“The 9[am] to 5[pm]” is a common term for one’s regular job, on the basis that normal people start work at 09:00 and finish at 17:00. I’ve worked a few jobs and closest I’ve ever gotten to this is 08:00 to 17:00, which I gather is standard.
Are there real jobs where people actually start at 9 and finish at 5?
I’m at the office between 9 and 5
Drop a deuce at 10. Work gets done 10:30 to 12:30, take lunch, then fuck around pretending to work til 5
Where do you work and are they hiring?
damn thats awesome
Having done something similar it really fucking sucks. Even if you find a way to discreetly kill time, you can’t shake the feeling that you’re burning precious hours of your life for no reason.
I would much rather work a solid 6-7hr block at home knowing I can sign off when I’m done than spend 1 + 7 hours in cubicle hell.
I attend a place of work from 0700 to 1600.
Do I work in that time?
Yeah, why not…
Most corpo drones show up for those hours but very few of them work that long.
I worked IT for a community college. 8 - 4:30 Monday through Friday. If they’d asked me for any OT, my union president would eat nails and shit rust.
Retired now.
Where are you all located. I’m in Canada. I work 8-4 or 9-5 depending. I have flexibility to choose.
Unionized IT.
0800-1647 , and it’s generally firm; but we do take time to bottle and checkpoint our work if we didn’t get to it before then. Normally it’s 0800-1600 but the 0.47 hour is part of a 9x9 scheme where every second Friday is off because we already worked the hours for that pay-period.
OT needs a ticket and is charged out to the .1 hour. Standby has a shitty hourly rate, but at least there is one. They may not expect us to be sober/available otherwise.
I used to as my company was fine with me being at lunch from 5-6. Some governments don’t allow that (it’s technically not legal in Japan), but some also look the other way (not my current company, sadly)
I do now, and I was similarly disappointed at the realization that this is not common when I got my first office job
I do a “07:45 or so till 15:30 when I fall asleep at the desk until 16:30” recently.
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9-5 is a simple representation of an 8 hr work day. It’s not meant to be taken literally.
Ooooh fuck that. Not meant to be taken literally? Motherfucker, that was the standard in the 70’s and 80’s. Why tf you think Dolly Parton sang about “Workin 9-to-5” and not 9-to-5:30 or 9-to-6? Because that used to be normal working hours. Just another facet of workers rights that was quietly stolen from us.
Workin’ 8 to 5 What a way to make a livin’
I work 8:30 to 18:00 with a forced 1 hour break in-betweem
software dev - I’m 8-5ish but the end is very flexible.
my morning is usually me waking myself up and remembering what I’m doing till 8:45, then we have a company wide and a dev team standup. then they let us loose to do what we need to do. if I run out of shit to do, I leave. sometimes I’m out by 3pm, but if there’s plenty to do and my wife is working late I’m often there till 6.
so 9-5, no, but 8-4ish, which is still the same 8 hours I guess. I don’t know any devs that start at 9am around here, 8 seems to be standard for some reason I can’t fathom.
I work for like 3 chosen hours per day. I often take naps
I work from 8:30 to 16:00 with a half-hour lunch break, so 7 work hours per day.
It’s paid as a full-time job.
If I collect too much over-time, I get a stern talking-to from my supervisor, who could otherwise get in trouble with the works council and the owners (cause they’d get in trouble with the union and the law). So I make sure to go home on time.
I have 42 days of paid time off I HAVE to take, plus unlimited sick days.I could have made 50% more by chosing a different employer, and 3-4x as much in the US.
But why the hell would I? I’m able to save up 1/3 of my take-home pay as it is, and that’s after pension and healthcare are accounted for.Wait wait, what type of country treats its citizens like humans?
Plenty do. Scandinavia being among the most cited examples.
I live in Germany, but that’s not normal here, either. I deliberately chose an employer with a strong union and high worker solidarity and was lucky enough to switch jobs when my skills were in high demand.
From what I’ve heard 9-5 was a thing before employees were given a mandatory 1 hour lunch break which was counted as non-work time. So basically the work schedule was shifted to account for break time no longer being counted as part of the work day.
Of course I’ve never looked into it, so there’s a good chance it’s not that :p
You mean, before employers stole our paid lunch breaks and gaslit everyone into forgetting about them.
Yeah that :3
This is correct, lots of places that were 9 to 5 would give people a lunch half hour or a lunch hour that would technically be on the clock. When lunch hours became mandatory employers went well fuck that and made it so you didn’t get paid for your lunch. Most people don’t realize off the top of their heads but 8 to 5 is actually nine hours.
Lunch breaks, in the US, aren’t mandatory. Your state may require it but the US labor laws do not.
Found this out when Subway was making my 16 year old niece work 10 hour shifts with no lunch break.
Somehow this does not surprise me. Seems in line with everything else in the US
