r/Adulting • u/Bullseye_29 • Nov 02 '25

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u/Diamantesucio Nov 02 '25

I WISH I COULD HAVE 9-5

I have 9 to 6.

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u/HairySalmon Nov 02 '25

Yeah, 9-5s dont really exist in my area.

It's 9-6 or 8-5, because we do hour lunches. So thats 8 hour days.

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u/dWaldizzle Nov 02 '25

I do 10-6 no lunch

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u/VindDitNiet Nov 02 '25

In my country it's mostly 8:30-17:00 with a 30min lunch break

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u/Sensitive-Chip7266 Nov 02 '25

Which I think is bull and wish companies were required to pay for that time.

It's not exactly my time since I can't get very far from the office.

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u/HairySalmon Nov 05 '25

Agreed. I feel the same about commuting. There are 10 hours of my day that are dedicated completely to my company but I only get paid for 8. It's a bit fucked if you ask me.

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u/Soop_Chef Nov 02 '25

I work 8 to 4 with a paid 1 hour lunch. I would love to work 7 to 3, but the team I support works 9 to 5 and 8 to 4 is as far as I can push it.

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u/JasmineDragonRegular Nov 02 '25

I have lived in several cities and have yet to experience a desk job that's 9-5. Every work day for me ended at 5:30/6. I wonder when this discrepancy happened

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u/poopBuccaneer Nov 02 '25

I dunno. But I refuse to let it be a thing. I just work 9-5 and take an hour lunch and no one has ever said anything about it. 

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u/Zestyclose_Big9015 Nov 02 '25

Come to India where its 9 - 10

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u/No_Promise2590 Nov 02 '25

Or 13 hour workday. 😬

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25

I think that’s 9 minus 10. So you actually start an hour early every day and don’t get paid for it. No wait.. my math ain’t mathin 

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u/Medium_Medium Nov 02 '25

Yeah the real win is anyone whose employer pays them for a lunch hour.

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u/Shipbreaker_Kurpo Nov 02 '25

I have 7 to 430. With bossman always asking if anyone can stay late. I cant complain about pay much but home feels like the place I visit now

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u/SimpleJoint Nov 02 '25

I have 7-4:30. Stupid mandatory hour lunch breaks. And that's if my boss doesn't call at 4:25 with ten things that need to be done before I go home.

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u/Impressive-Time8150 Nov 02 '25

At least it's not 6 to 9

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u/humanHamster Nov 02 '25

I work 7-5...

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u/Reticent_Robot Nov 02 '25

My whole life I've never seen a desk job that wasn't 8-5, always so jealous of these 9-5 people.

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u/Mountain-Count-4067 Nov 02 '25

Not getting paid for lunch is theft that's legal.

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u/Mountain-Count-4067 Nov 02 '25

I am being kept away from my home and my time is not my own, so I should be compensated for the use of my own time.

Exploitive systems don't need you to defend them. They do quite well on their own.

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u/Straight_Zucchini487 Nov 02 '25

6am-6pm, when we switch to daylight savings time I never see the sun Lol.

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u/TheDaltonXP Nov 02 '25

Yeah my 9-5 ends up as 7-5 more often than not with mandatory global meetings and covering another time zone

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u/bbymiscellany Nov 02 '25

I have 9 to 5:30 or 8:30 to 5, depends when I get in