has anybody ever worked 9 to 5?

Dijos

Dijos

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I mean literally, come in a 9 am, work, take lunch, and leave at 5. Where did we get this idea from? I work 8 hours plus 1 hour unpaid lunch; 8-5, not 9 to 5.

thanks!
 
It's been known to happen. I work from home, and my answering machine says my hours are 8 to 4:30, but sometimes its 7:52-4:40, sometimes it's 8:35-4:05, sometimes it's 9:00 to 5:00... just depends.
:D
Mike
 
08:00-16:30 in the summer
08:00-17:00 otherwise
6 weeks paid leave

plus 365 days paternal left leave - at 70% normal pay.

:D
 
I never have. I have worked for my self for the last 25 years and usually work from 8:30 AM to 12:00 AM with lots of breaks. I like my work.
 
Nope, 7-5 everyday except Friday (I can only work 40 hours lately due to the snail paced economy right now!)
 
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if you listen closely, you can hear my grasp on reality slowly and inexorably sliding off my greasy rope attached to sanity and reality.



dammit! i just wrote a whole response at me but i hit "select all" for some unknown reaon and hit som kinda key thingy and the entire post left the page.. my guess that it went to another thread that was making more sense or something like that.
oh.. time for my mid day meal... here kttty kitty, etc.
nuh ye a
oh look!! i just channeled some/ lots of, possibly, of the Spirits from Poltergeist!!did ya know that some of them skeeons used in the really scary part of that movie were really rel skeetons and not replicas. ya used to be able to access ex-people prety easily, but guess that the NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD movies scared legisltors so bad that they outlawed the sale of bodybis to just anyone looking to buy the formerly breathing.
for example, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE MAGAZINE used to advertise a "real human skull with a FAIRBAIRNE/SYKES STILLETTO DRIVEN THROUGH IT ONLY SAW THAT AD ONCE THO SO BODYBITS PROBABLY GOT OUTTA CIRCULATION SOON AFTERWARDS.
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oh, and i been meaning to let ya's kow..
Last week a Visiting Angel stopped by picked me up and drove me towards, then parked at Walmart, then Smiths and i gots me a gift card so's i should have the means to get food til next year..
once again, i sicerely thank every one of you that helped or even just said some kind words directed my way. they mattered!
aww now im feeling all sticky inside..
and i was just about to relay all the intimate details about the wild sex that (hadn't) occured during this time.well, to be honest, i'msure that sex DID OCCUR DURING THAT TIME BUT JUST NONE THAT HAD TO DO WITH ME AND THE VISITOR ANGEL. WELL, OK, I DID DET FIRE TO MY NIPPLES A FEW TMES BUT I MANAGED TO CONVINCE HER IT WAS A CASE OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTIION HAVING TO DO WITH MY T-SHIRT ART AND WIZARD TATTOO ON MY CHEST
THAT REMINDS ME I FINDED SOMETHING FUNNY I NEVER DID SEE WHEN I WAS ONLINE 24/7. stop shouting, me! ya just did moron! good work, bitch thaNk youNMe/US!.
oh that reminds me again, i found this while watching VH-1's webjunk
looky at the folloewing site, if y do't crack up, you have too much spackle in yer sYstem. this site, i meaned: crap!! i just realized i was posting thiS in the wRong spot!!
i just realized that i wanted to answer Dijos' querry with something like following THIS answer: HIYA DIJOS! IT'S ME, VAMPIRE GERBIL!!
YES, YOU'RE QUITE HONORED, I UNDERSTAND BUT GROVELLING MAKES ME
BREAK OUT IN A RASH THATMORPHS INTO AN IMAGE OF WALTER BRENNEN SKINNY DIPPING IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN.. SO IT'S REALLY N BOTH OF OUR ITERESTS TO AVOID THAT FATE FOR AS LoNG as is possible.. yeah, i thought we might.:D
golly but i do have TO PADDLE AWAY NOW , BUT 1ST TO ANSWER DIJO: YEP I WERKED IN NYC FOR 6 YEARS AND THE HOURS WERE 9-5, NOT INCLUDING THE NY-NJ COMMUTE WHICH I FELT I SHOULD BE PAID OR
2ND THE FUNNY SITE I MEANED WAS THIS ONE HERE: http://www.break.com/SOME SERIOUSLY HYSTERICALISTICAL STUFF HERE!!!
OK, THAT'S AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~~~~~~~~
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aLL FOR NOW... SORRY ABOUT CLOGGING UP YER THREAD, DIJOS,BUT MY EYES AIN'T WHAT THEY WERE, YA KNOW? THANX!! :-D
OFF TO POLISH TEETH... NOT MINE, THE ONES LEFT IN THE YARD BY SPACE MIDGETS RIDING NAZI RABBITS
I REMAIN
ME, VAMPRE GERBIL
 
