Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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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)
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.
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.
9-5 is a 40 hr workweek. The change is that lunch started being considered personal time.
But why start at 9, is my question. Seems like there must be some historical reason.
Oh, man, it is so cold and it makes me hate everything.
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.
I work through lunch all the time because I am inertia's bitch.
Not getting paid for lunch is bullshitty bullshit is what.
Two of my co-workers have discovered my stash of leftover Halloween candy. It may go a little faster now.
I genuinely do not know what people did to look busy all the time before the internet.
No kidding!! I remember playing a lot of free cell, at one point...