[Night Hides Not]

If there's one thing I despise, it's being late. I'm not perfect, but I recall the absolute necessity of making your mission time. It was simple in the Army: miss your mission time, somebody's going to get killed.

In my previous post, on the second day of that evaluation, a platoon missed his morning mission time by 30 minutes. The entire battery could have, should have, been flunked over that one misstep. Rarely have I ever had "a case of the jaws" that did not let up for nearly two days.

[ClearCase_guy]

I agree. Things are a bit more forgiving in a corporate or political setting, but the principle is the same:

"I'm sorry, but I have to end our conversation -- I need to be conference room 347 in exactly 2 minutes. I'm not the kind of person who keeps people waiting. We can talk more later. Good-bye."

It's not hard.

But if you stay in the lobby and let some guy talk your ear off while people are waiting for you in conference room 347, then you are showing no respect for them. It's bad.