Importance of Being on Time

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The Importance of Being on Time Time is a reality of life that is utterly inescapable . Like God , it is omnipresent as no matter what a person does time will always run out for things to be done and tasks to be finished . The factory worker in a tire factory will always have to make sure that he reaches the production quota set by management , lest he be fired from the company The lawyer will have to ensure that he finishes the entire research of the pleading in a civil rights case , lest he be scolded by the judge and compromise the case of his client . The student will have to wake up early , lest he be late for school and earn the ire of the school administrators for tardiness . The investment banker of Morgan Stanley will lose his clients to other investment banks if he misses the train for canoodling with his wife before leaving home . In all of these examples , a major contributing factor for all of their actions is being on time . However , like God , time is also one of the most underestimated things in life , taken for granted as though it is never important . This aims to justify the importance of being on time as part of the daily life of persons and even society . There are three reasons why being on time is important - efficiency and productivity (missed opportunities , and cordial respect to peers and superiors Efficiency and Productivity Being on time is actually an economic decision which is based on the concept of maximization of scarce resources in the least possible amount of time . In a given time frame for production , an hour for example being late for a few minutes is already tantamount to a lessening of the production output for an entire hour because those few minutes of lateness were spent on idle work unrelated to the production at hand such as being in transit . For example , if a female textile worker in China arrived five minutes
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