Old routine: Enjoy a cup of coffee, go heads down and be productive before meetings.
New routine: Log and be immediately bombarded by IMs and meeting invites by offshore contractors that don't understand the work because they log off earlier than you and just cannot attend meetings.
If I get a teams message from an "offshore" I wait an hour or two to respond. What happens is they will just go pester someone else with their nonsense. Everyone should just ignore them.
The minute I disconnect from a meeting where we just discussed all of this: Hi (insert name) GM - quick call?
Like no. I would rather take a cheese grater to my brain than have my 4th "quick call" this morning. Pay attention in the meetings and as questions like a normal person.
Can I call you on team