I wish I were wrong here

It's not always good to be right.

I have been saying for years that when a shliach Tzibur has no regard for his Tziburn they will leave. Where I daven one of the chiyuvim takes much longer than the others. He also has a decided disregard for the schedule that the minyonim are supposed to follow.

(As an aside, why is it that when someone is ahead of the schedules, people feel they can say something, but when someone consistently is behind, nothing is done? Maybe the story here is the result)

So this chiyuv is usually the shliach Tzibur at this particular minyan, that is between 2 other minyanim. Today I went to daven at this particular minyan and two things were apparent right away. One, this chiyuv was not there, and two, neither were 10 people. There were only six people there, fifteen minutes after the starting time.

I strongly believe that the reason why this minyan did not happen today is because people are either embarrassed or uncomfortable telling a guy he is going to slowly (yeshivish indoctrination perhaps?) But they nevertheless don't want to be held captive by someone who feels his tefila is so important that he can daven 15% longer than everyone else, so they simply decided not to show up.

Maybe someone should say something, because not having minyonim for called times is not good for a shul as a whole.