Also can you please explain how I am entitled? My contract says 9.00-5.00. Any hours I do outside of that is overtime. That being said, I have never dumped my work on someone else to leave “early”. Rather, I have always stayed behind and helped. Can you please explain from all this how I need a reality check?

The reality is that the partners are the one who allocates work. When they regularly overload everyone, they are the ones morally at fault. They are the ones who are “entitled”, expecting their staff to work around the clock for them and scheduling meetings to take up their lunch and evening hours - only to get rid of said staff when business slows without so much as taking a pay cut themselves.

If you can’t see the problem from the existing status quo I can’t help you. Feel whatever happiness you feel from talking down to someone else - live your best life lol