Salaried Employee - 8am Meeting - Personal Conflicts like working out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My company is spread across four times, India, UK, and both US coasts. We try to avoid early AM meetings, but with the timezones involved it isn't always easy. The earliest you can expect a meeting is 9AM on the west coast. If there is going to be an earlier AM meeting, it needs to be a customer emergency.

Interesting, we’re in CA and my husband has colleagues in Europe and a customer in Australia and they routinely do 6:00 or 6:30 am calls (which means we have to sleep in different rooms or in getting woken up) to accommodate schedules. It sucks but us what it is.

I’m a fed and my approved schedule is 8:45-5:30. I block 7:45-8:45 as tentative and a note “please check with me before scheduling” and 4:30 (7:30 on the East coast) to 7:45 am I block off as out of office. Similarly 5:30-6:30 pm is tentative and 6:30 pm is blocked as out of office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends if you are work from home or not.

Why? I’m prior poster (in CA). We don’t have school buses. School drop off is no earlier than 8:15 and have to be there by 8:30. So even though I work from home I can’t take an 8 am call the same day as my husband (who also works from home).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My company is spread across four times, India, UK, and both US coasts. We try to avoid early AM meetings, but with the timezones involved it isn't always easy. The earliest you can expect a meeting is 9AM on the west coast. If there is going to be an earlier AM meeting, it needs to be a customer emergency.

Interesting, we’re in CA and my husband has colleagues in Europe and a customer in Australia and they routinely do 6:00 or 6:30 am calls (which means we have to sleep in different rooms or in getting woken up) to accommodate schedules. It sucks but us what it is.

I’m a fed and my approved schedule is 8:45-5:30. I block 7:45-8:45 as tentative and a note “please check with me before scheduling” and 4:30 (7:30 on the East coast) to 7:45 am I block off as out of office. Similarly 5:30-6:30 pm is tentative and 6:30 pm is blocked as out of office.

Yes, it can be difficult for the people on the West coast. As I said, we try to avoid anything earlier than 9AM on the West coast. I have worked with teams in Australia before. It's a little easier to find overlap with them than it is with India.

[Anonymous]

8AM meetings that are in person are crap. Honestly they feel like management is taking surprise attendance.

When my kids were young I had no problem declining 'mandatory' meetings that early. If anyone questioned it I'd ask them to handle my kids for the morning and I'd be happy to attend.