diff --git a/tools/bin/acceptance_test_kube.sh b/tools/bin/acceptance_test_kube.sh
index c90baa69e380..eb1d86de442d 100755
--- a/tools/bin/acceptance_test_kube.sh
+++ b/tools/bin/acceptance_test_kube.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ echo "Listing nodes scheduled for pods..."
 kubectl describe pods | grep "Name\|Node"
 
 # allocates a lot of time to start kube. takes a while for postgres+temporal to work things out
-sleep 120s
+sleep 120
 
 if [ -n "$CI" ]; then
   server_logs () { kubectl logs deployment.apps/airbyte-server > /tmp/kubernetes_logs/server.txt; }