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Thread poster: raptisi
raptisi
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Jul 23, 2015

I recently had the (interesting) experience of being offered an assignment, with the deadline for the first (of three pages) being 24 min. The total of three pages had to be turned in in two hours, which, regarding an urgent matter, I think is reasonable. But these 24 mins really got me. Why not 24 min 30 secs, or 25 min, then?
 
Radian Yazynin
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Funny Jul 23, 2015

I may suppose that with such a deadline someone is more dead than alive Or just the usual deadline "due yesterday".
 
Jean Lachaud
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My guess Jul 23, 2015

One can only guess that the deadline for the first page was a set time, and by the time the message was written or sent to you, there were 24 minutes left.
 
raptisi
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Office Jul 23, 2015

JL01 wrote:

One can only guess that the deadline for the first page was a set time, and by the time the message was written or sent to you, there were 24 minutes left.


Indeed, but, unless you have somebody working in the next door office, how can you rely on such a deadline, half a world apart?
 
philgoddard
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I had a job recently... Jul 23, 2015

... whose deadline was 11:47 am.
 
raptisi
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OK, but... Jul 23, 2015

philgoddard wrote:

... whose deadline was 11:47 am.


...assigned around 11:00 am? Same day? From India?
 
Merab Dekano
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Not a deadline... Jul 23, 2015

...but "oddline", it sounds to me.
 
raptisi
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Thnx Jul 25, 2015

Thanks to everybody for the input and the time taken to comment on this!
 


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