“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 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?
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.
Plenty do. Scandinavia being among the most cited examples.
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
These gals do.
That’s all it took to get the song in my head lol
Yeppers. Now I have to go listen to it to get rid of it.
No. Companies have stolen 2 extra hours from us. They used to include a paid lunch hour in those 8 hours. Now, it’s not only 8-5, but we don’t get paid for the lunch hour.
I currently work 8:00 to 16:00 and no one has complained about my working hours yet. But, I’m a software dev working remote with coworkers in several different timezones, so the exact time I start and end my day really doesn’t matter.
At a previous job I worked 9:00 - 15:00 for several months when I was depressed and no one complained about that either. 🤷
I worked 9:00 - 15:00 for several months
I could not get away with that lol
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.
All but one of my jobs (excluding hourly jobs as a teen) have been 9-5, the one that wasn’t was 9-6 with the justification that we had a 1 hour lunch in the middle… but like… I’ve taken a 1 hour lunch at every job… so I have no idea why that company was such a stickler for that. Basically no one did shit after like 4pm anyways
1 hour lunch means you are expected to leave the office (or at least not work). Some countries get really strict about a one hour lunch break where you don’t do any work and so it is carefully enforced there.
So this gets back to why I point to the 70’s as sorta being the height of things. Both the song and the movie 9 to 5 was based around how poor shlubs had to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, with barely enough to get by on including you know going out every week. Anyway I am unsure if anyone does it now but I know as recently as the 90’s if you worked for certain old school businesses like banking you could actually have a job that was 9 to 5 and you got a lunch that was compensated. Get this. It was often an hour. So you worked 7 hours a day and got paid for 8.
I work 7.5 hours and get paid for it all, even my half hour lunch.
I believe in wresting back any amount of control/time we can from the system.
So my job has me coming in at 8:30-9:30am and leaving at 3:30pm every day, thanks to training my boss and working the system.
And honestly I am switching to a hybrid WFH job because even this is too much office time.
They don’t give me a window, so I am letting myself get recruited elsewhere.
junior software developer in Europe, my work hours are 9-5, with an hour for lunch. In reality I work a bit shorter hours because the daily’s at 10, and nobody really cares how many breaks I take as long as I get the work done
I attend a place of work from 0700 to 1600.
Do I work in that time?
Yeah, why not…
All of my jobs have been 9-5, lunch included. I think the key is whether you’re paid hourly or by salary. I’ve almost exclusively worked at tech startups as a salaried employee.
Most corpo drones show up for those hours but very few of them work that long.
Strict working hours are important for jobs like assembly line work where if you are not at your station nobody else can do any work. Often they do build enough slack in that they expect you can take a couple bites here and there between doing your work. Though this isn’t the most sanitary so it isn’t common anymore.
For anyone doing work that doesn’t depend on others being at their station at the same time a strict shift doesn’t make sense, and there are not many assembly lines left like that (the assembly lines I have seen lately are much shorter and your team of 10 needs to work the same shift but your team can choose lunch time, and if you get the team’s work done faster everyone can even get an extended lunch.
Yes, I work 9 to 5
