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glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)
How many of you have a 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, 40 hour a week job?

In my life, I've had I had lots of different jobs, from "Gardener" to "Professor", but only for one brief time did I work office hours. (For three weeks at a very small ISP/computer store in the year 2000). I don't know many people who work 9 to 5 jobs, either.

I do know that the minority of people who have managed to wrangle themselves a job working regular hours, with regular duties, in a regular office, do still assume its kind of normal, and look down on people with irregular hour jobs because we aren't waking up at the same time as them. Like "haha, wait, you were still at home on 10 AM on a Tuesday? Wow, what a lazybones!". Like, do these people realize that when they go into a supermarket at 10 PM on a Saturday night and their is a cashier there, that that person is working on the weekends but not all week?

Anyway, I want to see what people think of this. Are there still a lot of office workers working traditional hours, and I just don't run into them?

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eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
yes i do OP

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
I love sitting slackjawed, typing away inside a small room for 8 hours a day being in all respects similar to a barnyard animal OP

Verily I Shat
May 24, 2015

by Smythe
Yes and its excellent

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Beef Turret posted:

I love sitting slackjawed, typing away inside a small room for 8 hours a day being in all respects similar to a barnyard animal OP

go on...

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Eonwe posted:

yes i do OP


Verily I Shat posted:

Yes and its excellent

Doing what? Are you an accountant or financial worker or something else like that? When I imagine 9 to 5 workers, I imagine they are all working in offices with TPS reports.

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.
I spent years working every weekend, and unless your friends also work weekends it loving blows. "Hey do you want to party on tuesday or wednesday? Oh you have work? Ok. See you.... Whenever I quit this job and not a minute sooner. Hotta pay those dues tho and time and a half was nice.

spud
Aug 27, 2003

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I had a few as a teenager when I got paid by the hour, but as an adult, once I got salaried, you just loving work whatever hours are needed to meet client expectations.

I kinda miss doing 9-5 sometimes.

Such is life.

bleep.bloop
Jun 19, 2016

Oh, dear leader!
I am an office worker too. Most of my days are spent trying to finish my assigned tasks despite the constant interruptions of my superiors. This is all in the vain hope that I will buy a house some day and own it before old age claims my sanity.

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
just showed up 45min late and hungover as gently caress, today will likely be a write off for me but thats ok because i do my finest work under pressure

A ILL BREAKFAST
Jun 9, 2007

*unsheathes katana*
i had an 8-4 telemarketing job once. it sucked.

Darth Freddy
Feb 6, 2007

An Emperor's slightest dislike is transmitted to those who serve him, and there it is amplified into rage.
I work 7ish to 5ish Monday through Friday. Does that count? 50 to 60 hours a week.

Oil patch

Edit. I guess my truck counts as an office.

poorlifedecision
Feb 13, 2012
Lipstick Apathy
My job is 9-7 does that count?

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy
I work rotating shifts and most people hate it but I love it. Some weeks you are a hermit and cannot hang out with friends or anything. And other weeks are normal. I easily adjust to going to sleep at 7 AM when I work nights. It also helps because I get to do things like bring my kid to an amusement park on a Tuesday when it's empty. A lot of people hate it, though.

Working Christmas does suck, but that sweet 2.5X pay for 12 hours makes up for it. :homebrew:
Plus you just celebrate holidays on a different day and your family understands.

Sperghetti
Apr 21, 2010

I had a 9-5 for about 3 months in a bank after college. I had a 7-3 for a few months. These days I mostly work 12 hour shifts 7-7, 7 days a week for a few months then take a couple months off

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
I do not

loinburger
Jul 10, 2004
Sweet Sauce Jones
I work 6-2 since all of my co-workers are in a different time zone than me, it's nice to get off work and have eight hours of free time

PallasAthene
Dec 6, 2010

Why, vixen, have you again set the gods by the ears in the pride and haughtiness of your heart?
I work a 9-5 job. I do not look down on shift workers, because if everyone worked the same hours, there would be nothing to do when I wasn't at work, so I would be forced to spend all of my free time on GBS.

