nine to five, eight to five or what?

I know in some factories it is 3-8 hours shifts. 8to4 4to12 and 12to8. To tell the truth originally the typical work day used to be work until the job was done. You got paid by the job not paid by the hour. You have every right to leave a job if it doesn't fit your life, your home life schedule if you want, it is your choice. You are not guaranteed a job, you are given what is expected at the job, you chose to take the job. Life today is actually a lot harder, but we do have more and can buy more, but we want so many luxuries, many say that things like cars and cell phones and tv and computers are necessaties, no they are luxuries. There is plenty you can do without, you just don't want to. I have worked 4 to midnight and midnight to 8, and I've done it so my wife could work daytime and I would be home with the kids. I made do so I could have a tv, so that we could have a car. So we could have luxuries and give to our kids.

we were talking about this this morning. i remember when full time was 48 hrs now its only 37.5 hrs when did that happen? and i think we got paid for lunch hour (not 1/2hr).

I never really thought about that. For as long as I can remember, 8 hour shifts have always been longer than 8 hours. My mom works "11-7" at a nursing home, and has since I was small. That actually means she has to be at work at 10:20 and gets off at about 7:10. She has to clock out for a thirty minute "lunch" (in the middle of the night, why is it called lunch anyway??), and two 10 minute breaks. My husband works 7 am to 4 pm. He gets an hour long lunch break most days, and two 15 minute breaks. He doesn't clock in or out, though, so some days his lunch break is shorter, and some days it's longer. It really just depends on how much work they need to do, and what kind of mood the Master Sergeant is in.

Our working day over here now seems to be 9 - 5.30 and people don't take a break for lunch. Working 9-5 was realistic, now it seems we are working much longer hours for much lower pay. Crazy :-(

Mine is 9am to 5:30pm. however they try to make you stay like yesterday, we were told to do some work at a certain number, which we did, then they changed it and man, we were all ticked; especially me because I try to leave and hit my second job immediately afterwards. I usually get home by eight or nine since I'm just learning the ropes there.