“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?
I worked IT for a community college. 8 - 4:30 Monday through Friday. If they’d asked me for any OT, my union president would eat nails and shit rust.
Retired now.
Unionized IT.
0800-1647 , and it’s generally firm; but we do take time to bottle and checkpoint our work if we didn’t get to it before then. Normally it’s 0800-1600 but the 0.47 hour is part of a 9x9 scheme where every second Friday is off because we already worked the hours for that pay-period.
OT needs a ticket and is charged out to the .1 hour. Standby has a shitty hourly rate, but at least there is one. They may not expect us to be sober/available otherwise.
software dev - I’m 8-5ish but the end is very flexible.
my morning is usually me waking myself up and remembering what I’m doing till 8:45, then we have a company wide and a dev team standup. then they let us loose to do what we need to do. if I run out of shit to do, I leave. sometimes I’m out by 3pm, but if there’s plenty to do and my wife is working late I’m often there till 6.
so 9-5, no, but 8-4ish, which is still the same 8 hours I guess. I don’t know any devs that start at 9am around here, 8 seems to be standard for some reason I can’t fathom.
I do now, and I was similarly disappointed at the realization that this is not common when I got my first office job
Most corpo drones show up for those hours but very few of them work that long.
9-5 is a simple representation of an 8 hr work day. It’s not meant to be taken literally.
Ooooh fuck that. Not meant to be taken literally? Motherfucker, that was the standard in the 70’s and 80’s. Why tf you think Dolly Parton sang about “Workin 9-to-5” and not 9-to-5:30 or 9-to-6? Because that used to be normal working hours. Just another facet of workers rights that was quietly stolen from us.
Where are you all located. I’m in Canada. I work 8-4 or 9-5 depending. I have flexibility to choose.
I do a “07:45 or so till 15:30 when I fall asleep at the desk until 16:30” recently.
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I used to as my company was fine with me being at lunch from 5-6. Some governments don’t allow that (it’s technically not legal in Japan), but some also look the other way (not my current company, sadly)
I’m at the office between 9 and 5
Drop a deuce at 10. Work gets done 10:30 to 12:30, take lunch, then fuck around pretending to work til 5
damn thats awesome
Having done something similar it really fucking sucks. Even if you find a way to discreetly kill time, you can’t shake the feeling that you’re burning precious hours of your life for no reason.
I would much rather work a solid 6-7hr block at home knowing I can sign off when I’m done than spend 1 + 7 hours in cubicle hell.
Where do you work and are they hiring?
I attend a place of work from 0700 to 1600.
Do I work in that time?
Yeah, why not…
Software dev in Spain.
On paper it is 9:00 to 17:00, but we have flexibility to enter and leave.
In practice we do 9 hours Monday-Thursday and 6 on Friday.
8 hours + 30 min for lunch + 30 min to leave early on Friday.
I do 8:00 to 17:00 and 8:00 to 14:00.
This is not in all companies, my previous employer was like that, but I have friends on other companies for the same sector that do 9:00 to 18:00 every day, with one hour mandated for lunch.
Hostia, otro programador español! Cómo es el ambiente por tu zona? Yo justo creo que tengo uno de los 3 trabajos de programación de mi isla
No está mal, trabajo en VLC, no es Madrid o BCN pero tampoco es como otras regiones que al final o tiran de remoto 100% os se mudan a una de estas.
I work 8:30 to 18:00 with a forced 1 hour break in-betweem
Kind-of. Researcher in EU, the funding source on paper mandates 7.6 hrs of work per day, so with lunch breaks it is almost exactly 09:00 - 17:00
Depending on whom you ask academia may or may not be considered a real job though… and my hours may be nice, but the folks who do experiments rarely get the 9-5 as stated on paper, and there are other aspects of the job that are much more fucked up
In France it’s more like 9 to 6 with one hour to eat, and no paid overtime. We’re fucked.
