unless you're pulling more than ten hours in one shot you don't need to spend more than $5 on one meal.

When I was doing Nutritional Counseling and trying to get people on this one meal program we offered, in doing research for it I found out that the average American spends about $20-25 a day on food, most of that spent eating out. That's nuts. If you can get yourself on a regular program where ALL your meals, both out and at home, only cost you about $12 a day, you save money and lose weight.

I used to spend like $30 a month on Snapple. Sh*t's crazy.

[Zulithe]

spend only 4 to 6 dollars on lunch? I wish I could manage that. If I very carefully grocery shop and prepare most of it at home, it's doable, but any kind of prepared food there's no way that's happening in my area. Wish I could get by with that little spent.

Anyway, my job is essential so I'm working as usual. The commute is very eerie though, and at times kind of scary. Feels post-apocalyptic at times. Though the last couple weeks it has improved a lot, as things are very slowly returning to normal. I just hope it continues to improve and we don't have a major setback that rolls the quarantine clocks back to 0.

I do about 30 to 45 mins of ACTUAL work, the rest of the time is more of a standby mode, so I have plenty of time to read, use my computer for personal use, or play phone games and the like. That's just how modern work culture is for a ton of jobs now. For some people, they can find this suitable, but others couldn't stand it and want a job where they are constantly busy. Thankfully we all have a bit of choice in the matter.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

"Standby mode". Wish that was more of a thing in my job. Actually, I wish we had tablet screens to use instead of having to remain stationary at the order monitors all the time. It would make things SOOO much easier for times when I run out of something and have to stop whatever I'm doing to go grab something in the storeroom, only to have a customer pull up while I'm back there! I would love a tablet I could just hang on my belt and tap with one hand while getting whatever it is I'm after....

[CyberCubed]

I wish I could work from home forever. There's nothing better than waking up at 7:55am and taking a shower and going to work at 8:00am while eating breakfast. My lunchbreak is whenever and as long as i'm logged on for 8 hours on my laptop I get paid, even if I'm not doing work.

I know the moment the pandemic ends or things open up more they'll make us all come back to the office and take away our work laptops. As far as I can tell we'll be working from home through the summer at least, but I guess we'll see how things are in September. I wish they'd let us work from home forever even after the virus is contained.

[sdp]

My job is already sending emails about the "new normal" and how soon after the worst of the pandemic hits we'll return to work as usual. They already stopped paying me the bonus we were getting for working during the crisis. Most of the people at my job can definitely work at home and there would be no difference in what we do but big companies will never cave, they want us there to feel like they're getting their "money's worth", I'm actually more productive working at home.

As far as the original question I probably do about 4 hours of "real" work per day, it can get tedious so it's normal for people to start doing other sh-t on the computer. Working for a big company has upsides and downsides, when I was working for a startup they basically tell you to watch a movie on netflix if you want or go play in the arcade room or ping pong sections if you wish, as long as you turned in your work, they didn't care what you did during work hours so we had all these play rooms at work.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I wish I could work from home forever. There's nothing better than waking up at 7:55am and taking a shower and going to work at 8:00am while eating breakfast. My lunchbreak is whenever and as long as i'm logged on for 8 hours on my laptop I get paid, even if I'm not doing work.

I know the moment the pandemic ends or things open up more they'll make us all come back to the office and take away our work laptops. As far as I can tell we'll be working from home through the summer at least, but I guess we'll see how things are in September. I wish they'd let us work from home forever even after the virus is contained.

I know, right? It's fvcking awesome.

[Jephael]

I'd say my current job I keep busy a good 85% of the time. It depends on the volume of customers