on time is like, are your shirt & pants coordinated.

[neugotik]

being on time is like dressing nice. it's what, 80% impression, 20% application.

(usually it's like, show up on time to wait- I really don't buy the "respect is being on time" nor the other arguments - but I do see the whole "it's an impression - what you think of others/what they think of you") I don't want to degrade those who value

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& on trust - to timliness I can see a partial relation.

[neugotik]

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However I can agree w/your bonus points argument: trust might be a corrolating data-point. If you say you'll do something & don't - that's trust - if you say a time & aren't there, you've not kept your trust. But - they might be extremely trustworthy in other areas (such as say, keeping your secret confidences completely quiet & paying back loaned money or books, so on..) So since "trust" is such a lot of different things _ some corrolate to timliness & some are (I believe) unrelated.
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So in conclusion, I still feel respect is an unrelated (although often mistakenly corolated datapoint) to timliness.

But - trustworthiness could be partially based on & related to timliness - if there's a pattern of repetative issues esp., perhaps that person is less trustworthy about keeping their word.

They might be trustworthy in other regards but maybe not about doing what they say.

But I've studied tardiness extensively & I know some of it is due to people's other issues, like prioritization of how long things take to do, overscheduling themselves (trying to be too nice to too many) &/or even rebel or absentmindedness attitudes on life that are unrelated to the ethics of trust.

True: they said they would do something & they didn't do it "exactly right" _ they showed up, but late.

It's a partial consession *(grin)*