r/Accounting • u/sirnibs3 Staff Accountant • Aug 09 '21

Asked to work 9-6 permanently Advice

I’ll try to keep this short, I’m a young staff accountant at a pretty easy industry job. My director was asked by the cfo and president to have at least one accountant in office til 6pm despite everyone working 9 to 5:30 at the absolute latest. I was the one asked to work 6-9 every day and was told to just take an hour lunch to make up for the extra time. I find hour lunches to be a waste of time, 30 mins is more then enough. How should I go about this, just eat the extra time and ask for a higher raise during my performance review in two months? Ask to have an extra day off a month? Ask to come in at 930, or ask to come in at 10 and work to 6:30? Any advice would be appreciated.

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u/sirnibs3 Staff Accountant Aug 10 '21

We typically have morning meeting between 9-930 and I don’t want to miss those or cause the team to alter there schedule for me

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '21

The team clearly has no problem asking you to alter your schedule for them. Obviously might not mean that much to you in the grand scheme of things, but if it'd make a difference in your quality of life please ask for it.