i don't approve, but i can understand avoiding the monday morning "bed check" votes (assuming they are as described: procedural/pointless) to spend more time with family, especially during a personal crisis. he should get his ass to work, but i understand the impulse.

HOWEVER, in the article he talks about how the committee meetings are also a waste of his time, specifically because as a junior member, he can't ask questions during interviews until the senior members have finished. so basically, by the time its his turn to pose questions, all the good ones have been asked. he illustrates this by comparing it to going to a buffet after everyone has had the good shit.

this absolutely betrays what a unrepentant self-serving asshole he is. the point of going to a meeting to interview someone in committee is NOT to get time in the sun asking questions. it's to hear the fucking answers of the questions being asked and be present for them. this guy is explicitly saying it's pointless because he isn't able to be the center of attention for the theatrical part of it.