Yes, I agree, it is da bomb.
And for stuff early in the morning, like EPL soccer at 4AM: TiVo it and put your phone in the closet for a couple of hours. Or, anything on during the week that starts while I’m still at work, same TiVo bit as above.
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I think it’s to make it easier to throw parties, and get people psyched / ratings for a longer pre game.
But when I lived in the Eastern time zone, half the parties ended when the halftime show was over.
It’s often not over until after 10:00… on a weeknight. Not exactly family-friendly. Who’s going to let their kids stay up that late before they’re teenagers?
I always felt central time was pretty good for sports. The east coast games start after work ends (6-6:30) and who cares about the west coast anyway am i right
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I know somebody in that situation. I am an early bird but working 6-2 each day sounds horrible. Maybe 7-3. In a dream world I’d do 4 10s. (Or 4 8s and just be paid 20% less.)
This is where it’s at right here.
In a pre-actuary job where we had to work shifts, it was considered ideal to get the earliest possible shift, 7-4. Those shifts went to the most senior people. When I got enough seniority for that shift and told my boss “no thanks, I’d like to keep 7:30 - 4:30”, she looked at me like my head was screwed on backwards. And when the next-most senior person got it, she approached me to make sure that my boss hadn’t made a mistake. And she’d periodically ask me if I was still ok working 7:30-4:30, even though I was entitled to the 7-4 shift.
The only person who had EVER turned down the 7-4 shift had a kid and couldn’t get there until 7:30 due to childcare. And since I didn’t have a kid, it made no sense to anyone that I wouldn’t want to work 7-4.
I just didn’t want to get up that early, and I was fine leaving at 4:30.
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Partner has a job where they could work 9/9/9/9/4. I’d take that all day every day.
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9/9/9/9/9 would be an improvement 
I work 7-4 usually. Sometimes have to get up at 6 for a call. I love it. No commute since I’m WFH so I don’t wake up that much earlier than when I went into the office.
If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s being in the office after 5pm
Part of the argument for having the Monday after the Superbowl a national holiday. 
This is pretty much me as well, except I work with people in a time zone one hour behind me, so my meetings usually don’t start until 10am my time / 9am their time. Sometimes I have to stay late, but usually I’m able to be done by 4.
Or move the Superbowl to Saturday 
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That is a thought. Maybe people are more OK going into work hung over on Superbowl Monday than they are going to church hung over on Superbowl Sunday.
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There’s really no reason to not just push the start time up to 4:30 PM EST.
That’d be 1:30 PM PST, 11:30 AM HST.
It’d usually be over by 8:20 PM EST and earlier elsewhere. I think I read that the average end time is 3:39 after kickoff, so on average over at 8:09 PM.
That’s not too crazy early OR too crazy late anywhere.
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As per usual, I have to be at church extra early the Sunday of DST. Cold-brewing extra coffee for the occasion.
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Daylights saving Sunday is always rough, but I’m looking forward to longer days.
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20yo is on spring break. She flew home last night…arrived about midnight…so I was up until about 2am. Of all the weekends to stay up too late on a Friday night, this was not the one. I have a headache today, and tomorrow’s not looking good. At least I wfh on M & Tu, so I won’t be a part of car crash culture on Monday.
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Mid 80’s, no DST to worry about…
This is the time of year that it’s great to live in Arizona.
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To a large degree, yes; but if you don’t have a flexible team, it might necessitate getting up an hour earlier.
I’ve started teaching. My team is all here.
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