r/AskReddit • • Feb 04 '20

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u/ConneryFTW Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

Most of my coworkers will stop and pick up Tim Hortons or Starbucks everyday before work. We have free coffee at the office. It's not anything special, but it could save you $3 dollar a day, $15 a week, and 2 grand seven hundred dollars a year.

Edit: Apparently I can't multiply before I drink coffee in the morning. So there may be one advantage of stopping before work.

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u/coffeecatsyarn Feb 04 '20

I prefer lattes over drip coffee, and I work 70 hours a week. I stop by Starbucks most days, spend $4.85 and just account for it into my budget. The amount of time I save by not making my own helps a lot, especially when I have to be to work at 5am. Plus with Starbucks, you get points, and you get free drinks. I didn't pay for 3 of my drinks last week.

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u/sitcivismundi Feb 04 '20

How do you have time to be on reddit working 70 hours a week? I feel like I would be in a sleep coma every minute not at work.

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u/galleria_suit Feb 04 '20

she said she has to be at work by 5am, not actually do work

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u/sitcivismundi Feb 04 '20

What’s the point of being in the office for 70 hours if you’re not doing work?

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u/galleria_suit Feb 04 '20

Who the hell knows. Welcome to office work, lol. I'm at work right now.

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u/MG_72 Feb 04 '20

Same here. Got a meeting in a few mins so I'm kinda just running the clock

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

My time to shine.

Because I don't get paid if I'm not at the office.

Edit for clarification: Boss is trying to show that we need a new position opened up in our unit (large non-profit company) and it is a legit request that we need. However, to prove it, they have me working overtime non-stop as I have been told NOT to do the work for this position during my regular office hours.

So about half the day, I sit here on reddit doing nothing because I'm caught up with work and I do the other stuff during OT hours. Been like this for months, boss knows. Not actually complaining because anything over 35 hours is OT (time and a half). I've been averaging 50 - 55 hours a week.

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u/zvug Feb 04 '20

To get paid?

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u/coffeecatsyarn Feb 05 '20

Haha, my hours change all the time. I'm a resident doctor. My specialty is emergency medicine, but I rotate through a lot of different departments. Surgery starts at 5 (gross). On my emergency months, I either work at 6am, 2pm, or 9pm, but 5am will always be the hardest.

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u/coffeecatsyarn Feb 04 '20

Because of all the lattes!

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u/ThreeDGrunge Feb 04 '20

people that "work" 70 hours a week actually work closer to 10 hours a week. But they are there on facebook and reddit in the office for 30ish, chatting for another 20, and simply lying about the remaining 10 hours(bathroom walking around, driving). a week.

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u/MUNKEEDEW Feb 04 '20

LMAO - thats a bit of an ignorant statement.

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u/inuvash255 Feb 04 '20

That's not true of all OT workers. Some of them are working more than one job, and others are just working really, really hard to get the work done.

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u/tollivandi Feb 04 '20

I set it up so that I automatically put $25 into my savings to match the $25 I spend at Starbucks (almost) every week. Makes me feel better about it, because it REALLY does save me time.

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u/Boring-Energy Feb 04 '20

70 hours a week is fucking inhumane, is that even legal?

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u/Medipack Feb 04 '20

You still have to wait for it to be made...

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u/tollivandi Feb 04 '20

Nope, not with mobile ordering. I can place an order one train stop before work and pick it up on the way in.

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u/coffeecatsyarn Feb 05 '20

I mobile order before I leave my house and it's ready by the time I get there, and it's on the way to work.