For me if someone schedules a meeting before 08:00 and after 15:00 it is an automatic NO.
Early morning mail checks (before 07:00) is done only when I am on call and to see if there was any emergencies in the prior evening production run that I missed. When I do that my day starts at that time! I adjust the end of day time to allow for the early start. Normal hours for me is 07:00 to 15:30.
Warning for anyone scared of spiders or the Titanic wreck!
Spiders used to terrify me so much I couldn’t even sleep. I overcame it by doing what they call exposure therapy, just googling spiders and looking at pictures until it felt less scary. Now, I actually want to own a tarantula as a pet, which is kind of funny.
Something I’m even more scared of is the Titanic wreckage. It’s a oddly specific weird fear, but I think it’s a specific kind of Submechanophobia, where the fear is …