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All Government departments in my city start at 08:00 and finish at 16:21 !! No weirdness about the finishing time though - it is just so that the fortnightly p

All Government departments in my city start at 08:00 and finish at 16:21 !! No weirdness about the finishing time though - it is just so that the fortnightly pay run ends on an even hourly number. UPDATE: It seems that nearly all state and federal public services in Australia have strange knock off times... [0] [0] - http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2014/06/industrial-action-for-being-asked-to-work-9-to-5.html http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2014/06/industrial-action-fo...

nisse72 10y ago
> so that the fortnightly pay run ends on an even hourly number How isn't that already the case with 10 x 8 hour days? or 8.5 etc? Your linked article mentions another interesting idea: that an additional 9 minutes a day is more than 5 days a year. I used to work for a medium sized company (~500 staff) that made us all work 10 extra minutes each day "off the clock", but then gave it back in the form of a number of whole and half days throughout the year when the company would be closed for business. Usually that meant that we'd get an extra day off before a long weekend or bank holiday, an additional day before christmas, that sort of thing. This was on top of 33 days of paid annual leave, so a sweet deal.
- cyberferret 10y ago
  My bad - It is not to make an even hour at the end of the fortnight. I asked a public service friend of mine and he said because there was an odd number of hours that our public servants had to work per fortnight (as the article I posted also pointed out). I assume it all works out evenly over 365.25 days or something? I've never worked in the public service, so cannot speak for their methods.
iamshs 10y ago
Victorian countryside government offices finish at 5:06 pm. It is due to 36.8 hours work week. Absolutely strange.
jacques_chester 10y ago
Another Darwinite, I presume? "Fourtwennyone" is more than a contract, it's a cultural institution.
- cyberferret 10y ago
  You presume correctly! :) All I know is that if I am in the city having meetings, I try and jump in the car and head the heck out by 4:20 in order to beat the "public service exodus traffic jam"...
  - jacques_chester 10y ago
    Ah yes, the famous rush quarter-hour. I'm going to be visiting Darwin in February. Who has the best chicken laksa these days? I haven't found any good ones here.
    - cyberferret 10y ago
      A straw poll among my friends say that Rendezvous cafe in the Star Village is still the pick for Laksa, or Linda's(?) stall at the Parap Markets on Saturday... :)
      - jacques_chester 10y ago
        My basic plan was to hit one of the markets and just eat all of them. God I wish I could bottle it.

nisse72 10y ago

> so that the fortnightly pay run ends on an even hourly number How isn't that already the case with 10 x 8 hour days? or 8.5 etc? Your linked article mentions another interesting idea: that an additional 9 minutes a day is more than 5 days a year. I used to work for a medium sized company (~500 staff) that made us all work 10 extra minutes each day "off the clock", but then gave it back in the form of a number of whole and half days throughout the year when the company would be closed for business. Usually that meant that we'd get an extra day off before a long weekend or bank holiday, an additional day before christmas, that sort of thing. This was on top of 33 days of paid annual leave, so a sweet deal.

cyberferret 10y ago
My bad - It is not to make an even hour at the end of the fortnight. I asked a public service friend of mine and he said because there was an odd number of hours that our public servants had to work per fortnight (as the article I posted also pointed out). I assume it all works out evenly over 365.25 days or something? I've never worked in the public service, so cannot speak for their methods.

iamshs 10y ago

Victorian countryside government offices finish at 5:06 pm. It is due to 36.8 hours work week. Absolutely strange.

jacques_chester 10y ago

Another Darwinite, I presume? "Fourtwennyone" is more than a contract, it's a cultural institution.

cyberferret 10y ago
You presume correctly! :) All I know is that if I am in the city having meetings, I try and jump in the car and head the heck out by 4:20 in order to beat the "public service exodus traffic jam"...
- jacques_chester 10y ago
  Ah yes, the famous rush quarter-hour. I'm going to be visiting Darwin in February. Who has the best chicken laksa these days? I haven't found any good ones here.
  - cyberferret 10y ago
    A straw poll among my friends say that Rendezvous cafe in the Star Village is still the pick for Laksa, or Linda's(?) stall at the Parap Markets on Saturday... :)
    - jacques_chester 10y ago
      My basic plan was to hit one of the markets and just eat all of them. God I wish I could bottle it.