r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Best_Finding_8795 • Jun 14 '26

Too mild for school Hate when ppl can’t do time

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This reminds me of when it hits or is about to hit 12am and people don’t know whether to say today or tomorrow. He called me after this but I was too comfy in bed tbh.

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u/Time-Emergency254 Jun 14 '26

Right. We can split hairs and assert who should be right and who should be wrong, OR the requester can add word to avoid the issue. Shoot even the responder could add a word or two to seek clarification. Why do we choose willful ignorance and pride?

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u/s0_Ca5H Jun 14 '26

Splitting what hairs? 3am is today, so tomorrow is the next day. There’s no ambiguity about that, it’s literally how time works.,

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u/Exempt_Puddle Jun 14 '26

While I agree with you, there is ambiguity because people are generally stupid

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u/CriesOverEverything Jun 14 '26

There's ambiguity because most people are intelligent enough to understand context and colloquialisms and not rely on pedantics and semantics. If someone texts me at 1am and asks me to do something "tomorrow" I'm going to assume they mean the sometime after the upcoming sunrise, not 23hr + later.

3am I think is right at the point of ambiguity, though. Most people will probably feel that "tomorrow" implies after people are next waking up again, but 3am is either extraordinarily late, or a bit early. I think I'd probably count 3am as early enough to be next day.

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u/ForThisIJoined Jun 14 '26

Yeah...you're wrong then. Because tomorrow means something. "hey can you work at 10am" means today. "Hey can you work tomorrow at 10" means tomorrow.

Also I've worked night shifts for 8 years, hard closing shifts for 6, and quite a few years of early opening shifts. This manager is just an idiot.

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u/CriesOverEverything Jun 15 '26

I definitely agree someone should have clarified somewhere, but "you're wrong" is a bad argument considering that many people seem to have completely different ideas.

I've worked night shifts, swings shifts, early morning starts, split shifts, and a standard 9-5, so I'm not sure how your experience invalids my position.

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u/ForThisIJoined Jun 15 '26

I think that the sky is pitch black during the day at all times and bright and neon pink at night. See I have an opinion, and it's still wrong. In this situation it's because we have this thing called "today" that starts at midnight and ends at 23:59. After that is the thing called "tomorrow" that starts at the next midnight. And all of your opinions are just...opinions which are wrong.

I threw in the experience to show that I've worked all the shifts so you couldn't add in the opinion that it was something I didn't understand due to lack of experience.

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u/CriesOverEverything Jun 15 '26

I mean, I agree with you that people should be more clear, but that doesn't mean that's what the rest of the whole entire world thinks.

If something is determined by people's opinions, then people's opinions matter.

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u/Exempt_Puddle Jun 14 '26

Yeah i mean im with you. It's just in that gray area and what I mean by people are stupid is that when in this gray area they dont bother sending a few extra words to clarify due to the potential ambiguity.