可以給我一些ideas嗎? - 文化差異

: 由於是在佛州，有很多移民是來自中南美洲，我發現他們對時間的概念真的不一樣。

I have a funny story about concepts of time.

I have worked for a Floridian company.

From my experiences, I realized that

Americans have interesting usage about time.

For example, one of the programmers said he needs to borrow my computer

for TWO MINUTES.

I said, by two minutes you mean half an hour, right?

He paused 3 seconds, and replied, "yes."



Another time, my coworker said wait a second, but in fact, I have waited for

3-5 minutes for her....



The worst example is that

one day my boss said, could you search this item in the database for me?

I said, yes, it will take me 10 minutes to write codes to do that.

To my huge surprises, my boss started to yell at me, "NO! I AM NOT
GONNA WAIT FOR YOU FOR A WHOLE MORNING!"

LOL.

Even though Americans' expression about time is funny, they are

very time-sensitive.

My coworkers will feel very guilty if they are late to work.

So make sure whether they said 10AM sharp or not.

Sharp means on time. =D

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