What Your Watch Is Saying About You

I alluded earlier that I’ve switched jobs recently. I am still working in the construction field, but I am working for a commercial construction company again instead of a company where my focus was on residential work.

I’m not quite ready to go in to a whole lot of details just yet, but one of the major reasons I was ready for a change after almost three years was that I got to the point where I did not respect the owner of the company. If it was some large corporation where I was a sort of anonymous cog in the system it may be tollerable. But our office had six people in it, so we all had close contact with each other.

I found a link that touches on a large reason for my lack of resepect for him… I felt he showed a HUGE lack of respect for others by always being late.

Dustin Wax over at Stepcase Lifehack wrote up a pretty nice article on why Punctuality Counts;

People are busy — too busy to be waiting on you while their other work goes unfinished. Being punctual shows, clearly and truly, that you value their time and, by extension, that you value them as a person. It says, “Let’s make this time we’ve arranged as productive as possible so we can both get on with all our other important stuff.”

This was a key thing for me. And in his case, it was not just a matter of a few minutes here and there. Consistently he would be 20-30 or more minutes late, and at time would leave others in our office waiting for hours, breaking appointments, often without even the courtesy of a phone call.

So… read this article, and hopefully you don’t see anything of yourself in there.

Punctuality Counts [Stepcase Lifehack]
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