You always hear the phase “9 to 5” and also the song with the same name. Assuming you include 1 hour worth of breaks (30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks), you’re only working for 7 hours a day which comes up to 35 hours a week.

Now it feels like you have to work 8 hours a day (for a total of 40 hours of actual work), plus your other time off meaning you’re really there for 9 hours each day (for a total of 45 hours). Am i looking at that wrong, or did expected times change, and if so, when?

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You’re thinking small-time, like an hourly worker. Good office jobs are generally salaried positions and the idea of clocking in and out is… not a thing. Some days you work more, some less, whatever needs to be done. The idea of 9-5 is just a general time frame. And no one gives a shit when you lunch or break. In a real profession the yardstick is, are you getting it done or not?

    I’ll catch grief for saying that, so I’ll preempt by saying, if your job isn’t like that, you likely have a shit job.

    • radroot@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Gentle reminder that without “small time”, hourly workers doing real labor your easy, sweatless, office job would disappear overnight. Perhaps some gratitude? Maybe even some solidarity?

      As a former IT professional turned baker, I dislike the condescending attitude too many white collar workers have toward the actual wheel turners of the world.

      • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        If you want solidarity you need to stop shitting on office workers first. You’re lambasting your own behaviour with this comment. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black…

      • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        “doing real labor” “easy, sweatless, office job” “the actual wheel turners”

        “I dislike the condescending attitude”

        It never ceases to amaze me how often people see and hate shit in other people that they epitomize themselves.

        And honestly, my experience has been the opposite and I see the condescending attitude, at least more openly, coming from blue collar workers more often.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’ve done it all, from shoveling asphalt to dishpits to customer service, all that and a dozen more. Guess what? Those were shit jobs. Doesn’t make the person doing those jobs shit.

        Some of y’all are so eager to be offended it’s ridiculous.