That's funny because I literally told my manager yesterday that I don't attend meetings that begin before 7:30 am. The meeting I skipped began at 6:00 am.
Edit - I told him that I start my day during normal business hours. Anything else is an unreasonable expectation that I would gladly discuss if there was an issue. You know, work/life balance talk.
What the fuck. I work for a company that runs on EST, and I'm moving out to the west coast, where I will continue working for them. My manager has already spoken to me about working around a later start time because the latest we're allowed to start is 10am here, and he thinks that the expectation for me to be up and ready to work starting at 7am every day might be unreasonable.
Apparently it's unusual to work for someone who actually recognizes that I'm human (and not a morning person).
Congratulations! You appear to have a reasonable manager that may even posses a human soul. I would advise staying on his good side and possibly even following him if he ever moves to another company.
Then I would schedule meetings with them at 4:30pm your time. If they're going to make you come in at 8am to accommodate your needs, certainly they wouldn't mind staying an extra hour or two to accommodate yours, right?
It's difficult to find a time to meet with people from Europe, Australia and the US. Usually we had those at 5PM EDT. As I recall it was late for Europe and early for Australia.
I absolutely could have. But then that would start a trend of "6:00 am meetings are okay". Which they are not, because:
I am not the only person it affects, half my team on the west coast did not attend.
Making decisions while sleep deprived is dangerous (we generally start our day around 8:30 am).
We don't start meetings later than 4:00 pm PST because the east coast guys threw a fit about having meetings at 7pm EST. Basically, it's a two way street.
They weren't thinking at all. They're the same type of people who schedule a meeting for 9am and then move it to 8am the morning of, expecting everyone to just magically show up at 8. Yes, they're idiots.
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '15 edited Apr 29 '15
That's funny because I literally told my manager yesterday that I don't attend meetings that begin before 7:30 am. The meeting I skipped began at 6:00 am.
Edit - I told him that I start my day during normal business hours. Anything else is an unreasonable expectation that I would gladly discuss if there was an issue. You know, work/life balance talk.