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People and time
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I admit I have a thing about being late. I can't do it. If the doc appointment is for 2:00 I am there no later than 1:45.
I arranged for the surveyor to come to my home THIS MORNING. I told him I would be home from the bank, getting CASH to pay him, by 10:00AM. He said he had a stop to make on the way and would be there shortly after 10. It is now 2:06PM, he still ain't here.
I may just fire his dumb butt for being an inconsiderate jerk. I am sure there are other surveyors that would LOVE to get paid in cash for a job.
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I feel your pain, but there are some people providing services that do respect your time, I recently was to meet a garage door repair guy at the house in town which is 25 minutes away, appointment was for 9:00 AM and I left at about 8:25 to meet him. got a call at 8:30 letting me know he was there, I told him I be there by the appointment time or sooner he said no worries I live close by and you were my first stop I'll wait for you. I did a little speeding and got there by about 8:45 and he was also a fast and efficient worker and gave me a great price for the repair! I wish more were like him and he was about late 20's in age I'd guess.
Tell the surveyor your rate is $100/hour and 4 hours will be billed. Let him finish the sentence.
The greater probability is the surveyor has a bad work ethic. The lesser probability is there may have been an emergency. Find out. If his work ethic is bad his work is probably the same. PS If there was an emergency he should call you asap to lessen the inconvenience.
Should have called, if there wasn’t an issue be done with it even if it costs more. Imo
I'm like you, I can't handle myself being late let alone when someone is late for a meeting with me. Of course the worst is my wife who is never on time, whenever we both have to be somewhere it turns into a fight to get her out of the house in time.
I have always held to the standard that if you aren't 15 minutes early, you're late!!!!!!
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One of the good things about my third (and last, thank God she is gone) wife was I would say; "Let's go out for dinner can you be ready in 20 minutes?" If she said "yes'" by golly she was ready! I admired her for that, it was the cheating, lying and stealing that still bugs me 14 years later.
Being on time is a honor thing, you are good to your word or a semi ran you over on the way....
I was late once. My kindergarten teacher told me to not let it happen again. So I didn’t.
My dad always said "Better an hour early than one second late".
I've always felt the same and now days everyone has a cell phone so there is no excuse for not, at least, letting you know that they will be late.
I agree, I would call a different person for the job. The lack of responsibility for not keeping his appointment and his lack of respect for not calling you tells me that he isn't the person to trust to do a good job for you.
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Generally on time for most everything . If I am going to be late I will call the other person involved . No excuse for no call /no shows this day and age .
I saw a show on Discovery, an American guy was going to vacation in Greece. He was in the Athens Greece airport waiting for a flight to the Greek island he was headed to.
He got to talking to a Greek guy there, told him where he was going, the Greek guy told him "You can throw away your wrist watch. The people on that island don't care about time and never show up on time."
He went on to that island and he found out it was true. His hotel would say "Supper at 6 pm" and it would be ready at 9 pm. Nobody cared about being punctual they just went about their lives as if time didn't matter.
I must admit I can't stand that I guess it is the German in me but I like to be on time and I expect others to be on time.
Hate to be a Time Nazi but that's the way I am wired.
Do you know which country is rock bottom in the European Union as far as GDP and general economic well being?
Well, Germany is at the top, and yes Greece is at rock bottom
Working with folks from Mexico, learned that while manana DOES mean tomorrow, it may not mean YOUR tomorrow.
In Florida we call that "Island Time".
As most have stated I am always early for any meeting.
Being early was real funny when dating my wife.
She went to an all girl Catholic college. When I would go to pick her up for a date at her dorm I had to ask the Nun at the door to call my wife’s room to let her know that I was there.
Then I had to wait in a small room across from the Nun for her to come down. The whole time I was waiting I got watched by the Nun and all of the girls in the dorm checking to see who the guy was in the dorm.
In those days there was no way I was getting by the Nun to try and go up to my wife’s room.
Well, it saved me $200 bucks! I pointed out he said morning and 2:45PM ain't morning. He knocked off the money for being late and not letting me know about it.
