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So I have no concept of time. It's just how my brain is wired, and not something I can help. That means that without a clock I am lost, and that I need to plan out my day very specifically. I need to know where I am going to be and for how long, how long it will take me to do certain activities, and the precise amount it takes the travel. That means that if i have something I need to do, I need to know well a head of time when and where it will be. Especially as certain activities such as eating, cleaning up, and dressing don't have set times so I can't account for them very well.
So it is a huge pet peeve when people don't establish the time of an event early, or even worse announce something last minute. If I'm supposed to do something on Tuesday and no one tells me until 5pm that it will take place at 6pm, then I won't make it on time, or at all. It's even worse if someone just messages me the day of and tells me they need me to do something in a few hours. Lately, the worst person for this is the director of the web series I was working on. Thankfully we are finally finished recording.
He initially gave us a tentative schedule of when and where we were recording. As it was tentative it wasn't totally accurate, but was unemployed when we started it was not a huge deal. However, once i started working it was very hard to juggle both activities. Especially when he, or whoever was announcing the rehearsal/recording, would not announce until maybe noon that day that we were recording at 5pm on a Friday. Which mean if I ended up seeing the message in the facebook group on time, I would have 4 hours to get organized. More often than not, I tended to be very late (sometimes by an hour) for these sessions, as I usually only ended up getting the message at 3pm, and to be on time I'd need to leave by 4. The worst instance of this was the second last day of recording. It was a Friday and I needed to work until 2pm and then I had a party to attend at 9:30pm. Having heard NOTHING about recording that day, I made up my personal daily schedule. Then at about 9am someone in the group announced we were, in fact, recording that evening at 5pm. Which gave me no time to prepare my supplies for the recording before work, plus i had to sort about 5 hours of errands and the like into 2 hours. I was obviously late, and everyone was annoyed.
It just drives me nuts. How the hell is someone supposed to get ready for something when they get such last minute instructions? I've experienced this with group projects, helping friends with activities, and going out. I'm not big on having plans, as once my day is scheduled I have to stick to it, but if there is a plan i need to know early, and we need to stick to it. Otherwise, my day goes to chaos, or I seem flighty.
I'm also really hate when someone tells you to be ready for a certain time and then are early or late. Like if they say they will meet you at 10pm and arrived at 9:15 or 10:30 or something to that affect.
I'm fine with doing spontaneous things with friends if i have the free time, but not mandatory activities last minute. If there is a plan, it needs to be established AT LEAST the day before (approx 24 hours, not 12 hours) and then it has to be stuck to.
So it is a huge pet peeve when people don't establish the time of an event early, or even worse announce something last minute. If I'm supposed to do something on Tuesday and no one tells me until 5pm that it will take place at 6pm, then I won't make it on time, or at all. It's even worse if someone just messages me the day of and tells me they need me to do something in a few hours. Lately, the worst person for this is the director of the web series I was working on. Thankfully we are finally finished recording.
He initially gave us a tentative schedule of when and where we were recording. As it was tentative it wasn't totally accurate, but was unemployed when we started it was not a huge deal. However, once i started working it was very hard to juggle both activities. Especially when he, or whoever was announcing the rehearsal/recording, would not announce until maybe noon that day that we were recording at 5pm on a Friday. Which mean if I ended up seeing the message in the facebook group on time, I would have 4 hours to get organized. More often than not, I tended to be very late (sometimes by an hour) for these sessions, as I usually only ended up getting the message at 3pm, and to be on time I'd need to leave by 4. The worst instance of this was the second last day of recording. It was a Friday and I needed to work until 2pm and then I had a party to attend at 9:30pm. Having heard NOTHING about recording that day, I made up my personal daily schedule. Then at about 9am someone in the group announced we were, in fact, recording that evening at 5pm. Which gave me no time to prepare my supplies for the recording before work, plus i had to sort about 5 hours of errands and the like into 2 hours. I was obviously late, and everyone was annoyed.
It just drives me nuts. How the hell is someone supposed to get ready for something when they get such last minute instructions? I've experienced this with group projects, helping friends with activities, and going out. I'm not big on having plans, as once my day is scheduled I have to stick to it, but if there is a plan i need to know early, and we need to stick to it. Otherwise, my day goes to chaos, or I seem flighty.
I'm also really hate when someone tells you to be ready for a certain time and then are early or late. Like if they say they will meet you at 10pm and arrived at 9:15 or 10:30 or something to that affect.
I'm fine with doing spontaneous things with friends if i have the free time, but not mandatory activities last minute. If there is a plan, it needs to be established AT LEAST the day before (approx 24 hours, not 12 hours) and then it has to be stuck to.
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