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Don't Hate Perky Morning People: It Might Be Their DNA's Fault. (arstechnica.com)
New submitter Striek writes: Aggregated genome data from 23andme.com was analyzed and published in Nature magazine, and now further evidence has been added to the belief that being a morning person or a night owl is wired in our DNA. It's not the first time such research has been published, either. So those of us who work late into the night and prefer to rise at noon, much to the chagrin of our partners, can point to our DNA as the reason, not our lazy habits.
Us non-morning people don't hate morning people because they are perky. We hate them because they assume that everybody else should be a morning person too. Every asshole that suggests things like a 7:30am meeting is just rubbing their early-rising do-gooderness instead the late-riser's faces. They know you feel like a slacker if you suggest to your boss that it's too early for you. In offices with set-your-own-schedule, morning people also like to point out people who "show up late". "Geez, Bob, it's past 10. You're just coming in?!".... Despite the fact you stay at work until 9pm, the early risers who left at 5pm never notice or give credit to the people who stay late. To them they act like the world ceases at 5 in the afternoon until they come in again at 7am. I have so many minor knit-picks over this that bile is starting to form in my throat. I think I'll end.
Agreed. I'll stop hating them when they stop requiring everything to be done in the morning and when working an extra 3 hours is considered better than coming in 20 minutes earlier and goofing off for 40 minutes.
Or distributing childcare duties. Or splitting the night watch into a natural late shift and early shift.
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Seriously. If you are the first person through the door every morning, that's great for you. Please don't complain about how other people choose to structure their day. Punctuality is a small part of work.
Imagine your delight if someone breezed in and dragged you out of bed at 3:00 A.M. every day and expected you to be not just coherent but actually enthusiastic.
Better analogy: imagine if you were expected to show up for meetings at 7pm and work until 1am and be not just coherent but actually enthusiastic.
Morning people are proud of their supposed virtue and work ethic until the clock hits 6pm and they start yawning like a bunch of pussy lightweights. These shits will never know what it's like to hammer out 6 weeks of code in a single night of caffeine fueled mania.
So you personally choose to flagellate yourself daily so you figure that gives you the moral right to expect it of everyone else? I choose to stay up late. Why don't you quit being a lazy bum and stay up too?