This is why I find the 9 days bit intriguing. In the "old" days I used to put in 120 hour weeks, so I know exactly what you mean by addiction... the interesting part is that the UK seems to have gone to part time contracts where, as Simon says, you can work an 80 hour week with no overtime. OK, you get days off in lieu, but in that kind of job I suspect that finding the free days to take off could be pretty difficult... unless you take a long holiday every summer... in which case the BBC office effectively "closes" for that time. I think that I can see this ending is all sorts of chaos. :-) In my case, we did not get paid days off in lieu... so if you needed to sleep you had to swallow the financial inconvenience. Neither way is perfect, but calling for a contractual 9 day week seems somehow unsettling for me. Looks like a great job though, they'd also prefer someone "uncompetitive" - now that made me smile. Regards RichE
On 7 Sep 2010, at 10:35, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > On 7 Sep 2010, at 09:20, Richard P Edwards wrote: > >> Is that a 56 hour week with overtime only after that point then? > > I doubt it - someone who excels at a job as cool as this one - is likely to > be very hard to control - and won't let himself or herself limited to a mere > 56 hours :) This type of role usually comes with a lovely internet addiction > :) > > Thanks, > > Dw. > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
