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A meeting. At 7AM? I dunno, man, I think I'd demand to be paid a million a year if someone forced me to attend a meeting at 7AM. Even with everyone working re
by iLemming 5y ago
A meeting. At 7AM?
I dunno, man, I think I'd demand to be paid a million a year if someone forced me to attend a meeting at 7AM.
Even with everyone working remotely can we please try not to make this kind of BS a norm in the industry?
- shikoba 5y agoSome people like that, because they can leave earlier.
- bklaasen 5y agoThe first sentence of the article is "There’s a collection of friends that I have a standing videochat with every couple of weeks."
- iLemming 5y agoWell, I read it off my phone at 7AM. My brain interpreted that as "a daily standup at 7AM". I guess it illustrates precisely why it's a bad idea to have meetings very early in the morning.
- billsmithaustin 5y agoThe author meets a collection of friends at 7am because a later time conflicts with taking his kids to school. Friends, not co-workers.
- toomanybeersies 5y agoAll my mates who are builders, or work in related trades, start work at 7 AM. They most certainly don't get paid a million bucks to do so.
- iLemming 5y agoMost my mates who are artists, designers, writers and scientists love working late at night... See? The argument can easily go the other way around. Builders, bus drivers, farmers, etc., all have to start early, and that's understandable. Our field of work (I suppose most readers here are IT professionals) never had to normalize fluctuating schedules until relatively recently - when our profession has become fashionably decentralized. And I think we need to be careful and make sure that harmful practices like having too many meetings or mandatory meetings at odd hours have not become a norm. Programmers don't create things and solve problems at meetings. Most of the time, the meetings are there for other people in the business.