These Employees Had To Attend A Zoom Meeting At 4 AM So They Staged A Mutiny
Revenge is a dish best served during business hours
A 4 AM Zoom meeting is bad enough on its own, but it gets even worse when one person expects everyone else to treat it like a normal workday.
In this story, a team had to deal with an early-morning call that made no sense for most of them, and one employee decided the schedule was not going to go unchallenged. What followed was a small workplace mutiny that left one Karen very unhappy.
By the end, the whole thing turns into a satisfying reminder that time zones are not a one-way street. Read on.
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How I imagine the call went when the Karen left:
"That’s a good one! It would have been a nice little shot to make her get up at like 2 AM or even 4 AM like she did to everyone else."
"I had similar situations while working overseas for calls. When a call would come in at around midnight my time, I would decline and propose mid-morning my time (essentially their midnight). That then prompted the realization to schedule appropriately.We used Outlook so they could see everyone’s working hours. Many people would just not care to check first."
This is basically the same conflict as the AITA case where someone asked a friend to stop calling after work.
"I did my master's online... Swedish university, was living in Chile. I hadn't counted on the daily mandatory 4 AM video classes and seminars...Or all the essay-style exams where you had to write 4-5 pages but only had from 4 AM to 8 AM to do it (they release the questions at 04:00 and close the submit function at 08:00)... Or that time I had to write a normal exam and had to find a Chilean university willing to let me write it in their facilities at 4 AM while being officially monitored by a professor.I graduated on time, but I had a very strange social life as 7:30 PM basically became bedtime."
"My company did this too; even if you were on vacation in Australia, you were expected to wake up at midnight or so to join the call."
"Our work has a rule that if you want people to attend your meeting, don't EVER schedule a meeting late Friday or first thing Monday unless you enjoy being in the conference room all alone."
"I know, right? She forces eight people to get up in the middle of the night for the convenience of one person: herself.Then she has the gall to complain when she's inconvenienced by one evening meeting she'd be awake for in any case.Who is so foolish-or selfish-that they can't see how unbalanced this is? How can anyone believe their time is worth so much that it warrants waking eight people up in the middle of the night?And how foolish is management for not realizing the consequences this would have on team productivity?"
Have you defeated a Zoom meeting Karen? Tell us the victorious tale in the comments below!
Before you judge the 4 AM Zoom “mutiny,” check out the employee who booked a desk and accidentally sparked an office feud.