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
coworkers seem very busy today on account of all their clicking away meanwhile im wearing a wrinkled band shirt and sitting at my desk eating blueberries

shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe
Worst shift I ever worked was noon to midnight. The midnight to noon guy did whatever he wanted overnight/while the 9-5 bosses and clients and vendors were still getting awake and situated and caffeinated, and then skipped on off to bed after lunch. Midnight to noon owned.

fuck the ROW
Aug 29, 2008

by zen death robot
Early in my career as governor of a medium state, sure, I'd do the whole 9-5 thing

upgunned shitpost
Jan 21, 2015

8-4, but I usually finish around 2pm then go home and get paid for two more hours

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

loinburger posted:

I work 6-2 since all of my co-workers are in a different time zone than me, it's nice to get off work and have eight hours of free time

i did 6-3 for a few months and it was hella nice having most of the afternoon free

Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
Fallen Rib
at my work you are REQUIRED to do 7 hours 21 minutes a day (not including lunch break, which must be minimum 30 minutes) but you can do those hours at any time between 7AM and 7PM subject to operational requirements. it's really sweet, though in practice since the area i work in is the highest level legal area in a very large organisation we all work much longer hours.

City of Tampa
May 6, 2007

by zen death robot
I work 9-5 Monday thru Thursday and 9-2 on Friday, and they just pay us all for 40 hours anyway.

I'm a machinist though I don't work in an office, I can post on GBS all day because I hardly do any actual work when I'm doing CNC. When I don't post on GBS it means I'm doing manual machining that day.

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

It's more like 9-3 because I live in a socialist utopia

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

glowing-fish posted:

How many of you have a 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, 40 hour a week job?

In my life, I've had I had lots of different jobs, from "Gardener" to "Professor", but only for one brief time did I work office hours. (For three weeks at a very small ISP/computer store in the year 2000). I don't know many people who work 9 to 5 jobs, either.

I do know that the minority of people who have managed to wrangle themselves a job working regular hours, with regular duties, in a regular office, do still assume its kind of normal, and look down on people with irregular hour jobs because we aren't waking up at the same time as them. Like "haha, wait, you were still at home on 10 AM on a Tuesday? Wow, what a lazybones!". Like, do these people realize that when they go into a supermarket at 10 PM on a Saturday night and their is a cashier there, that that person is working on the weekends but not all week?

Anyway, I want to see what people think of this. Are there still a lot of office workers working traditional hours, and I just don't run into them?

Cashiers at supermarkets are garbage people

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
I do, and it's for a bank, and I want to die. It's a QA gig and contracted to boot so I'm probably out on my rear end come the end of August. :)

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
I "work" 730-400. It's a place that has cool A/C and faster internet than home. Sort of like a library and I have the ability to hire and fire people to boot. Not sure what I should be doing but they keep paying me every two weeks

Blazing Zero
Sep 7, 2012

*sigh* sure. it's a weed joke
i suck dick for coke from 9 to 5 behind albertsons, op

Tramadol Junkie
Aug 30, 2015

by zen death robot
Lipstick Apathy
I have not had a job since 1998-99, it was 8 to 4 selling crap over the phone to stupid old people.

But disability benefits pay better than working here so I dont need a job.

Kitchner
Nov 9, 2012

IT CAN'T BE BARGAINED WITH.
IT CAN'T BE REASONED WITH.
IT DOESN'T FEEL PITY, OR REMORSE, OR FEAR.
AND IT ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP, EVER, UNTIL YOU ADMIT YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT WARHAMMER
Clapping Larry
Having a 9-5 office job is great as long as your friends also all have 9-5 office jobs. If they don't it all goes to poo poo and they work when you're off and you're off when they work.

Its crazy I tell you.

Then again, someone has to serve me at the local supermarket when I finish work and swing by to buy a bottle of whiskey to try and forget my boring 9-5 office job life.

Batterypowered7
Aug 8, 2009

The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Mariana Horchata posted:

coworkers seem very busy today on account of all their clicking away meanwhile im wearing a wrinkled band shirt and sitting at my desk eating blueberries

Same, but it was an apple instead of blueberries.

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
7:30 - 4

Snatch Duster
Feb 20, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
i do op but its 7 - 3 sucka fish!

I beat the traffic both ways hahahaha

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
I actually have two, OP.

Edgar
Sep 9, 2005

Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!
Wedge Regret
9 to 6, if I take lunch. 9 to 5 with no lunch. I miss construction hours of 7 to 330

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

9 to 5

between those thighs OP

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.
I work 11 to 8, a shift I got to choose. The pay is bad, but I found an corporate seeing where the people are great to work with and there benefits are pretty good, which makes me afraid to try to find a job that pays better. The higher ups have reasonable expectations of what everyone can do, which is also nice. I just wish it paid a couple of bucks more per hour.

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naem
May 29, 2011

I've noticed that the more money someone has the more they think that is "normal." Tech people in the Bay Area earning $250k act like that is a normal middle class income for a 25 yr old and if you point out that is in the top 5% of incomes they look confused and dopey and cock their head sideways like a dog

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