New Employee Works Their Actual Hours And Gets Judged For Not Staying Late Like Everyone Else

There’s this thing that happens at a lot of jobs where the official hours are one thing but the actual expectations are completely different, and nobody tells you until you’re already doing it wrong.

Your contract says 9 to 5 but everyone else shows up at 8 and leaves at 6:30, and suddenly you’re the problem for clocking in and out on time like you were hired to do.

It’s not written anywhere, it’s just “how things are done here,” which is code for “we’ve normalized unpaid overtime and you’re supposed to go along with it.”

This person (u/gammas-spacer5) started a new job, worked their scheduled hours, and got judged by coworkers for not adding an extra unpaid hour to their day like everyone else was doing.

It’s the kind of workplace culture that punishes people for having boundaries and rewards those who let themselves get exploited.

This is what happened when they refused to play along.