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Meanwhile Americans have no equivalent website for 'Are Europeans asleep yet?" Because they don't care.
by hospitalJail 3y ago
Meanwhile Americans have no equivalent website for 'Are Europeans asleep yet?"
Because they don't care.
- quickthrower2 3y agoThey do! They can hide their cookie banners and not get caught.
- mrweasel 3y agoScheduling meetings with Americans tend to get a little worse than expected, because they apparently think 9 - 17:00 is when you should be working, and not 8 - 16:00. So rather than having an afternoon meeting, you get to have a late afternoon meeting. I think I can find more people in Denmark working 7 - 15:00 compared to 9 - 17:00.
- 13of40 3y agoWest Coast American here. Since I have to work with so many people from Europe, Israel, India, etc., my calendar looks like an impacted colon from about 8:00 AM PST to 11:00 AM PST, then I have all this free time after that to do "work". The problem is that erases things like "I'm going to hit the gym in the morning" and "I'm going to get this document polished up before the first meeting of the day". And when 11:00 finally rolls around, I already have decision fatigue and have burned up the most useful of my braincells for the day, so everything else suffers. This is absolutely not to say "Europe Bad", it's just a lament that as a diurnal species, time zone issues suck.
- mrweasel 3y agoNo no I can absolutely relate, it works the same the other way around. Once that 18:00 meeting rolls in my head is done, but it frequently becomes a question of whether or not I'm mildly inconvenienced in the late afternoon, early evening, or if my American colleagues are massively inconvenienced in the morning. In that case it's normally better that I just jump on that meeting from home.
- nonethewiser 3y agoIt's the same questions. Europeans rise when the American's do so they can be online at the same time.
- ReptileMan 3y agoMy phone has that weird habit of going into silent mode in the night.