It’s Monday morning, or afternoon. I’ve been sleeping for 12 hours. It’s 10am and I’m finally getting out of bed. Perhaps my weekend no-sleeper should have ended a bit earlier than it did. I won’t blame myself for 12 hours of recovery sleep. My boss might.
When I worked in California, some of my team members would come in as late as noon or not at all, every Monday. My boss confided in me regularly and expressed concern about their health. He said arriving late is an indication of addiction or some other struggle. Do I have an addiction or some other struggle?
Forget your boots, you can bet the farm. I’m addicted to coding, to research and sharing what I’ve learned, to life and my future. My struggle is with my perception that my tardy attendance is frowned upon by my peers and superiors. Please explain to me how this negatively affects what we’re trying to accomplish, delivering a no-doubt product on time and under budget, supporting national defense and our company’s bottom line.
I can understand how there’d be some issue if I was missing meetings or phone calls or was late to provide some vital piece of information that only I know, but that’s not the case. I’m here for all of the meetings. I’m here just as problems start to pop up so I can hit the ground running. And I’m here until long after you go to bed at night, keeping up progress round the clock. It’s like 24-hour shift-work management for engineers. I think this is great. Maybe I’m just rationalizing.
I’m pretty sure my peers and superiors frown upon my late arrival which means it’s a problem. Additionally, I believe that they are bothered which bothers me which means it’s a problem.
If I’m going to solve this problem, I don’t want it to be some reasonable, middle-of-the-road solution. I want to be here first to kick things off and help everyone else hit the ground running. I want to be here before Jen at 7 and Bill at 6. I want to be up every day at 5am so I can be in to work at 530.
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