No Stupid Questions

Naw, there's only about 3 now. Being rich, being poor, and being a cop.

Officially I work 8 hours of my choice between 7am and 7pm with 30 minutes lunch.

In practice I work at least 8 hours (most often about 8.5), usually get a lunch, have to be at my desk at 8:30 for standup, and am always on call to some degree. If any of our infrastructure isn't working then I am, but after hours stuff isn't all that common.

I noticed recently that MS Teams allows you to set a workday that defaults to 9 hours. I found that odd, but if most people in the US have a 9 hour day with a 30 min lunchbreak and two 15 minute other breaks, I guess it makes sense?

Expected work hours seem to be increasing everywhere over the last twenty years or so. It's gotten pretty nuts.

I just signed an offer for a 8am-4pm job, so I guess they do but it’s been a long while since I’ve had a job with those hours.

I work 8:00 to 4:30 with a half-hour lunch break. Frequently I’ll put in a few extra hours in a week for some overtime ‘cause the job isn’t hard at all.

My old job was oppressive clock watchers so everyone just strolled in as close to 8am as they could and left at 5pm sharp (people would be lined up at the turnstiles waiting to badge out). So why are they having you there for 10 hours a day? I'd rather come in an hour later than get a 2 hour lunch.

I work 9-5 with a paid lunch.

But I am in Canada (which is fairly similar to the US in terms of work culture.

Also I'm unionized.

My work agreement is supposed to be 8-5 with hour lunch. I work 9-5 or 8-4 and eat at my desk when i can. But i do have mandatory overtime which sometimes makes it 7am-9pm. Fun times

Where I'm at in Canada it's almost always 8:30 to 4:30

I've been working for 30 years, never seen a 9-5 job.

I thought 9-5 was an old trope. I’ve never heard of anywhere that offered 9-5 working hours. I don’t know anyone with them.

Never had a paid lunch

I've been working 9-5 and taking 1 hour for lunch for the last 6 years but recently I saw my job description and it says 9-6 (with 1 hour lunch) so 🤷

8:30-3:00 baby, though honestly 3:45 or 4:00 would be better. I get 40 minutes for lunch and 90 minutes alone without students. I've got it nice.

9-5 never made any sense to me.

I thought working 40 hours was the standard, but 9-5 with a paid lunch is less than 40 hours. So, the math never made sense.

The only place I heard of people working 9 to 5 was in Dolly Parton’s song. I’m enjoying reading everyone’s answers though, and I’m hoping someone chimes in that has actually worked a traditional, in office 9-5.

Edit: I meant to say with an unpaid lunch.

Union jobs are strict with breaks. I have worked a non-union job with a paid lunch though, that was pretty sweet. In the corporate world, probably not though

Look at the non-profit sector, my experience has been they care more.

Yes, they still exist. I am both salaried and clock my hours. I have to clock 80/2 weeks and I need approval to clock more than that. If I do, I get comp time or overtime if pre-approved. Including for traveling for work. I don't clock my actual times, just hours worked per day. So no annoying 15min accountability that I've heard of from other companies. I think I technically have to take a 30min lunch but I haven't heard noises about that for like, a decade. We've got hours we need to be available technically as well (9-3). I'm also 80% telework and I despise that 1 day a week I sit on the same Teams calls in the office.

8-430 and I get an hour for lunch. Works out to a 7.5 hour workday.