[insomniax]

No matter what you do, you will almost certainly seem arrogant or entitled. The only counter-balance to this is to make sure that if you're late to arrive, you are the last one to leave. That shows that you're devoted and willing to work whatever hours necessary.

Since the bad example has already been brought up, you're going to be fighting an uphill battle to redeem yourself. You may want to start negotiating a different shift that still puts in the hours but allows you to come in later and leave later. Another idea is to push remote work and stress that you aren't customer facing and that you'd be more productive working from home anyway.

Companies that are reluctant to take this approach will sometimes allow work from home X days / week so that they can see you're still producing so that's another option you can try if they flat-out turn down fully-remote.