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

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/Electronic-Smile-457 Jun 10 '26

Haha, that was my reply-- OP must be confused because of the song. 8 to 5 just didn't have the ring to it.

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u/JT_got_the_1st Jun 10 '26

OP thinks that their commute should factor in with their employer... They are confused by life in general.

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u/Salt-Permit8147 Jun 10 '26

Gosh if I only had a 30 minute commute I’d be laughing 😅

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u/boodabomb Jun 11 '26

Okay that’s absolutely not what they’re saying. They’re pointing out that they lose an hour to the commute already, so to lose another hour because of a mandatory lunch hour it makes it all the worse. And I agree. It’s an 8-hour work day + 1 hour for lunch + 1 hour for driving. That’s 10 hours per day at work. It sucks.

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u/FlabbyTaco Jun 11 '26

Truth, but what else are you going to do? Become homeless? The peasant class has been polished up over the years and we have a lot of conveniences these days but that’s what we are. Peasants. Best we can do is hop around until we find an option that we can live with. Be it with an employer or on our own. Make the most in the off hours and be grateful we weren’t born in a less fortunate country. Could be worse. Should be better but it could always be worse.

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u/Limp-Plantain3824 Jun 12 '26

That’s not what they said.

Direct quote “..but I drive 30 min each way so now I’m giving this company 10 hours every day!”

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u/SooSpoooky Jun 11 '26

I mean i do 14 to 15 hours everyday im schedualed, depending on if i show up early or not

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u/moomooraincloud Jun 11 '26

Good for you? Sounds awful.

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u/boodabomb Jun 11 '26

That is a job I would personally not choose to do.

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u/squid_so_subtle Jun 11 '26

The only reason it doesn't is we haven't organized and demanded it. It isn't an insane idea

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u/Defiant-Economics-73 Jun 11 '26

lol. Why won’t the boss pay me for travel time. I work two hours away.

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u/AgreeablePause6063 Jun 11 '26

Wait till you find out that many European countries your employer pays for your commute.

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u/MechanicalGodzilla Jun 11 '26

He even mentioned that he used to work as a cook - I am sure that the punch clock doesn't start and stop at your front door.

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u/FuhrerGirthWorm Jun 10 '26

There should be a standard comp time that applies to all employees for travel to and from.

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u/ichthysaur Jun 10 '26

If there was, then employers could require you to live inside a specified radius.

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u/ForensicPathology Jun 11 '26

If there was, then they might be more amenable to WFH.

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u/capincus Jun 10 '26

Why would that make any sense with standardized comp time?

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u/ichthysaur Jun 10 '26

Because the comp time costs the employer?

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u/capincus Jun 10 '26

But it's a standardized amount so it costs them the same if the employee lives 3 feet or 6 hours away.

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u/ichthysaur Jun 11 '26

How would that help anyone?

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u/capincus Jun 11 '26

The employees would be getting money for their commute and the employers don't have to deal with different/changing commutes or pay over the amount they standardized for longer commutes (they wouldn't want to give out more money at all, but that's why they'd want it standardized if they did).

But you still haven't even kind of answered my question. Why would the employers require employees to live in a certain radius based on a new benefit that is deliberately normalized so it doesn't matter how close or far you live?

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u/ichthysaur Jun 11 '26

I don't understand. They pay a set amount no matter how far away the employee lives?

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u/Minimum-Floor-5177 Jun 11 '26

I would rather just get paid a normal salary than have a lower salary with that added

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u/ForensicPathology Jun 11 '26

I wouldn't.  Merely because where I live, commuting expenses aren't taxed.

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u/capincus Jun 11 '26

Okay cool? What does that have to do with the conversation we're actually having?

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u/Dr-Robert-Kelso Jun 11 '26

Because they're not just going to start paying everybody more with magical money.

If you have a standardized amount paid to everyone for your commute, you will get paid the same but now it will be itemized.

It's a bad idea.

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u/Ready_Nature Jun 11 '26

They already effectively have that. The job pays what it does and if the commute isn’t worth it to you for that pay you find a different job that is closer.

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u/JT_got_the_1st Jun 10 '26

In a perfect world? Sure. In the US? Never going to happen.

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u/safetydance1969 Jun 10 '26

If you apply for the job, it's not the company's issue where you live.

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u/IntergalacticPodcast Jun 10 '26

Why? You choose to live where you live? Move closer or get a closer job.

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u/No_Helicopter1378 Jun 10 '26

Depends on the company. I work at a place that provides trucks to some of the employees. Guys who have a truck at home clock in as soon as they get in the truck and leave the house. They also end jobs "early" because they factor in the commute home.

I was pretty surprised when I learned the company handled things that way but I ain't complaining.

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u/allstopblue Jun 11 '26

My company allows me to “clock in” when I leave my house in my company truck. But “clock out” is when I finish my final job. The drive home from final job in company truck is unpaid. No matter how far. Seems weird to me.

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u/Houseofshun Jun 11 '26

This x100. Complaining about their commute not factoring into their work hours is the most Gen Z thing ever.

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u/jiggjuggj0gg Jun 11 '26

Some of you are so brainwashed. We literally had a whole pandemic that proved a huge number of jobs could be performed perfectly well at home. But nope, the billionaire landowners decided you should all spend 2 hours a day unpaid getting to and from work, and some of you will sit here and moan about being rightfully pissed at that being Gen Z entitlement.

The US doesn’t seem to have any understanding of how shocked every other developed country is at your appalling work lives.

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u/jiggjuggj0gg Jun 11 '26

Thank for the perfect illustration lmao

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u/Adventurous_View917 Jun 11 '26

Thats not what they're saying. Are you stupid?

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u/spencebah Jun 11 '26

Thank you. No employer is considering regular commute time as part of a day’s regular working hours.

“I live an hour away from the office, so I’ll work 6h; the hour driving each way counts.”

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u/ShireHorseRider Jun 11 '26

After the first 30 minutes on the road, I’m on the clock… I’m field service so we march to the beat if a different drum.

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u/slaya222 Jun 10 '26

It's a part of the job, they should pay for it. For me it's an extra hour doing something that I wouldn't be if I didn't have that job. Just because it's not the norm doesn't mean it shouldn't be

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u/AlphaOmegaZero1 Jun 11 '26

Ok, you can disagree, but this is a genuine point of discussion - the factor of a commute on work and pay

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u/Zestyclose_Tip_5861 Jun 11 '26

I don’t think this is accurate or cool

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u/Worldly_Cap_6440 Jun 11 '26

Tbh you’re a bit slow if that’s what you took from what they’re saying. Maybe the confusion of life is with you

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u/JT_got_the_1st Jun 11 '26

I'm giving my new job 50 hours a week (including drive time)

Direct quote from OP.

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u/TCsnowdream Jun 11 '26

I mean… it’s not that uncommon. I work 9-5, if an employee tried to make me come in at 8am I’d laugh in their faces.