Time is slipping away…
Everyone in the office I spend my afternoons at is under the strange delusion that it is 15 minutes further into the future than it really is. Every timepiece here is at least 15 minutes fast. I’ve been trying to remedy this. I’ve gone to time.gov every time I sit at a computer and I reset the clock on the system to the actual time. Unfortunately, somehow it keeps getting changed back, so I never know if the computer is telling me the real time or the future time.
This became a real issue the other day when someone told me to pull them out of a meeting at 4:45. I was faced with a dilemma: do I tell them when it is 4:45 according to every clock in here or do I tell them when it is really 4:45? If I told them the actual time, they could get upset with me when they look at a clock in the office that says 5:00. But if I told them the fake time, they’d get down to their car and realize it was only 4:30.
Luckily, the meeting ended early.
The clock here reads “5:58 pm” as I post this.
it’s 4:45 somewhere in the world…pull them out at your leisure.
and get an ntp client so your clock will be in sync with the real time.
maybe you’re in some place where time actually slows down. and when you leave work, you’re younger than when you first showed up to work. by the time friday comes around, you’ll swear it’ll feel like a monday.
who wouldn’t want to be pulled out of a meeting as soon as possible? most meetings suck.
Why not switch to internet time, or swatch time…? That way no-one will ever know what time your at… probably including yourself mind you..
Reminds me of one of the best lines heard in a meeting, when the time dragged… "Ok, who unplugged the clocks?"
No matter the situation, time is a bear to keep track of.
bars intentionaly use the same trick to get the drunks out at closing time.
are the employees drunk?
Not related to post: Little Fluffy Clouds in your playlist. Nice.
I was reading this and laughing my a$$ off because my office is the same way – only in reverse. On my first day I was 15 minutes LATE to my first meeting — because no one bothered to tell me the clocks always run 15 minutes behind. Every morning I reset the system clock too — but by the end of the day, it’s lost that 15 minutes again. REALLY annoying. Grrrrr.
There are lots of us out there in a time warp — join the club