Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks?

ramble81@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 281 points –

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?

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What's it like for you now?

Retired in a 3-bedroom home paid off that was purchased for $57,000.

/kidding

You're thinking boomer so you are off by ~20 years.

My company went full time "work from home" in 2012 and we are specialists that are only brought in when everyone else has fucked up. So basically, I am on call 24/7/365.

This actually doesn't sound like a bad thing.

I didn't think it was. For IT, it was a dead end job, so I couldn't stay.