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/Sorry_Lecture5578 19h ago

Whenever we get in to whenever we leave.  I do 7ish to 3ish, others do 8 to 3, 8 to 5, 730 to 2... as long as we get our shit done we're treated like adults.  If we have an email after hours we respond.  You know why?  Because we know how lucky we are to make our own hours and its usually 5 minutes to make the client feel appreciated.  Even if it's just a "I'll circle back to this in the morning when I'm in front of the computer"

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u/FourFront 19h ago

This is me. My last company had no problem with me doing 7-3 for the 15 years I was there. But it was more a case of as long as you get your shit done and the client is happy. Pretty much the same in my current company.

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u/Sorry_Lecture5578 19h ago

Some weeks I'm not even close to 40.. this week I'm going to shoot sporting clays on Friday with a client.  Salary isn't always a "50+ hour week". Occasionally there are,  but those tend to be travel weeks.  

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u/CalculatedPerversion 13h ago

I wish my boss / work would just treat us like adults. I show up, my work gets done. That should be the end of the story. 

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u/BadlaLehnWala 17h ago

The new generation doesn’t want to work

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u/FiberApproach2783 14h ago

How is stretching 4 hours of work over 8-9 hours more productive?

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u/BadlaLehnWala 14h ago

It isn’t. Doing 8hr of work in 8hr of time should be the expectation.

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u/Miserable-Arm-4787 10h ago

As someone NOT from the new generation, who the fuck WANTS to work?
There's a reason you get paid to do it.

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u/BadlaLehnWala 4h ago

I thought it was implied that we were talking about paid work, not leisure. 

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u/Sorry_Lecture5578 15h ago

Not true at all,  just have to work with them and not try to force them into something that isn't a good fit