re: Is timeliness no longer valued at all?

I’ve been in the same industry (advertising/marketing) since the Clinton administration. I haven’t noticed any difference in meeting punctuality. There are infinitely more meetings now and it’s a wonder productivity hasn’t nosedived. (thank you, zoom).

People dress a lot more casually, “slumming it” by 90s standards, and mainly since the pandemic.

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I will gladly burn a minute of a coworkers time to save ten of my own

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Why wouldn't you learn how to do the task yourself so you never had to ask again?

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I can only speak for myself but if I were your patient and you started that shite with me one of us is going to need a damned doctor for certain...and the police

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What a trashy, worthless piece of shite.

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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.

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I bet you $2500 she did this via text message

It takes so little to stand out from the crowd now. Pathetically, just showing up for work on time (or at all) consistently is enough to make you an above-average worker these days.

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Frigging nobody shows up to meeting on time at work anymore

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Because most meetings are just invented by morons just trying to justify their existence. If everyone is doing their job there should be minimal meetings.

The person I fired this week showed up to the meeting late. It was annoyingly predictable but also kind of perfect since it eliminated the inkling of sympathy/guilt I typically feel in those meetings.

Punctuality almost gives you an edge these days. It's sad.

Hire ex military. It's beaten in their brain to be where they are supposed to be ten minutes before they're supposed to be there.

I have some IN GENERAL comments which don't apply to OP's situation.

IN GENERAL, there is a two-way disrespect between employer and employee when it comes to time. My experience is that employers were the ones disrespecting employees' time first. Wasting it on stupid meetings, not rewarding efficient performance, even sacrificing high-performing workers who were insufficiently obsequious for the massive egos of the utterly mediocre useless middle managers under whom they suffered. Eventually you say frick it and throw it back at them. Unfortunately, this has had the consequence of neither side showing initial good faith to the other and just leading off with flagrant disrespect for each others' time and seeing if the other side will tolerate it or not.

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In OP's specific situation though? frick that bitch she's dumb as hell If you need a job then you shouldn't be blowing any opportunity off. I'm not saying be desperate and take the first thing you get, but you'll never know what your options are if you flake all the time... and that's ignoring the specific context where this is by far her best shot at an "in" to a narrow and specific field that she wants to do. That's just mind-numbing stupidity.

Totally agree. It is an everyday occurrence. I am also absolutely stunned at how incredibly unprofessional so many people are now with flat out not responding at all to voice mails and emails. Very rude and incredibly unprofessional.