Being Late

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Date Submitted: 11/28/2011 02:39 PM

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So you woke up on the wrong side of the bed today because last night you couldn't get to bed for whatever reason, in your current frame of mind as you

lay there in your bed you keep making excuses for not getting up. you think to yourself oh im just going to lay here a while longer and as you keep

procrastinating by hitting the snooze button over and over again but you are oblivious about one thing, the people at work or your little sister who is

waiting for you to take her to school. When you sleep in or are late for things it shows a great deal of disrespect to other's, and these other's we talk

about are family, friends and colleagues, it tells the world that you are not diligent nor dependable and lastly it demonstrates that you are a selfish individual.

I cannot stress enough the importance of being on time, it reflects you as a person and it can give people a really bad impression.

When talking about being on time and not being late, we are just just talking about common courtesy and mannerisms that you should have learned as

a child. By you being late you are showing everyone that you just don't respect them, everything they said prior to the timing it seems to them that you

just don't care. Let's talk about the disrespect it shows your boss at your job, in your workplace your boss doesn't want to lay the hammer down and

jack you up they want to develop you so that you can be a desired attribute to the company, so as your boss puts all this time and effort trying to let

you be all you can be, you go ahead and show up 1 minute late, your boss puts countless effort into developing your professional profile and you

basically just slapped them in the face by showing up late even if its by a minute, late is late. Now when it comes to family or friends, lets say you

made plans with your sister to go eat sushi at 1200 but you don't arrive at her house until 1300, you just wasted an hour of her day just sitting around

waiting on you, she...