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A Matter of Time
Dec. 2nd, 2021 09:17 pmTime zones are hard.
I deal with them a lot at work, because the majority of the people that I need to work with are in the Pacific Time Zone, two hours earlier than we are here in Chicago. As a result, I usually do not get out of work until between 6 and 7 PM Chicago time and I tend to start later as well.
When someone on our India team sends out a meeting notice at 2:35 AM Chicago time and expects me to be there at 8 AM, the chances of this actually happening are vanishingly small. Unfortunately, I checked my email when I woke up to hit the bathroom and found the meeting notice, so I ended up getting up early.
And then we didn't have the meeting, because the fellow in India had farbled the time zone settings and had scheduled the 8 AM meeting for 8 PM.
We let him know that none of us would be showing up at 8 PM.
I really need more sleep.
So does Gretchen, but for different, school-related reasons. :)
I deal with them a lot at work, because the majority of the people that I need to work with are in the Pacific Time Zone, two hours earlier than we are here in Chicago. As a result, I usually do not get out of work until between 6 and 7 PM Chicago time and I tend to start later as well.
When someone on our India team sends out a meeting notice at 2:35 AM Chicago time and expects me to be there at 8 AM, the chances of this actually happening are vanishingly small. Unfortunately, I checked my email when I woke up to hit the bathroom and found the meeting notice, so I ended up getting up early.
And then we didn't have the meeting, because the fellow in India had farbled the time zone settings and had scheduled the 8 AM meeting for 8 PM.
We let him know that none of us would be showing up at 8 PM.
I really need more sleep.
So does Gretchen, but for different, school-related reasons. :)