Change in office timings

Mine is the famous route no 11; it has two things in common, longest route and the longest bus. The staring point of the route is chamarajpet and it then comes to gandhibazaar at 7:42 AM, uffhhh... what a pain and tension it is to be in the stop on time and to catch the bus... I just can’t sleep in the night because I am afraid that I might not get up on time... it had become stressful to take the regular shuttle in the morning...
I knew that the company runs late morning shuttle but was not aware of the pickup points... so several days I have shelled out money on rickshaws to come to office by 10... But finally I did come to know about the late morning shuttle time and pickup point from jayanagar, so I made it a routine to take the late morning and late evening shuttles and to work between 10:30 am - 7:30 pm. I have to shell out 25 bucks everyday... but its okay...it is comfortable to me...
For many others in my company too it is a painful experience to be in the congested bus for hours together before reaching office... recently couple of months ago my company conducted the survey about change in the office hours, and hence a proposal to change the shuttle timings ... the proposal was to change the office hours from 8AM -5:15 PM. And obviously my answer was NO, except for my lady colleague most of my colleagues with whom I speak and my bus friends had also said NO.
After few days I over heard a conversation on the way back home. It was about the results of the survey, it seems 70% of the employees had said Yes, where as 30% had said No. To my knowledge the person who was disclosing these figures is a responsible employee in the portal maintenance team, and even he had his doubts about the figures :-) as he too and many others he knew had not opted for the change in the timings...
I had comfortably forgotten this matter till it was told in dkom. The director announced that the office timings are getting changed from the coming march as 85% people has opted for it... 85 % .. !!??.. How did 15% get added...? It was a wakeup call to me, I could feel the restlessness that I generally go through to make sure that I get up on time and catch the regular bus on time.
Today there is a mail about the change in the shuttle timings and the new late morning shuttles. In the team meeting too it was discussed, My line manager opened the discussion, myself and others asked her the questions, she addressed each point with her point of view ...
The new shuttle reaching time at campus is 8 and 11:15... There is a big gap between the two timings... when this point was raised by an employee...the justification given by the fellow colleague was that there will be no late morning shuttle at the current timing, as everyone will start using it .. How ridiculous... If people who have opted to take the 8'o clack regular shuttle and land up at the late morning shuttle then whose mistake is it... then in the first place they should not have opted of it...
Just because 85% of people want to come to office at 8, the rest of them should also come at that time only and because these 85% people might get distracted to take the late morning shuttles if introduced at the current timings, again 15% people who were honorable using the service have to let go that comfort... India is a democratic nation, everyone has the liberty to choose their own lifestyle and when it comes to office timing people can choose flexi timings of course in a given threshold...
What I also suspect is that some big guy(s) in the management who is a kunjoose and is still using the office shuttles must have problems in commuting to office due to traffic issues... so he(s) is trying to do all these at the company level the name of others and trying to get the benefit...
The most ridiculous thing was... in the meeting my manager said, if anybody has some issues coming to office in the new timings do let me know... And I told her that I would prefer to come in the current 10:30 - 7:30 timings... she says... It’s not a preference... Then what is that which will be given a preference so that I can say I would like to come late ... I did not want to make lame excuses... hence only I said I would prefer... if coming late is not a preference then why should you even ask .. Manager again:-D
Why the hell should I suffer and opt for some other timing which I am not comfortable with. But why...?