MH. Har har. I'll just be a complainer today.

winery · December 2010

Texted me at 330 to inquire as to my afternoon plans. I asked why and he said he wanted me to be home when he got home because it was going to be early.

What time?

5:00.

Har har.

While it is early for him, I actually laughed out loud that he thinks being home by 5 is early.

Blurg...

amanda&rob · December 2010

I have one of those too. Wednesdays are his "short day" which is 10-11 hours. I'm like, do you know how ridiculous that sounds? People who would be forced to work 2-3 hours over are typically pissy about it!

r9stedt · December 2010

Hehehe.

Oh well.

At least he tried, right?

eclaires · December 2010

Ugh I feel you. Jeff has been working 11-12 hour days recently. I'm ready to sell my kids on ebay. Or pay someone to take them.

He said he'd be home early today - at 5:30 - haha. He called and said it will be more like 6:30. AWESOME.

On the upside, his work has what they call a business month schedule, so he just has to get his 40 hours per week in for each week in the business month and above that are days/hours he can take off. So he's probably going to take a few days off the week before Christmas since that's the last week of the "business month" and he's already ahead like 2-3 days for the month because of the past few weeks of extra long days.

winery · December 2010

Yup.

And he's not home yet. 530 here.

Bellisimo · December 2010

Time to pop bottles!

I wouldn't know what to do with a husband that worked less than 10-12 hour shifts that vary between days, afternoons, middle of the nights and overnights. To have a husband home by 5-7 M-F sounds heavenly to me. And THIS is why I drink by 5.

Maybe he stopped off for a bottle of good champagne and your favorite flowers. Surprise!

veloelle · December 2010

DH used to call *at* 5:30 or 6 to tell me he'd be late. Noshit, Einstein! After a few years of telling him it does me no good to say he's late when he's already late, it finally sunk in. This was all pre-kids. Lucky for me, DH's ex boss was a workaholic, so he knows what to avoid. And I rode him pretty hard about it pre-kids. It's so irritating, especially when you're counting on that hour.

CleoKitty · December 2010

Dh worked at a place for the last 8 years where he NEVER got to leave before 6pm without prearranging it and/or taking vacation time. He recently left that job for something more flexible (and their crazy strict hours/attendance policy/refusal to allow any sort of flex time is pretty much the primary reason he eventually left) but having him home by 5pm would've seemed like a crazy luxury back when he was still employed with them!

These days though I'm the one who has an ever-changing schedule- dh never knows when I'm going to be working days, or evenings, or overnights, or weekdays, or weekends...

A-baybride · December 2010

I don't think MH has ever been home by 5 in the 8 years I've known him. Not even the day he was laid off! He spent the day in the office calling/emailing friends, colleagues and clients, saving contact lists and files, etc.

ShufflerChick · December 2010

I don't know anyone who is home by 5, let alone out of work by 5. Even 6pm is considered early around here to finish work. I only get home by 7pm because I have to let the nanny leave, pre-kids it was more like 8 or 9. If DH is home before 9pm it's a good day.

Wait, I take that back, DH did have a job once at a Japanese company with strict 9-5 hours. He got out at 5, but that also meant no flexibility, he had to take sick/vacation time if he so much as wanted to leave 5 minutes early, I'm not kidding. He eventually left partly because of that. He works more now, but can come and go as he pleases if there's a need (and so can I, to a certain degree).

A-baybride · December 2010

ShufflerChick:

I don't know anyone who is home by 5, let alone out of work by 5. Even 6pm is considered early around here to finish work. I only get home by 7pm because I have to let the nanny leave, pre-kids it was more like 8 or 9. If DH is home before 9pm it's a good day.

Wait, I take that back, DH did have a job once at a Japanese company with strict 9-5 hours. He got out at 5, but that also meant no flexibility, he had to take sick/vacation time if he so much as wanted to leave 5 minutes early, I'm not kidding. He eventually left partly because of that. He works more now, but can come and go as he pleases if there's a need (and so can I, to a certain degree).

Yeah, I should add that when I worked I was never done, much less home, by 5. 7-8 was more typical, though sometimes later. Even when I had to leave earlier to pick up DD from daycare, I was still working from home at night to stay caught up. In all the years I worked in finance and accounting I never knew anyone that was out the door every day by 5 and they wouldn't have progressed far in their careers if they were.

winery · December 2010

A-baybride:
ShufflerChick:

I don't know anyone who is home by 5, let alone out of work by 5. Even 6pm is considered early around here to finish work. I only get home by 7pm because I have to let the nanny leave, pre-kids it was more like 8 or 9. If DH is home before 9pm it's a good day.

Wait, I take that back, DH did have a job once at a Japanese company with strict 9-5 hours. He got out at 5, but that also meant no flexibility, he had to take sick/vacation time if he so much as wanted to leave 5 minutes early, I'm not kidding. He eventually left partly because of that. He works more now, but can come and go as he pleases if there's a need (and so can I, to a certain degree).

Yeah, I should add that when I worked I was never done, much less home, by 5. 7-8 was more typical, though sometimes later. Even when I had to leave earlier to pick up DD from daycare, I was still working from home at night to stay caught up. In all the years I worked in finance and accounting I never knew anyone that was out the door every day by 5 and they wouldn't have progressed far in their careers if they were.

I think I was misunderstood.

MH was telling me that he was coming home EARLY today. And 5 is early for him.

He was home by 10 of 6, fwiw. Which is actually still early for him.

And, yeah, Bellisimo. Ditto.

Bellisimo · December 2010

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