Grant Fritchey (7/3/2015)
BL0B_EATER (7/3/2015)
Koen Verbeeck (7/3/2015)
Grant Fritchey (7/3/2015)
That reminds me of the old dot com days. It was expected that everyone was going to work like pigs, nights & weekends. Most of them were kids in their 20s with no families. I, on the other hand, was in my 30s and had kids. I went home, regularly. It freaked people out.
+1000
I had my first kid since I was 24.
Actual conversation:
"You're going home early? I'm not leaving till 7pm."
"Do you have kids?"
"Euhm. No."
"Then don't try to understand my situation."
😀
I am perceived as lazy because I leave early to pick my child up from school (4pm). They forget that I have been in since 715am.
That used to an issue for me as well. "We have flexible hours." Cool, I'm working from 6AM to 3PM. "We meant you don't have to come in til 10AM, but you're staying til 10PM"
That's my schedule too. "O'dark o'thirty" as one coworker called it. I like to miss all the rush hour nonsense, especially as I live just past an interstate junction and a set of railroad tracks. If I tried this commute during rush hour, I'd be over an hour getting to and from work. As it is, I get here in 20-25 minutes. I also get to leave early to do all my afternoon errands.
The coworkers are pretty accepting because they all know I'm here. Some of them see it. My boss likes having the early person to make sure things are working before the majority comes into the office. Then we have a "regular" day person, and a late-in / late-out person, covering pretty much all three "shifts".