Maybe I’m crazy for this, at least have been made to feel so, and it seems very common. For context, I recently tried to quit a demanding, dishonorable, job in an office. In order to stay, my demands were and increase in pay to offset the workload and a change in hours. My previous time was 9-6 and I asked for 9-5 (you know, job hours). Both were denied as I got a 95% increase last year from $16 to $19/hr (math, right?).
I was told I could start leaving at 5 but before I left the meeting, I asked and it turned out it would be 8-5 instead. The response was “this is the normal work hours.” Being that I have to work 40 hours to maintain salary. I started mathing in my head and realized it was a 9 hour work day minus lunch. Where 9-5 is the 40 hour work week.
It seems to me, the point of lunch is to break that up. But their response was “you have to WORK 40 hours”. So I’m locked into the building for 9 hours and am to be grateful for two 10 minute breaks and a 1 hour lunch. I feel like I’ve got nuts over an hour.
Which is to be said, I’ve since quit this job.