Well, it's after 5am and I'm awake.
But I don't think that's what they mean
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When I am king, the morning people will be first against the wall.
Second and third shifts are useless? Remember that when you can't pickup your groceries after work.
The people driving opinions like that don't need to wait until after work to pick up their groceries. The less well off ones can go pick it up during work while the better off ones let their chef hire someone to take care of keeping enough fresh ingredients stocked.
There's some overlapping options here. CEOs frequently claim to wake up at 5AM and do a load of woo woo voodoo bullshit to 'spot opportunities', and they're useless members of society.
To be fair it's not an IFF (if and only if)
"Well, first I put in a solid 2 hours at the gym, and then I go meet with my spiritual mentor, and then it's another 2 hours back at the gym. Finally I read the newspapers for an hour or two. At this point, I can go for a quick 7am breakfast and be into the office by 9:30, after a quick swim at the gym. But not before my personal meeting with the lord."
I had a similar conversation with a friend in college who alleged that waking up after 9am meant that you are lazy. In all cases. Period.
Stayed up until 3am partying with your friends? Better still be up by 9.
Took the Redeye which didn't land until 5am? Oof, enjoy your few hours remaining but don't sleep in...
Work a double shift through the night until 8am? Did I fucking stutter, you can only sleep until 9am, you useless fuck!
Idk... seems silly and arbitrary.
Is that a lack of empathy? Like they literally can’t comprehend anything other than their own lived experiences. I’ve noticed a scary number of people are “the only moral abortion is my abortion” type. Like they don’t care about anything unless it affects them. Cant think of a worse character trait.
In this case, I think it was more indoctrination of a rule her dad set that she never questioned.
My wife and i just had this convo/research about our kids. The concept is "sleep supportive family."
I came from sleep supportive, she did not. We had to settle out differences on how to handle that for our kids and decided she'd cross over to the sleep supportive side.
When we got married, she'd be waking me up at 830 because it was "time to wake up" like i didnt just put in a 60 hour week. Glad shes come around now
Not to mention all the shift workers. My SO is a nurse on an afternoon shift, they rarely wake up before noon.
But apparently, to your "friend", my SO is a worthless sack.
Neat.
My job doesn't even start until 2pm, fuck am I waking up early for?
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3pm, for a 5pm-6am workday. The type of person who would present this question unironically would probably still consider me useless though.
What do you do, out of interest? It sounds like you only get a couple of hours to yourself a day…
Security, and I would kill for a couple of hours to myself each day. By the time I get home, I have about half an hour to get to sleep if I want a full 8h down before the next shift. I work 2-3 nights, then get 2-3 off, so it averages out to 7 shifts a fortnight which isn't so bad.
I recently got away from a 7p-7a, and rationalizations aside, it is so bad. Maybe the day shifters are ok with it, but they don't have to wildly swing their sleep schedule every couple days just to get some time to do something other than work or sleep.
I'll take longer shifts with 7 days off per fortnight over normal ones with only weekends off any day. I rarely change my sleep schedule, I just stay nocturnal most of the time. I pop to the shops on my break most shifts to grab a backpack load of groceries, then there's a 24h one near my apartment if I need anything that can't wait on nights off. I spend my "mornings" with my girlfriend until she goes to bed around lunchtime, then I have the rest of my time to myself. It works for me, and has been for the last 8 years 🤷♂️
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Morning people are the worst
Same people fall asleep at like 20 o clock
I'd say many of us waking up early aren't morning people, just that our jobs require it
Or tiny asshole family members.
Kids make you a morning person in the same way getting chased by bears makes you a runner - Unknown to me
Joke's on them. I get up at 5AM and I'm a worthless member of society.
Coworkers: he comes in so early, what a hard worker
Me: well I gotta poop, might as well get up and do it at work
It truly brings peace of mind knowing I won't accidentally wreck my own toilet.
Anyone else get their best coding done between the hours of 10pm to 6am when we're finally enjoying peace?
During grad school, I analyzed my dissertation data in the restricted access room late at night while binging Star Trek TNG and Voyager on my laptop. I'd then go to my 7am meetings with my early bird boomer advisor for my RA job and immediately crash once I got home.
I can't code within hours. Once I'm thinking about it, it just bounces around in there until I figure it out. So I appear to slack off a lot, but I'm thinking about it very often even outside work.
We are so biased towards those with circadian rhythms that align with early mornings.
I am so much healthier and happier once I realized mine ran later than most and adjusted my schedule accordingly.
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i'd have to sleep first
I wake up at 3am for work. I am useless..
Slacker.
These are the same type of people that show up to a business 5 minutes before close and then hang around for 30 minutes deciding what they want
So what about 3:45AM? Asking for an alcoholic friend...
Depends on how bad my anxiety is
Backshift nurses are devastated right now
5pm. But you know what? I go to bed way earlier than all those fuckers.
Night shift? Pffft. Give me my 3 AM baguette, you useless member of society you. WOA, HEY!! DON'T THROW IT AT ME! Do you know who my father is?!?
Some people are going to be really pissed off at this once they finally haul their lazy arses out of bed.
hear that, night shift? fuck you, trying to keep eye on the valuable artifacts and shit.
Whew! 7am
5.20. Unfortunately.
sleep haters are allowed literacy?!
Week days: 0700-0730ish. Gotta get my kids ready for school.
Weekend: At the crack of noon
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