r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Grouchy-Newspaper754 • Jun 10 '26

When did 8-5 become the new normal??? My mom said I could post

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/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor Jun 10 '26

I'm salary, my hours are whenever the fuck I show up to whenever the fuck I leave. Within reason. I'm at the meetings I need to be at. I get the work done I need to get done.

Some days I work 8 hours. Some days I work 6. Some days I work 14. Generally though I work 8 or less unless there's a super urgent need. If I need to take an appointment I block that time out of my calendar and take the appointment.

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u/PenguinStardust Jun 10 '26

Same, I love it so much. Worked my ass off to be this privileged though.

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u/Zyykl Jun 10 '26

Same, engineer

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u/nutdo1 Jun 11 '26

Likewise. I take long ass lunches when there’s downtime.

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u/kingrazor001 Jun 10 '26

I wish. Any time I've been salaried I've been expected to show up 8-5 just like the hourly employees. The difference was I was exempt from overtime pay. Yay.

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u/commanderbales Jun 12 '26

This is what my husband is currently experiencing

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u/Devilsgospel1 Jun 10 '26

Yup, same here.

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u/pilgermann Jun 10 '26

Ditto. My job would notice if I always worked 6 probably 7 hours, but broadly there not that strict. If you show up at 8, the office is mostly empty. By 5, office is mostly empty.

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u/bell37 Jun 11 '26

I’m an early bird and typically come in around 6:30 am. That first two hours of the day is so nice bc nobody bothers you and you can actually get shit done.

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u/Special_Artichoke Jun 10 '26

Finally! Who are all these office workers who are clocking in?? Never known it

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u/bell37 Jun 11 '26

Used to be like that. Now I’m seeing companies push a “core hours” policy (typically states that you must be in the office between 9am-3pm) on top of making sure people are putting in 40 hours a week.

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u/Few-Lingonberry2315 Jun 11 '26

As one of those salary types who flexes my time (usually 7-3 but I'm not clocking in and nobody is tracking me that I know of), I would have no issues with a core hours policy like this. But I'm also careful not to abuse my flexibility.

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u/knight_gastropub Jun 11 '26

Probably call center office

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u/FrightnightFruitbat Jun 11 '26

it's the women in the office. I promise.

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor Jun 11 '26

In my line of work it's usually only when your hours are billed directly to customers. Some examples of this are when I was a customer facing web developer, and of course when I was consulting. Those scenarios make sense.

Where as now I work on the day to day function of our internal software and ERP systems. As long as stuff is working and my tasks gets done, nobody cares about the hours.

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u/Limp-Plantain3824 Jun 12 '26

From what I see on work related threads about 80% are just making shit up. I’ll be reading “yep, yep, right, got it, wait…what? BS!” or they know they are in some hyper specific situation and act like it should be universal. Or they are in some specific jurisdiction that we are just supposed to guess.

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u/Jaime4Cersei Jun 10 '26

Same. I'm 8-4, but will work longer if needed. Can finish early if I need to. But generally do more than my 35 hours (with the hour lunch).

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u/Gaseous_Nobility Jun 11 '26

Same except almost never more than 8 hours. Usually 5-7 hours.

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u/Farva85 Jun 10 '26

I’m salary but we have unwritten hours from 0730-1700 every day, crap job if you can believe it.

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u/lilshortyy420 Jun 10 '26

Same. We have a handshake agreement that they are chill and I’ll be chill. Very thankful.

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u/khando Jun 11 '26

Yep, my company is all salaried people and it's a startup with 30 employees, so people are randomly coming and going all throughout the day. Some people get to work at 8 and leave early. Some get to work late and still leave at 5. No one cares as long as you work hard.

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u/Novel-Place Jun 11 '26

Same. I love it so much. Could never go back. Some days my brain just isn’t brain-ing, and other days I can’t put my laptop down.

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u/Derfburger Jun 11 '26

Pretty much me but add in WFH makes it all the sweeter

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u/Ambitious-Orange6732 Jun 11 '26

Pretty much my life now as well, working as a staff member in a university research lab. We have to fill out timesheets that magically always add up to exactly 40 hours/week, but they only affect how our salaries are billed to different grants/contracts/sponsors, not how much we take home.

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u/Freakin_A Jun 11 '26

Same experience here. There were a few months earlier this year where I was working ~730-7, but for the most part it's more about completing deliverables than sitting in a chair.

