5 Minutes Early Is on Time; on Time Is Late; Late Is Unacceptable (2015)

The author may have a point if we adjust for hyperbole, but he comes off as neurotic when he says, among other things:

>"Being late bothers me so much that just thinking about it makes me queasy. My being late, which does occasionally happen, usually causes me to break out into a nervous sweat. The later I am, the more it looks like I’ve sprung a leak. Catch me more than 15 minutes late and it looks like I went swimming."

I'm a person who is always on time, so I get his frustration, but this tirade (referring to the article as a whole, not just that quote) isn't a good look.

If you need to target an earlier time than what is designated in order to offset the risk of not making it, so be it, but that's on you. Being on time is not being late, it is very much on time.

I prefer the version an old work colleague had on a poster in his office:

If you're early, you're on time.

If you're on time, you're late.

If you're late, you're fired.