One of the Sheeple.

[swestrup]

So, I woke up at the ungodly hour of 5:00 am so that I could have my shower and get dressed and catch a bus downtown for an 8:00 am breakfast meeting of the local Montreal Tech Entrepreneurs group. I gather that Google is going to be there and make a presentation or something today, as well. I do really enjoy these geeky breakfasts, even if I have to get up at a truely stupid hour.

What gets me down though is that at 5:00 am there is no water pressure because a very large number of folks are also getting up and having their showers then. I seriously doubt that they'll all be at the meet up, so I greatly fear that this is their regular time to get up. Whatever happened to the promise of flex hours and the end of rush-hour that the information age was supposed to bring, huh?

Comments

[sillermoon.livejournal.com]

I regularly get up at 5:15 AM, partly because I like to take my time getting ready. Despite working for a tech company and having a vast portion of my work that could be done from home, I am in my office from 7:30-4:30 every day.

Some companies do flex hours better than others.

[helenkacan.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened to the promise of flex hours and the end of rush-hour that the information age was supposed to bring, huh?

Um, while you're being delusional (which is completely understandable, because these were reasonable expectations), you should also ask about how there would be more leisure time for everybody, because job demands would be reduced (in a time of full employment); how older workers would finally be respected and pursued as the population aged; oh, and yeah, what about that paperless office???

I'm still waiting for those answers.
Nah, not really. I can recognise a delusion when I see it!