A Matter of Time
Dec. 2nd, 2021 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperTime 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. :)
Pacific vs Eastern
Date: 2021-12-03 06:24 am (UTC)I still am brain dead until around 10 am Pacific. Fortunately, most of my meeting are between 8 am and Noon Pacific. The bummer is that the one person I work with most is in Florida, and works early hours. Contrariwise, everyone is pretty much logged off by 15:00 Pacific. Hopefully I can soon sleep in a little more... until 07:30.
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Date: 2021-12-03 09:32 am (UTC)The snag: No one had actually cleared this arrangement with the company's *official* tools support team, based in Canada... who then refused to let me have any of the necessary passwords or other tools that I needed to actually do anything significant myself. So I ended up being the guy who listened to the UK-based devs complaining all morning about what wasn't getting done, and then trying to relay all that to the official team in the afternoon and get them to take some action. (It didn't help that the guy who'd set up the local stuff that I potentially *could* take control of - who was based "locally", just over in Northern Ireland - would always promise to "get back to you on that" in response to any question about the set-up. And never did call back.) =:o\