Rumor has it that we will be moving to a new work schedule at the beginning of April, one that is far more flexible than our current “core hours” model that requires us to be at work between 9:00 and 3:00 five days a week (and work the rest of your 8 hours per day sometime between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.). If we’re not here during core hours, we’re supposed to take annual leave.
Under the new system, I’ll only be required to work 8 days per pay period (instead of 10) as long as I get my 80 hours in. That means that I could work 10 hour days and take every Friday off if I wanted, or work 10 hours days for eight days and take a four-day weekend. It also means — and this is what I plan to do most pay periods — that I can work 9 hours Monday through Thursday, and get every other Friday off. 9-80s. Then Kent won’t be able to email me on Thursdays and gloat about how it’s almost the weekend for him and him alone.
Anyway, that long-winded explanation of the upcoming change in time schedule is my way of saying that I’ve realized I’m going to need to start coming in to work before 9:00. Because I don’t want to be sitting here until 6:30 every day to get my 9 hours in. I need to get back to the point where I’m in at 8, and so today I started shifting my schedule. I got in at 8:20! Go me.
The next two weeks promise to be busy, busy, busy. It seems like I just got back from vacation (ok, so I did just get back), but tomorrow night I am heading to Tahoe with a whole gaggle of people (Becca, Cari, Jose, Gavin, Jen, Matt, Stephanie and others) for five days of skiing and other assorted snowy activities. We’ll be back next Wednesday evening. Then, April 1 is the third annual Yuri’s Night race (sign up!). April 2 is the first game of the Houston Dynamo, the new major league soccer team, so obviously I’m going to that. And then, drumroll please… April 3 is Astros Opening Day! Wooooooo!
Then on April 7 I get to go home to beautiful, lovely Charlotte for the weekend to see Andrew finally marry Sari. It’s only been, like, 9 years in coming.
Oh, to be able to come into work as late at 9! And working till 6:30, that would be a half day. Hahahaha, sigh.
That schedule sounds cool. I wish I could set my hours like that.
Sarah- I heard this too now that I’m a govt employee again. I’m going your route as well- 9 hour days and every other Friday off!
Cool, I didn’t realize it was a government-wide thing!
I’m a friend of Katie’s. But I work for the government too and I get every other Monday off(they have too many people with Friday’s off) and I love it! And I start work at 6:20am…so I get home by 4:00 every day…and one day a pay period by 3. It’s great. I don’t think I’d want to work the 10 hour days though.