7 ms·
> With flooring, if you see 13:00 you know you are late I always though that you are late from 13:01. Common these days with Teams meetings etc. It seems most
by mongol 2y ago
> With flooring, if you see 13:00 you know you are late
I always though that you are late from 13:01. Common these days with Teams meetings etc. It seems most people join during the minute from 13:00 to 13:01.
- flerchin 2y agoI tell my kids this aphorism: Early is on-time. On-time is late.
- anal_reactor 2y agoEarly is on-time. On-time is late. Late is how most people behave.
- mikenew 2y agoShowing up early just makes other people feel like they did something wrong by showing up on time.
- synecdoche 2y agoIt could be argued that people can’t be made to feel anything, apart from pain. How people react, on the other hand, may be quite different.
- recursive 2y agoTrue. Probably wouldn't be a very good argument though.
- flerchin 2y agoOther people's feelings about a dimension don't change the dimension.
- lxgr 2y agoIn a social context, almost everything some people do changes how other people feel.
- mongol 2y agoThis makes a lot of sense. But where it really matters, say train departure times, are there rules that the doors are closing precisly at X seconds? Or is it arbitrary?
- flerchin 2y agoWon't be a problem if you're there on-time.
- oniony 2y agoIn the UK the doors close 30 seconds before the advertised departure time.
- 1718627440 2y agoWhat is specified is the actual departure time of the train. Before that it has to be decided to start closing the doors, the doors must be closing, the secure closure must be determined by the train leader and the train leader has to order the train driver to start driving. How long that takes depends on the train. For short-distance trains it's ~15seconds for long-distance ~1minute.
- pests 2y agoDepends on the power dynamic and the goals for the meeting, and what position you hold, no?
- flerchin 2y agoNo it does not. Time is not a dimension that changes depending upon power dynamic.
- lxgr 2y agoTime isn't, but punctuality, as a social as opposed to physical phenomenon, most certainly is.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoIt's disrespectful to be late no matter the power dynamic. In some power dynamics, it's okay to be disrespectful, though.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- ninalanyon 2y agoIf the social group in question regards 13:00 as meaning between 13:00 and 13:10 then arriving at 13:05 is arriving on time and no one is bothered or inconvenienced. Being late is not simply a property of the clock time but also of the society you are part of. In England arriving early for a dinner party is going to get you at least a dirty look, arriving half an hour late just means that you might miss a pre-dinner drink. In Norway, if you are ten minutes late the host might send out a search party.
- pclmulqdq 2y ago"Late" here means "arriving after the social expectation." In many places in the Americas, you can be (and are expected to be) an hour "late" for a party of any kind. That doesn't mean you are late. In a Western business context, "late" comes about 1-2 minutes after the meeting starts.
- andix 2y agoThis vastly depends on culture and context. We consider it impolite, if you show up for an invitation at someone’s home before the time you were invited for. Many would say it is even impolite to show up less then 5 minutes late, and consider being 10-15 minutes late the best, and up to 30-45 minutes acceptable. For a business appointment or doctor's appointment, where there is an assistant that opens the door and a waiting area, it's expected to be early, so that you are already in front of the correct room when the appointment starts.
- pknomad 2y agoI have a funny anecdote. I don't know if it's a Korean thing or my mom-specific thing but she had very strong opinion about being early. For her 15 minutes early == on time. To reinforce this notion, she would set the house clocks later by some random undetermined minutes. The clocks in her home would all differ slightly so you could never tell what time it actually was unless you looked at your phone but you'd know you're little bit early to things for sure. Good times.
- anonym29 2y agoShe didn't by chance serve in the military or a civil auxiliary branch, did she? "Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable" was drilled into me while doing Civil Air Patrol back in secondary school (high school) and I habitually set all my clocks 5 minutes ahead, still, to this day.
- pknomad 2y agoShe did not, but I would not be surprised if she picked it up for my granddad (he was in the UDU - precursor to the now ROK UDT/Flotilla).
- hammock 2y agoIt’s an aphorism
- 2y ago
- xoxxala 2y agoWe always taught our kids that if you’re not five minutes early, you’re late. One boy took it to heart and is very prompt. The other, eh, not so much. He was almost late to his own wedding.
- andix 2y agoTechnically speaking you can’t be late to your own wedding. If you’re not there, it isn’t your wedding. ;)
- andy800 2y agoIsn't this phrase commonly known (in USA) as Lombardi Time?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- viraptor 2y agoBecause of how lots of reminders work. There isn't even a good way to tell Google calendar to always notify 1 minute before events - I had to do it through slack integration. So instead the reminder usually tells you a meeting will be in 15min which quite often is a useless information. Then the app tells you the meeting started right now and you still need a few seconds to wrap things up and prepare.
- vel0city 2y ago> There isn't even a good way to tell Google calendar to always notify 1 minute before events It's on the calendar settings. Settings for my calendars > Event Notifications. You can set 5 default notification options for all events created on that calendar.
- quesera 2y agoMultiple notifications are a great feature. I use two: "10 minutes before" and "1 minute before". Because 10 minutes is just enough to wrap up something I'm in the middle of, and simultaneously, 10 minutes is well past long enough to get distracted if I'm not already deep in the middle of something. :)
- usr1106 2y agoNeed to check that when I am at my desk. I use 10 minutes and then remind me again in 5 minutes. Which isn't working all too well. If I miss the the first one by a minute, the second one comes 1 minute after the meeting started. So I'll join 2 minutes late. And in our company we take proud in not starting late.
- cbolton 2y agoSeems like there are important cultural differences in how appointment times are understood. Last week I was talking to a friend living in the Comoros, who mentioned that for them 13:59 is still 13:00 for this purpose.
- lgrapenthin 2y agoSo they ignore minutes entirely and just live in hours?
- cbolton 2y agoAs I understand, they're less stressed about having things at precise points in time and are fine with waiting. I guess they would say something like "13 zero zero" when necessary...
- falcor84 2y agoI have friends who treat dinner party invitation times in this manner
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- yzydserd 2y agoI live by joining before :58 if presenter :59 if core :00 if contributor :01 if observer Many colleagues seem to +:01 this.
- Kiro 2y agoI'm usually early but I watch the preview until there are at least two other people in the call, then I join. I suspect many other do the same which sometimes results in implicit standoffs.
- ForOldHack 2y agoMost people are not clear on two concepts: Be prepared, and on time is late. Both of these are not math skills, they are leadership skills. Its rather easy to establish a beat, and set two clocks to one clock ( seminar program clocks to USNO standard time, ). After a few hours, even the most inexpensive digital clocks will not vary a second, usually it takes a full day to drift that far. Its quite uncommon for everyone to be ready, alert and available on time, even in integrity conversations.