"Because my wife is the bakery manager for a local grocery store, she starts work at 4 a.m. While working from home during COVID, I started working at 4 a.m. too. Because there is no customer-facing or real-time interaction (I pull work from a queue), nobody at the company seemed to notice. I was "logged in" eight hours per day and 40 hours per week, so my change in schedule was never flagged."
"She took it to human resources and said "she was concerned for my safety" because I was arriving and working alone that early in the morning. Both the company's parking lot and building are key-card access only, so I am not too concerned about getting "jumped" and being robbed. HR decided it was "best policy" that working hours are 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., so 5:45 a.m. is the earliest I can arrive,"
An order-processing employee shifted schedule to 4 a.m. during COVID to align with a partner's bakery shift and logged full hours without issues. Upon returning to the office, the supervisor approved continuation of the early schedule and the employee worked 4 a.m.–12:30 p.m. A co-worker reported safety concerns to HR about the early arrival and HR enforced a 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. policy, making 5:45 a.m. the earliest arrival and disrupting the household schedule. The same co-worker frequently interrupts with personal conversations, wasting time and causing frustration about boundaries and potential impacts on the yearly review.
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