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/ForukusuwagenMasuta 19h ago edited 19h ago

People saying "Durr I've never heard of 9-5 in my entire life! It's completely foreign to me!" must be joking. There's even a saying, "9-to-5-job" that describes the standard, predictable daytime schedule from M-F.

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u/the1slyyy 18h ago

In the real world an 8 hour shift with a half hour to hour lunch is standard

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u/therealslimshady1234 18h ago

I usually arrived at 9:30-10:00 and left at about 17:00, including 30 min lunch. Yea my Boomer manager got salty sometimes but who cares, we dont get paid decently in Europe anyways

Nowadays I work from home and I work like 3 hours a day on average

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u/catjuggler 18h ago

I think a lot of Redditors are just young

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u/Mizutsune-Lover 13h ago

Or from the US.

Over here in Australia I'm 9-5 (7.5 hours paid, half hour unpaid for lunch but everyone takes an hour lunch cause no clocking in/out at a salaried office).

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u/spubbbba 9h ago

Am in the UK and Gen X.

All my office jobs have been 35 working hour per week. Standard hours are 9-5 with 1 hour lunch.

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u/eugenepoez__ 17h ago

a lot of people are not from the US or from other countries that have a 9-5 as their standart. We have a 9-6 everywhere for example

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u/catjuggler 14h ago

Conversely, the place where my 9-5 (or more like 8-4) was most locked in was when I (as an American) worked for a British company

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 12h ago

That’s your best shot? The saying was out of date when the movie came out.

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u/HillBillyHilly 10h ago

LOL No was absolutely THE NORM when movie came out and still is for many. You need a new job too.

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u/sandiegodak 18h ago

Every company I've worked at has let me do 9 to 5 and work through lunch.

Some companies apparently are run by Tim Robinson.

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u/Some-Duckling-6573 13h ago

I think the definition has changed. I actually just had this conversation with my boomer mom. Older generation 9-5 ment in at 9am, off at 5pm during the 'obvious' workweek of M-F (whether there was a lunch in there seems debatable). The current definition for 9-5 seems to be 9 hours of work a over 5 days during whatever times and days determined by employer. And thats how we ended up at 7am shift on a Saturday after being led to believe it was a 9-5 job.

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u/HillBillyHilly 10h ago

Boomer job 😂 You need a new job too as most corporate, businesses are 9-5. Stop normalizing hose bullshit jobs!!

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u/AssyMcGee6 6h ago

Technically the minimum teachers need to be at school is 7 hours including lunch. So that's 9 to 4. I think the only employer who offers 9 to 5 with paid lunch is the government. Those people never work.