I grew up in the country and was always punctual meaning if they said to meet at a certain place I was there at that time and then I'd wait like an hour or more for every other ballplayer to show up so we could drive to the game. When I was in college I had a couple of instructors, in psychology and basic electrical engineering who didn't care if you showed up in class or not, so I never went to class except for the tests. The one exception I dropped into the psych class and the instructor was giving us a demonstration of what a manic depressant personality was like and I was ready to drop the class as I thought he was nuts until he said he was just putting on a show. In the electrical engineering class I could do the node voltage equations and Thevenin's theorem stuff alright but was a complete klutz with my hands while a friend could install a sound silencer on a Tv with headphones so as not to disturb other students and he was mad that he got a B and I got a B too.
I'm an instructor at the college level. It really bothers me when students are late to my class - particularly when they are more than 10 minutes late. At that point, I'd prefer they not come at all. They do, though, because every school I've ever worked at will drop a student who misses too many classes, but has no similar punishment (or policy, for that matter) for students who are too frequently late without a reasonable excuse. One of my past supervisors wouldn't even allow me to set up my own tardy policy for my classes - clearly he didn't have a problem with students being late. Call me old-fashioned, but I think students who walk in late more than once or twice a semester should be penalized. They're adults now - they should be able to show up for class on time.
This is such a ridiculous problem on the Gulf Coast I would swear I was back in the Virgin Islands or Jamaica! Whenever someone around here says the want to meet at a certain time my response is always the same, "Call me when you're in the car and on the way".
Never start a meeting late to "wait until everybody gets here." If you accommodate the latecomers, they'll figure it out that the meetings actually start at 10 after. Then they'll start arriving at 20 after. Let the late people be late. Don't punish the punctual.
I dont deal with late people. My meetings start on time and being late doesn't get you a catch up later. Like employment, an education, a spot on the team? Be on time. Cant make it - cant use you. Period dot.
I am always on time and sometimes early, my wife is always late. To me being late is disrespectful. To keep my marriage together I have learned to give up. We are going to be late, it is a given, sometimes I can lie about the start time but usually we are still late. Now that I have accepted it, it is not that bad. Maybe I'm too uptight anyway, besides it is not my fault for being late. I get ready and read a book, play on the computer, whatever, I and everyone else knows we are going to be late. I dread planes but I don't fly much anymore. Employees should not be late, fire them.
Why are you using "she"? Surely it's not always women who are late.
I will never be late, but I will also never be early. I hate getting someplace early. I will arrive one to two minutes early. It's always worked out. I've never had something happen where it made me late.
If he'd used the word "he", I would not have been offended.
You will inevitably be either late or early some of the time, as you will never be precisely on time every time. If you've never been late to anything while only allowing one or two minutes of time for life's uncertainties....you should buy a lottery ticket.
ok i am late some times. and its as lori said i see the clock say 10 min brush my teeth comb my hear let the dogs out ... and bam 15 min later where does the time go.. but when i do get to work i bust my butt on my lunch i put a new battery in the company car. i have worked though breaks and meals even though my company demands i clock out.. so in short i more than make up for my lateness
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I will never be late, but I will also never be early. I hate getting someplace early. I will arrive one to two minutes early. It's always worked out. I've never had something happen where it made me late.
You will inevitably be either late or early some of the time, as you will never be precisely on time every time. If you've never been late to anything while only allowing one or two minutes of time for life's uncertainties....you should buy a lottery ticket.