>all admin jobs ive had are 8-5 with an hour break for lunch.
>is 9 to 5 just a saying or am i getting screwed? lol

Not over here.

I don't know anyone who 'gets paid' for their lunches (IE: a 9-5). But really, only like a quarter of the folks I work with and around take a full hour for lunch everyday at the same time. There's a lot of 'grab a bite in between meetings or tasks whenever you can' and maybe a 'eff this, I'm taking a full lunch TODAY' every now and then type stuff. For me, I might end up eating lunch at 11:30 or 3:15 depending on what is going on...especially during the busier times of year (Q2 and Q3).

I'm surprised by the number of people who work 7-4. That's really common in Houston (office folks and field people). Or 6:30 - 3:30. And you know a bunch of folks take liberties with the 'no one really knows when people are supposed to be off or on' stuff. So you can get some folks trying to pull 9 to 4s WITH a for real lunch thrown in. But even with some of them, they jump back online later at night.

But hell, with people having to pick up kids from school, day-care, afterschool, big mama's, or wherever, it kind of makes sense. And even those without kids might be trying to get to the gym (if they don't do it in the morning) and/or happy hour. And lawd knows folks need to be trying to get to a date and/or hookup if that's where they're at in life, so yeah..the days of lots of people still working after 5:30 or later are fading away.

And with WFH/the push for more flexibility whenever possible, I could see it getting weirder and crazier. I'm already at the point where I know I'm going to log on in the morning and see late night emails from some people who regularly work an hour or two (or more) in the evenings. I worry about them but hey. They're supposed to be grown and maybe this works better for them.