Time zones, you learned about them in 1st grade?

[platypus]

Background: I work from home in NC (lucky me, I know) most of my clients live in California. They all are aware of this detail. Since I am so far I schedule a 30 minute call per week to go over the individual ins and outs of my clients projects.


So this is the conversation I had today

Me (in NC) : poor pay-by-project slave
SC (in Cali): dofus-mighty-big-pain-in-the-arse-client-who-I-would-terminate-but-she-keeps- my-cat-in-whiskas-packets-(kitty chronic)-and-me-in-cheez it's- (people chronic)

SC: I'm going to have to change our meeting time tomorrow from 5 to 8 (pm)

Me: um is there another day we can talk? That's kind of late for me.

SC (in a sarcastic tone she uses constantly, guess she thinks its a real motivator or something): Nooo I told you Thursday is the only day I can talk about this project. Don't you remember I told you Thursday, don't you write these things down?

Me: Yes, I know Thursday, but the thing is, eight your time is really late for me, I don't think I'm going to be my regular charming self.

SC: 8 is NOT that late. If you can't be alert at eight at night then go to bed earlier.

Me: um you do realize North Carolina is three hours ahead

SC: I don't care what time you start work, I still don't think eight o'clock is too late to talk about the project.

Me: yeah ... eight your time, eleven my time?

SC: Oh

Silence ....

SC: Well ... just drink some coffee or something


So crap ... now I have to start having business meetings at 11pm on Thursday. There go end of the week beers. Oh well I'll just plug my headphones into the Tv and watch the Daily Show while I pretend to listen to her.

Darn those green bits of paper, why do I like them so much?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Actually, I think I learned about time zones before I even entered school, when I was watching too much TV and I wondered what it meant when they said a certain show would be on "8 Eastern, 7 Central"

[powerboy]

Actually, I think I learned about time zones before I even entered school, when I was watching too much TV and I wondered what it meant when they said a certain show would be on "8 Eastern, 7 Central"

That is how I started to learn about them

[rvdammit]

Any chance of adding an "Out of Hours" premium to the bill?

[Dips]

We sell worldwide and get that sort of thing a lot too: Californians who don't understand why somebody might be at lunch at 9 AM...folks in countries with a different work week who wonder why we don't answer emails on Sunday...Africans and Europeans wondering why they have to wait until almost quitting time to hear back from us...Aussies and Kiwis emailing us from the future...

Most of them don't act sucky and for those who get a little peeved, a polite explanation will usually smooth things over, but my second post on this site involved a not-very-nice Californian lady. Off to post it in the Annals.

[Becks]

Actually, I think I learned about time zones before I even entered school, when I was watching too much TV and I wondered what it meant when they said a certain show would be on "8 Eastern, 7 Central"

And I think ABC had Central and Mountain, for some reason.

[Masta Shake]

It's amazing how the simplest things can get people so confused. No wonder we have books like "The Darwin Awards"

[Miss Maple Leaf]

Actually, I think I learned about time zones before I even entered school

Me too.

And they say that TV isn't educational.

[AirHostess]

yeah my passengers don't understand time zones either.

[Cia]

Aussies and Kiwis emailing us from the future...

Wow, you should ask them who won the World Series, the Olympics and when exactly are the Martians invading.

[AirHostess]

My co-workers are bad with time zones, especially down route on a layover they get very very confused. Bless.

[rvdammit]

Can you set up the Out of Office autreply with your working hours, and local times, so they get a bajillion replies back?

[JustADude]

Can you set up the Out of Office autreply with your working hours, and local times, so they get a bajillion replies back?

Sounds like a plan... SECONDED!