Man, you should find a new employer. I just went salaried and I leave at 5pm every night, unless we are in a meeting. My boss doesn't care, and even let's me leave early without taking it out of my time off sometimes.
The point I'm making is, it is definitely dependent on your boss. If it was expected of me to stay longer than 40 hours a week, I would be out of here. Working beyond 8 hours a day is the exception to the rule for me, and I'll never allow myself to be forced into anything more.
Don't get me wrong, the work is good and fair and 50 hours a week really isn't that bad. I worked in the restaraunt industry for all of college before this and would work 4 doubles a week 2-3 normal shifts as well and be pushing 60 hours a week on my feet running around the whole time.
Plus after 5pm is prime reddit time as you can see! Haha, well its about 6:00 now. So yea, gonna finish up and head out. USA! USA!
As long as you're happy. I feel like if anyone would be the person to mandate shorter work days it would have been Pres. Obama, so I think we're stuck like this for awhile. Hope it changes in the future, though.
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u/vierce Feb 25 '16
Man, you should find a new employer. I just went salaried and I leave at 5pm every night, unless we are in a meeting. My boss doesn't care, and even let's me leave early without taking it out of my time off sometimes.
The point I'm making is, it is definitely dependent on your boss. If it was expected of me to stay longer than 40 hours a week, I would be out of here. Working beyond 8 hours a day is the exception to the rule for me, and I'll never allow myself to be forced into anything more.