I agree that work life balance is important, but if the way you achieve that is by just fucking off at a whim at the 11th hour, you’re doing it wrong.
If you tell management at 10 o’clock that you’re not coming in… When you were supposed to be there at 8, and there are 40 people waiting for you… What is a manager even supposed to do with that? Step into a time machine, go to the past?
The right way to do this is by telling people at least the day before. Then as a GROUP, the remaining people can either plan to work around your absence, or, EVERYONE can sleep in and come later.
The beef here isn’t self care. The beef is doing it in the shittiest way possible.
Management also fires people who can’t respect their teammates by showing up when asked to (and almost certainly is in the contract they signed when getting hired). 9-5 is soooo hard (because I stayed up too late gaming or didn’t leave the bar till 2am, real examples I deal with too often). Do one offs happen because family gets sick or something out of your control happens and you really can’t make it till 10? Sure, but decent people communicate that ahead of time if they can.
I agree that work life balance is important, but if the way you achieve that is by just fucking off at a whim at the 11th hour, you’re doing it wrong.
If you tell management at 10 o’clock that you’re not coming in… When you were supposed to be there at 8, and there are 40 people waiting for you… What is a manager even supposed to do with that? Step into a time machine, go to the past?
The right way to do this is by telling people at least the day before. Then as a GROUP, the remaining people can either plan to work around your absence, or, EVERYONE can sleep in and come later.
The beef here isn’t self care. The beef is doing it in the shittiest way possible.
Management also fires people who can’t respect their teammates by showing up when asked to (and almost certainly is in the contract they signed when getting hired). 9-5 is soooo hard (because I stayed up too late gaming or didn’t leave the bar till 2am, real examples I deal with too often). Do one offs happen because family gets sick or something out of your control happens and you really can’t make it till 10? Sure, but decent people communicate that ahead of time if they can.