What time do you arrive to work?

As hinted at in my previous post, it's uncool to work an early work schedule.

At the new company I work at in Manhattan, which is a small but up and coming media company that you have probably heard of, I noticed that at 9:00 AM most of the offices here are still empty. The place was more crowded at 6:15 PM when I left last night. Obviously I've picked up some bad habits working for the government, like getting to work before 9:00. (Not to mention the whole bad work ethic problem.)

Paul Fussell, in his book Class, mentioned that the higher you are in class, the later you eat dinner. Maybe it's because the higher classes are still at work when the lower classes are eating?

Maybe the thing is that higher class people have fun and classy things to do at night, while the boring lower class people are just watching TV so they can go to sleep early in order to get an early start on the next day?

Comments

[Scott S]

Why do people still cling to outdated Marxist notions such as "class" in a country where nothing prevents those with less money than average working harder and smarter and gaining more money than average? And nothing protects rich spoiled kids from squandering money earned by their parents. It's a fluid system, and trying to jury-rig concepts like class onto it is an injustice to a free society and to the people who violate the structures of class every day.

[Michael A. Clem]

I agree. Class structures might explain some things, but as a whole, it doesn't seem to be very meaningful when people are struggling to make the data fit the class system.

[superdestroyer]

First, you should be careful making conclusions based upon two data points (Washington, DC, and New York). My guess is one aspect is that government workers live in the suburbs (the middle class) while those in hip companies in NYC probably actually live in Manhatten. The rich eat later because they probably commute shorter distances than the middle class.

Second, eating time is probably as much an aspect of age than class. 20-somethings probably have a different time schedule than 50 somethings.

Third, it could be explained in race as well as class.