Flexible Schedule

One of the promised perks of this Glass Tower in which we have been locked, is the Flexible Schedule. Yeah, sounds great, right? Advanced, proactive, result-oriented, groundbreaking and simply "Google". Well, don't let the shiny veneer fool you, because it's not. The whole concept is pretty much like this stiff, stupid machinery taking the same old, outdated presentation and offering it in five new flavours. So, you still have to work 9,6 hours a day, still have only 45 minutes to lunch, now FIXED to a given time of the day, whether you are hungry or not, depending of the flexible schedule you've been assigned to.

The "five flavours" include starting the working day from at 6:00 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00 and 9:00, if I'm not mistaken. Naturally the times of getting off the clock go from 15:36 to 18:36. So, flexible? Not really. You are held AGAIN to a new schedule. So it's not flexible as in "you enter any time from 6 to 9 and work your 9,6 and leave sometime between 15:36 to 19:00." Oh no! That would open the door to no control, and with no control what would all those lazy, incompetent people do, who like to think they boss over others, and excersize such an idea with pety measures?

A friend of mine called the 9,6 "butt-hours" because it was entirely inconsequent what you did as long as you sat them down at your cubicle or office or assigned work post.

Then again. count your blessings and take what you can. I, for my part, will, and thus from Monday on I'll be going to work at 6 am. Why? Because I'm already early and I want to go home early too, not to mention that by getting to the office at 6 am, I'll have an hour more to prepare for any meeting, as no meeting is really held before 8 am, or 7:30 in the most extreme cases.

Sure, I won't be traveling with Smurf and Smurfette anymore, but, hey, I'd be going home one hour earlier!