Like a lot of the stories here, my MC was due to scheduling.
I was a system administrator for a big, 3 letter telecom company in the one small(er) department. There were two admins, me and J. J was awesome. Super intelligent, very friendly, and was great at his job. He and I decided that I would come in early and he would stay late, so there was more coverage during the day. It worked great for both of us for a few years.
I would get to work around 6:30 am. I would review all the system generated reports overnight, check the health of the servers and database, and then generate the daily reports for various managers throughout the company (including my own manager and his boss). After 9 hours (plus 1 for lunch), I would go home around 4:30 every day.
J would show up around 10:30 and would usually be the last person to leave around 7.
My old boss left and my new boss, T, was a major idiot and a huge asshole. He knew nothing about IT and should have never been put in charge of people. (he was a nepotism hire)
After about 6 months of T working there, he brought me into his office.
He said that he was very concerned about how I would just up and leave each day at 4:30….so consistent that you could set your watch by it.
I tried to explain that I’m there at 6:30 – 3 hours before he showed up and 4 hours before J showed up – but T was having none of that. I was leaving way too early.
I asked him what my hours should be.
He said I should be more like J. He said “J is usually here long after everyone else leaves.”
Once again, I tried to point out that J gets there at 10:30 – 4 hours after me – and leaves by 7…an 8.5 hour day (with an hour lunch), where I get there at 6:30 and leave at 4:30 – a 10 hour day (with an hour lunch).
T just couldn’t comprehend that.
So, I complied. I told him that I would be the last one to leave from now on.
T was happy.
So, I came to work about 10:15 the next morning (which was a Friday). I started my normal routine and about 10 minutes later, J came in. We worked the day and the last person (with the exception of J and me), left around 6:30. We both left at 6:45….and I made sure that J left the building before me.
The following Monday, I once again showed up at 10:15. This time, there was about a dozen emails and a few voicemails from managers and executives all over the company wanting to know why they haven’t received their daily reports. (These reports were used in various Monday Morning meetings all over the globe). I explained to them that my hours have changed, and they would be getting their daily reports by 1:00 PM.
One of those executives was my bosses, bosses, boss.
Before the end of the day, I was in her office with T and T’s boss.
I explained to her the same situation that I had explained to T before this all started.
She immediately told T that the work I did between 6:30 and 10:30 was mission critical to the entire company and I was to immediately go back to my old schedule.
I then sheepishly pointed out that 6:30 to 4:30 was 9-hour work days and J’s 10:30 to 7 was 7.5-hour workdays. I said I would be happy to go back to a 6:30 start time, but was going to limit my hours to 8 hour days (since I didn’t get OT).
So, starting the next day (Tuesday) and every day after, I showed up at 6:30, did my work, and smiled and waved at T when I went home at 3:30 later that afternoon...so consistant, you could set your watch by it.
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