Meetings at crazy hours?
Our team is distributed across the globe. I don’t work much (~45h a week) but it’s fairly common to have meetings scheduled very early in the morning, typically at 6:30am or 7am so people in Europe can join. I usually take those from home but it’s real work so I need to be in front of my computer and actually pay attention and talk, so it’s not like I can attend while I have breakfast or brush my teeth. is this normal?
You’re lucky you don’t have coworkers in Asia
Yes, it’s the nature of distributed teams. Hopefully you’re not also expected to be in the office for a full workload-worth of hours. I actually don’t mind early morning meetings at all. I wake up, have meeting, go have a normal morning, then roll into the office whenever I feel like it.
me too!
Common when you have folks in Singapore, Bulgaria, Amsterdam etc.. Perks of working in a ‘globally distributed teams’ Set expectations with your manager etc that you have these meetings so you would obviously be late etc..
Do you have to videochat, or can you just mute yourself and listen with airpods in while you're taking a dump?
It doesn’t seem you read the post clearly? Or your comprehension skills are pretty bad? Or may apple hiring bar is as low as apple genius in apple stores! He says clearly he has to be in front of computer and not do multitask etc..
You can have your computer while you're taking a dump, just not on video
Oh yes!! It happens with me. I work with people in India and east coast. For which they schedule calls at 6 am 7 am and will have continuous calls. My sleep schedule changed and my food habits changed which made me put lot of weight. One can say go and hit the gym. But even if I go. I need to eat ina schedule right. It makes me very annoying
Common for me. On the plus side it means work from home or remote is pretty flexible / lenient. No need to be in the office if the person you’re meeting with is halfway around the world.
Normal for distributed teams. The solution I found was to become the one who schedules meetings. Most of them are unnecessary anyway.
Agreed on unnecessary meetings. Drives me nuts when I schedule a 1 hour user story review, we go over everything, and then someone who didn’t attend schedules a meeting for the exact same thing with all the same people. I’m like we record these and send out notes for a reason, if you still have questions then reach out individually don’t suck up everyone’s time because you couldn’t be bothered to attend the first session.
This schedule sucks. It makes me feel like work goes on 24/7 without stopping. Add some middle eastern colleges to the mix, that start work week on a Sunday and that will do it. Distributed teams and collaboration between teams spread across the globe seems to be more common now and will only get worse when we hit recession. Move to east coast to be closer to the rest of the world.
I wouldn’t deal with it personally.
I don’t see anything crazy... I would say crazy if it was at 1am...
Well I just wanted to check if it’s normal because it’s annoying to me. At my previous jobs meetings were strictly in the 10am-4pm range, to give everybody’s time to be in the office.
That can vary from person to person, but if you start working at 5am to be prepared for the meeting you can also stop early and do something else for enjoyable to yourself. But if it really bothers you then you should discuss with you manager to find a solution for it.