Trueness, If We're On Time, We're Late!

 

NOT because I ran out of possible thread topics BUT I'll admit I miss talking about this [as it was my favorite one-liner zillion times for the past zillion years @ our workplace].  Working in a Japanese-centric organization for close to fourteen years was very memorable in the sense that I personally gained a lot of insights and lessons from a Japan perspective, one of WHICH is time management, unmatched anywhere else in the world💚💛💜

Sadly, PUNCTUALITY is one of the least talked about victims of our instantly connected world.  And someone tells me that there has been a marked improvement in PUNCTUALITY after we got hit by the Covid-19 Pandemic?  Nooooo sirrrrrs.  I have all the facts to prove that instead of improving, things turned from bad to worse. HOW and WHY?  If during the pre-pandemic, meeting attendees will step into the meeting room JIT [just in time], in those Zoom, Teams and Google Meet calls, attendees expect magic and miracles because it's a remote call!@#$%?

You'll be surprised, despite the remote setting of those virtual calls, joiners will end up miserably late for multiple frustrating reasons LIKE:

• The device camera OR audio OR both are not working?
• MS Teams is asking HOW the caller wants to join?
• GoogleMeet program starts to update by then?
• Zoom Call credentials is incorrect OR invalid?

Funny, I did even witness some attendees dressed to the 'T' up front BUT unconscious that the camera is turned ON, in the end, revealing a NOT so 'ethical' attire 'down below

The ramifications of the decline of these most basic best practices is regretful to say the least.  The death of proper grammar has been bemoaned for years as the shorthand of tweens texting has now moved onto Twitter.  The decline of our face to face interactions have been documented and mourned as people now prefer to sit at the dinner table and tweet about the people they're with instead of being with the people they're with😄😄😄

Our takeaway:  It just adds up to our sadness that the decline and deprioritization of PUNCTUALITY has become the 'silent victim' that I, and many others operating on HST [a.k.a. Hustle Standard Time] are most acutely aware of.  Little-little lessons here that can have serious ramifications and 'domino effect' in our lives is that much as we value our time immensely and want to show respect for other's time as well as it is the only possession that we have and will never get back once it's gone.  Trueness, IF WE'RE ON TIME, WE'RE LATE!@#$%