I’ve never made the claim there was a time when everyone was working 9-5 including lunch. That would kind of ignore centuries of farm work and decade upon decade of shift work in the industrial sector. This discussion has been *specifically* about official office hours for *salaried* employees, something you keep…

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/exempt…For anyone following this (I doubt it), it’s worth looking at the history of the salary requirement to classify an employee as exempt (from overtime) - made a salaried employee. This year the recommendation from the DOL is the minimum to be raised to almost about $47K. Prior…

Sorry, you’re wrong. That article you linked to even points it out. Salaried employees (i.e. not clerical staff; anyone not earning a salary) were expected to be there by 9 am at the latest, and leave at 5 pm at the earliest. Hourly employees at least had the benefit of overtime once they hit 40+ hours a week. That…

you know, it’s not like your only options are eat a healthy lunch at your desk or eat crap while monitoring your phone not at your desk. First, you don’t have to monitor your phone. It will ring and notify you when there is a call coming in. Secondly, eating at your desk isn’t the only way to get healthy food for…

Or an electric kettle & french press! Seriously, I’d rather run out to the local dinner and give them my money than a money grubbing boss trying to create a revenue stream off of coffee for crying out loud.

I know what you’re saying. There’s no confusion there. I think you are mistaken. For salaried employees, not at all that long ago they were expected to arrive by 9 am at the latest and leave at 5 pm at the earliest. At many companies, that is still official office hours. Insisting employees who routinely work 40+…

But you did know (or should have known) I wrote:

Did you seriously think I needed that explained to me? You missed this huh?

Also, it’s worth remember salaried employees aren’t expected to punch in a time card. The 9-5, 40 hour work week is meant to include a lunch break If the lunch break is 10 minutes spent scarfing down a yogurt and can of soup the employee brought from home while responding to email, a full hour spent at the gym, or 30…

The fact that you don’t seem to know 9-5 are standard office hours says a lot about how the American worker has been bamboozled in to accepting longer work weeks. I hope you have sense enough to know that calling a business before 9 am or after 5 pm is calling outside of standard business hours and to not be surprised…

That is disgusting! What a douche. Free shitty coffee should be a workplace right!

you have a stronger bladder than me! When I was commuting, I’d drink one big cup as soon as it was done, and then maybe a small cup later. More than that and I’d have been bursting by the time I got to the office. On the days there was a delay, it was bad. My fear was to get stuck on a disabled train between stations.

to me it sounds like something like this is a company that failed to train their managers how to manage employees who telecommute. Now, I won’t go so far as to say you never need to be in the office. There’s value in being able to schedule meetings and work with people face-to-face. And the type of business your in…

you know what surprises me? Going out for coffee when you get to work. Like, the very first thing I want in the morning is a cup of coffee. Sometimes I want to get the water going before I’ve even gone to the bathroom. The absolute best days are when Mr. Salami has gotten up before me and started the coffee (which…

Yeah, that sounds awful. I notice I’m super cranky pants and my concentration takes a huge nose dive when I’m hungry. I can’t imagine being that way while trying to provide service to customers or you know, prepare someone else’s food

I think 9-5 with a hour long lunch break is. There was even a delightful movie that came out in the 1980s that’s title was 9 to 5 due to it being the standard office work day.

Keep in mind, this is about what office hours are and the *minimum* amount of time a salaried employee is expected to work. Being on salary…

Yeah! I call it “ass in the seat mangement.” It’s way more challenging to figure out if your employees are actually accomplishing goals or doing work that has an actual effect on the bottom line than it is to say “Ms. Salami works late and never takes lunch. She is a good employee.” I think better, smarter, more…

Thankfully, there are things to do during a break that don’t involve running around to get and eat a greasebomb. People do things like drop off dry cleaning, go shopping, eat lunch your brown bagged lunch at the park on a nice day, take a walk around the block, sit in a break room and play tetris, read a book, work on…

I work from home, and my husband works nights. You know how often I have to say “hon, I’m working here!” as he’s talking about some article he just read on FB?

I’m glad you paid well!