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I've heard they used to pay you for lunch and include that toward your eight. So 9-12, lunch, 1-5, for example.

But if that ever really was a thing, I've never seen it. I've always eaten at my desk or skipped lunch or divided it up into a couple of those breaks that are short enough that you don't have to count them so I could go home sooner. The one exception was a job I had where I had mandatory unpaid lunch. That was awful.

boxoto posted...

I heard someone explain it more as - nine hours a day, five days a week.

and a lot of people tend to work from 8-5, with 30 minutes to an hour of lunch off.

No, anyone who told you that was trying to rationalize. "9 to 5" definitely means 9 AM to 5 PM.