Strange this thread cropped up today because Maritess was contacted by an old schoolfriend last week who was arriving in England Friday Sept 26th to do a course on behalf of her Saudi employer and arranged to stay with her cousin in Stoke on Trent. Anyway to cut a long story short the woman contacted Maritess Saturday last and said she would like to visit our house today (Monday) and on the strength of that Maritess changed shifts at work and yesterday did extra shopping to feed her and her cousin (who was driving her here). At 8 30 am Maritess called her to see what time they would be arriving and the woman said that they will be setting off after they've dropped the children off at school so we assumed they will be arriving about 11am. 2pm arrives nobody arrived so Maritess called her and she said they were in Woodhall services on the M1 having some lunch and they won't be long, now they are ten mins from where we live but have gone past the junction that they should have taken so we are still waiting and it's now almost 5 30pm. We are not pleased and if they arrive now I may turn them away. The point I'm making is, that this happens a lot in Philippines and when you mention it they laugh at you and say it's Philippine time, I just think it's extremely bad manners.
How would other members handle this situation?
Originally Posted by Michael Parnham
Strange this thread cropped up today because Maritess was contacted by an old schoolfriend last week who was arriving in England Friday Sept 26th to do a course on behalf of her Saudi employer and arranged to stay with her cousin in Stoke on Trent. Anyway to cut a long story short the woman contacted Maritess Saturday last and said she would like to visit our house today (Monday) and on the strength of that Maritess changed shifts at work and yesterday did extra shopping to feed her and her cousin (who was driving her here). At 8 30 am Maritess called her to see what time they would be arriving and the woman said that they will be setting off after they've dropped the children off at school so we assumed they will be arriving about 11am. 2pm arrives nobody arrived so Maritess called her and she said they were in Woodhall services on the M1 having some lunch and they won't be long, now they are ten mins from where we live but have gone past the junction that they should have taken so we are still waiting and it's now almost 5 30pm. We are not pleased and if they arrive now I may turn them away. The point I'm making is, that this happens a lot in Philippines and when you mention it they laugh at you and say it's Philippine time, I just think it's extremely bad manners.
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