Never had a paid lunch

Union jobs are strict with breaks. I have worked a non-union job with a paid lunch though, that was pretty sweet. In the corporate world, probably not though

Look at the non-profit sector, my experience has been they care more.

I do 4 10s, 7 to 5 l, have of weekends and Thursdays.

I am technically on 8am-5pm, though the boss lets us stop responding to emails at 430pm and head home. I'd have to answer a call or text, but that never happens. I get 1h unpaid lunch.

My coworkers come in a half hour later but only get a half hour lunch. I like the longer break, so I'm find with it. Technically, we're all salaried, so we can show up a bit late or leave a bit early so long as we communicate with the boss about it.

I work a 5-8 flex, so typically I'll do 9 hour days, 7 to 4, where I get the 10th day off. In theory I could do a 9 to 5, but we're asked to be in during 8 to 2 for the mechanics and I want the extra day off. I work as an engineer.

Lunch is a little ambiguous, we can take a lunch in the office and it's laid back, but if we leave the office we can leave for an hour and go somewhere and come back, but that's not paid. Officially.

Things are slow now so our team went to Red Robin and spend a while there and discussed work for a few minutes. We called it a work lunch and a team bonding activity and don't speak of it to any higher ups.

I've been working for 30 years, never seen a 9-5 job.

9-5 never made any sense to me.

I thought working 40 hours was the standard, but 9-5 with a paid lunch is less than 40 hours. So, the math never made sense.

The only place I heard of people working 9 to 5 was in Dolly Parton’s song. I’m enjoying reading everyone’s answers though, and I’m hoping someone chimes in that has actually worked a traditional, in office 9-5.

Edit: I meant to say with an unpaid lunch.

I work 8-4 with a paid lunch and I'm hourly. Don't think it was like this at previous jobs though

I'm not american but here the norm is 9-6. But we do have 1 hour paid lunch by law.

My job is basically 9-5 (salaried), but no paid lunch. If I want to take lunch, it doesn't count towards the hours I work during the day.

Work in excess of 40 hrs per week is generally guaranteed overtime pay so that so called company you supposedly work for is really doing itself dirty if its requiring its employees to put in such hours.

I’m more inclined to assume you’re just a troll doing some soft propaganda so not really interested in any further conversation—but if you’re a real person and you really do work for a company that’s just gonna start requiring working over 40 hrs a week id suggest reporting the company to your state’s department of labor and finding a new place to work.