“The 9[am] to 5[pm]” is a common term for one’s regular job, on the basis that normal people start work at 09:00 and finish at 17:00. I’ve worked a few jobs and closest I’ve ever gotten to this is 08:00 to 17:00, which I gather is standard.
Are there real jobs where people actually start at 9 and finish at 5?
One of the jobs I had was 9am to 5pm for about a year. For me, that was practically heaven because prior to that it had been 9am to 6pm for a few years, and the shorter hours didn’t come with a pay cut.
It got weird later because I took on a rotating shift pattern and more responsibility, but some of the day shifts were still 9 till 5.
Then I jumped ship to a different company that had 9am to 6pm again, but that turned out to be preferable to the hell of not being able to sleep properly.
Technically no, in actuality, yes. I can start and finish as long as my hours are my contracted hours, but I have a daily meeting at 9 so I start my day with that meeting everyday. And then if I work normally, I finish at 5
Usually 8am to 5 30 or 6pm for me.
We are supposed to record 9 hours of work on our timesheet daily. Sometimes there isnt enough work but then you just do goals or organize shit or read some how to’s. I hate those days. I like being busy.
It is long days though. A 6 hour day would be fantastic but I’d get nothing done. Today, I spent 4 hours opening a program on several different remote PCs because it kept crashing.
I work 7:30 - 15:30. I hate waking up so early but it is nice to have time to run errands.
Way back when I had fixed working hours, it was usually 0800 to 1600
No. Companies have stolen 2 extra hours from us. They used to include a paid lunch hour in those 8 hours. Now, it’s not only 8-5, but we don’t get paid for the lunch hour.
I work from 8:30 to 16:00 with a half-hour lunch break, so 7 work hours per day.
It’s paid as a full-time job.
If I collect too much over-time, I get a stern talking-to from my supervisor, who could otherwise get in trouble with the works council and the owners (cause they’d get in trouble with the union and the law). So I make sure to go home on time.
I have 42 days of paid time off I HAVE to take, plus unlimited sick days.I could have made 50% more by chosing a different employer, and 3-4x as much in the US.
But why the hell would I? I’m able to save up 1/3 of my take-home pay as it is, and that’s after pension and healthcare are accounted for.Wait wait, what type of country treats its citizens like humans?
I live in Germany, but that’s not normal here, either. I deliberately chose an employer with a strong union and high worker solidarity and was lucky enough to switch jobs when my skills were in high demand.
I believe in wresting back any amount of control/time we can from the system.
So my job has me coming in at 8:30-9:30am and leaving at 3:30pm every day, thanks to training my boss and working the system.
And honestly I am switching to a hybrid WFH job because even this is too much office time.
They don’t give me a window, so I am letting myself get recruited elsewhere.
These gals do.
US Midwest 9-5 jobs are normal even when not really sensical for all businesses. Very much a control and “you sit here cause I pay you to.” I worked a place that expected 8:30am - 5:30pm with an hour lunch break. Salaried work. I worked hourly at a distribution center that was 8:30 - 5:00pm with half hour lunch.
It would be interesting to see a filter of responses by country.
In my experience:
- Architecture / Eng / Construction Industry (Canada):
- 8-5, summer hours, loosely enforced.
- Software Industry (Europe):
- 9-5, several extra weeks of vacation, loosely enforced
- Software Industry (America):
- 9-6, moderately enforced
- Software Industry (Canada):
- 9-5, summer hours, loosely enforced
- Architecture / Eng / Construction Industry (Canada):
From what I’ve heard 9-5 was a thing before employees were given a mandatory 1 hour lunch break which was counted as non-work time. So basically the work schedule was shifted to account for break time no longer being counted as part of the work day.
Of course I’ve never looked into it, so there’s a good chance it’s not that :p
You mean, before employers stole our paid lunch breaks and gaslit everyone into forgetting about them.
Yeah that :3
This is correct, lots of places that were 9 to 5 would give people a lunch half hour or a lunch hour that would technically be on the clock. When lunch hours became mandatory employers went well fuck that and made it so you didn’t get paid for your lunch. Most people don’t realize off the top of their heads but 8 to 5 is actually nine hours.
I currently work 8:00 to 16:00 and no one has complained about my working hours yet. But, I’m a software dev working remote with coworkers in several different timezones, so the exact time I start and end my day really doesn’t matter.
At a previous job I worked 9:00 - 15:00 for several months when I was depressed and no one complained about that either. 🤷
All but one of my jobs (excluding hourly jobs as a teen) have been 9-5, the one that wasn’t was 9-6 with the justification that we had a 1 hour lunch in the middle… but like… I’ve taken a 1 hour lunch at every job… so I have no idea why that company was such a stickler for that. Basically no one did shit after like 4pm anyways
1 hour lunch means you are expected to leave the office (or at least not work). Some countries get really strict about a one hour lunch break where you don’t do any work and so it is carefully enforced there.
Yes, I work 9 to 5
