All the "TIME" management

How do you feel:

• About people claiming that they are working hard; because, they are staying late in the office
• About people coming late to a meeting / party just to create a scene that they are very busy

If you feel "good" about being one among the list of people described above, this blog is not for you.

For me, the above people are a list of indecent gang [not even a group] who do not know how to manage their time.

Time - the most important commodity in life. It is a fixed asset for anybody irrespective of the age, color, sex, religion or nationality.

I dont know about the phrase "All are equal before GOD and LAW", but, i can say this : "All are equal before time".

No matter who you are, you can have only 24 hours in a day. You cannot change this irrespective of your power!!All that matters is only the way you manage this 24 hours.

Two incidents in the span of three days irritated the most about the people's general conscious on their own time and the importance they give for other's time.

Incident 1:
There was a team get together planned and everyone was expected to come at 8:00 pm. Surprisingly, that day, even the host was not leaving till 7:30 pm. Along with my two other friends, I went to the party location and there was not even a sign on party. We returned back to our room. After 30 minutes, when we went, again it was the same case. Then, we went to the host's room. They were just getting ready. Finally at 9:00 [already 1 hr late] we assembled at the party location. But, now, the big bosses [aka, managers] were not present. As usual, the party will not begin without getting the blessings of the managers. So, we waited for another 30 - 45 minutes to get the party started. Now the point is, the people who reached the party on time were simply considered "jobless" and the others as the "most sincere" and "dedicated" workers who work for the upliftment of the entire human race of the universe.

Incident 2:
The above incident is atleast among the same group of people [not involving the clients].The second incident is much worse.

The client [an Australian] had invited us for a dinner get together at 7:30 pm. He sent the meeting notice two days in advance and confirmed our availability. Today, when we opened our mail client, our calendar also popped up a remainder telling there is an appointment at 7:30 pm.It takes hardly 30 minutes to travel from the place where we stay and the restaurant, By this simple logic, i would expect to start from our place at around 7 pm. But, the person who is the only source of our transport planned to start from the starting point at 7:30 pm. When asked that it will take 30 minutes to go to the restaurant, the response was "The client should know that we are very busy and working hard" - what the hell...Adding fuel to this, one person went for shopping at 7:15 pm. We cannot leave without him and he finished his shopping at 7:45 pm. We are already late by 15 minutes. Then, we called the host and told them that we are starting from office and we will reach in 15 - 20 minutes. Unfortunately, we missed the route also and by the time we reached the restaurant, it was 8:40 pm and the clients were almost winding up [one person immediately left after we went there].

I was part of both the incidents and helpless other than to raise voice [without any proper response].

But, the question is, why do people take it for granted about their own time and about the other's time.

Being in IT industry, we do all the estimates based on person months which calculated at the rate of 8 hrs a day and 21 days in a month. But, finally when we calculate the actual time spent [not the effort put] is almost nearly 10 - 12 hrs a day and 25 days in a month [except Friday in middle-east and Sunday in rest of the world].

We keep cribbing about the clients working 5 days a week and only 8 hrs a day. But, we dont even tend to follow their methodic planning of time against each task.

I have read somewhere:
"...one who cannot manage his own time is the one who does not have self respect..."

How many of us have our "Self Respect"?

...bright