Arriving late to work

[bwssr]

most here are on time...but sit and eat breakfast and BS for an hour...they may as well be a hour late!

[rjet]

Growing up with a father in the military I had it beat into me to never be late for anything, specially work.
I have a flexible work schedule but like to get here earlier than most.
My wife on the other hand is a different story. She is late for everything, really burns me up. Over the years I have finally learned that if I want to leave at a specific time to tell her the departure time is 30 minutes earlier than my planned actual time.

[Ron Meloni]

I really struggle with this one. I am a stickler for being early/on time, no matter if it's for work, dinner, movies, whatever. However, I have a coworker that is tardy to work nearly EVERY day. Sometimes it's 10 minutes. Sometimes it's 45. She's even late to meetings she organizes. What bothers me most about her is that she lives less than 5 minutes from the office. She takes 1.5 to 2 hour lunches, and always leaves the office early, and always with an excuse.

We had a client meeting one day last year. I left for work that morning well early of my normal departure time, but unfortunately I was in a fender bender on my way in to the office. Needless to say, I was about 5 minutes late to the meeting, and she had the balls to call me out on it.

She and I don't see eye to eye on most things. I just wish she worked in my department, then I could do something about it.

[super_dave]

If I'm early, it's an accident and I get paid ot. I clock in when they start paying me.

They used to give us 7 minutes on either side of the punch in/out times to keep them from having to pay ot and to keep employees from being late, but during our last negotiations the union took a big dump and lost this window. Now they give us 15 minutes BEFORE punch in time where they don't have to pay ot and we are late at 7:01. This is fine with me, I just stand at the clock til 7. They left the clock out window the same 7 minutes on either side of course so we can't leave early an they don't have to pay ot.

We can have 6 tardys before a talkin to and 7 and 8 are written and 9 is bye bye

[JTRichardson]

I would dread working for you "if you're not 30 mins early youre late" guys. That only works if you're going to pay me for 30 more minutes. It's a job, it's not my life.

That being said, I am the manager of my branch in Texas and I come in between 7:30 - 9am m-f and leave when the work is done. I dont care if thats 3 pm or 8 pm, as long as no one is causing undue stress, why threaten peoples employment over it?

I'm also really fortunate to have guys that bust their rears when the work is there, so I can't justify throwing a hissy fit over someone being 15 mins late. You never know what Houston traffic is going to be like any given morning

[Grizzly1]

My boss used to say:

Early is on time, on time is late, late is dead!

[jer_james]

I would dread working for you "if you're not 30 mins early youre late" guys. That only works if you're going to pay me for 30 more minutes. It's a job, it's not my life.

That being said, I am the manager of my branch in Texas and I come in between 7:30 - 9am m-f and leave when the work is done. I dont care if thats 3 pm or 8 pm, as long as no one is causing undue stress, why threaten peoples employment over it?

I'm also really fortunate to have guys that bust their rears when the work is there, so I can't justify throwing a hissy fit over someone being 15 mins late. You never know what Houston traffic is going to be like any given morning

Im the same, they say to get here between 7-9 and I'm salaried. I'm usually here at about 645-7. When I take my kids to school I'm here at 830. Nobody makes a big deal about anything if the work is done.

[JTRichardson]

Im the same, they say to get here between 7-9 and I'm salaried. I'm usually here at about 645-7. When I take my kids to school I'm here at 830. Nobody makes a big deal about anything if the work is done.

that's exactly how we are. I will say that it helps that we are not a production facility or a place customers come to.

Also, emails and technological advances have made it so easy to work from wherever you are in this line of work, that as long as I can be accessed by phone or email, I am able to do 80% of my job.

[panhandlehunter]

I was late this morning. Took me longer than expected getting home from the deer lease so I slept in.

[poisonivie]

On time is when I get there.

[glocker]

If you aren't early you're late !

[JTRichardson]

If you aren't early you're late !

the more I read this comment, the more it makes me wonder.

Do all you guys really just give away your time to your employers? please tell me if you show up early you're getting paid to do so???

I like my job a lot, not so much that I'm gonna work for free though.

[jdeleon]

as long as im not late for a meeting it don't really matter. i have had my boss call me before and asked if i still worked for the company... yes why.. oh just haven't seen you in a while. sorry sir been fishing.

[txstringbender]

My boss knows if I'm late, then I'm probably laying in a ditch somewhere.

[Longhorn95]

For me it is situational. If there is not a scheduled meeting, then I am not concerned if my salaried employees arrive a couple minutes past their scheduled start time. Im a believer in a results oriented work environment and am more concerned with productivity than clock watching.