The song "Workin' 9 to 5" baffled me for a long time. I kept counting the hours and going "Don't they get lunch? Are they paid for lunch? How are they getting a 40-hour week without something being really hinky?"
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Nov 12, 2014 8:45:37 am PST #10282 of 30000
brillig
brenda m - Nov 12, 2014 8:48:25 am PST #10283 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Pretty sure that's not legal, Suzi. There are specific professions where OT calculations are based on 2/80 calculations like nursing, but that's the exception not the rule.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 12, 2014 8:52:45 am PST #10284 of 30000
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The song "Workin' 9 to 5" baffled me for a long time. I kept counting the hours and going "Don't they get lunch? Are they paid for lunch? How are they getting a 40-hour week without something being really hinky?"
ME TOO!!!
I thought maybe that times had changed.
Here full time is 8- 4:30 or 8:30 - 5. If you are hourly, you are considered full-time at 37.5 hours, but you get paid less (obviously)
-t - Nov 12, 2014 8:55:19 am PST #10285 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have been wondering for a few days - how did 9 to 5 become standard business hours, anyway?
Not that I have ever worked 9-5 (my current schedule is 7-3:30, and other than that half-hour lunch break that I only sometimes actually get to take it's pretty convenient). I was 10-6 at the store in NO, but we ate lunch on the floor and stayed available to customers, otherwise I've always had the unpaid lunch.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 12, 2014 8:56:17 am PST #10286 of 30000
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Also, I am sure that is not legal Suzi (unless you are salaried but they are paying you overtime?) What they could do is pay you for the hours worked, and give you unpaid time and a half off.
So week one, you get paid for 50 hours (40 hours and 10 hour overtime) and the next week you work and get paid for 25 hours- (40 hours minus time and a half). I am not sure if that messes with fulltime status, though.
brenda m - Nov 12, 2014 9:02:59 am PST #10287 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
9-5 is a 40 hr workweek. The change is that lunch started being considered personal time.
-t - Nov 12, 2014 9:09:11 am PST #10288 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
But why start at 9, is my question. Seems like there must be some historical reason.
Dana - Nov 12, 2014 9:22:26 am PST #10289 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Oh, man, it is so cold and it makes me hate everything.
Connie Neil - Nov 12, 2014 9:22:28 am PST #10290 of 30000
brillig
I work 9-6 and I get an hour lunch--except in busy times--so that's my 8-hour day though I'm here for 9 hours. Brown nosers like to work through their lunch in order to get more OT and to impress the bosses with their go-getterness.
msbelle - Nov 12, 2014 9:47:53 am PST #10291 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I work through lunch all the time because I am inertia's bitch.
Not getting paid for lunch is bullshitty bullshit is what.