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How do people even function on a 9:00 to 5? (self.rant)
submitted 1 week ago by StarvingMartist to c/[email protected]
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For like 12 years I've worked in the service industry. That means sporadic hours and shifts that can happen whenever. About a year ago though I got a 9:00 to 5:00 job and it has been absolute hell trying to live my life as I have. How do normal people do this? All the business hours of places that you need to go, the bank, the doctors, the post office. Office they're closed by the time you get off of work. I have to actually call off of work just to get anything done. There's no way the majority of people are living like this, right?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

decades ago, banks in the US used to be worse – would open at 9 am local time but close when the stock market closed – so California banks would be 9 am to 2 pm …