Another opinion question for you all:
Person A and Person B work together. They are the same age and have children very close to the same age. One lives much closer to work than the other.
Person A coaches hockey in the winter and is very involved in golf and running in the summer. Due to daycare hours and living so close tow work she arranges to use the flex option and works 7-3:30. Her backup, Person B, has always agreed to this and every 3 months when the new schedule is approved they discuss it. Person B makes it very clear that her daycare hours make flexing not an option at the time, but that she's really like to be able to flex in the future if the situation changed.
Situation changed. Person B would like to flex, gives Person A 2 months warning before the new schedules go out. Person A told Person B that she 'really has to be able to flex in the summer for golf.' which is fine, but then she says 'I really have to be able to flex int he winter for hockey.' well, choose. Welcome to being an adult working for someone besides yourself, it means you can't do all those other things whenever you want.
Person B is being called selfish behind her back now because she won't just keep working the 8-4:30 and let Person A do all her sporty things.
Person B, ME, lives almost an hour from work, which means in the winter we get home when it is pitch black out and have to feed cattle and chickens in the dark every night. Person B would really like to be able to take care of the farm in the daylight, at least half of the time, since flexing wouldbe every other week.
Person B has been sitting at her desk not being talked to for 2 days now because she is so selfish and can't understand why sports are so much more important that any stupid farm things going on in her life.
