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0 pointsmarincounty10y ago0 comments

Never understood early start times, unless your in farming.

Getting to school is very difficult for some people, especially if they come from a poor family. In high school, just getting there was such a hassle. I took three different busses. I remember getting up a 5 a.m. to get to there. And my student advisor(the principal) told me I needed to work on my attitude.

To take it further, never understood the reason to be at pretty much any job before 10 a.m.

Construction is notorious for early hours. Pretty much nothing gets done before that first coffee break.

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pjlegato10y ago· 2 in thread

It's a general filtering mechanism. Almost nobody wants to get up at 5 AM to get to school or to the jobsite. If that's what you have to do to get in, this selects for those participants who are more highly motivated to participate in the institution, and differentially rejects those who either lack sufficient motivation to comply, or lack the self-control necessary to execute compliance.

A fixed and mandatory early start time serves as a proxy for general discipline and a means to conclusively demonstrate one's willingness to follow instructions and do things in the institutionally mandated way despite personal dislike of them.

NoPiece10y ago

It is to give parents enough time to drop their kids off at school and make it to work on time.

VLM10y ago

I think there's a hidden assumption that regardless when you arrive, you're going home at 5pm or 10pm or whatever.

More realistically, I've worked flex jobs and no matter how much waking up at 4am sucks, going home from work at 2pm rocks so much more that it balances out.

__s10y ago

Currently dealing with work start time being 9am but scrum starts at 9:30 so I aim to show up at 9:20. Nobody minds thankfully

Worked in flooring last year. Hours were 8 to 4. Coffee stop was on the way in. Generally started right away, but that's more of a show-up-to-customer-and-get-to-work deal. Couldn't start before 8 because noise

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