re: Is timeliness no longer valued at all?

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ETA: I'll add the anecdote that precipitated this. Fiancé has a friend struggling to find a job. I have a childhood neighbor my parents are great friends with who is a massive figure in international law. State department connections, judicial connections, managing partner at a massive international law firm. This is right in this girls wheelhouse for what she wants to do. We set up a dinner at my house (which we were going to travel into town for) so they can meet. Well she cancels the day of because she made casual dinner plans with another friend instead. Totally bails, but says she'd like to still do a zoom meeting with the connection. Me and my dad basically just say "not happening, you blew it". My mom has a huge 10 person dinner she's been cooking all day for this as we were coming in, the lawyer and his wife, plus others, now will basically totally go to waste.

Just all around so infuriating that people are so flaky and irresponsible, even for things like this which would have massively been in her own self interest to make it there.

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