Well ...... OK then.
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As most have stated I am always early for any meeting.
Being early was real funny when dating my wife.
She went to an all girl Catholic college. When I would go to pick her up for a date at her dorm I had to ask the Nun at the door to call my wife’s room to let her know that I was there.
Then I had to wait in a small room across from the Nun for her to come down. The whole time I was waiting I got watched by the Nun and all of the girls in the dorm checking to see who the guy was in the dorm.
In those days there was no way I was getting by the Nun to try and go up to my wife’s room."
I went to Georgia College in Milledgeville Georgia. They had the same deal. You had a date with a coed in Bell Dorm, you went in the lobby, they had an old Battleaxe there sitting at the desk. Not a nun, but close.
She would call the girl's room to let her know you were there, and you had to wait at a little sofa in the corner of the lobby.
And all the other coeds would peek around the corner to see who the guy was who was waiting.
I never got past the Guard at the Gate at Bell Dorm.
Im another one that can't stand to be late I'm usually 30 minutes early . The way traffic gets around here giving yourself a extra 30 minutes may not be enough especially if I4 is part of the route
+10 I am one of those who don't and won't, never saw the need, still have a land line, my phone hangs on the kitchen wall.......
To each their own. Why have one at all if you don't need it? My cell phone is a lot more handy with me than a phone on the wall at home. It's for my convenience and no one else's. I put it on do not disturb or turn it off when I don't want to be bothered.
I also consider being punctual a part of my upbringing. Always on time unless there were unforeseen circumstances and then I would call.
What I hate is when you have say a doctors appt. and you make it there at least 15 minutes beforehand and you end up waiting over an hour past the appt. time!! This happened a lot with the same specialist I had to see and I did not have a choice to find another Dr. A few sittings in the waiting room were a couple hours.
Very true, those Dr. appointments never happen on time, I get so irritated with them that by the time I do get in my blood pressure is always elevated.
Old joke. Air Traffic Control freq, Honolulu airport. Unidentified aircraft. "what time is it?"
ATC: "Aircraft requesting time check- please identify self."
Aircraft: "Why? Just wanted the time."
ATC: "If you are a civilian aircraft, it's 10 PM. Army- 20 hundred hours. Navy, 4 bells."
Aircraft: "Sorry bra- this Aloha Airlines."
ATC: "Aloha Air- it's Tuesday."
Be prompt on time. Renters who are late for an appointment will be late on rent. First words out of my mouth to them.
I heard some say"I will wait 5 minutes for anyone and 10 minutes for no one".I thought that was good advice.
I never did get the "always late" thing. When I was a kid entering the workforce, I was late once due to a power outage/dead backup battery alarm clock failure. That evening I had obtained a pack of new batteries, as well as a mechanical alarm clock as an extra backup. My question today is why these people don't get fired for it, like they do on TV?
I agree. I am always early for appointments, and in 33 years at my last job, I was late to work only two or three times, never actually my fault. Once when I was scheduled to go in early, I had to wait until a tornado cleared the area, that one was excused! As said before Dr. appts really tick me off! If it is not an emergency, I tell the receptionist that I will wait 1 hour past the appt. time, no more, then I will be gone when they call my name. My time means as much to me as the Doctor's is to him/her.
My wife and Daughter are what I call "fashionably late" almost every time. If I want my Daughter to be here at 1 PM, I tell her to be here at 12:30, then she will show up by 1:30. The wife had a hair appointment las week at 2:00, and made it there 25 minutes late.
Hello, my name is Al and sometimes, I'm a little late, but I do call.
One of the first jobs in getting my house built was to meet with an excavation/building contractor. I waited until he was an hour late to call to see if there was a problem. "I had a flat tire." Well, it only takes a half hour to change a tire & you're working a mile away. "No, can't be there today." What about tomorrow? " Gotta buy a new tire." It doesn't take all day to buy a tire. "Yep it does." Okay, you call me when you can be here.....He called 3 months later & was pissed that the lot was cleared & the foundation was in by other contractors.