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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wildly unpopular opinion : I miss the days when people would send an email asking when I was available for a meeting. I hate the idea of "blocking my calendar" and "putting something on someone's calendar" as if any unbooked time means I am free to meet. I might have a big project due the next day or be thinking of playing hooky this afternoon. And I definitely think it's ridiculous to have to block times outside of 9 to 5.

I usually look at calendars and then send out an email saying it looks like x date is good, if so I'll send out the invite. If not please suggest time.

[Anonymous]

I have to do an 8 am call tomorrow with a pain in the ass executive officer. I have kids who will need rousing to get to school on time. Luckily my husband can help tmrw. He helps a lot, and our jobs are fairly equal home and work, and pay wise. I’m not sure where in the house I can hideout to turn the video on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wildly unpopular opinion : I miss the days when people would send an email asking when I was available for a meeting. I hate the idea of "blocking my calendar" and "putting something on someone's calendar" as if any unbooked time means I am free to meet. I might have a big project due the next day or be thinking of playing hooky this afternoon. And I definitely think it's ridiculous to have to block times outside of 9 to 5.

I usually look at calendars and then send out an email saying it looks like x date is good, if so I'll send out the invite. If not please suggest time.

I love that. I also like it when people email with three available times and you can pick one.

[Anonymous]

I'm gen x and always hated meetings and other "required" events outside of standard hours.

[Anonymous]

Me, a teacher realizing most people don’t work at 7:30 am 🥴🥴🥴 I have a parent meeting at 8am this week!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: What snowflakes!

Doctors do ward rounds as early as 7am.

The POTUS gets waken up in the middle of the night if there is an emergency

If your work place has a urgent matters to deal with early you get your a** out of bed and get to that meeting .. geez

Is this supposed to be persuasive? Most docs don't round at 7am. Those that do are surgeons and they're doing to before their cases in the OR. It's also part of their normal schedule. POTUS, is well, POTUS, and that's not a reasonable comparator.

So, how about YOU share with us YOUR work hours?

I am a nurse in neuro-angiography. Our outpatient arrive at 7:30 in the morning for pre op.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: What snowflakes!

Doctors do ward rounds as early as 7am.

The POTUS gets waken up in the middle of the night if there is an emergency

If your work place has a urgent matters to deal with early you get your a** out of bed and get to that meeting .. geez

I’m neither a president nor a doctor. More widgets can wait until 9:00.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I work in comms. This ain’t urgent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: What snowflakes!

Doctors do ward rounds as early as 7am.

The POTUS gets waken up in the middle of the night if there is an emergency

If your work place has a urgent matters to deal with early you get your a** out of bed and get to that meeting .. geez

I’m neither a president nor a doctor. More widgets can wait until 9:00.

Truly. And doctors don’t have to work at 7 unless they’re on the schedule at 7. POTUS is on call and paid accordingly. If you want me to be on call outside my usual work hours I need to be paid enough to care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: What snowflakes!

Doctors do ward rounds as early as 7am.

The POTUS gets waken up in the middle of the night if there is an emergency

If your work place has a urgent matters to deal with early you get your a** out of bed and get to that meeting .. geez

Is this supposed to be persuasive? Most docs don't round at 7am. Those that do are surgeons and they're doing to before their cases in the OR. It's also part of their normal schedule. POTUS, is well, POTUS, and that's not a reasonable comparator.

So, how about YOU share with us YOUR work hours?

I am a nurse in neuro-angiography. Our outpatient arrive at 7:30 in the morning for pre op.

And you do shift work with overtime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The article is behind a paywall but I’ll say 8am meetings aren’t the norm at my Fortune 500 except among the most senior leaders. IME meetings at lower than c suite tend to run between 9am and 4pm, seemingly as an acknowledgment of the variability of beginning and end of day timeframes for employees.

8am meeting is common for people who work in trading, but we do expect to wrap up the day around 4pm. If we have to work from 8-7, then we expect big bucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Me, a teacher realizing most people don’t work at 7:30 am 🥴🥴🥴 I have a parent meeting at 8am this week!

I have zero issue with 8am teacher meetings. It's the 3pm parent teacher conferences that kill me. It means both dh and I have to leave work at 2/2:30 and that's prime meeting time.

[Anonymous]

I have had someone tell me he couldn't meet in a 2 hour midday window because he likes to have a long lunch with gym time. (I assume he's on a flex schedule and makes up the hours.) This was a fairly big group trying to find a time, and I wound up having to ask him if he'd let us impinge on that window by 30 minutes because otherwise it wasn't going to happen. He said ok but I found that a little frustrating and less reasonable than other conflicts, because you can just...move a workout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have had someone tell me he couldn't meet in a 2 hour midday window because he likes to have a long lunch with gym time. (I assume he's on a flex schedule and makes up the hours.) This was a fairly big group trying to find a time, and I wound up having to ask him if he'd let us impinge on that window by 30 minutes because otherwise it wasn't going to happen. He said ok but I found that a little frustrating and less reasonable than other conflicts, because you can just...move a workout.

Yeah, that's totally unreasonable on his part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: What snowflakes!

Doctors do ward rounds as early as 7am.

The POTUS gets waken up in the middle of the night if there is an emergency

If your work place has a urgent matters to deal with early you get your a** out of bed and get to that meeting .. geez

I am not a doctor or the President. There are very few real "emergencies" in my job and I don't like to coddle made-up emergencies to feel self important.