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Originally Posted by FngKestrel
...I had a teacher put it this way, "If you're late 10 minutes and meeting with a group of people, you're not wasting 10 minutes out the day, you're wasting 10 minutes out of every person's life at that meeting. That's 10 times the number of people." I mean, it's okay if you're going to be late, but just let us know what the deal is.
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Yeah, I had a boss tell me the same thing.
Now imagine that you are working with 120 people. All need to be in attendance. You are wasting 2 man-hours (is there a politically correct way of saying this? 'Person-hours'?) for every minute you are late. A nice round number of 10 bucks an hour is nice. That 10 minutes of yours? 200 dollars please.
I heard that there was a Fortune 500 executive (Bill Gates? I can't remember) that would immediately write you, and your company, off of the good books if he was kept waiting for one second past the appointed time. You had better show up prepared too.
/Me goes to find that story somewhere...