8-4 to your payroll people is 8 hours less a lunch break. Because they expect you took it and went home early.

Again it's not something that can't be fixed, and I'm sure once in a while it would be fine. But a bunch of people doing it all the time probably causes enough extra work to need to hire someone just to take care of it.

The most unreasonably rigid people you've ever met will work in accounting and payroll.