You can tell your coworkers to shove it and probably should in this scenario, I think the more pressing matter is that realistically you are free to set your hours freely between 6:00 to 21:00 except you have to be there from 9:00 - 15:00 or some other six hour chunk as a "core time".
Does give you some options but the only real flexibility you get out of it is you can put some more overtime in if you want
I could and I probably should. We used to have the 9-15 core time but that was completely dropped at some point. Still hasn't changed the cultural expectation that you're available from 7 or so onwards.
You can tell your coworkers to shove it and probably should in this scenario, I think the more pressing matter is that realistically you are free to set your hours freely between 6:00 to 21:00 except you have to be there from 9:00 - 15:00 or some other six hour chunk as a "core time".
Does give you some options but the only real flexibility you get out of it is you can put some more overtime in if you want
I could and I probably should. We used to have the 9-15 core time but that was completely dropped at some point. Still hasn't changed the cultural expectation that you're available from 7 or so onwards.