Moving a meeting back a day..."Forward" or "Backward?" (1 Viewer)

[Fat Nick]

So help settle a debate I just had with a guy at work. We currently have a meeting scheduled on Tuesday, January 13th. We want to move it to Wednesday, January 14th.

Is this moving the meeting "Back a day," or "Forward a day?"

 

[RUSF18]

Back.

Get a new job if people you work with are this dumb.

 

[igbomb]

Back.

Get a new job if people you work with are this dumb.

Or if it's Fat Nick that is this dumb then hang onto this job for dear life.

 

[TenTimes]

Curious to hear the argument for "forward", I'm open minded.

 

[RUSF18]

Curious to hear the argument for "forward", I'm open minded.

Remember when "opposite day" was a thing when you were a 7 year old?

 

[Arsenal of Doom]

Curious to hear the argument for "forward", I'm open minded.

I think it would be that you are pushing it "forward", away from the current date. I've never heard it used that way though.

 

[Cjw_55106]

I think both are correct and it depends upon how its worded. If we have a meeting on Jan 13, I think its acceptabel to ask if you can move it back to the 12th. In this context, we are talking about the 13th, so the 12th would be a move back. If you are looking ahead to the 13th, the 14th would be a move back.

 

[CBusAlex]

Curious to hear the argument for "forward", I'm open minded.

I think to start you have to discard your assumption that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, and accept that from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff.

 

[RUSF18]

I think both are correct and it depends upon how its worded. If we have a meeting on Jan 13, I think its acceptabel to ask if you can move it back to the 12th.

Sure. If the meeting was originally scheduled for the 12th, before it was pushed back to the 13th, you could then say you're moving it back to the 12th.

 

[xulf]

Back.

 

[TenTimes]

Curious to hear the argument for "forward", I'm open minded.

I think to start you have to discard your assumption that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, and accept that from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff.

We read text from left to right, same as the days of the week on a calander, so in that context I guess 13th-14th is a forward move.... and science.

 

[TenTimes]

Curious to hear the argument for "forward", I'm open minded.

I think it would be that you are pushing it "forward", away from the current date. I've never heard it used that way though.

same and same.

The forward thinking man may be a little too forward thinking for now.

 

[Fat Nick]

Back.

Get a new job if people you work with are this dumb.

Or if it's Fat Nick that is this dumb then hang onto this job for dear life.

Nope...I said "move it 'back.'"

His argument was something along these lines...If you travel in time from now to the future, do you go back or forward in time? Forward. So he says forward. I told him that wasn't a legitimate analogy and that he was dumb. Someone else came along and agreed with him. I told them they were dumb too. Another colleague agreed with me, so we needed a tiebreaker.

If someone told me to move a meeting forward one day, I would always move it one day closer to now. Always.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Back.

Get a new job if people you work with are this dumb.

Or if it's Fat Nick that is this dumb then hang onto this job for dear life.

Nope...I said "move it 'back.'"

His argument was something along these lines...If you travel in time from now to the future, do you go back or forward in time? Forward. So he says forward. I told him that wasn't a legitimate analogy and that he was dumb. Someone else came along and agreed with him. I told them they were dumb too. Another colleague agreed with me, so we needed a tiebreaker.

If someone told me to move a meeting forward one day, I would always move it one day closer to now. Always.

Just ask them what date they want to move the meeting to.

 

[Tom Servo]

Curious to hear the argument for "forward", I'm open minded.

I think to start you have to discard your assumption that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, and accept that from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff.

Is that you, Doctor?

 

[FUBAR]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UGtlUMMkOU Let's push things forward

 

[El Floppo]

Back.

Get a new job if people you work with are this dumb.

Or if it's Fat Nick that is this dumb then hang onto this job for dear life.

Nope...I said "move it 'back.'"

His argument was something along these lines...If you travel in time from now to the future, do you go back or forward in time? Forward. So he says forward. I told him that wasn't a legitimate analogy and that he was dumb. Someone else came along and agreed with him. I told them they were dumb too. Another colleague agreed with me, so we needed a tiebreaker.

