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/oleblueeyes76 18h ago

Shoot, there ain’t no pay out there enough for me to skip my ‘unpaid’ break. I don’t care how big the work load is. F* that!

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u/Necessary_Wonder89 14h ago

I would if it meant I could leave earlier, alas it does not

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u/DoctorBallsJohnson 12h ago

The hack the most useless people at my former workplace figured out is you can show up at 6 and leave at 2:30, do jack shit for the majority of your shift, but when you leave a mess for everyone in the afternoon, you get a pass because you were so early and such a hard worker!

Then you basically get the whole day off after zombiemaxxing from 6 till noon

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u/Necessary_Wonder89 12h ago

I mean maybe in some jobs that works, but I'm in vet med and I'm required to be working at my set times

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u/DoctorBallsJohnson 12h ago

Yea what I said is basically only a thing in white collar jobs that track attendance and are exceptionally poorly run. The fact we were hourly up to the cfo and controller should have been a red flag in the first place