Need help settling a debate

[c20916]

Can someone please clarify exactly what a 40 hour work week is. Since I have been gamefully employed in the corporate world I have always worked 7 to 4 8 to 5, or whatever it is, and I take an hour lunch, which means I am working 8 hours a day.

The woman I work with says that it's 9 to 5 or 8 to 4 or 7-3 and you take an hour lunch, to me that's not even 40 hours.

Of course we are both salaried so it doesn't make a difference, but to me I feel we are paid based on an 8-5 schedule she says we only have to work 8-4.

 

[snoozer]

I too am salary, so we do not have specific 'work hours'. But for anything we put into contracts, we say during normal business hours 8-5.

I think generally a work day is 9 hours with 1 hour for lunch.. I think most places consider 7-4, 8-5, 9-6 a 'normal' day

 

[RexBudler]

Normal 40 hour work week consists of a 9 hour day with an hour lunch. You work 8-5 and take lunch from 12-1

 

[c20916]

That's what I am trying to tell her, she argues with me, yet she works 7-4.

 

[yyz]

By the way........you are "gainfully" employed.

 

[GeneralPete]

Most everyone I worked with in the office rarely worked 8 hours when you looked at the big picture. Between shooting the chit, smoke breaks, lunch, and surfing the net, we may have actually worked 4 hours a day.

 

[taoist]

Can someone please clarify exactly what a 40 hour work week is.

What's a 40-hour work week?!?!?! Haven't seem to come across one of those yet.... Got close one time, but those bastids are quite elusive....

 

[Keyser Soze]

Thanks YYZ,,,,,,,,,I was just getting ready to submit that, then I scrolled down and "seen" that you beat me to it

 

[SixFive]

Dolly Parton worked 40 hours a week. M-F, 9 to 5.

 

[GeneralPete]

Dolly Parton worked 40 hours a week. M-F, 9 to 5.

Funny post

 

[BahamaMama]

a 40 hour week depends largely on your profession/company/union

if you are not allowed to leave the premises, i think many private companies will allow you to only BE THERE for 40 hours and pay you thru your lunch break.

i know that with the government, if you are subject to call back at any time (which includes lunch....ie....ATC), you only stay there for 40 hours or less for 40 hours of pay.

i would think that nursing works the same way. the last company i worked for, i only put in 8 hours.....we regularly cooked our meals right there, but ate at our desks, which allowed us not to have to take an unpaid lunch.

 

[homedog]

Since I have been gamefully employed in the corporate world

I hope that was a play on words and your were not serious :mj07:

 

[busterhymen]

40 hour weeks do not exist where I work. 55-60 is a light week for me. The guys that work for me regularly work 65-75 a week.

 

[ScreaminPain]

40 hour weeks do not exist where I work. 55-60 is a light week for me. The guys that work for me regularly work 65-75 a week.

WHY??? :shrug:

 

[taoist]

...and your were not serious :mj07:

:scared :cursin: :mj07: :mj14: :clap: