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Tardiness is the habit of being late or delaying arrival. [1] Being late as a form of misconduct may be formally punishable in various arrangements, such as workplace, school, etc. An opposite personality trait is punctuality.
I was recently terminated from my job because I was late. I did not give an excuse or a reason for my lateness. I called before my shift was scheduled to alert a manager of my lateness & nobody ...
I write about time management a lot. I'm also one of those comically punctual people who don't get the idea of social lateness. If you invite me to a party at 8 ... I'll probably be there at 8.
In cultures that value punctuality, being late is seen as disrespectful of others' time and may be considered insulting. In such cases, punctuality may be enforced by social penalties, for example by excluding low-status latecomers from meetings entirely.
How to write a letter of explanation. There’s no need to panic if a lender requests a letter of explanation: It’s a common part of being granted conditional approval for the loan. Still, it ...
According to NPR's podcast Code Switch, the phrase has variations in many other languages and cultures, is often used as a light-hearted comment or joke regarding being late, and may have first been used in 1914 by The Chicago Defender newspaper. [10]
While 70% of boomers have zero tolerance for any level of tardiness, in Gen Z’s eyes, 10 minutes late is still on time—explaining the friction between the two generations at work.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are ...