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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not apologize. Work hard while you are there. Contribute and get some "wins" early. Don't take lunch if you think you need the time. But repeat: do not apologize. Leave at 5 everyday when you start. Jobs are usually slow to gear up and it will be easier at first. People who leave at 5 and are high performers are rarely questioned. [/quote]

I actually disagree with a lot of these replies.
We have no idea what kind of industry OP is in.
If there are meetings scheduled with different time zones, if there are corporate events like in the food industry where dinners are expected, if it's healthcare where patient care doesn't always go according to schedule, if her team member have morning commuting issues of their own and drive in from WV at 930 am to avoid traffic and work late, etc etc.
OP is going to be the newbie in a job where perhaps everyone else is also staggering their schedules and have done so a long time and come in late and leave late. We have no idea and neither does she.
So going into a new job with this [b]"everyone must work around me, I don't care what everyone has done and worked out before I got here[/b]" is not the feminist power statement you think it is.
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Where do you see that, exactly?
Setting your own boundaries <> everyone should work around me. [/quote]

The strong advice to leave every day at 5 from day 1, refuse to apologize, seemed like too much on the first day of a new job where you have no idea what the deal is or the reasoning behind it. Being completely inflexible, and "refusing to apologize" but seems like someone gearing up for a fight when there may be no need for one. 
Per some of the reasons I listed, and there could be infinite more, there are often very valid reasons why leaving at 5 is not going to work for the entire team, and that needs to be taken into consideration.
Refusing to bend is indeed making everyone else work around you, per the examples I gave, which we don't really know and neither does OP.
My advice was more to expand the thinking of *why* it may not be okay to leave at 5, instead of a knee jerk reaction that this is anti woman, anti working mom, anti OP[/quote]

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