I recently accepted a new job as a cashier for a bar/restaurant working evenings. I told the general manager I was late yesterday because I was used to waking up naturally and without an alarm. We had originally agreed I would come in 4 hours later but he said I needed to work afternoons before I could be ‘choosy’ about schedule. I have a set circadian rhythm and coming in at his requested hours disturbs that. I can’t focus and I am dead tired. I explained to him why I could not sleep earlier but he said my problem isn’t that I need to have an earlier sleep schedule but that I am waking up naturally. He said it was ‘carcinogenic’. When I asked him to clarify his statement, he informed me that his grandpa is a physician and he ‘grew up knowing this stuff’.