Personal Time??

Here's another little rant about my new set of bosses - they have absolutely NO respect for personal time outside of work.

Yesterday, boss's boss sent an email telling me to attend an 11pm meeting that night. Man, people have plans outside of work you know! Heck, some people are asleep by 11pm!!

My internal head reply: Ya [expletive] no-life pricks!
My actual reply: I will not be able to attend the meeting tonight.

Yesterday, I also had to convince my boss that we did not need an early morning meeting with India because we already had a dinner-time meeting with them two days ago. Here's how the exchange went -

Me: Hey [boss's name], I'm going to cancel tomorrow's team meeting unless you have something important to tell them.
Boss: You don't have anything to tell them?
Me: No, we talked two days ago with them so they all know their assignments.
Boss: Ok, we should just talk to them for a few minutes.
Me: Is it important? *pause* You realize that it is their late night when we call them, right?
Boss: It's only 9:30pm for them.
Me: Yes, but it is their personal time and it is late. If we don't have anything important to discuss, I think we should cancel it.
Boss: Ok, ok.

Freak! I would agree to late night meetings only if a) I get a huge promotion (i.e., to my boss's level) and b) I get a fat pay raise as well. When you're at the bottom of the hierarchy, you really shouldn't have to put in that much time outside of 9-6. These bosses have absolutely NO life outside of work. When they get off of work, they just go home, eat dinner, and get back on the phones for a conference call. Such is the sad life of corporate management.