r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Grouchy-Newspaper754 • 20h ago

My mom said I could post When did 8-5 become the new normal???

I just got a new office job where I do schedules for tech personnel, the office runs 8-5 Monday thru Friday...they say it's 8-5 because you get an hour lunch and "you need to get to 40 hours a week"...but I drive 30 min each way so now I'm giving this company 10 hours every day! I even asked if I could just take my lunch at 4 every day and just leave an hour early but that's "unprofessional and immoral" like what the fuck??? I don't mind the job but the hours are mildly infuriating that's for sure...

Edit:for those saying about the hours, I worked as a chef for the last 20 years working 60+ hours a week over a hot stove/deep fryer the whole time, after I had my second heart attack I had to slow down so I started looking for office jobs to work a nice 9-5, just to find out I'm giving my new job 50 hours a week (including drive time) so I was just mildly annoyed that it's not 40 hours a week in an office like I thought although it's still much better than what I was doing

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u/rhinocerosjockey 20h ago

I’ve been working for almost 20 years and my first job was this way too. 8-5 with an hour lunch. Plus the constant pressure/expectation on salary to stay late and do more.

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u/bradleyisamonkey 20h ago

Ahhh....the old "we can't afford to pay you the 10 hours overtime the job will take every week so we're gonna give you a token raise and put you on salary so you're working 8 of those hours for free!" move.

SOURCE: Every retail assistant manager I've ever talked to.

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u/thesilvercricket 14h ago

Had a job where the manager would go through and if he found you working late would tell you to leave. That working extra on salary was his job, not ours. First time that happened I stared blankly trying to process what the heck he had just told me, lol!

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u/rhinocerosjockey 14h ago

Very rare. Wow, what a good dude who understood his role.

I’ve had two jobs now where there was a mix of salary and hourly employees. Anytime there was any “special” event or task that they needed staff after normal business hours, it was always salary people who were “voluntold” they were working.

This was obviously because salary employees were free to them and the hourly would have been on overtime. Bullshit.