Asked to work 9-6 permanently

[u/sirnibs3]

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.

[u/sirnibs3]

We have business in a different time zone. Everyone else I work with has kids they need to pick up after school

[u/Chipsandsalsa789 → u/sirnibs3]

Not having kids to pick up is not a good enough reason for them to ask you to work late. If they’re singling you out to do the extra work because you’re the only one without kids that’s absolutely worth calling out when you ask for a later start time or extra days off to make up for the extra hours worked. Speaking from experience it’s a slippery slope since once you start picking up work to accommodate other people’s personal lives, it becomes the new expectation

[u/Inevitable_Draw_7493 → u/sirnibs3]

Please set your boundaries now - not having kids does not make this okay!! I've frequently joked that when I start a new job, I'm going to invent 3 fake kids so I can always use them as an excuse like this.

Seriously though, do NOT let this become a precedent. Make absolutely sure that you get an extra day off, etc., whatever you think is fair because you are not being treated fairly.

If you allow "because everyone else has kids" to become an issue now, I PROMISE YOU it will come up again in the future.

[u/TW-RM → u/Inevitable_Draw_7493]

Love the idea of inventing kids. I have two of my own but there are others on my team who always seem to have severe health/social issues with their kids. Maybe at a new job my normal, healthy (thank the FSM) kids need frequent doctor's appointments.

[u/Poastash → u/sirnibs3]

I would ask if you can come in later. I know you said you have a 9am staff meeting but they surely can move that to 930 or 10am to wait for you.

[u/growinglettuce → u/sirnibs3]

I was once in the exact situation exept i got forced to stay last minute and cancel my plans because i was the only one without children.

I left after 2 months as i clocked up way more hours for nothing

[u/FamSC2 → u/sirnibs3]

Lol wtf. Leave asap or tell them to fuck off, really.

Kids. Lol. Wtf kind of common sense is this.

Next will be parents, then dog, then cat, then mouse. Guaranteed.

[u/[deleted] → u/sirnibs3]

Noooooope.