Re: What\'s your preferred work-life balance?
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I'm with OP. When I worked, I hated having to take a later train (even if only by 12 minutes) because of a BS meeting or whatever. On Fridays especially I really felt I needed to seize the weekend and would get mildly depressed if I didn't make the earliest train possible.
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You know what (perhaps surprisingly) worked for me? I started chiming in on these calls and saying "Sorry to interupt, guys, but do you still need me on this call? I don't have anything else to add and this is off topic for me." The stunned silence was fun, but also I got a rep as being someone you don't invite onto calls without a damn good reason. Win-win.
I guess the challenge is to come off as "Important guy too busy to have his time wasted" as opposed to "Jerk who thinks he's the only one with important things to say".
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