Which equipment are you on?

Despite the denials from those who have not sat reserve in a while ... there is a troubling trend of late notifications going around. Three hours prior to departure works fine. Two hours prior seems to be the standard in use lately. IMHO if they place these max effort "do the best you can" calls they should also place a courtesy call to the other pilot so the rest of the crew knows that they are going to have to either do the reserve guy's pre departure tasks, or expect a delay.

To the credit of the Captains, 99% of them see a sweaty first officer arriving at push time out of breath and say "sit down, lets brief and read, it's all done."