It is for me! I prefer 9am start time.
I am on my way to work early today for a 8am meeting but this meeting is pretty important and the only time everyone was available. I could have called in but I decided to go in early today.
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Hmmm, I would love a 7 or 8 am meeting!
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That's too early for me. Even if I had a meeting at 7:00am I would still need to stay at work until 5:30pm anyway, so all that would mean is more time working.
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Too early! I need time to get myself situated in the morning
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I need time with my girls so I don't open my meeting schedule until 9 am.
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I usually arrive at 7am so I need time to get a cup of coffee before I have to participate so 7:30am is my preferred meeting start time.
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I start at 6:30am so a 7am meeting happens pretty frequently for me!
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Too early. I'm usually getting LO to daycare around 7:15am or so. I've taken 8am phone calls at home, then go into work after it.
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Unless absolutely necessary, I think it's a little rude to schedule a meeting to start before 9am... Most people are still settling into the day before that. Of course that goes out the window when a client is involved in the meeting.
But I'm in no way a morning person
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7am is way too early considering that's usually when I'm in the shower! I get to work at 8:30 and don't think I could pull off an 8:30 meeting!
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I'd have a revolt and no attendees if I schedule any meetings for 7am. At my last job we all used to complain endlessly about our monthly 8am meetings with the India team. Most people in a software company aren't in until 9 or later, so your best bets are 10am+.
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Too early. At 7 am, I'd have to get dressed and leave in the dark.
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It depends...are they providing coffee???
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@runnerd: Some of it depends upon if clients or callers are in another country where that's their afternoon.
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It's too early for me generally but I have had meetings at that time frequently if it is the only time the client is available but I think that has to do with the nature of my job
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@LovelyPlum: Coffee and some sort of pastry is a MUST for early meetings! Especially on a Monday or Friday! haha
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Too early! I'm not usually willing to talk to people (other than DH) before 8am.
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@cascademom: good point... I never have to deal with international time differences
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@runnerd: Ahh, for a couple of years, I had a phone call with callers from Sweden, Germany, and France. So, I'm accustomed to it.
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We have monthly staff meetings and they're at 7am. It's not so bad since it's so infrequently... but they recently transferred me to a new dept so the staff meeting is now in the afternoons... on a day I don't work
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Nah, that'd work for me. I'm usually in by 6:45 so that would give me 15 minutes to get settled, check my email, and make a cup of tea.
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Nope! I start work at 7 anyways.
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Generally, too early. Every once in awhile, we have teleconferences with people in other time zones and have to schedule them really early, but when that happens I can call in from home. Thank goodness.
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Way too early!
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I'm not even awake yet so way too early!
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That is way too early! But I'm often out my door by 5:55 am for work so.... But at least I'm not having to interact with people at that time.
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Pre-baby I would have been ok with it. I once had to foot a staff meeting at 5 or 530am, when the overnight shift got off!
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I get to work at 7:30am everyday and I'm good to go as soon as I arrive.
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Woah 7am is way too early! That would never fly around here! I think the earliest would be 9am in my department.
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Way too early for me! I think meetings should never start earlier than 9am and never start after 4pm! On Fridays, no meetings should start after noon. It's Friday guys!! Come on now! LOL!
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I wish it was too early! But I teach high school, so 7 am is pretty normal for me.
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Only b/c daycare doesn't open until 7am. I blocked off my 6-730am time slot.
I do have a weekly meeting at 7:30, no big deal, though.
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@bluestriped bee: That's early. Is a foreign location involved? I know DH had weird times for meetings based on who it is with. When DH has meetings with the London office they are always early.
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Waaaay to early. I try to get in at 8, but most the time it ends up being 9.
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@littlek: No, it's a quick meeting with a construction contractor, like probably 15 minutes tops. I think in construction they usually work earlier. I'm going to push back on them. It's kinda ridiculous considering it's a quick meeting. It's probably going to be a $5k job, so I would think they can meet me later. It's just crazy that they thought 7am is normal request for them.
I told them that I was available at anytime that day and they came back and told me they could do 7am. I'm thinking... no!
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I'm usually in at 7:45, but we have a weekly meeting that starts at 6:45. It's torturous and way too early. I loathe them (luckily my husband drops off the baby those days, because daycare isn't open until 6:30!)
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I'm at work starting my day at 5:30 am! I never see the light of day before work
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I could do it, but knowing my luck, I'd be running late that day.
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OMG too early. I'm not an early bird at all! I love starting work at 9 or 9:30.
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Yikes! I'd prefer to go in at 9:00 am and stay for a 6:30 or 7:00pm meeting. Not an early bird.
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