Anonymous wrote:I block 8-830 and 430-5 on my calendar.

Similar to PP, I also roll my eyes when anything is added after 3p.

+1. If you are upset by an 8am meeting, you shouldn’t be scheduling 3 pm meeting either.

Dod tech here. Never before 9 unless a customer requests it. Now if you're working on site at a base, they have early days sometimes but are also all gone by 3:30

Yes when they’re global calls. Not otherwise.

I have a 7:30 AM meeting every other week. It's with a group of international colleagues from all over the world, and that was the time that everybody can reasonably work with.

If the meeting only includes US employees, the earliest is 9 AM

Regarding childcare, for the days where I have 7:30 AM meetings, I never go into the office. I work from home those days so I'm available as soon as the meeting ends and I have things prepared before the meeting starts.

I work at a place that leans early and many of us are online at 8:00, but with the exception of international calls, I don't schedule or expect meetings before 9:00. Being "meeting ready" at 8:00 means getting online at least by 7:30.

Unless 8:00 is part of your actual scheduled workday and you're supposed to be on the clock, I'd let your boss know you aren't available then. It's pretty normal to have other stuff going on at that time.

I worked in the banking industry for 20yrs and 8am meetings were common place. 7:30am meetings even happened when members of the executive mgmt team were needed in the meeting and deadlines were imminent. I found that the higher you climbed the corporate ladder the earlier and later meetings were held because the required attendees schedules were always booked, so important meeting had to be held outside of business hours.

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you wish for. In my fully remote old company one mom raised a huge fuss she can’t do the weekly Monday 8 am meetings as getting kid on bus. The CEO asked her about her schedule and she said she gets up 645 to get ready for work, wakes kid up at 715 am to get ready bus.

He switched meeting to 6am to 645 am to fit her schedule. I was laughing. He actually was nice only did it for two weeks.

What a toxic workplace. Yikes.

Do you not have a firm(ish) schedule? While emergencies happen, I’ve been at several workplaces throughout my life and generally people will only schedule meetings between 9-5. And even then, it’s far more common to do the majority of meetings between 10-3. This was even in Big Law, where you were supposed to be available 24/7 but people kept to the same core hours for meetings. A weird meeting time like 7am or 8pm would only happen with international clients.

Depends on the workplace. Where I work, meetings before 9am are very rare. I personally start at 9 and have a meeting earlier than that maybe just a couple times a year. The culture is different where my husband works and he has 8 or 8:30 meetings every week.

Anonymous wrote:All the time, but my job involves a lot of interaction with Europe so my day starts early.

Our meetings do not involve any other time zones, its simply “let’s meet zero dark thirty “

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you wish for. In my fully remote old company one mom raised a huge fuss she can’t do the weekly Monday 8 am meetings as getting kid on bus. The CEO asked her about her schedule and she said she gets up 645 to get ready for work, wakes kid up at 715 am to get ready bus.

He switched meeting to 6am to 645 am to fit her schedule. I was laughing. He actually was nice only did it for two weeks.

What a toxic workplace that must be if you think anything about his response is nice.

All the time, but my job involves a lot of interaction with Europe so my day starts early.

Anonymous wrote:In other places, schools start a lot earlier so parents can be at work that early. Can you call into either one of these meetings during a commute? Or can you permanently telework? That schedule would not work at all for me because I have kids in DCPS and take the metro to the office.

How does calling into a meeting help if you actually expected to contribute to the discussion and have to speak frequently. It’s not like you can review presented data and give analysis real time while driving in car pickup line.

Sure if it’s some “could have been an email” type status meeting, you can dial in, your boss checks you as “present” and I guess that works. But our meetings are discussions not just attendance taking.

I start work at 8 and declined a meeting that started at 730 today.

I also put a 2hr block in every AM from 8-10. If anyone wants to book a meeting they usually check with me, and if it's important I'll take it. Otherwise, nah.

Be careful what you wish for. In my fully remote old company one mom raised a huge fuss she can’t do the weekly Monday 8 am meetings as getting kid on bus. The CEO asked her about her schedule and she said she gets up 645 to get ready for work, wakes kid up at 715 am to get ready bus.

He switched meeting to 6am to 645 am to fit her schedule. I was laughing. He actually was nice only did it for two weeks.