I work in IT. After my old place had a bunch of layoffs, I have landed in a place that is pretty good and I’ve enjoyed it ok so far. I was interviewed by my bosses boss and was offered the job fairly quickly.
They passed over my details to HR to deal with the contract for signing and on boarding me. I always noticed that people were in the office later than I was and I thought it was a bit weird but I never said anything.
However after a conversation I found that my contract has substantially less hours than everyone else in my team. My colleagues are all 8am until 5:30pm. My contract is for 9 to 5pm with a 1 hour lunch. Doesn’t sound like a lot but it actually works out at 30 hours less a month roughly. My boss who I like said that my hours I work should be 830 to 530 but I said no, that was the contract I signed so unless I was needed for something that needed overtime, which happens occasionally, I would be sticking to my agreed hours. So he dropped it but seemed a bit put out, but I do feel a bit guilty because it’s obviously been an error because it was the HR lady’s first week and she didn’t do the contract properly and I genuinely like my colleagues.
Would you change your contract for camaraderie or stick to your guns?