B737-800
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 362
Workload; Communication Breakdown; Distraction; Time Pressure
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Procedure; Environment - Non Weather Related; Airport
We pushed off the gate the other day and the ATIS was showing 30L for takeoff. Ground gave us a clearance to taxi to Runway 29; since they had closed 30L for maintenance. The First Officer went heads down to get the performance weight and balance for Runway 29 while I taxied following a company plane; and there was also one behind us. We switched to Tower as we approached the runway and told ATC we would need one minute to run a checklist. He then issued us some crazy taxi clearance to basically get out of the way; but the Company behind us keyed in saying they would need a minute for the checklist as well. So Tower said to just hold short and advise ready. We started running the Checklist and Tower started calling us to see if we were ready. I told the First Officer to ignore him and finish reading the checklist. The Tower must have tried to call us four to five times since we were not responding; and it was super distracting. We finally called ready and we felt he was rushing us for no good reason; but I said nothing to him. As we took off; I heard the Company behind us try and explain that there are new procedures that require us to run a checklist stopped when there is a runway change. Tower said the Company plane that took off first didn't have to stop.I see no reason for ATC to have pressured us and rushed us to takeoff; we only needed one minute. But in fact; I ran into the same thing the week before in ZZZ. We taxied to Runway 25 and there was windshear; so we went over to Runway 34 and told the Tower we needed a minute to run the checklist holding short. He did the same thing as [this] Tower did. He kept calling us and making it very difficult to not be distracted.
Boeing 737-800 Captain reported that ATC attempted to rush the takeoff; not giving them enough time to complete their checklist.