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Well, sure. My point is that showing up "on time" to an appointment and THEN making sure your tools work is backwards. No one says "I was on time except for n
by goatherders 7y ago
Well, sure. My point is that showing up "on time" to an appointment and THEN making sure your tools work is backwards. No one says "I was on time except for needing to park, walk in, turn on the lights and sit down".
- wpietri 7y agoAnd I'm saying that if everybody is using unreliable tools, especially mandated ones, then it's not particularly backwards. E.g., during a consulting gig in Manhattan, it was not uncommon for a subway failure to cause the majority of people to be late for the first meeting of the day. Similarly, I've seen a few companies where it's just assumed that a 9:00 meeting really starts at 9:05, so everybody has time to travel from their last meeting. I think the videoconference nonsense is effectively the same. It doesn't really matter if you designate 8:57-9:00 as your "make sure your tools work" time or 9:00-9:03. It just matters that everybody has the same expectation.