In theory I work 8 to 5 with the 1 hour lunch thing:) When we go into a release schedule (I test software), it goes all out of whack. It then starts to 8 am to 10 pm or something like that, and Saturdays and Sundays suddenly fall into the equation. Development runs late, release date doesn't change, so QA gets the squeeze:mad:

- gord
 
Two ten hour days,two fourteen hour nights,four days off.After 18 years I think day work would be a tough change.
 
Started police work in 1968 after a stint in the military. Essentially, never.
I've done more strange shifts than I can shake a stick at.

Once I was the "relief sergeant". That was fun; three days on afternoons (3-11) followed by two days on midnights (11-7) with two days off. I usually didn't know what day of the week it was.
 
Yep... 8am - 4pm; 30 minute lunch whenever you can grab it. Worked those hours for about 17 years until we were bought out. For the past 6 years the hours have been 8:30am - 5:00pm.
 
I've been what they vaguely call a 'professional' all my adult life. What does that mean? I receive a salary and work, work, work...

When young, I'd occasionally pull 100+ hr weeks. Things are much more reasonable now, but I don't think I've ever put in 'just' 40 hrs a week, nor have I ever done that magic 9 to 5 shift.

Oh well, maybe in my 3rd or 4th career. There's still time.;)
 
9-5, 9-5 ... is that standard time or daylight savings? :) flex time, overtime, night differential, Sunday premium ... I spent so much time working nights, I hardly remember the couple of years I worked a supposedly normal day. I don't think that was exactly 9:00 to 5:00, either. And forget management. I was supposed to be in at 9:00 but started at 6:00 a lot. :(
 
YEP!

9 AM to 5 AM....:(



Oh wait....:foot:





I had a job in Savannah, GA where I came in a 9 and left at 5 pm. And we took an hour lunch. Dang, I miss that job! :grumpy:
 
Daniel Koster said:
YEP!

9 AM to 5 AM....:(



Oh wait....:foot:





I had a job in Savannah, GA where I came in a 9 and left at 5 pm. And we took an hour lunch. Dang, I miss that job! :grumpy:
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hey dan... took me awhile to find a thread you was active in =)
email filters probably blocked my last email... drop me a line when you get the chance :thumbup:

sorry everyone that i got off topic :p
 
Email sent, bro. :thumbup:

Now...please let us know your working hours...:D :p :eek: :o
 
Sure.
My first 2 jobs in advertising were 9-5, 1 hour lunch.
Figure '76-92...after that freelanced. That means they only call you when it's crazy busy and you don't leave till the work is done.
Then I worked 7 years at night...3pm till we were done...sometimes 9pm sometimes 9am.
Now I'm back to days 10-6, 1 hour lunch...with the occasional 26 hour day thrown in just for S&G's.
And a weekend now and then as well.

I aint complainin' ....... they let me come back :D
 
Close - I worked a couple of years from 9:30-5:30 with an hour for lunch
1:00 to 2:00.

Was OK for me at the time.

Good question though - who got the idea of those hours in the first place?
 
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