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Originally Posted by dsvick
Most people set their clocks a few minutes ahead so that they think they are late and will move faster and get places on time. A good friend of mine had the best idea ever, he set all of his clocks backwards five minutes so he was never stressed about being late for something!
I'd go for that, there is so little daylight in the winter it isn't worth the effort anyway  |
Your friend was a genius! Here I set my clocks 15 minutes late so I am surprised when people are only 15 minutes late, the rule of thumb here seems to be "If I
get to the meeting, I am on time. We call it Malaysian time, when I set up meetings, I always tell people to be there on time, if they are late I fine them RM1/minute (.30 USD) and I tell them that the meeting is 15 minutes before I plan on arriving. I used to have a "Tip" jar that actually paid for all my drinks at the end of the year. I have had meetings where if we were in Canada I would have just fired the people that were always late, I wasn't allowed to do that so I quit
Now my company only has one employee and I'd love to fire him almost every day, he is so lazy, but I can't fire myself.
People here have no respect for your time, but if you make them wait they get very pissed off. My personal rule is that if I am going to be late, I will arrange to reschedule the meeting. I have only had to reschedule 1 meeting and that was becaus the roads were flooded with 3 feet of water and I didn't have a boat.