My networking support team at Microsoft is now using a new support model. The bottom line is that we’re all now working in various “shifts” that are supposed to be rotated every 3 months. I drew the shift that has the least impact on my previous M-F 9-6 schedule. Now I’m working M-F 10-7. (Some other shifts involve only working 4 days a week but for longer periods, such as S-W 2pm-1am.) While I now come into work an hour later, it actually translates into an extra hour and a half of sleep for me each morning because of public transit schedules. This part is great. What’s not so great is that I get home at night an hour later so I have less time to see Michelle. (However, I do now get to see her in the morning so it sort of evens out.)

So far, I’m enjoying the difference. I’ve already told my manager I can’t physically work here past 10:00 or so (otherwise I’d never be able to get home), so I won’t be getting anything really outrageous. But I might actually not mind something like S-W 9am-8pm, giving me 3-day weekends…