A *heh* Timely Poll

[packbat]

Naming no names, of course.

Edit: And greetings to all the peeps from the_zaniak chiming in!

Edit #2: And thequestionclub! (Wow, that's a lot of people.)

[Poll #1166935]

Comments

[musicluvr325.livejournal.com]

One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone is late. Past 5 minutes without a call to me, I'm a bit pissed.

[obfuscate.livejournal.com]

Seriously. My boyfriend was an hour late once and didn't call and when we finally talked about it he said, "Okay, when do I need to call? If I'm 15 minutes late?" And I said YES OF COURSE, and he was all astounded that fifteen minutes would warrant a phone call and then I stabbed him.

Not that last part.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Good to know.

[kinkakinka.livejournal.com]

YES. I hate lateness.

[photogfrog.livejournal.com]

HELL YES. Bitches. BE ON TIME.

[oneminutecloser.livejournal.com]

Haha, some of these answers. Apparently 10 minutes late can be "on time" and it's only until an hour and a half later that you are "excessively late."

[packbat.livejournal.com]

There's a reason why I ran the poll out that far. :)

[mumblestutter.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends. I answered the poll as if we were talking about a job here...you shouldn't ever be more than 5 minutes late for a job, and even that's pushing it. But 5 minutes late to meet your friend for coffee? That's still on time. Even 10 minutes late to that isn't egregious.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Right - I probably should have made the question less ambiguous. I was thinking more along the lines of the coffee thing.

[likelesliecaron.livejournal.com]

And I answered it as if we were talking about a social setting...my job rules regarding time are much stricter.

[wateringcan.livejournal.com]

it depends on the situation but mine is thinking about uni, if it was work i wouldn't want to be anything out of 5 minutes early to on time

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Sehr gut!

[kitsunecub.livejournal.com]

if you're not 5 min early, you're late

[packbat.livejournal.com]

That's certainly how I schedule my day. :)

[andalusi.livejournal.com]

In a professional setting in the US, I try to be there early, but I don't consider it late if I get there a minute or two beforehand.

In an informal setting, being up to 15 minutes late isn't a big deal. More than that and I'd call as soon as I thought I was going to be more than a few minutes late. But if it's a friend who's really uptight about punctuality, I'll do my best to be there on time.

But seriously, this country is so hung up on being early to everything. I like it when I'm in places who aren't so wound up about time.

[andalusi.livejournal.com]

"Places that," even, or better yet, "places with people who."

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I think it's a Red Queen's Race thing - once we had mechanization and efficiency experts and foremen, it al started running further and further into the time-is-expensive end. And then, a century later, here we are, bragging about how little sleep we get at night. :/

[obfuscate.livejournal.com]

I consider it disrespectful. It shows me that you (you being the late person) do not value my time, and if you don't value my time, you don't value me. I don't think it's an irrational issue of being "wound up" about time so much as understanding that being on time is a commitment that's important to honor.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

That does seem to be a common pattern.

(Two and a half hours?)

[sheisred.livejournal.com]

I'll wait 15 minutes for anyone, 20 minutes for a friend. After that, you'd better have a good excuse, or you're being an inconsiderate jerk. After 30 minutes, I'm leaving.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the data!

(I like how everyone is so focused on lateness. What about the early end? :P )

[boyracer1211.livejournal.com]

As a rule, I aim to show up 10 minutes early to anything except family gatherings. My family is late to everything, so I just add an hour to agreed upon meeting times for them.

I also hate when people are late though. It's a personal pet peeve; I consider it incredibly rude to make people wait.

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

if there's one thing i learned from being in marching band in high school, it is that IF YOU ARE EARLY, YOU ARE ON TIME. IF YOU ARE ON TIME, YOU ARE LATE.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Ha ha!

[behka.livejournal.com]

being too early is far, far less of an offense than being late. late is a violation of an agreed time to meet - meanwhile being early is just, being ready before the other person/people are.

i desperately hate when a person cannot be punctual. early is good, late brings the anger.