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legendary_zell posted...

A meeting that starts at 9 will have people show up at 9:30, and that's just fine. No one feels disrespected, it's a built in assumption when the meeting is made. Life moves at a different pace. Relationships are more important than punctuality.

uh, what about meetings that last an hour or less? or dinner reservations where the group can't be seated/served until everyone arrives?

i feel like there is some splitting of hairs here--i think it would make sense to be a uniquely white thing to be annoyed by someone being <5min late for a >1h event

but when the lateness gap is a large fraction of the event, there is definitely a crossover into rudeness

the cultural difference seems to be where that crossover point is, not whether it exists

averagejoel posted...

that's more a function of capitalism demanding productivity at the expense of everything else and ingraining that mindset on (or at least attempting to pass it on) to everyone who lives within the system

to be fair it passes it on to them via incentives, not osmosis

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