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Can I make a request to those of you organising work calls? Make sure all meetings STOP at 6:30/7pm, please.
Even if you are in the middle of something, close the meeting, it can wait till tomorrow.
Why, do you ask?
Let me explain 1/-
Even if you are in the middle of something, close the meeting, it can wait till tomorrow.
Why, do you ask?
Let me explain 1/-
Not everyone has a spare room for their computers. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to shut the door for privacy. There are a lot of us living in small apartments, where our computers are in the living room and not a computer room. And even if someone DOES have a spare—
Room, quite often, it shares a wall with a bedroom. Sometimes, this is a kids bedroom, sometimes it’s the bedroom of someone who’s not feeling well and needs to rest. Either way; your 7:30pm meeting is intruding on someone who is not meant to be included.
Our computer is in our living room. We live in a 2 bedroom apartment with our small child and dog. For 10 hours a day, it is my job to try to keep our child’s noise levels down, so husband can work in peace, and you can have your meetings. This is very draining.
I have even changed our child’s bed time from 7:30pm to 8:30pm (which makes for a tired, angry child) so she gets some time to play with daddy. That’s our compromise. We have compromised our lives for the sake of work. This is a very big compromise, as any parent can tell you.
That DOES NOT MEAN you get to extend your meeting hours to 8pm. That is a shitty move. At 6:30, I need to get my family to eat - kid does not like to sit and eat if daddy isn’t also at the table. At 7pm, I need to start her bedtime routine, which is really difficult when —
In the same room, daddy is having a heated conversation with - in her words - a Ghost. At 7:30pm, I need to get her in the bath, but she will fight and fight, because daddy hasn’t had time to play games with her. At 8pm, I need her in bed and starting to go to sleep -
But if daddy’s still on a call with you, he hasn’t even had the chance to say good night. She’s upset. She’s crying. She won’t go to sleep. She’s 2, she can’t understand why. She thinks daddy doesn’t like her. I lay in bed with her till 10pm, because she’s sobbing.
Do you see how damaging to families your 7pm meetings are? You’re trying to squeeze more work out of already stressed people, and by doing so, you are irreparably damaging relationships of parents and their kids. That’s a really shitty move.
So it’s now time for YOU to compromise. STOP ALL WORK CALLS AT 6PM.
Kids are already having a hard time with this, stop making it harder on them.
Kids are already having a hard time with this, stop making it harder on them.
I know I said 6:30/7pm at the top, but no. Stop them at 6pm. We’ve compromised enough for you.
Please RT the shit out of this thread.
