Sit them down like an adult and tell them that wasting 20-30 mins of 5 of your closest friends time every week isn’t a good quality.
Give out all the best loot in the first 20 minutes. You beat a boss at the end of a session? “Alright, we’ll go over the loot beginning of next session”
Funny story: because I was always late, my old group started giving me earlier times to show up. Because these times aligned better with my trains and subways, I started showing up on time. Except they’d lied to me going my being late would actually make me arrive at the same time as everyone else. But now I was half an hour early and they were unprepared.
If you can’t align your trains and subways with your agreed upon time, you still need to take the earlier train and be there 30 minutes earlier. That’s just how it works. You take the transport that gets you there before the time, not what gets you there closer to but after the time.
Depends on the culture.
You’re right that it does, but it should not.
That’s just your cultural preference shining through.
Disrespecting other people’s time is a shitty cultural trait. And I say that as someone from a country where everyone leaves home at the time they should be arriving.
I can repeat the same refrain as above, but instead I’ll say that if the wide cultural impulse is to keep times loose, then there is no disrespect of peoples time. Casual starts and stops for an event that everyone understand are very respectful, as they grant everyone full autonomy.
You may not enjoy a loose time table, but that dosent make the trait “shitty.” It makes it something you dont like is all.
That works for an informal dinner between friends, it doesn’t work for something where everyone needs to be present. There’s nothing that pisses me off more than having something important to do, and having people arrive randomly on a 40 minute span after the scheduled time.




