>usually the people who care the most are the ones I have to work with the least.
Its not necessarily rational - or else if it were, we wouldn't have to deal with this at all, and everyone could just work whenever they felt like it. This is an ingrained, subconscious agreement that we all work as hard as we can and nobody slacks off - alas, having schedule conflicts are an easy way to say "I don't think you work as hard as you should" .. and the corollary: "I don't think I should have to work as hard as you think I should" ..
Its not necessarily rational - or else if it were, we wouldn't have to deal with this at all, and everyone could just work whenever they felt like it. This is an ingrained, subconscious agreement that we all work as hard as we can and nobody slacks off - alas, having schedule conflicts are an easy way to say "I don't think you work as hard as you should" .. and the corollary: "I don't think I should have to work as hard as you think I should" ..