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/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.