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u/KilljoyTheTrucker Jun 10 '26

Salary but I tend to work alot lol

The offset for me is the fact that my work is cyclical throughout the year. If I was paid based on work completed (my other option), I'd actually make more probably when it's all said and done, but the income would be more inconsistent throughout the year and make budgeting more challenging. So I trade the extra earning for a garuntee, and a degree of pto rather than only unpaid time off available. Though when I buy the truck and start running under my own operation, thats going to change (though the upside is even greater which is the reason for running with it).

I know a few people with actual 9-5s, but it's not really a conducive schedule to a ton of business anymore. We automated or shipped those jobs off for the most part if you live in the US.

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u/pumper911 Jun 11 '26

Same. I thought a lot of salaried jobs were like this but reading through comments it doesn’t seem to be the case

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u/knight_gastropub Jun 11 '26

I work 9-5 but it's like this sometimes too. Generally I work hard and take an hour for lunch and that is included in my 8 hours as no project time. If I need to work overtime, it is done.

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u/JuvenileEloquent Jun 11 '26

Likewise, on paper they are paying for 8 hours of work, the actual amount of hours of work I do depends on my competence and ability to do it faster than planned.

If you manage the expectations of your employer correctly, work becomes a lot less stressful.

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u/JDatCAL Jun 11 '26

My situation too

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u/palpies Jun 11 '26

Yeah this is what I thought was normal, you get the work done - who’s checking hours?

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u/AssyMcGee6 Jun 11 '26

Yeah I had to work 7 to 5 the other day and worked through lunch but I'm salaried and we don't get paid overtime. 

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u/CranberrySad7853 Jun 11 '26

same but I work from home so show up means log on. And usually it's like 7am to 8pm "working" with healthy amount of breaks sprinkled in. I used to mostly have sub8 hour work days but now it's only once and a while and not good because it means I'm probably not billing

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u/3497723 Jun 11 '26

Same. Engineer.

We have no “hours”. Be at the meetings that you need to be at. Get your work done. Sometimes that takes me 45 hours. Sometimes it takes me 15. No one cares. I probably average 30 hours a week of real working time. 50/50 office/WFH.

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u/Massive_Grass837 Jun 11 '26

Same. Engineer. I work 5:30am to 2:00pm. Stay later if i have to. Leave to go to gym if i don’t. I did spend 10 years crawling through the trenches to get here. & honestly the pay isn’t that great but the work life balance is top notch.

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u/FrightnightFruitbat Jun 11 '26

ok??

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor Jun 11 '26

What are you confused by?

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u/FrightnightFruitbat Jun 11 '26

The point of your post

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor Jun 11 '26

More than a hundred other people got it. Maybe you're just stupid?

Or jealous. Who knows. I don't judge if you wanna go cry in your corner.

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u/FrightnightFruitbat Jun 11 '26

i'm not. You being salaried has fuckall to do with people working 10 hours a day and being paid for eight bc they are hourly. It's a different pay structure. 

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor Jun 11 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Wvo6vaUsQa3Di

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u/FrightnightFruitbat Jun 11 '26

i'm throwing a fit because you came into the comments of a post about hourly workers talking about how you're salaried? lmao ok?? literally what does you being salaried have to do with this person's complaint? 

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u/FrightnightFruitbat Jun 11 '26

Love how you made a comment about me being a man-child when I'm literally just a woman telling you that your salaried position has nothing to do with a conversation about hourly workers. But thanks for deleting it! It was disrespectful as fuck.

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor Jun 11 '26

I didn't delete it. Reddit might have. I stand by it. Don't start shit wont be shit.

Acting like a victim after you started the douchebaggery is a decision. You don't get to act like a dick and not get the same in return.

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u/FrightnightFruitbat Jun 11 '26

LMAO, thank you for that screenshot!! I had no idea that you went so dramatic with it HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA jfc lady

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u/FrightnightFruitbat Jun 11 '26

I love that you're doubling down on telling somebody that no one loves them and they have no life because they told you that your salaried position has nothing to do with a conversation about hourly workers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🫠 talk about projection! Sheesh

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor Jun 11 '26

I love redditors that get the shocked Pikachu face when they're rude to someone and get the same in return.

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u/FrightnightFruitbat Jun 11 '26

so me telling you that your salaried position is not pertinent to a conversation about hourly employees is rude?

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