being punctual megathread

being punctual is
	totally radical
	tubular
	bad rear end
	cool
	mid
	grody
	square
	lame
	#fail
	GOKU

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

It was brought to my attention that we need a megathread on being punctual to fight about being timely in, so I'm doing my solemn forums duty by making one.

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Larry Cum Free: Jun 3, 2022; move it or lose it dillweed

voted for everything :cabot:

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:23

Grey Cat: Jun 3, 2023; Doing stuff and things

Eh I'll read the thread later at 3pm et and maybe make a post.

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:24

hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

my culture values being on time highly, and i follow those cultural norms and am annoyed when others do not. howvere, i am simultaneiously jealous of the people who have been freed from the shackles of punctuality, and aspire to join them

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:30

dee eight: Dec 18, 2002; The Spirit
of Maynard

hurry hurry hurry hurry dont be late hurry hurry hurry

gently caress YOU

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:31

weg: Jun 6, 2006; Reassisted Retrogression

Little late with this idea, aren't you?

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:31

Peanut Butter: Nov 7, 2011; Wee mannie

I can't believe u were late for this meeting Brian. Im your boss. Thats so disrespectful. Don't you love me anymore?

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:33

Peanut Butter: Nov 7, 2011; Wee mannie

Does the militant punctuality we cultivated here at ShitJob Inc mean nothing to you?? Was it all a lie?

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:34

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

weg posted:

Little late with this idea, aren't you?

meet me in the parking lot after school, come whenever it's convenient for you

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:35

Saalkin: Jun 29, 2008

I've had friends who were always late for things so we'd tell them an earlier time then everyone else so they would show up on time

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Toxic Mental: Jun 1, 2019

If you're only 5 minutes early, you're 10 minutes late :smug:

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Flowers for QAnon: May 20, 2019

The food is safe to eat, because time is an imaginary social construct *shits pants*

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hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

i work for a company that is a subsidiary of a german parent. theyve got subsidiaries in a bunch of countries. here in the canadian office, we do a bunch of business with the mexican office. when germany sets up meetings between them/us and mexico, they know to schedule the start of the meeting 15-30 minutes before when they want it to really start. lol. im not even joking

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:36

Smugworth: Apr 18, 2003

Early is on time
On time is late
Late is unacceptable

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:36

Saalkin: Jun 29, 2008

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

i work for a company that is a subsidiary of a german parent. theyve got subsidiaries in a bunch of countries. here in the canadian office, we do a bunch of business with the mexican office. when germany sets up meetings between them/us and mexico, they know to schedule the start of the meeting 15-30 minutes before when they want it to really start. lol. im not even joking

Lmfao

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:38

dee eight: Dec 18, 2002; The Spirit
of Maynard

i have murdered, with malice, at least 2 alarm clocks in my lifetime. one i smashed against the wall until it stopped screaming at me, the other i squeezed until it cracked and whimpered and died.

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:40

Flowers for QAnon: May 20, 2019

Weird how the people who argue against time and punctuality are never early and never introspect on that. Mysterious stuff!

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:41

TrashMammal: Nov 10, 2022

Flowers for QAnon posted:

Weird how the people who argue against time and punctuality are never early and never introspect on that. Mysterious stuff!

i am terminally 15 minutes early to everything and give zero shits about other people�s punctuality because that�s some psycho poo poo to care about

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:43

Slaan: Mar 16, 2009; ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH

I'm always punctual when it comes to poo poo posting always right in time

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:49

Toxic Mental: Jun 1, 2019

Smugworth posted:

Early is on time
On time is late
Late is unacceptable

got time to lean? then you got time to clean. stop chatting with your coworkers.

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:50

dee eight: Dec 18, 2002; The Spirit
of Maynard

i gotta drive my mom to the eye doctor today and she likes to get there a few minutes early so she see if they have any new magazines in the waiting room

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big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

Toxic Mental posted:

got time to lean? then you got time to clean.

nothing gets me in the mood shove someone into a wood chipper like this phrase.

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BAGS FLY AT NOON: Apr 6, 2011; A Soft Nylon Bag

I�m a responsible adult op

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dee eight: Dec 18, 2002; The Spirit
of Maynard

i'm off the clock, permanently

look upon my balls, ye mighty
it's dis pair

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:54

raspurtin: Apr 18, 2005

It's really easy, just give yourself plenty of time to prepare and a couple extra minutes in case of traffic and you should have no problem being on time with no stress.

