A rant on time*
I admit. I am a bit of a time freak. At least when it is regarding business/job matters. On social scale, I am more relaxed. But for me, a 4pm job meeting is a 3.55pm job meeting, not 6 minutes later. And here in Peru is quite difficult. Our society/culture considers it normal to be 45 minutes late for everything.
Sigh.
This week I have seen to sad examples, two of them related to very important people. One arrived 45 minutes late to his meeting, the other one started 45 minutes late his presentation. Is that the image their organizations want? I don’t think so. These people have made a terrible impression, and it won’t be easy for them to correct it. This is what I consider a stupid mistake.
Most of my life I have worked on costumer support and one thing that I always say is that at the support warfront, there is no margin for stupid mistakes. Why? Because, if you have a costumer in front of you (and not in a very nice mood) is because there has been a chain of stupid mistakes or errors from different people related to your organization and now you are the one that has to fix them. You become the suppose-to-be-hero.
At Liftport we have 13 years (+ or -) to build the biggest structure in the history of mankind. Because of it we can’t make stupid mistakes. We are going to make a lot of errors because thank to god we are not perfects (life would be very boring), but we can’t afford to arrive late to anything. Not with that time limit.
Nowadays, thirteen years can pass very, very quickly. We must never forget about it.
*This entry was originally posted in Liftport’s blog.