Late/On time

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Originally Posted by huggles

me too!!

My father is a late person so I grew up being late for a lot of things. I hated it and was often embarrassed by it.
I am 99% of the time early (sometimes very early) and if I am going to be late I contact the person if possible.
Well I'm 99% of the time early because my dad liked arriving early! It's other members of my family who seem to make a habit of being late. My sis can leave for a function 15 minutes late and arrive 5 minutes early.
 

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I have a terrible sense of time...I just can't judge it well. I am late most days for work, but end up working close to 8-1/2 hours a day, so my boss doesn't mind. I don't think I have ever been on time in my life...if there is something important, I can arrive 10 minutes early, but just can't do on time.

I am never hours late...that is terrible. Other people being late doesn't bother me...its the people who are stressed by my being late who cause me anxiety! LOL!
 

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I am either 15 minutes early or 15 minutes late... never on time

I dont mind if another is late as long as I know about it
 

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I think its rude to be late when there is an actual SET TIME; however, there are social gatherings when the time is set "around 6:30." To me, that means between somewhere 6:15 and 6:45. I can't stand getting a call at 6:31 asking where I am.

Also, when I invite people over, I really don't want them being more than 15 minutes early. I'm usually cleaning up something or setting something out that I planned to have done before anyone arrived.
 
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Originally Posted by Rockcat

Also, when I invite people over, I really don't want them being more than 15 minutes early. I'm usually cleaning up something or setting something out that I planned to have done before anyone arrived.
I always come early to good friends house to help cleaning up and setting up and stay late to clean up and take down.
 

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when I'm going somewhere to a party or something, I need to be late, but I have to fight my nature to do that, but I hate being the first one anywhere.

At work I'm not permitted to be late, but never have been anyway (knock on wood)...
 

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Originally Posted by Phenomsmom

I always come early to good friends house to help cleaning up and setting up and stay late to clean up and take down.
If arrangements were made prior to help that would be great, but if someone came by unexpectedly offering to help, I would have a hard time putting them to work. I am not a good team player when it comes to my kitchen.

Staying late to help clean up... Yeah! I'm all for that.
 

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I was born 2 weeks late and have been late ever since! I hate that I'm late all the time, it's just really hard to get motivated sometimes to get going, and there always seems to be "just one more thing" I have to do before I go, so it makes me late a lot. Having pets makes it unpredicatable sometimes too, cuz if I'm getting ready for work and wake up to a mess I have to clean up, well, there goes being on time that morning! BUT, my New Year's resolution was to stop procrastinating, so I have been getting better at getting things done so I don't have to rush and do them, and I'm on time more often.
 

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Unless I get caught in freakish traffic, I'm usually about 10 minutes early. And if I'm going to be late, I call ahead.

I got caught behind an accident once (along a road with no turnoffs), so I called the salon to tell them that I was a bit hung up, and would be 5 minutes late. They couldn't understand why I was calling.

I hate late people. I see agreed-upon times as a time when both people agree to already be where they say. I especially hate people who say stuff like "I must have hit every red light on the way here". Like it's never happened before. I always estimate the worst possible driving conditions before I set out. Yes, sometimes I get there very early, but that's what the sudoku book in my purse is for.

Car troubles or being stuck behind an accident or something completely unplannable like that is excusable, but otherwise, late people really bother me. Probably because my mother is *always* late, and never calls ahead. "We'll be at the resturaunt by 6:00" generally means something like "give them our name at 6:10, and by the time they call our name, we'll probably be there".
 

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I HATE it when clients are late, and then still expect their full hour. This will either make my next client starting late, or if they are getting another service, it will muck up the schedule of the person performing that service. One late client early in the day can throw off the entire salon schedule.
I am one of those people that would rather be an hour early that a minute late.
 

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In my family being late is a way of life. If you're on time, you're considered early.
Work, of course, is a different story. We just switched over to a new time clock system where you stick your hand into this thing that scans your handprint to punch in and out. No more cheating on attendance!
I drive the company truck, and punctuality is important, but I sometimes can't help getting stuck in traffic, so my vendors and customers have to cut me a little slack. What really annoys me is when someone in production, QA or shipping is late getting an order ready and I have to wait for it, then I have to hurry to deliver it before the customer closes for the day. Fortunately, most of my customers are very understanding.
 

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I put `late people don't bother me' but I have to qualify. ONLY if it's a one-off thing, or not often. People who are consistently, always late make me really angry. I think it is just super-selfish. Sometimes it can't be helped, sure, but EVERY time?
 

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I arrive at work at least 45 minutes prior to starting. I work 12:30-9pm, so I go to the cafeteria to have lunch with my friends who work the earlier shifts. At my job, if you are habitually tardy, you won't have a job for very long. They are very strict about it.

By being early, you are not as rushed, thereby more relaxed.

I hate being late anywhere and I do not like it that people stroll in to a party very late and expect the host to cater to them. If they arrive after the meal is over, then don't expect to be fed.
 

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Originally Posted by Leto86

I don't care if other people are late, thats their problem.. unless it affects me then I don't care.

Like on Tuesday.. I was the first one in the classroom, 10 minutes before we even had to be in there.. but then half the class came in 10 mins late, so she marked us all late.
I have never been late, not once.
It wasn't fair of the instructor to mark all of you late. I would go to her and state that you were not late and you would appreciate it if she would mark that you were on time.
 

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Originally Posted by rapunzel47

I can handle people being late, if they call to let me know. What I have difficulty with is people who just never show up on time, and never let you know what's up. THAT is disrespectful. Delays happen, we can't help that, and as long as I know you're going to be late, I can adjust and make use of the time, at least up to a point.


I'm always early also. Never been late for work.
 

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Late doesn't usually bother me unless I am going somewhere or doing something on a schedule. Especially if it's a few minutes. Five or 10 minutes out of my day is not worth getting mad about; life happens. As for work, if I'm counting on a coworker to be there so that I can do my job, his lateness could be annoying, but if I'm not, it's none of my business.
 
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