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part time job

A job whose hours are generally anything up to (and including) 24 hours (or 28 hours depending on the company) per week. Usually intended as a supliment to the full time staff.

Depending on the company, part time jobs may or may not have guarenteed hours (in other words some weeks you'll be lucky to get one 8 hour shift while others you might get the full 24 (or 28) hours or anything in between.

Part time jobs usually also don't have guarenteed shifts; meaning one shift you might work evenings, another days, another afternoons and maybe even nights in some cases.

The length of the shifts is also variable, could be full 8 hour days but could also only be 4-5 hour days; so if you get 24 hours, it may not be three eight-hour shifts and could be four six-hour shifts or maybe even six four hour.

The shifts, hours worked etc vary wildey from company to company.

In some companies (espcially ones with high turnover) they'll start people on as part time staff as a sort of test to see if the job is right for them. If they 'last' for a certain amount of time, they'll probbaly be asked to go full time.
Guy #1: Man, last week I got a full 24 hours and worked Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; this week I'm only working Monday and Tuesday 9-1, what's up with that?

Guy# 1: What can say? It's a part time job; hours and shifts arn't guarenteed.
part time job by anonymous October 26, 2004
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part time job

n. pärt tīm jŏb

Another way of saying, "I live with my mom".

Latin : partus, and + timeus + jobus, pl. underemployment.
Bill doesn't like the idea of vacation time so he works 3 part time jobs all year.
part time job by Diemetrius September 24, 2009

7/11 Was a Part Time Job 

A conspiracy theory stating that there are no full time employees at 7/11 Gas Stations, but rather, that it is a series of part time jobs. Even the management works for no more than 20 hours a week, and is replaced every few months.
Slurpees can't melt tooth enamel. 7/11 was a Part Time Job.

full-part-time job 

Any job that is, by the company, officially considered part time, but in order to keep the job, you actually have to work full-time hours illegaly and there isn't anything you can do about it because you're too much of a pussy to say anything.
Friend 1: You wanna hang this weekend?

Friend 2: Nah, I've been busting ass at my job all week, I need a break.

Friend 1: I though you only worked part time?

Friend 2: Nope, it's a full-part-time job.
full-part-time job by slamm3r August 7, 2012

Part-Time Jobs

1. A (middle) manager whose reach far exceeds his grasp.

2. A Local Caesar for the digital age.
Bert: How is your contribution to the strategic planning committee's mission statement coming along?

Ernie: Dude, we work at an Orange Julius.

Bert: You won't be working here long with that attitude.

Ernie: Aight, Part-Time Jobs. I'll get right on it.
Part-Time Jobs by Bergstein March 8, 2011
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