dylan604 2 days ago

> You can wake up at noon and still do that.

That's not necessarily true. If you're a morning person managing other people that are not morning people but insist on having daily meetings in the morning, you're an asshole. I find meetings early in the morning sadistic and way more draining than reading the news, but I'm not the type that gets emotional about the news while I will react negatively in an early meeting at the drop of a pin. It's not about needing coffee nor did I get up on the wrong side of the bed or whatever demeaning quip you want to offer. I'm not up to speed until later in the day, and forcing me to pretend I am is just rude. This is the biggest downside to WFH where everyone can live in whatever timezone so someone's afternoon meeting is my morning rather than just scheduling the meeting where everyone is on the same schedule. It's one of the few things about working in an office I can appreciate. Definitely not to be misread as a vote for RTO.

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groby_b 2 days ago

> If you're a morning person managing other people that are not morning people but insist on having daily meetings in the morning, you're an asshole.

This of course raises the question why forcing morning meetings on morning people is an asshole move, but forcing morning people to meet afternoon people in the afternoon is OK.

Can I suggest that maybe we all need to put on our big-boy/girl pants and accept that the world has more people than ourselves? And that this means we all need to compromise from time to time?

It is absolutely impossible to get any team efforts done in a world where everybody insists we all exclusively work in their own preferred style of work.

dylan604 21 hours ago

Because if you’re the manager, the time of your team is more important than your time is

adamauckland 2 days ago

If you're a morning person and you're scheduling meetings for the morning you're literally wasting your period of productivity.

tdeck 2 days ago

Unless the closest you ever get to productivity is having meetings :).

dylan604 2 days ago

I couldn't agree more