Thread: habitual tardiness...

I was thinking this morning as I was waiting for my wife to move out of my way so that I could prepair my breakfast. I spent half my life waiting to find the woman of my dreams and now that we are married I am spending the other half of my life waiting for her.

Originally Posted by Jeltz

I'm a (real) estate agent in the UK, I allocate 30 minutes to show a "normal" house. People are frequently late less than 10 minutes isn't a big deal to me, if it gets to 12 minutes I ring them if I get no answer and its 15 minutes then I go as the odds are they aren't coming and couldn't be bothered to let me know which happens about 5% of the time.

The people that annoy me are the ones that I ring and they say "we're nearly there" and pitch up 20 minutes late and get narky when you tell them that it will have to be brief showing as I have another appointment after. I generally say that it would be very rude of me to keep my next appointment waiting.....

Some very arrogant people recently keeping me waiting for half an hour as they had to stop off for a latte and a cake instead of coming to the appointment. They saw several houses with us and were always very late without apology, they did want to buy one eventually which the owner had shown. It is an interesting house and we had 2 potential buyers both in similar situations, I discussed matters with the owner and suggested that people with lower levels of consideration towards others tend to be less reliable buyers so we chose to go with the others. As far as I know they are still looking.

Our real estate agent is was ignorantly late for every meeting we had, we will never use her again. If I didnt luck out and find the house power of sale and view/purchase it that day, I wouldnt have used her at all. We had let our previous agent go for the same reason.
We would use you if you were in the continent lol

If it is your business to provide a service/schedule a time to meet you better be there! Not 5, 10 minutes late - 5, 10 minutes EARLY!
I would never EVER show up late to a meeting with a client, unless there was a natural disaster or medical emergency.
There is only one reason IMO that is a pass for being late, being the mother of young children. But they seem to have their $hit together better than most.

Well. Here in states the commis is about 6%,so If I was an agent selling a 2 mil, house,for 120 grand commis., potential buyers can be as late as they want

My friends know me for being late so I like to screw with their heads by being early. Lucky they can take a joke.

A learned man once told me people who choose to be habitually late have a deep rooted problem with authority. It is passive aggressive as it initially manifests but inevitably results in their frequent failures with relationships, careers, and health.

Over the years I have witnessed the truth of his point many times.

I haven't read the entire thread, but I have a problem with lateness. I try really hard, and for the most part I'm on time for work and things like that (its become a paranoia) but if I have lots of time, I'll leave, have no traffic, and have lots of time to wait. but if I have just enough time to get some where, I'll have wrong directions, traffic will suck, or something will happen to make me late. still my fault, but that's just the way life is. I'm also notoriously bad at estimating how long it will take to get somewhere. so I'll usually be later than I tell people. its a curse.