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:55

hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_time

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TrashMammal: Nov 10, 2022

dee eight posted:

i'm off the clock, permanently

look upon my balls, ye mighty
it's dis pair

swinging pendulously with the wisdom of the ages. knocking like a metronome, but only ironically

# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:57

Songbearer: Jul 12, 2007; Fuck you say?

So I am chronically late to everything to the point I've been pulled up by my boss about it but it's never more than like, 5 minutes, 10 at a push. It's my job so whatever I'll come in on time now but uuuugh how do people tolerate wasting minutes of their lives being at work before actually working. I take things right to the edge because the thought of wasting my life on the dumb bit before doing what I'm supposed to do annoys me a bunch.

"Your time is no more valuable than anyone else's" is the thing and being a good person in general means being respectable enough to make people not waste their time waiting for you but when it comes to my job it's really not like the building is gonna fall down you know? Being a paramedic is stressful man

# ? Mar 14, 2024 19:00

its all nice on rice: Nov 12, 2006; Sweet, Salty Goodness.; Buglord

I'm seeing a movie before my swing shift. Might be late to work. Feels punctual to me.

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hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

im on time to work maybe 50% of the time because it doesnt matter and no one cares lol

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TrashMammal: Nov 10, 2022

enclosure is for peasants

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satanic splash-back: Jan 28, 2009

Can't be late if you don't have a set work start time

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Icochet: Mar 18, 2008; I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~; Grimey Drawer

I can only afford a sun dial and i dont know how it works. I blame this for most of my problems

# ? Mar 14, 2024 19:13

Impossibly Perfect Sphere: Nov 6, 2002; They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

im on time to work maybe 50% of the time because it doesnt matter and no one cares lol

# ? Mar 14, 2024 19:14

SweetMercifulCrap!: Jan 28, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Sorry I'm late to the thread everyone, the line at Starbucks was really long and well, you know how I need my iced coffee

# ? Mar 14, 2024 19:17

Trillhouse: Dec 31, 2000

The only thing I like to be late for is showing up for work. I make up for it by leaving early though.

# ? Mar 14, 2024 19:22

dreezy: Mar 4, 2015; yeah, rip.

everyone knew that that one guy who was consistently on time for things and how much that ruined everything like jesus christ it just caused so many problems like uhhh and ummmmm

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Songbearer: Jul 12, 2007; Fuck you say?

dreezy posted:

everyone knew that that one guy who was consistently on time for things and how much that ruined everything like jesus christ it just caused so many problems like uhhh and ummmmm

Those people are invariably the one person you don't want to be trapped in a one on one conversation with for longer than necessary

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Larry Cum Free posted:

voted

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big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

I believe this is the post that inspired the need for a timelyness megathread to fight in.

frumpykvetchbot posted:

again with the making people wait for you strawman.

You can allow yourself in your daily routine to be liberated from the concept of timeliness without "imposing" anything on anybody else.

What are these "meetings" of which you speak? From past experience in the horologically enslaved world under Corpo I know that there are types of work setups that only function with synchronized facetime and meetings all the time. So I don't institute such work setups in my small but successful organization.

Everybody you interact with can in principle just share their thoughts asynchronously via emails or in a slack channel or whatever. Raise issues through there. Only if exceptions arise of immense importance threatening to bring down the show do you need to ever hit the call button which is an imposition, a demand for your attention, disrupting whatever you're presently doing. The assumption is that it must be pretty urgent and it's the yellow button next to the nuclear option.

But even for those rare situations our rule is to only let the call chime ring for a few seconds. Enough so that if you're within earshot you know someone wants a realtime conversation and the assumption is that it must be pretty urgent. So I respond to that within a few minutes usually. Take a piss first or get a coffee from the machine and check my appearance before I sit down ready to be on voice and/or camera. The other party wants my attention, and now I'm comfortable and focused and ready to have that conversation. Go.

I suspect that most work-from-home orgs could adopt these principles if they wanted to. Obviously not applicable for a worksite with lots of realtime orchestration and micro-coordination. And that's not the kind of work that I do or care to be involved with.

But to answer the question you keep bringing up, of course I show up on time if we have agreed on a meeting. My phone has a google calendar chime thing. I do know what a schedule is and if I have to take like a flight or something of course I can't expect them to wait for me. But this happens so rarely, like a few times a month, so that I can mentally switch, temporarily, from our civilized and gentle "island time" to the barbary which is the "city time" world of the horologically enslaved, emissaries from which we mustn't disappoint by letting them waste precious expensive seconds of their so-efficiently packed schedules.

big nipples big life fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Mar 14, 2024

# ? Mar 14, 2024 19:47