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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Federal government time keeping world can be strange to outsiders.  At my agency, you have to record all of the time you work, but it is not possible to record if you work more than 10 hours in a day or 80 hours in a pay period.  Rules say you may not work past 7 pm or on weekends without getting special authorization.  Every day you are required to take a 45 minute non-paid lunch break -- so a person's set hours are not 9-5 but 9 to 5:45.  If your normal schedule is 8 hours, 9 to 5:45, rules say that to deviate from that schedule, you need to obtain prior permission; you cannot start work early or stay late without permission.

If you work more than 80 hours in a pay period you are entitled to "comp time", but before you work those hours, you have to request it by filling out forms and getting approving signatures.

In my office, my supervisor puts substance over form.  You record you 8 hours, whether you worked 9 hours or 7 hour, you record 80 hours whether you worked 82 hours or 78 hours, because over time it averages out.

When I am getting ready for a hearing or engaged in litigation, you can be assured that I am working many more hours than the 80 hours recorded on my time sheet for the pay period.

I my office, everyone is a professional and no one has abused the system -- there is no need to do so as everyone has ample leave and the supervisor grants it when requested because people don't use leave in a way that hampers work.

It is a crazy system.

And I am on leave today.[/quote]

Ours works this way too except we can't get authorized to work any comp time.  There are weeks when I put in tons of extra hours to get projects done on time, even though I'm not suppose to work more than 80 hours a pay period.  Because the attorneys we work with in the private sector seemingly work 24/7, I get e-mails at all times of the day and night and on weekends.  I technically don't get compensated for responding to e-mails and calls after hours, even though I regularly do.  I also almost never take more than a 20 minute lunch.  My supervisor is fine with my leaving work a few hours early on occasion if things are slow.  As long as all work gets done on time and all work produced is of high quality, my supervisor doesn't care when and where I do it.  However, according to our T&A system, I'm suppose to be sitting in my office 8 hours- and only 8 hours- a day.  A lot of work wouldn't get done on time if I actually operated like this.[/quote]

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