I really wish corporations/society were more understanding that you cannot make someone into a "morning person".
"We want you here first thing in the morning!"
No, you don't. I'll be grumpy, mean, slow, and disinterested in the aesthetics you want me to reinforce.
I'm a programmer, not a barista. Either you don't need me at 6 AM, or you need to pay me overtime because if you NEED me something is very wrong.
@TheZeldaZone Oof. I am retired and still pop out of bed by 7 am at the latest.
But I am no good at coding until I've spent at least 30 minutes faffing around on slashdot (and Mastodon..)
@lemgandi @TheZeldaZone If I'm not on Trazadone I won't sleep past 5:30...tops. I also don't go to bed until like midnight earliest.
It also doesn't matter what time you rouse me, or if I'm already aroused, you're getting the grump version. My coding abilities also remain unchanged.
Ideally, morning people come in early and do their solo stuff; then evening people come in and the joint knowledge gets shared; then the morning people go home and the evening people do their solo stuff and write up any discoveries for tomorrow’s morning people…
This works so well for anything but literal machine shifts! For a while I worked in a huge company that allowed this and because of international offices we were working literally around the clock.
Hi!
Best work done 1330-1700.
I like splatting little problems in the mornings - checking up on things - and then once lunched, having a good unobstructed block of time where I can do that voodoo that I do.
but then I'm weird that way.
This is why I like being several timezones east of my compatriots...
@TheZeldaZone Sleeping patterns are partially encoded in our brains (due to chronotype or delayed sleep phase syndrome).
Forcing people to function at full capacity during hours that do not match their natural patterns is ableism, accepted by society.
This cost me a good job before, and it sucks.
@TheZeldaZone So a little secret that might help:
The people who expect these things of you are doing them to make themselves feel better. Their reasonings are made up nonsense, but they're probably unaware of this fact. They are more comfortable if they see you there "hard at work" for them.
So in fact THAT is what you are being paid for. You see?
This isn't a malicious compliance thing. This is a recognition of what your employer actually needs from you. What their priorities are.
@TheZeldaZone when I was still studying, I asked my dad when I would become okay with mornings like him, and he said 'when you get a "proper" job'.
I've been in full-time work for nearly nine years now, and I still hate getting up early đź«
@TheZeldaZone I'm only a "morning person" if I pull an all-nighter. And then I'm quite likely to be going straight to bed and sleeping a scant 3-4 hours until noon.
Though I much prefer my current schedule of going to bed around 2AM and waking around noon. Yes, that's right, I awake under duress after about 10-12 hours.
@TheZeldaZone
It's all about control, having power over people, the same kind of stuff that kings and other rulers get their jollies off to.
I am not a morning person either but my boss won't have any of it. it's his loss anyway.. if the tosspot cannot understand how people's bodies and minds work.
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