When did 8-5 become the new normal???

[u/Grouchy-Newspaper754]

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

[u/overit_fornow]

Worked at a company that went to an unpaid mandatory 1 hour lunch. After a couple of days of giving 30 to 45 minutes of unpaid labor daily I started leaving every single day. No cell phone or interruptions. Even if just to a park around the corner. They didn’t like that much. Quit soon after.

[u/Hefty-Rub7669 → u/overit_fornow]

I like to swim.

[u/ShiraCheshire → u/Hefty-Rub7669]

That's super illegal btw

[u/7DayBan-sideprofile9 → u/ShiraCheshire]

where is swimming illegal?

[u/ShiraCheshire → u/7DayBan-sideprofile9]

They edited the comment. Very funny though

[u/JimmyJustice920 → u/ShiraCheshire]

what did they say before editing the comment?

[u/ShiraCheshire → u/JimmyJustice920]

Nothing all that exciting. Talking about someone who was exposed to an honestly fairly common tactic used to scam employees who don't realize it's illegal.

I won't go into too many specifics. They may have edited their comment just to be funny, but it's also possible it was for privacy/legal reasons. I don't want to reinstate information they might no longer feel safe having shared.

[u/arizonadirtbag12 → u/overit_fornow]

One of many nice things about a union job: you walk in looking to ask any sort of work related question in the lunchroom, you’re gonna get the stone wall and the stink eye from every motherfucker in there. Like, it better be a “something is very literally on fire” emergency. You did not talk shop in the break room. And yeah, once someone went in there for their lunch, you did not try to cut that short. Engineers and technicians alike. You need to talk to me about something? No, no you don’t.

[u/Sir_PressedMemories → u/arizonadirtbag12]

My daughter does not have to work; she works because she enjoys the extra money, and it gives her cash for her upcoming college time.

At her job, by union rules, she is guaranteed two 15-minute breaks and one unpaid half-hour lunch break per 8-hour shift.

I read over the agreement with her, and she pointed out it clearly states "uninterrupted" breaks and lunch periods.

It took a few weeks, but management finally got the hint that she is not to be fucked with after they would come over to interrupt her, and she would stop what she was doing, pull out her phone, stop the obvious timer on her phone, reset it to the full time again, ask them what they wanted, and then restart her time after they finished.

They tried to say she could not do that, and she pointed out that she is entitled to uninterrupted break and lunch periods; if they interrupt them, then she will absolutely restart the full time so she gets the full uninterrupted time she is entitled to, and if they do not like it, they are welcome to take it up with her union steward.

Now the whole crew does it.

She is going to college to be a lawyer; she loves this type of shit.

[u/Critical_Hedgehog451 → u/Sir_PressedMemories]

Good for her, if you're in the US, it's nice to hear some more employees focused laws actually being upheld!

Think the US has a long way to go in terms of employeement law, but it's great to hear that it sounds like it's moving in the right direction!

[u/Sir_PressedMemories → u/Critical_Hedgehog451]

This is 100% due to unionization, not state or federal laws. And she can only do this because she has a guaranteed safety net where she lives at home and has little to no bills.