Dennis: Your point is well made. I think we should be able to work "normal" hours as much as possible. In my case, it has been my choice to work 5:30am to 1:30pm. First, I like the early hours, I also live 49 miles away so I get to miss traffic both ways, I always get a parking spot, and I feel much more productive not having to spend an inordinate amount of time scheduling myself in rooms. After 10:00 I can still work on practice room pianos (I can kick a student out if I have to but nearly never do). Since more than 1/3 of our pianos are in practice rooms that works pretty well. I can also reserve an unused classroom to do work later in the day, it's just harder. This early schedule has been my choice. Whoever gets the job February 1st when I retire will have to arrange his/her own schedule to suite the school and their personal preferences. It will probably be different from mine. dave David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Johnson Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:37 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] FW: Concert hall pianos I've got to chime in on that too and put my feet down on the regular hours. There are those rare people who prefer working night shifts, but we are not paid enough for those expectations. Staying late or coming in early on occasion is normal, but that is also above and beyond which all the staff do now and then. I probably have a little issue with those very few who would prefer us to never be seen and not deal with the reality. You can't allow that to happen. It's got to be a mutually respectful or it's not going to work. dennis. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091205/d9006355/attachment.htm>
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