Name: [ No response] Let’s try that again, shall we. Name: [ Still no response] HELLO?! Is there anybody there? One last time. Name: Time optimism.
AGE: Calm down bro, I’m 19. A, I’m not your bro. And B, you’re late.
Hardly! Look, it’s 10 past pass notes. Guess what, pass notes starts at pass notes o’clock! Yeah, well, who’s counting? I am. OK, boomer.
OK, zoomer! I imagine that is why you’re late, because you’re young? Correctamundo. Plain English, please. OK.
There’s a survey by a company called Meeting Canary. What do es it do, pet dating? No, it helps host meetings online. And in the survey, of 1,016 British adults of varying age, nearly half – 46% – of gen Z workers (aged 16 to 26) said that showing up between five and 10 minutes late is fine .
The founder, Laura van Beers, said: “It appears that being 10 minutes late is now the equivalent of being on time.” Well, I say it’s bloody rude. No surprise there.
Just 20% of baby boomers (aged 59 and over) forgive friends or colleagues for being up to 10 minutes late. And 69% say it’s not acceptable to be late. What about the people in between us, age-wise? Intolerance for tardiness increases proportionally with age.
Or lateness (and rudeness) decreases proportionally with age. I guess that’s another way of looking at it. Anyway, 39% of millennials (aged 27 to 42) forgive friends and colleagues for being up to 10 minutes late.
Gen X? It drops to 26% for the 43 to 58-year-old. What about generat.