If someone told me to move a meeting forward one day, I would always move it one day closer to now. Always.

I was talking to one of my better friends about something or other being a paradigm and he looked at me

"paradigm- the standard, the mold from which everything else is copied"

"exactly- it's a mold, so they're all the same. the paradigm isn't 'the best' it's banal and cliched"

that was how he used the word... and it makes a bit of sense, even if he's a complete maroon and using the word wrong.

 

[El Floppo]

btw- it's back. freaking nimrods.

 

[B-Deep]

unless you are Brad Pitt in 12 monkeys this is back

 

[El Floppo]

unless you are Brad Pitt in 12 monkeys this is back

what would phil from the future say?

 

[B-Deep]

unless you are Brad Pitt in 12 monkeys this is back

what would phil from the future say?

monkeys

 

[jplvr]

Back.

Get a new job if people you work with are this dumb.

Or if it's Fat Nick that is this dumb then hang onto this job for dear life.

Nope...I said "move it 'back.'"

His argument was something along these lines...If you travel in time from now to the future, do you go back or forward in time? Forward. So he says forward. I told him that wasn't a legitimate analogy and that he was dumb. Someone else came along and agreed with him. I told them they were dumb too. Another colleague agreed with me, so we needed a tiebreaker.

If someone told me to move a meeting forward one day, I would always move it one day closer to now. Always.

Now ask him if he wants to move the time for a meeting up or down.

 

[jplvr]

For me, I've never heard anyone say they want to move a time forward. Up or back are the ones I know, up being move the appointment to an earlier date, back moving an appointment to a later date.

 

[Fennis]

if someone asked me to move a meeting forward by a day, I would cancel the meeting.

 

[DaVinci]

Closer to today = forward

Further from today = back

 

[sports_fan]

What time zone?

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Closer to today = forward up

Further from today = back

I prefer this vernacular

 

[jonessed]

Closer to today = forward

Further from today = back

Yeah, this is easy.

 

[AAABatteries]

Do the needful.

 

[Baloney Sandwich]

Closer to today = forward up

Further from today = back

I prefer this vernacular

Up and back is correct

 

[pats3in4]

Move it up or pull it in = sooner

Push/move it back = later

 

[jon_mx]

When talking schedule, it is like a line where the front of the line is now. So moving back means later in time and moving up in line means earlier. Likewise if you are running late, you say you are running behind, not forward or ahead of schedule. Your friend is wrong.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Spring it forward and then fall back.

 

[jon_mx]

I am curious what planet the 15 percent are from?

 

[peaces]

hour back, get it?

 

[fred_1_15301]

Phew I'm glad I got this one right.

 

[Guest]

Enclose his stapler in jello... pudding.

 

[The Football Freak]

Why not just use earlier/sooner and later?

 

[GregR]

Back.

Get a new job if people you work with are this dumb.

Or if it's Fat Nick that is this dumb then hang onto this job for dear life.

Nope...I said "move it 'back.'"

His argument was something along these lines...If you travel in time from now to the future, do you go back or forward in time? Forward. So he says forward. I told him that wasn't a legitimate analogy and that he was dumb. Someone else came along and agreed with him. I told them they were dumb too. Another colleague agreed with me, so we needed a tiebreaker.

If someone told me to move a meeting forward one day, I would always move it one day closer to now. Always.

The situation was about scheduling. A schedule is an ordered list of events. The "top" or "front" of a schedule is the first item that will occur. So moving an item that way is moving it "up" or to the "front" of the schedule

In a different context the words could change. His time travel example changes the context from where does the event fall in a schedule, to where does it fall in the historical timeline. A move "back" in the timeline moves something "up" or "forward" in one's schedule.

That's just how English ended up working.

 

[sports_fan]

I am curious what planet the 15 percent are from?

my guess is Wisconsin

 

[msommer]

You are not advancing the meetng you are postponing it