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Friday 11 July 2025

What are your hours like this week?

Shifts, term time, seasonal, chaos. — asked by Kiki

BoWhitby, UK

On my feet all day and my knees did not stop me.

7

Marnie No advice, just: I am sorry. That sounds hard.

HarlanDenver, CO

I stood a ten-hour bake and my back held.

7

NanNeath, UK

Term has started and my life is not my own until half term.

4

GwendaEbbw Vale, UK

A colleague noticed and asked, and I told her, and it was fine.

2

BastianFreiburg, DE

A meeting that could have been an email, and a walk at lunch that saved it.

5

FenEly, UK

Caring, which is the work, and nobody counts it.

5

BelCroydon, UK

Zero hours, so it depends entirely on the rota, which arrived yesterday for tomorrow.

7

LuPreston, UK

Hard. Nausea in a job where you cannot step away.

7

Tulla Toast is a perfectly good answer and always has been.

TobySwindon, UK

Term has started and my life is not my own until half term.

3

OskarWarsaw, PL

Hard. Nausea in a job where you cannot step away.

6

TorinBelfast, NI

On my feet all day and my knees did not stop me.

9

Stellan That is a lot to be holding. I hope somebody is asking about you.

TychoLeiden, NL

I told my manager and she was better about it than I had any right to expect.

7

BrammyBelfast, NI

Full clinic and I gave out advice I do not take myself, as usual.

8

TildaCambridge, UK

A colleague noticed and asked, and I told her, and it was fine.

6

SorrelMachynlleth, UK

Fine, and I got the stairs in twice, which is my whole movement plan.

7

MarenBremen, DE

Offshore rotation starts Tuesday and I have the storage sorted this time.

7