"There has been less tolerance for lateness because there is expectation that you have more control over your time and so you should be on time."
Said Linda Ong, chief executive officer of an L.A. consulting firm, quoted in "Punctuality Is Having a Moment/'Fashionably late' falls out of fashion after more than two years of remote work, when, for many people, there was no good reason to be tardy" (NYT).
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"There has been less tolerance for lateness because there is expectation that you have more control over your time and so you should be on time."
Oh, oh. This is gonna run headlong into black privilege. Enter stage right: racism.
"The New York Times reports on one anti-racist seminar where the instructor “expounded that white culture is obsessed with ‘mechanical time’ — clock time — and punishes students for lateness.” So being on time is white now."
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/theres-some-truth-in-those-bizarre-charts-about-whiteness/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/african-american-museum-removes-whiteness-chart-race
Being on time is a white thing, racist.
Jeebus. Next thing you know they're going to expect us to tuck our shirts into our pants by ourselves.
The superiority of CPT to WPT is a tenet of CRT.
The late David Landes wrote well about time cultures in "Revolutions in Time" and "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations."
At first glance I thought this was going to be about punctuation.
Who is this Linda Ong who can ask her employees to "act white" and be on time?
Actually I have a thing about punctuality as well. I absolutely hate being late myself, and am not fond of others who may be always late. I've got a Greek son in law who operates on "Greek Time" which is an issue with Sunday night family dinners.
OTOH while I try to be punctual (on the minute if not a minute before) I'm not going so far as to tell others that if they are not there 5 minutes before the appointed hour they are late.
It’s a codeword for white supremacists, punctuality. These dog whistles have to stop.
So, what was Jeffrey Toobin's excuse?
So, punctuality is no longer racist? Hard to keep up.
NYC mayor DeBlasio said CPT on stage with Hillary Clinton, but since he's married to a Black woman NPR said it was okay. NPR is funded by the government so I know that their opinions are always correct.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/04/13/474069083/when-it-comes-to-terms-like-colored-peoples-time-context-matters
Fact checks matter, but "context" absolves offenses as long as the transgressor is in your party. The solution to all racism, hate, and hurt feelings is, obviously, for every racist to join the Party and say whatever they want. "It was a joke among family."
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Good luck catching a connecting train/airplane when clocks don't matter. Good luck with timing that moon rocket launch having the rocket actually reach the moon. Good luck timing the intercept of missiles from Russia and China.
Next thing you know companies will expect actual performance as a factor in hiring and promotions.
"They'll have you all back in chains"- Joe B.
After Kamala, everybody is thinking about the significance of time.
The significance of time.
There is a significance to the significance of time.
Did you know about the significance of time?
It's very significant.
Well hang on, is white supremacy culture a problem or not? I've been repeatedly told that emphasizing punctuality, being "obsessed with mechanical time/clock time" and similar traits are examples of white culture being normalized and systematized as "professionalism" and that doing so is harmful if not downright dangerous.
Is that all just gone now, like sands through the hourglass? Is that concern from another...time?
My partner is big on punctuality - with her daughter. My view is that we are the generation that should be waited for. So, we are pretty much on time, and the grandsons with their GFs are, inevitably, at least a half an hour late. Find that more than hypocritical. Ok, we have less going on in our lives…
But overall, the ability to have people wait for you has long indicated power. For awhile there, FJB would be scheduled to speak at, say, 1 pm. That time would come and go. Then it would be announced that it had been moved to 3 pm. That would come and go. Then it would be announced that they had placed a Lid on his appearances. During the entire time, the WH Peres’s Corps has been waiting patiently in their seats. And, yes, when I was working, it wasn’t uncommon for bosses to expect you sitting in your chair when they walked it, but also not uncommon for them to be late.
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