The “thank you for your patience” comments are really surprising me, to a point where I think I’ll just stop using it. It’s usually what I’d say going into a meeting if I’m less than 5 min late, but the last one there. As if to say “you could have totally started without me and it would be on me to catch up. But you didn’t do that, so thank you.” Where “sorry for being late” to me comes off as “I expect you to wait for me before starting, so I’m sorry that I prevented that from happening with my tardiness”.
But I guess I just always overthought it or something. Now I feel so bad!
The “thank you for your patience” comments are really surprising me, to a point where I think I’ll just stop using it. It’s usually what I’d say going into a meeting if I’m less than 5 min late, but the last one there. As if to say “you could have totally started without me and it would be on me to catch up. But you didn’t do that, so thank you.” Where “sorry for being late” to me comes off as “I expect you to wait for me before starting, so I’m sorry that I prevented that from happening with my tardiness”.
But I guess I just always overthought it or something. Now I feel so bad!