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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you move kid drop off and do the phone call at home?[/quote]

Drop-off is a 15 minute window during the call. If I had cell phone reception all the way home, I could do it, but the reception drops 10 minutes out, so there's a gap in connectivity. With all companies, unfortunately.[/quote]

How old are your kids?  Is there a school bus option?[/quote]

She's only 5. DH isn't cool with the bus yet (and I agree).[/quote]

Ok, my sympathy is fully at an ebb now.

You have shot down every suggestion made and are now self-inflicting this pain. Your kid can ride the bus ONE day a week if absolutely won't speak up and say that 0700 is a conflict. She will be fine, I promise.

It's a ridiculous ask, unless this is some project sprint or something.  And there are 20 people? There's no way this is crucial.

[b]Frankly, your manager is probably going to feel like a huge jerk when she realizes that she told you to "make it work" with a deployed spouse and 5 year old. [/b] [/quote]

As a manager, I would be APPALLED if this were the situation and I didn't know about it and someone quit because of one meeting! I work in a super demanding job where we will often be on 7am calls with London and 10pm calls with Tokyo. There is always a workaround. There have been many great suggestions, but this ultimately comes down to OP voicing her concerns. Any reasonable person would try to find something that worked better for the team and took into account people's personal lives to the extent that was possible. OP is overcomplicating this; this is the OCD talking, OP. 
I've let people out of meetings for like, alumni events they had previously scheduled. I've also had to deal with employees who have had to toss me the ball and leave for weeks at a time because of important things like suicide attempts in the family. It's a manager's job to manage. Period, end of story. They're crap to begin with if team success is dictated by an hr long meeting and the attendance of one person, time of meeting inflexible. Tell them the situation and let them work it out and come up with the plan. By not voicing your concerns it's not even on their radar. [/quote]

Of course it's not a critical meeting. Manager still told me I'm expected to be there.

PP, I doubt you've let someone our of a meeting for 8 months straight. An alumni event is not regular.

And my job is make my manger's life easier. I can no longer do that.

DH and I had a long talk last night. Financially, we're fine (he's not exactly junior enlisted and I make 60% of what he does). There will be no change in lifestyle due to finances if I quit. He doesn't want me to because he thinks I'll hate not working, but I'm starting to understand it'll make logistics so much easier. I mean, what happens when DD starts sports and activities? [/quote]

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