[taneq]

Exactly. Another thing (also illustrated by your example) is that consequences can be really nonlinear with respect to your scoring function, whatever that is. Take investing, for example - the "rational" thing to do is to mortgage everything, leverage yourself to the hilt and buy as many hot button shares as possible. This totally ignores the fact that, while you'll eventually come out on top, going bankrupt will end your game with a massive loss. Or in your case, maybe +/- 5 minutes is pretty linear but if you're 45 minutes late then you'll get fired. You'd never risk it to save 2 minutes.

[jsanford9292]

Precisely. Decision-making is more complicated than it seems and people actually intuit a lot of it (such as nonlinear consequences).